[A-List] FW: Iran Next?

["Sabri Oncu" <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You, too, Brutus? 

Or, should I say, Maggie?

Plain text please!

Sabri

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From: maggie [mailto:kaliyuga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:58 PM
To: The A-List
Subject: Iran Next?


This from The American Conservative.....don't know what credence to grant
them, but....

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



August 1, 2005 Issue
Copyright C 2005 The American Conservative


Deep Background


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.