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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 08:52 PM
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THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF OUR TIME: Cheney makes plans to nuke Iran
US Plans Nuclear Attack on Iran

Philip Giraldi, a former intelligence officer in the CIA (and DIA), claims that the United States is developing a plan for the bombing of supposed military targets in Iran, which would include the use of NUCLEAR WEAPONS. The US strike would take place after a 9/11-type terrorist attack on the US. However, the US attack would not depend on Iran actually being involved in the terrorism. In short, the planned attack on Iran would be analogous to the unprovoked attack on Iraq.

Could this criminal insanity be possibly true? Would the United States really launch an unprovoked nuclear attack? Giraldi is a reputable source and has provided information on Iran to Seymour Hersh in the past. Moreover, other articles have come out indicating that the United States has developed contingency plans to use nuclear weapons to attack military installations in Iran and North Korea. (I have included an article by William Arkin from the Washington Post). Giraldi adds that a terrorist attack on the US would serve as the pretext for putting the plan into action.

Now could it be implemented? Certainly, the 9/11 terrorism led to the eventual attack on Iraq (neocons wanted to attack Iraq immediately after September 11), so another terrorist attack could be used as a pretext to attack Iran.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=6888

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Kagemusha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 08:54 PM
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1. This has been reported before through leaks, and..
the military makes lots of plans for lots of stuff. Cheney can have plans made, indirectly, but he cannot implement them. Bush is president. So little has changed except the paperwork involved. The US is no more - and no less, mind you - likely to nuke Iran as a result of this.
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kansasblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 08:57 PM
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3. as far as military ops, don't you think Chenny runs that show?
Edited on Sat Aug-13-05 08:58 PM by kansasblue
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 08:56 PM
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2. Being reported before doesn't make it any less important!
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Dees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 09:07 PM
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4. If Daddy Warbucks Cheney has any plan at all...
it's to fill his pockets with gold.
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