Fw: Pentagon planning nuclear strikes on Iran

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Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:00 PM

[cacklinggrackle] Pentagon planning nuclear strikes on Iran

 

 

> Originally found at http://billmon.org/archives/002051.html

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> According to the latest print edition of American Conservative magazine:

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> " 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.

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> 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. "

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