Posted on 02/21/2007 3:27:38 PM PST by meg88
US troops in Iraq may attack nuclear and military targets in Iran when a high-casualty attack is traced to Tehran
February 20, 2007
This new presidential directive extends the license President George W. Bush issued last month to US troops to capture or kill Iranian agents supporting Iraqi insurgency and al Qaeda attacks on American forces.
It is causing great concern in Tehran's ruling circles - especially as the new license may well be applied when the downing of a large US helicopter ends in a heavy US death toll.
Military sources report that American commanders in Iraq are studying the innovative methods for shooting down US aircraft which Iranian Revolutionary Guards instructors are imparting to Iraqi insurgents.
Maj. Gen James E. Simmons, deputy commander of US forces in Iraq, describes multiple weapons systems fired at the same time as having brought down 7 American helicopters in the last month. This, says Simmons, is the sign of “a thinking enemy” - although sometimes the insurgents appear to have got lucky and hit helicopters with automatic weapons fire as they chanced by.
The New York Times reports these multiple systems may include shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades – RPGs and unguided rockets that can’t be diverted by American helicopters’ anti-heat-seeking flares.
Our military sources say this mix of weaponry is designed to ambush the aircraft at any altitude chosen to escape the ground fire.
Under the new presidential directive, the downing of a helicopter carrying a large number of US troops could trigger a bombing campaign against Iran such as, for example, the dispatch of long-range B2 stealth bombers with bunker-busting bombs for dropping on the 25m deep Natanz site, where centrifuges are positioned for enriching uranium.
Attacks mount also be mounted against Iran’s military infrastructure.
(Excerpt) Read more at debka.com ...
Iran would probably be shivering in their combat boots right now, except this is a DEBKA report.
Unfortunate but true. DEBKA is only a few notches above 'Weekly World News' and their periodic stories about Bat Boy.
...and except they'll just be sure to do hundreds of low casuality murders...
More like the dims quaking in their boots...cept they don't have any
We need PDA authority to attack Iran?
This is a religious based war with no geographical base, so the only way to really hurt them is to hit religious targets: mullahs, mosques and target the big fish, Mecca and Medina, for "glazing" in case of a nuke attack by the islamopsychos.
I would like to see an attack of biblical proportions on Iran that includes all of its leadership.
I want us to hit them so hard they will never shout"Death To America"ever again.
Or just takeover their oil fields with Special Ops.
Yeah, I'm down with Mecca and Medina.
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
Let's see ... just one little bomb on the only gasoline refinery in Iran ... and Iran suddenly has to ration gasoline.... and all the little Iranians will have to queue up at their gas stations and sit in line in order to get their quota of gasoline ... and get pissed at what their government caused ...
That would be poetic ... considering how I had to sit in line to get gasoline for my car when Iran took over our embassy there ...
I hope that we go to the largest source of terrorism, but other interests will fight really hard (with propaganda) against it. This business of trying to hold borders against Iran is very costly and might not work for long.
That same strategy must be being considered since the Syrian-Iraqi pipeline was quickly secured when the Iraqi war began. Even more important, Saddam's mobile Scud missiles were also secured along the Jordanian-Iraqi desert border preventing Saddam from dragging the entire region into a far greater war by attacking Israel and or Saudi Arabia.
Good point about Iran's lack of refinery capacity and the mayhem it could cause with the current regieme.
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