Posted on 09/16/2007 7:57:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
'Pentagon listed 2,000 Iranian targets' JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 16, 2007
US President George W. Bush and his associates are seriously considering declaring war on Iran and have listed specific facilities that would be targeted in such an event, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has slowly given up the idea of finding a diplomatic solution to the country's persistence in enriching uranium, a British report said on Sunday morning.
According to senior US defense and intelligence officials that spoke with the Daily Telegraph, the Pentagon has gathered a list of up to 2,000 targets including a major base run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force in the south.
Pentagon and CIA officers said that such a war would come to pass as a result of a "carefully calibrated program of escalation" that would lead to a "military showdown with Iran," the officials told the newspaper.
This scenario could arise once it was apparent that diplomatic efforts with the country were hopeless. When Iran would be internationally denounced for its interference in Iraq, the US could conduct cross border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories.
The report said that the raids would provoke a "major Iranian response" that could result in a halt to Gulf oil supplies; this in turn, said experts, would provide legitimacy to strike Iran's nuclear facilities and armed forces.
An intelligence officer noted that the US military had "two major contingency plans" for air strikes on Iran.
"One is to bomb only the nuclear facilities. The second option is for a much bigger strike that would - over two or three days - hit all of the significant military sites as well. This plan involves more than 2,000 targets."
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Hey- how about if we DON’T make any contingency plans, and lets ee how they like that
Only 2,000...?!?!?!?!?
Somebody ain’t doin’ their job!
That phrase alone convinces me that this story is simple fantasy.
And Pat Paulsen is a former President.
2000 targets is about right. Figure 500 military targets, 100 power grid targets, a hundred or so Nuke facility targets and 1300 Mullahs.
Furriners don't have a clue about the USA. Congress has the power to declare war, but perhaps not the organic equipment to do so. Still a lot of Merkans are equally ignorant about the USA.
I heard Limbaugh say one afternoon that Bush WILL NOT leave office, with a nuclear capable Iran.
Guaranteed.
I too will believe it when I see it, but he's going to have to act pretty soon.
I can't imagine him waiting until the last minute and dumping a war in Hillary's lap.
On second thought...
We damned well better be prepared for war complete with targeting info at all times, with far more places than Iran. We should always be prepared. It would be negligent to do otherwise, which is why Democrats cannot ever be trusted to run our foreign policy.
Forpeetesake. I quit reading right there for all the content that the article promised to provide.
Total selected targets = about 5,000
First assessment = 1,200 sites
Apparently now increased to 2,000
Out of these, nuclear targets would probably be a mere 30 or so - thus eradication of all military facilities, depots, fuel storage, warehouses etc., is clearly the main aim.
Once the military and para-miliary bully thugs are removed, the populace will take care of the rest.
Chaos? Absolutely. A good thrust for a change for the better? If you consider removal of the clerical regime an improvement, then a resounding ‘yes’.
Life for the Iranian population may not improve the next day but removal of the regime improves global safety instantly.
AFTER, of course, a series of retaliatory attacks on all American/Western facilities around the world and suicide bombers in Europe and the USA. In other words in our back yard.
These will be controlled/reduced fairly quickly if not totally snuffed out and the painful cost to all of us in lives and property is a price we must pay and worth paying for the safety which ensues from the removal of a nuclear, suicidal regime in Islamic Iran.
Also, once the other terror organizations see that we are ready to take strong, violent action in return, they will also flinch and retreat. Till now they have only faced a “measured” response which they deride as our weakness.
Ya know,.. if any of this was true, there’s a major security problem.
I hate the Press on multiple Reasons.
Or this is a signal to Iran that they better play nice or they will be on the business end of the US military.
I have always thought that if we go to war with Iran, it will be solely to disrupt them, not to occupy them. If we just demolish their refineries, air defense and radar installation, and a few personally adored palaces, the people might just have a uprising and take over. The mullahs are getting old and if the news is correct the young people are not happy with them. They would be happier with a western Turkey style society.
You are absolutely right in principle but Iran can do nothing to prevent the intended actions, no matter what they know in advance.
On the other hand it prepares the American people, a significant obstacle, for what may be coming and the extent of it.
That is either the silver lining or the cloud itself, since as you say, leaks are a bane.
I have to laugh at this sentence.
I think one of the first areas targeted will be the gasoline refining capabilities.
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