Report: Pentagon Has 3-Day Plan to Knock Out Iran's Military

  

  I absolutely agree with the plan that's so obviously been put in place since Admiral Fallon had been put in 

charge of CENTCOM, since battle groups USS Stennis, USS Eisenhower, USS Nimitz, USS Reagan, etc. had

been stationed in the Persian Gulf. The Saudis have fortified their security forces at their oil facilities by

35,000 just recently.

  The Iranian regime need to learn that killing our troops will no longer be tolerated. Nobody believes the

Quds forces detained in Iraq are "diplomats". So, it's way past time to give them a reality check.

 

The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert in Sunday’s edition in the Times of London.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organized by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”. He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran “before it is too late”.

One Washington source said the “temperature was rising” inside the administration. Bush was “sending a message to a number of audiences”, he said to the Iranians and to members of the United Nations security council who are trying to weaken a tough third resolution on sanctions against Iran for flouting a UN ban on uranium enrichment.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week reported “significant” cooperation with Iran over its nuclear program and said that uranium enrichment had slowed. Tehran has promised to answer most questions from the agency by November, but Washington fears it is stalling to prevent further sanctions. Iran continues to maintain it is merely developing civilian nuclear power.

Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200
targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military
capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis
Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center,
said last week that US military planners were not preparing for
“pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about
taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was
speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a
conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the
US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or
all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the
same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

President
George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing
Tehran of putting the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear
holocaust”. He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran
“before it is too late”.

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One
Washington source said the “temperature was rising” inside the
administration. Bush was “sending a message to a number of audiences”,
he said � to the Iranians and to members of the United Nations security
council who are trying to weaken a tough third resolution on sanctions
against Iran for flouting a UN ban on uranium enrichment.

The
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week reported
“significant” cooperation with Iran over its nuclear programme and said
that uranium enrichment had slowed. Tehran has promised to answer most
questions from the agency by November, but Washington fears it is
stalling to prevent further sanctions. Iran continues to maintain it is
merely developing civilian nuclear power.

Bush is committed for
now to the diplomatic route but thinks Iran is moving towards acquiring
a nuclear weapon. According to one well placed source, Washington
believes it would be prudent to use rapid, overwhelming force, should
military action become necessary.

Israel, which has warned it
will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, has made its own
preparations for airstrikes and is said to be ready to attack if the
Americans back down.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the
National Council of Resistance of Iran, which uncovered the existence
of Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, said the IAEA was being
strung along. “A number of nuclear sites have not even been visited by
the IAEA,” he said. “They’re giving a clean bill of health to a regime
that is known to have practised deception.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
the Iranian president, irritated the Bush administration last week by
vowing to fill a “power vacuum” in Iraq. But Washington believes Iran
is already fighting a proxy war with the Americans in Iraq.

The
Institute for the Study of War last week released a report by Kimberly
Kagan that explicitly uses the term “proxy war” and claims that with
the Sunni insurgency and Al-Qaeda in Iraq “increasingly under control”,
Iranian intervention is the “next major problem the coalition must
tackle”.

Bush noted that the number of attacks on US bases and
troops by Iranian-supplied munitions had increased in recent months �
“despite pledges by Iran to help stabilise the security situation in
Iraq”.

It explains, in part, his lack of faith in diplomacy with
the Iranians. But Debat believes the Pentagon’s plans for military
action involve the use of so much force that they are unlikely to be
used and would seriously stretch resources in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Timesonline

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