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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 08:43 AM
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London Times: Pentagon Draws Up Plans To Hit 1,200 Targets In 3 Day Iran Blitz
((Israel, which has warned it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, has made its own preparations for air strikes and is said to be ready to attack if the Americans back down.))
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”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/articl...

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MatrixEscape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 08:52 AM
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1. Wow!
Edited on Mon Sep-03-07 08:56 AM by MatrixEscape
We can be thankful that we are not targets of a blitz by the all powerful, massive, well funded, super-techno Pentagon, yet.

What gods they be with all that they have absorbed from the labors and effort of the American people! Seeing how they use around fifty-percent of the petroleum we consume and divert the largest amount of our productivity into our so-called defense, (or more realistically, offense) we should fear and not bite the hand that we have fed so compliantly along the way to the security we so desire and crave, huh?

Our military comes closer and closer to being the World's police while we sit and wonder who will police those police? Well, you can be sure it won't be the US population because they are oblivious, in mass quantities, to what is going on in the officially sanctioned, game of life as we have been told and taught to know it. How can you sincerely question the body of designer facts that create the reality that we accept as our only existence and not be castigated and declared untouchable, these days? You have so much to risk, you know.
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 08:57 AM
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2. Our government must be dumber than DS.
Attack Iran, start WW III, drastically fuel the cause of the terrorists, have world oil prices skyrocket and the U. S. economy collapse. (W)hereTF have the sane people gone?
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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 09:08 AM
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3. We have plans to hit every country and region and if we don't, someone better get fired. n/t
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 09:10 AM
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4. WHAT???
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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 09:31 AM
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5. Yes, even a plan for Canada. Plans are necessary for any situation. n/t
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Tom Rinaldo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 09:35 AM
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6. All plans are not created equal
Some are routine general outlines that lack precise details, others are elaborate and very very specific, updated to the moment so that they can be moved into action on relatively short notice. To say that there are "plans for everything" when confronted by this type of information regarding plans for war on Iran is like saying "everyone dies someday" when confronted by a diagnosis for a potentially fatal disease.
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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 10:08 AM
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8. That should have been part of the article in the London Times. n/t
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 09:41 AM
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7. The very best plan is to get rid of the planners.
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