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Barak: US has 'surgical operation' plan against Iran
2013-01-28
Defense minister challenges idea that operation against Iran would develop into "full fledged war the size of the Iraq war."

The United States has prepared plans for a "surgical" military operation to delay Iran's nuclear program in the event that diplomatic efforts to thwart Tehran's drive for nuclear weapons capability fail, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with The Daily Beast on Friday.
The United States also has plans to invade Canada and the Virgin Islands, should it prove necessary. Having plans proves nothing, as the former prime minister of Israel should well know.
Speaking from Switzerland, where he is attending the Davos World Economic Forum, Barak challenged the notion that a military operation against Iran would develop into a "full fledged war the size of the Iraqi war or even the war in Afghanistan."

"What we basically say is that if worse comes to worst, there should be a readiness and an ability to launch a surgical operation that will delay them by a significant time frame and probably convince them that it won't work because the world is determined to block them," Barak told The Daily Beast.
Posted by:tipper

#5  Ole' Ehud repor doesn't believe that Iran will be able to mount any or much of a Regional or International Military, Proxy Terror counter-response in retaliation for any US andor Israel milstrike agz Iran's Nucprogs.

* WORLD NEWS > ISRAEL: IRAN SLOWING DOWN NUCLEAR PROGRAM, WON'T HAVE A BOMB BEFORE 2015 [or EOY = December 2016].

IIUC, IOW once again the USA = POTUS BAMMER has seemingly no real cause to initiate any sort of MilAction agz Iran, by the above between now 2013 thru Dec 2016 - WILL THE BAMMER STILL DEMAND THAT IRAN SUBORN ITSELF TO UNDER UN IAEA SUPERVISION COME MARCH 2013???

Iran has argued that to unilaterally suborn itself under the UN IAEA would be nationally degrading or humiliating - MORESO SINCE ISRAEL'S NUCPROG ISN'T, WASN'T, + WON'T BE SUBJECT TO SAME.

By extension, Iran has roughly three years to significantly improve + refine its NucProcesses, as well as pull an effective "North Korea" Scenario by either stockpiling enough NucMats for Nuke Bombs, andor to covertly manufacture a
number of de facto Working NucBombs in order to deter or retaliate agz any US or US-led Ground Invasion of Iran.

Iff Iran refuses to concede or compromise, will the Bammer initiate war sometime this summer???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-28 22:22  

#4  It goes to the kind of post-Strike World Israel + US-West, etc. are willing to accept or tolerate - ditto for Iran.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-28 19:13  

#3  Maybe we should have plans to attack Canada ... so we can get into THEIR health care system. Hahahaha!!!

A modified War Plan Scarlet.
In which we seize all hospitals and emergency care units. The Bermuda assault will have to wait.

Posted by: Shipman   2013-01-28 16:59  

#2  Maybe we should have plans to attack Canada ... so we can get into THEIR health care system. Hahahaha!!!
Posted by: Raider   2013-01-28 12:50  

#1  But that surgery won't be covered by Obamacare.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-28 07:45  

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