U.S. plans envision broad attack on Iran: analyst

U.S. plans envision broad attack on Iran: analyst
Fri Jan 19, 7:49 PM ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. contingency planning for military action against Iran's nuclear program goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Friday.

"I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research until March 2005.

"You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would destabilize the Middle East for years, White told the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington think tank.

"We're not talking about just surgical strikes against an array of targets inside Iran. We're talking about clearing a path to the targets" by taking out much of the Iranian Air Force, Kilo submarines, anti-ship missiles that could target commerce or U.S. warships in the Gulf, and maybe even Iran's ballistic missile capability, White said.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070120/ts_nm/iran_usa_experts_dc_1

Coffee Mate..... one of America's main exports, probably THE main export for several decades now.... bombers over other peoples' countries. We don't strap ours on, we strap ourselves in.

"President George W. Bush has stressed he is seeking a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program."

Bollocks he has. He's refusing to talk to Iran. What he's seeking are sanctions against Iran that will make them give in over nuclear technology; he'd like that to precipitate a revolution in Iran too. Sure, he'd like to achieve that without using the US military; but to just repeat his 'stressing' without pointing out what he wants to achieve, and how he's going about it, it to repeat his lies without challenge.

The willingness of the compliant media to uncritically regurgitate washington consensus propaganda is why they are so fondly referred to as the compliant media.

Thanks for posting, kpete.

But I can't come up with anything except, "NO! NO! NO! NO!"

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