Fox posts map of potential Iran attack targets, floats coercive diplomacy

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

A satellite image of Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.

Admin. Downplays Military Planning on Iran
Sunday, April 09, 2006

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191068,00.html

WASHINGTON — A magazine news story suggesting the Bush administration will go to war to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb is long on hype and short on facts, a senior administration official said Sunday.

The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh claims in his report that the Bush administration is increasing clandestine activities inside Iran to create regime change and to plan a major air attack.

According to the report, members of the Air Force are "drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups." The report also said President Bush likens Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a present-day Adolf Hitler with nuclear ambitions.

In Sunday editions, The Washington Post also reported the United States is studying military strike options in Iran to be used as a tool of "coercive diplomacy." The report said an attack is not likely in the shortterm and many inside the administration doubt its efficacy. But a senior Bush administration official downplayed the reports, saying the "Pentagon is always making plans for countless contingencies. It would not be prudent not to do so. But the U.S. government has made clear it is a diplomatic approach that is being taken regarding Iran."

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1. Valerie Plame and Iran

It is true. The war drum beats on. The hysterical American press has "downplayed" outing a covert operative...and seriously put the national security in jeopardy. And isn't it Bush - the born again- who wants a second coming?
http://postanapology.blogspot.com/2006/04/plame-iran-nuclear-weapons-us-safety.html#links

[BrklynLiberal]

2. HEY! Isn't this divulging information to the enemy!!?????

ala Geraldo Rivera?

[Cooley Hurd]

3. TRAITORS!

The most insidious!!! ;):grr:

[Jack Rabbit]

5. I'm sure it was secretly declassified so Fox could air it

If the President does it, it isn't illegal. Or so they want us to think.

[Vickers]

4. These dipshits don't realize "coercive diplomacy" means NOT using

weapons?

How fucking stupid! :crazy:

[The Sushi Bandit]

6. Visit the poll on this subject

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2561254