Attack Iran? Why Not Just Paint Targets on the Backs of Kids Like Those on PBS's "Carrier"?

Attack Iran? Why Not Just Paint Targets on the Backs of Kids Like Those on PBS's "Carrier"?
by Russ Wellen | May 12, 2008 - 8:02am

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However, the threat has since been kicked into a higher gear by respected security analyst Philip Giraldi, who was a former CIA officer and is now foreign policy advisor to the Ron Paul campaign.

In his latest blog at the American Conservative, "War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think," he writes: "There is considerable speculation and buzz in Washington today suggesting that the National Security Council has agreed in principle to proceed with plans to attack an Iranian al-Qods-run camp {near Tehran} that is believed to be training Iraqi militants."

"Secretary of Defense Robert Gates," he adds, "was the only senior official urging delay. . . . {The decision} is the direct result of concerns {over} the deteriorating situation in Lebanon, where Iranian ally Hezbollah appears to have gained the upper hand against government forces."

After contacting Iran and reading them the riot act, the White House decided that "some sort of unambiguous signal has to be sent to the Iranian leadership, presumably in the form of cruise missiles." Unambiguous, thy name is cruise missile. Of course, President Bush "will still have to give the order to launch after all preparations are made."

PBS has been running a series titled Carrier, about life aboard the USS Nimitz. Imagine Iran retaliating to an air strike by blowing a mega-tub like this, along with its crew of over 5,000 mostly young people, out of the water? Iran's state-of-the-art Shahab-3 missiles are able to reach parts of the Arabian Sea and even the Mediterranean.

In other words, not only is the Persian Gulf, but total war, a hop, skip and a jump away.
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Really, though I doubt those Iranian missiles are all that accurate. Let's see, we bomb their training site (I believe they probably do have one), they fire Shahab-3 at our fleet in retaliation. We fire on the launch sites. They fire cruse missiles back. Our jets try to take out their cruse missile launch sites. Their jets try to intercept ours. Wow, the whole thing is out of control in no time. Poor Obama, Bush will then hand him a mess to untangle while Bush goes off to leisure retirement in Texas.

Quds training base will the the Iranian oil bourse. The logic being that they receive financing through the sale of oil. Any takers?