A Bush pre-election strike on Iran 'imminent'

[davhill]

http://www.lebanonwire.com/0410/04102002LW.asp

According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, and key nuclear targets throughout the country, including the main underground research site at Natanz in central Iran and another in Isfahan. Targets of the planned U.S. attack reportedly include mosques in Tehran, Qom, and Isfahan known by the U.S. to headquarter Iran's top mullahs.

The Iran attack plan was reportedly drawn up after internal polling indicated that if the Bush administration launched a so-called anti-terrorist attack on Iran some two weeks before the election, Bush would be assured of a landslide win against Kerry. Reports of a pre-emptive strike on Iran come amid concerns by a number of political observers that the Bush administration would concoct an "October Surprise" to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

According to White House sources, the USS John F. Kennedy was deployed to the Arabian Sea to coordinate the attack on Iran. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussed the Kennedy's role in the planned attack on Iran when he visited the ship in the Arabian Sea on October 9

[Wat_Tyler]

1. I doubt it.

I doubt they'd try it, and I doubt it would result in a landslide. There are too many unknowns to try this.

[maddezmom]

2. it'll never happen

[amber dog democrat]

3. I don't see this happening

Could they really be this stupid ?

[atreides1]

8. "Could they really be this stupid?"

How many times in the last three years has this question been asked?

And how many times has the answer been yes?

[TheDebbieDee]

9. YES! Yes, they could be that stupid................

They're morons, fer-cryin-out-loud!

[4_Legs_Good]

4. This could only hurt him.

I don't think anyone wouldn't see through something like this, and I don't think anyone would rally around him.

david

[Goldmund]

5. No way

The Bushies have made too many enemies in high places to be able to pull something like this off. If they have an "October surprise", it'll be a revelation that Kerry had a sex-change operation and that he fucks dogs. Nothing substantial.

[Chicago Democrat]

7. Kerry is looking a little feminine and canine lately...hehe

As for Iran, No Way....

[aquart]

6. A politically motivated attack on a non-belligerent?

We aren't at war with Iran. Iran has not attacked us.

This is an impeachable offense.

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