Joint Chiefs chair: US prepping military options against Iran

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Joint_Chiefs_chair_US_prepping_military_0425.html

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the Pentagon is planning "potential" military actions against Iran, reports The Washington Post.

Mullen criticized Iran's "'increasingly lethal and malign influence' in Iraq," writes Ann Scott Tyson for the Post.

Addressing concerns about the US military's capability of dealing with yet another conflict at a time when forces are purportedly stretched thin, Mullen said war with Iran "would be 'extremely stressing' but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force," Tyson notes.

"It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," she quotes the U.S.'s top military leader at a Pentagon news conference.

[LakeSamish706]

1. Bunch of fucking war mongering idots.... God I hope we can stall this thing off until...

January 09..

[WheelWalker]

2. "It would be a mistake"....."to think".....way to turn a phrase. n/t k&r

[Muttocracy]

4. good point - when you start from the perspective that thinking is bad... nt

[Ilsa]

3. "It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability,"

It would be a mistake for them to think that they can drain the rest of the military and then start drafting our kids.

[Muttocracy]

5. I want the Senate hearings re-broadcast all over the place

The ones where former generals talked about our military being broken.

And where people who've bene on the ground said the stories of Iranian involvement are wildly exaggerated.

The ones before the Petraeus/Crocker/McCain/Clinton/Obama circus.