Holy Crow Batman! U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan

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FOXNews.com - U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

WASHINGTON — A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.
Germany — a pivotal player among three European nations to rein in Iran's nuclear program over the last two-and-a-half years through a mixture of diplomacy and sanctions supported by the United States — notified its allies last week that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to support the imposition of any further sanctions against Iran that could be imposed by the U.N. Security Council.
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Thoughts?
 
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I'm sure the US military has a plan to bomb anywhere in the world (and has for a long time).
 
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Maybe this time they'll make plans for AFTER the bombing. We're good at shock and awe but forget the rest.
 
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not going to happen and Iran knows it.

The military needs more troops to support the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq alone. There's no troops available to support a military action in Iran.

The PM of Iran knows it that why he's been able to continue his nuclear ambitions unabated. Invading Iraq was a big mistake on a couple of different levels IMO.
 
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oklavol said:
not going to happen and Iran knows it.

The military needs more troops to support the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq alone. There's no troops available to support a military action in Iran.

The PM of Iran knows it that why he's been able to continue his nuclear ambitions unabated. Invading Iraq was a big mistake on a couple of different levels IMO.
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we could use psychological warfare.......fly over Iran and litter the desert with jorts.
 
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oklavol said:
not going to happen and Iran knows it.

The military needs more troops to support the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq alone. There's no troops available to support a military action in Iran.

The PM of Iran knows it that why he's been able to continue his nuclear ambitions unabated. Invading Iraq was a big mistake on a couple of different levels IMO.
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Agree and disagree. The US does in fact have the troop support to win in a military action against Iran. What I think MAYBE you meant was that we don't have enough support to not only win but STAY in Iran for any sort of new regime to kick in.

If people think Iraq has been difficult to maintain, they should understand that Iran would be roughly 2x-3x worse in just about every sense.

In addition, the Iran forces would in fact put up a hefty fight against us invading and numbers would rise in the body count department. The IRIA is not the Iraq Army. They CAN fight and they WILL fight for a government they believe in. I don't see the Basij as much of a problem though

It is so very easy to want to over-throw Iran but the fact is 99% of those who want to do it know 1% of what it would actually take to do so.

Invading Iran at the moment is not even an option for us.
 
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This is new news here...but, I was in W. Iraq in '06 and there were rumbelings then.

U-T...especially the youth in Iran don't like Monimajad' (sp)...after some carpet bombing....not sure many will.

dizzy...kizz my azz!
 
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JustFunnN'Orange said:
U-T...especially the youth in Iran don't like Monimajad' (sp)...after some carpet bombing....not sure many will.
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You just hit on arguably the biggest question mark if we invaded Iran. How will the 30-and-under crowd react to a US/World invasion? Three quarters of Iran's economy centers around the 30-and-under group. They are a HUGE factor in any war that involves Iran.

My own personal opinion (and this is strictly what I think WOULD happen) is that the Iran youth has a deep dislike for their current government BUT any strike on their country would cause a HUGE coming-together for any strike put on them. The Anti-American sentiments in that country run quite deep though some don't want to believe it.

Richard Clarke said it best in an interview last year on Good Morning America.

“[W]e’ve thought about military options against Iran off and on for the last 20 years, and they’re just not good, because you don’t know what the end game is."
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The current adminstration came up with these ridiculous fairy tale stories about how Iraq would react to our invasion and frankly none of them are even remotely true. Now, do NOT mistake what I just said for saying the people in Iraq don't want us there, on the contrary I had many experiences of thankful Iraqi people. But, overall, the way the Bush Admin made it seem....the entire country was going to roll over once we found Baghdad. That was and always has been a crock though I understand the debates about it. Things of this nature really irk me.

I see we have a few men who have served in Iraq on this forum. I am sure each of them have their own good/bad experiences from Iraq. Everyone has a different view on it when they experience it first hand.

Back to Iran, the country is a very difficult one to invade. The Iran Government learned from their 1981 bombing experience with the Israel and have thus buried many of their weapons and facilities.
 
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We always throw the "plans" talk out there as a scare tactic. We said the same thing about North Korea. At the end of the day, we are probably going to convince Israel to go in and bomb Iran's reactors.

We really don't want to start another war right now. We aren't fixing Iraq; Iran would be worse. "Regime change" is ridiculous. As soon as we pull out or reduce our troops terrorists will take over anyway.

If we do anything, we should just bomb their reactors for now and wait and see.
 
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TacomaJPP said:
We always throw the "plans" talk out there as a scare tactic. We said the same thing about North Korea. At the end of the day, we are probably going to convince Israel to go in and bomb Iran's reactors.

We really don't want to start another war right now. We aren't fixing Iraq; Iran would be worse. "Regime change" is ridiculous. As soon as we pull out or reduce our troops terrorists will take over anyway.

If we do anything, we should just bomb their reactors for now and wait and see.
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I'm not sure it is as much their reactors as their centrifuges we are concerned about. Perhaps they are making plutonium in reactors...but I think that they are enriching uranium...
 
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TacomaJPP said:
As soon as we pull out or reduce our troops terrorists will take over anyway
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Sadly, many won't believe this until it actually occurs and even when that happens...some still won't believe it and will blame the media, Bush, and anyone else who they hate anyway
 
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TennTradition said:
I'm not sure it is as much their reactors as their centrifuges we are concerned about. Perhaps they are making plutonium in reactors...but I think that they are enriching uranium...
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Yeah, you are right. Sorry I had a brainfart. They are enriching uranium...
 
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U-T said:
Sadly, many won't believe this until it actually occurs and even when that happens...some still won't believe it and will blame the media, Bush, and anyone else who they hate anyway
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We are creating a vacuum and they will fill that vacuum the minute we release the pressure...
 
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TacomaJPP said:
We are creating a vacuum and they will fill that vacuum the minute we release the pressure...
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A sad consequence of removing a totalitarian dictator. In one case, his people are horribly oppressed, but unless he has terrorist motivations (and it appears that Hussein wasn't too active in breeding terrorists), he will suppress terrorist activities. On the other hand, his people finally get a chance to live out from under tyranny, and now they are terrorized by the idiots who run in to fill the void left by the dictator.
 
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TennTradition said:
A sad consequence of removing a totalitarian dictator. In one case, his people are horribly oppressed, but unless he has terrorist motivations (and it appears that Hussein wasn't too active in breeding terrorists), he will suppress terrorist activities. On the other hand, his people finally get a chance to live out from under tyranny, and now they are terrorized by the idiots who run in to fill the void left by the dictator.
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I agree, but at least the people now have a chance to fight a terrorist group rather than their own government. Unfortunately it seems (at least from our biased media) that they really don't want to.
 
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