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Report: U.S. Wants War With Iran
YnetNews ^ | September 16, 2007

Posted on 09/16/2007 6:30:08 AM PDT by Fennie

The United States Department of Defense has developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

According to the report, senior CIA and US defense officials believe that the White House was taking steps to ensure military confrontation with Iran, for fear that diplomatic efforts to slow the country's nuclear weapons program are doomed to fail.

According to a senior US intelligence officer, the escalation to military confrontation could begin with a public denunciation of Iran's suspected meddling in Iraq, the report said. The US claims Iran is arming and training Shiite militants; a denunciation of such activity could lead to cross-border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories.

The official told the Sunday Telegraph that a prime target for such a raid would be the Fajr base run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force in southern Iran, where Western intelligence agencies say armor-piercing projectiles used against British and US troops are manufactured...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; iran; iraniannukes; iraq; islam; military; unitedstates
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1 posted on 09/16/2007 6:30:09 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

get er done!


2 posted on 09/16/2007 6:32:49 AM PDT by petertare (--)
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To: Fennie

Where have I seen this before? Action not words is what I want to see.


3 posted on 09/16/2007 6:33:26 AM PDT by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: Fennie

Corrected Headline: “Iran wants War with U.S. ... and the U.S. plans to accomodate Iran”


4 posted on 09/16/2007 6:35:24 AM PDT by webschooner
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To: Fennie

At DNC HQ the headline is: “Halliburton and the PNAC want another war for oil.”


5 posted on 09/16/2007 6:47:03 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: Fennie

My estimate is more like 6,000 targets.


6 posted on 09/16/2007 6:47:07 AM PDT by DGHoodini
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To: Fennie
According to a senior US intelligence officer...

Any real intelligence officer would not leak such a story to a foreign newspaper, unless he wanted to risk spending the rest of his life in Leavenworth.

7 posted on 09/16/2007 6:51:00 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedoms.)
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To: Fennie

30 years waiting to avenge the hostages.


8 posted on 09/16/2007 6:51:48 AM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (Hey, this aint like the 1960s, this is like the 1860s.)
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To: Fennie
After decades of sponsoring terrorism and the 444 days in Tehran all I have to say is this:

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9 posted on 09/16/2007 6:52:09 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: boomop1

So very true!

It seems like we see a story of either the US or Israel on the verge of attacking Iran every 3 months for the past 3 years.


10 posted on 09/16/2007 6:52:28 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: andy58-in-nh
Any real intelligence officer would not leak such a story to a foreign newspaper, unless he wanted to risk spending the rest of his life in Leavenworth.

Could this be phyops?

11 posted on 09/16/2007 6:55:43 AM PDT by oldbrowser (Just being white is not going to be enough anymore.)
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Of course the pentagon has plans for war with Iran. How remiss would they be if they didn’t. It doesn’t take any leaking for one to know that. Beyond that, this article is a piece of trash made up out of whole cloth by it’s authors.


12 posted on 09/16/2007 6:57:35 AM PDT by Bigun (IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
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To: oldbrowser

Keep an eye on the pizza deliveries around the Pentagon. If they go up in the eving something is going on.


13 posted on 09/16/2007 6:59:41 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: oldbrowser

I would think any psy-op in this case would more likely be directed toward Farsi language publications in Iran (rather than toward Europeans) in order to amplify dissent with the Iranian government.


14 posted on 09/16/2007 6:59:59 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedoms.)
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To: Fennie
There is contingency planning going on all the time at the Pentagon. The amount of effort varies between having many people working on detailed bombing targets for a 30-year boil on the world's butt (Iran) vs. having some Army Reserve second lieutentant dust off War Plan Crimson once a year and check AAA for maps for a "Canadian Vacation".
15 posted on 09/16/2007 7:08:08 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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To: Fennie

I have a couple of choice bombing targets for the U.S. Military. First an atomic weapon of suitable size on Medena as an attention getter. If that doesn’t turn a few middle eastern heads in the right direction, go for Mecca.
That ought to do the trick.


16 posted on 09/16/2007 7:23:04 AM PDT by davisfh
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To: Fennie

If we truly want to destoy the present government of Iran, we just need to send several hundred liberals over there to reinforce the budding decadence. What most concerns me about our own country is the ultimate swing of that pendulum of history. Will the “good” citizens of “flyover country” USA end up siding with the falsely assumed “moral” Muslims and fight against the liberal establishment? We must be careful to avoid any alliance with these misguided people and again back to our history lesson, we can never have a meaningful trusing relationship with them as long as they take the Koran literally.


17 posted on 09/16/2007 7:23:06 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: KarlInOhio

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18 posted on 09/16/2007 7:23:07 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Hydroshock

Great poster. Yes we could learn much from Aliens II. LOL


19 posted on 09/16/2007 7:26:57 AM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Fennie
Iran?

I wonder what it would be like to work there?

20 posted on 09/16/2007 7:29:08 AM PDT by Allegra (It's been very, very quiet here for a while...pray that I don't have to change this tagline.)
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