de Borchgrave: If and when Bush 'Iraqs' Iran

[Barrett808]

If and when Bush 'Iraqs' Iran
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
October 3, 2006

A strategic thinker who called all the correct diplomatic and military plays preceding Operation Iraqi Freedom now sees diplomatic failure and air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. The war on Iran, he says, started a year ago when the U.S. began conducting secret recon missions inside Iran.

Sam Gardiner, 67, has taught strategy at the National War College, Air War College and Naval War College. The retired Air Force colonel recently published as a Century Foundation Report "The End of the 'Summer of Diplomacy': Assessing the U.S. Military Option on Iran."

President Bush and his national security council believe seven "key truths" that eliminate all but the military option, according to Mr. Gardiner...

"The case against regime is so forceful, and so multifaceted," Mr. Gardiner points out, "that it becomes clear the goal is not simply to do away with the regime's enrichment program... but to do away with the regime itself."

President Bush, writes Mr. Gardiner, sees himself like Winston Churchill standing against the appeasers, "believes the world will only appreciate him after he leaves office, talks about the Middle East in messianic terms, and is said to have told those close to him that he has got to attack Iran because even if a Republican succeeds him... he will not have the same freedom of action that Bush enjoys."

Mr. Gardiner reminds us air planners almost always fall short of promises -- e.g., World War II, Korea, Vietnam and more recently Israeli air attacks on Hezbollah. "No serious expert on Iran believes the argument about enabling a regime change," he says, and "it is far more likely such strikes would strengthen the clerical leadership and turn the U.S. into Iran's permanent enemy." Which is what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prays for five times a day.

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http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20061002-102008-6971r_page2.htm

[redqueen]

1. The president is officially insane.

Will anyone have the guts to stop him?

Or will the cowards let him tarnish US foreign relations for generations to come?

Lord, please, let me get out before it all goes to $#&@.

[Vincardog]

3. RQ he does not want to tarnish our relations, he wants to trigger the

END TIMES. This idiot really believes he needs to burn the world up to get GOD to come back.
God Protect us from the Religious Insanity.

[redqueen]

4. Oh yeah, I know what his batshit insane wasted excuse for a brain thinks,

but what's really gonna happen is more my concern.

[Vincardog]

2. No elected president will enjoy the same freedom from REALITY

that aWoL (p)Resident shrub does. When will the corporate controlled Media admit the shrub is insane?