Cheney and Iran rumor, anyone have any way of gleaning truth ?

[steve2470]

I'm referring to the original article in American Conservative magazine:

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_08_01/article3.html (try not to click on this link, it goes to a conservative site)

"Deep Background"

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.

[longship]

1. The scariest thing I've read all year.

If we attack Iran, we could be in for a very rough time of it.

It's been reported that we have plans to use nukes. Now that really scares me. A tactical nuke showering Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and/or Pakistan with fallout is not a very friendly thing to do. Plus, the best way for us to be at the receiving end of a nuke is for us to use one first.

My country's government are the terrorists. Their policies are terrorizing the hell out of me. They are out of their ever-loving minds, the whole bunch of them.