Iranian Alert - July 3, 2006 - Commanders say U.S. strikes against Iran won't work

Regime Change Iran ^ | 7/3/06 | freedom44

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Senior United States military commanders have told the Bush administration that military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities would probably fail to destroy them, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday.

The senior commanders also warned that any attack could have "serious economic, political, and military consequences for the United States," the article says, citing unidentified U.S. military officials.

"The target array in Iran is huge, but it's amorphous," the magazine quotes one unidentified general as saying.

The article is by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who was the first U.S. journalist to report on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. Hersh writes that senior military planners at the U.S. Defense Department have also questioned whether military strikes could do sufficient damage to Iranian nuclear facilities to justify the political and diplomatic cost of such an action.

"If you're a military planner, you try to weigh options," a senior military official is quoted as saying. "What is the capability of the Iranian response, the likelihood of a punitive response like cutting off oil shipments? What would that cost us?"The official also says U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his aides "really think they can do this on the cheap, and they underestimate the capability of the adversary."

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[USMA '71]

I have recently decided to stop reading and disregard any news article that is based on "unidentified" sources. Such tactics by "journalists" is just a license to make up whatever bullshit you need to prove your twisted point and hopefully sell newspapers. No longer will I waste my time on such BS.

[M. Espinola]

Thanks for the heads up. That was very informative. That old Bolshevik Hersh is at it again. The despicable leftist types supporting Hersh's disinformation relating to the Iranian threat(s) would have also supported their 'Uncle Joe' over the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, as good little die hard Reds.

[familyop]

"No it's not click on the picture of Hersh."

I followed the link to the CBC piece before writing anything. That piece references The New Yorker and Hersh. See comment 15# for an earlier rebuttal against a similar story from Hersh for The New Yorker.

Yes, I'm a little angry. You won't do it without US military forces, and my country will be required to give much to the effort. We fight the tide of radical Islam with the lives of our young men and our hard work. We don't get much gratitude from other countries for what we give.

Work with our relatively good, contemporary Republican leaders, or the more radical Islamist regimes will remain in power, further decay in hatred and eventually get themselves destroyed.

[NY Attitude]

and a hale bezorg Bravo Sierra to this article

[syriacus]

If lib politicians were oncologists, they would wait until an agressive cancer was very firmly established, before beginning treatment.

They would figure that if you treat the cancer too early, how can you really know it would have spread and caused death?

[sarcasm] It's better to first talk about the cancer for a few months......[/sarcasm]

[garbageseeker]

But a strike from Israel will.

[familyop]

That would certainly bring a conclusion to the War on Terror.

BTW, have you been watching the news about the North Korean debacle? I knew that those missile systems are junk, but I didn't previously know that they're that bad!

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