Fwd: Military brass threatening a coup over Iran?

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Military brass threatening a coup over Iran?

 

 

[Calling Dr. Strangelove. Remember that Nixon didn't agree to resign

until the Joint Chiefs informed him that they were no longer taking

orders from him, but rather from vice-president Ford. Nixon resigned

the next day. Not sure who would be picked to take over if the brass

decided to no longer accept civilian leadership from either Bush or

Cheney. But when " top Pentagon officers " tell the prez there will be

" serious consequences " if he continues on an insane course of action,

I suspect he'd better wake up and smell the fragmentation grenade. As

Max Weber observed, the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical

force designates an essential attribute of the state's sovereignty.

Therefore a nation's military is usually, in the end, the final

political arbiter.]

 

 

" Top Pentagon officers have told the Bush administration that bombing

Iranian nuclear facilities would probably fail to destroy that

country's nuclear program, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday.

 

" The senior commanders also warned that any attack launched if

diplomacy fails to end the standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions

could have 'serious economic, political, and military consequences for

the United States,' the article said, citing unidentified U.S.

military officials. "

 

Full story at:

http://news./s/nm/20060702/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_report_dc