"Deep Background" - CHENEY'S PLAN TO NUKE IRAN IS HERE

[steve2470]

August 1, 2005 Issue
Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative

In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.


http://www.amconmag.com/2005_08_01/article3.html

[Booster]

1. Damn it, don't they realize Cheney's pipeline has got to go through

Iran, and next Syria. Afghanistan, check - Iraq, check - Iran, next.

[cssmall]

2. They obviously are beginning to need it.

Too many black eyes, as mikimouse and I were talking about last night, if Bush begins to go down Cheney's ass is behind bars, completely. Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist, but everything seems to be adding up.

And, I post here words written pre-WWI.

WB Yeats
The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[TomClash]

5. It's only good to be a conspiracy theorist

when there is evidence of a conspiracy. Like now.

[cssmall]

7. I know, I was being a bit tongue in cheek.

You see, we gotta get that Unocal pipeline up and running and Cheney still has to pay Halliburton back for gettin' Bush in office.

[TomClash]

10. Well the question is:

does this mean a terrorist attack is imminent?

[cssmall]

12. That is indeed the question.

Honestly, don't be surprised to lose another landmark on September 11th. *smirk* I won't be surprised at all, after all, we need always need those damned reasons.

[TomClash]

14. It wouldn't surprise me a bit either

Not one damn bit.

[cssmall]

17. By the way, don't forget to pick up your Blue "L."

It's gonna be time to start packing us up and shipping us out here soon too.

[NYCGirl]

3. I guess that's what serves as a gossip column in American Conservative

magazine.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. See also this thread - and I do recommend the links in the replies as well

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4252778
Thread title: Three extremely important threads on Iran nukes & the Bush agenda

[whistle]

6. As for the targets for those "conventional and tactical nuclear weapons"

...you can bet they won't be near any oil fields and installations

[Old and In the Way]

8. So, if there's a large scale attack, we know Iran did it?

Or will Saudi Arabia do it, but we'll just nuke Iran anyway. Where's this script Cheney's working from. Have they figured a date yet for this attack?

Does anyone else think Cheney's getting a bit despeaate? I think his war profiteering/war crimes is starting to catch up with him. This man is truely dangerous and obviously without a conscience. It's quite amazing that a VP is drawing up these plans.....has he bothered consulting Congress or the pRresident?

If there's another attack on America, Cheney-Bush-Rice-Rumsfield need to be arrested immediately.

[cssmall]

19. Of course, it will be Saudi Arabia.

They are the perfect tools for this mess because of their alliance with Bush and the fact they, themselves, are fundamentalists.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Imagine the populace of the USA when they find out that these bastards

have dragged them into a full on war with Iran? A place that can do a hell of a lot more than use IEDs?

[cssmall]

13. A place that realized that they needed as much protection as possible.

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. Protection from what, your buddy george w horseshit?

[cssmall]

16. Pretty much.

Not that George W is my buddy by any stretch of the imagination. I think they knew this day would come. I mean, look at the fucking elections, they went conservative in reaction to the US.

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. I hear you.

[wli]

11. I'm pretty scared Cheney will order a 9/11 v2.0 to justify it

Just like he ordered the first one to justify Afghanistan & Iraq.

[yurbud]

20. NEEDS ONE MORE REC! People need to see this, so they know who to blame

when they wake up to a mushroom cloud.

Hillbilly Hitler art:



Blog:

[Old and In the Way]

21. I agree.....this goes hand and fist with the Pentagon's plan for

martial law. It's a race to the finish....will we take these criminals down before they can get their plan operational? Stay tuned.

No one should be surprised ala 9/11.

[Moderator]

22. Locking

The American Conservative really doesn't need any more website hits from our direction, and this story hasn't been picked up or verified by any other reputable MSM source.

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