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2006-10-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 make it so

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-03 00:41|| 2006-10-03 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Wish I could believe this.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-10-03 01:04|| 2006-10-03 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Worst case seems to be it will send Iran into chaos for years (don't forget those oil refineries). Gets my vote.

Posted by phil_b 2006-10-03 01:36|| 2006-10-03 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds good to me. Like to see them blow eachother up over who gets who's oil refinery.

Posted by Charles 2006-10-03 01:49|| 2006-10-03 01:49|| Front Page Top

#5 It's two - two - two strikes in one! :-)

Hey, W, did you know that if you hit sand with over 200MT it turns into oil? :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-10-03 06:42|| 2006-10-03 06:42|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know if this is true or not, but then again, neither do the Mad Mullahs. Sleep well boys!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-10-03 06:56|| 2006-10-03 06:56|| Front Page Top

#7 US has plans to kill Iranian leadership .......~~and then usher in the 12th Iman.~~

Posted by Besoeker 2006-10-03 07:09|| 2006-10-03 07:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Of course there are such plans. Heck, there are probably even plans to whack Tony Blair. Doesn't (necessarily) mean anything more than than that they are evaluating possible scenarios. The staff charged with generating such plans would be instructed not to be concerned with whether they would be effective - but just to make the plan that they think would have the best chance of being effective. The evaluation of how such a plan would play out would be left to a different team.
Gardiner must know somebody on one team, but seemingly not on the other(s). Still, debating the concept publicly is probably not a bad idea.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-10-03 07:40|| 2006-10-03 07:40|| Front Page Top

#9 retired AF Colonel....wish it were true, but this pretentious ass doesn't know....jeebus

Posted by Frank G 2006-10-03 09:49|| 2006-10-03 09:49|| Front Page Top

#10 ..."retired Air Force Colonel..."

Well, you can be a retired Air Force Colonel and have never set foot outside a personnel office. Assuming that he is indeed what he says, he knows that there's a contingency plan for EVERYTHING. Guessing that he's not gonna mention that part, though.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-10-03 11:19|| 2006-10-03 11:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Always beware of stories where the exact opposite headline would also engender controversy.

US Has NO Plans To Kill Iranian Leadership

The report's author, retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, says that these officials are undeterred by the concerns of military leaders ~~about whether such attacks would be effective~~ who believe that all contingencies should be planned for.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-10-03 13:34|| 2006-10-03 13:34|| Front Page Top

#12 The US better darn well have "plans" to kill the leadership and/or disable critical infrastructure in every hostile and potentially hostile country in the world. It's simply due diligence because it's the military's job to jump when asked. Planning keeps you from bombing baby milk and aspirin factories.

Posted by Flish Uleregum9913 2006-10-03 14:13|| 2006-10-03 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Please oh please!

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-10-03 14:17|| 2006-10-03 14:17|| Front Page Top

#14 Perhaps they could show those plans to the CIA as I would like to read all the details in the NYT.

Posted by Jake-the-Peg">Jake-the-Peg 2006-10-03 15:05|| 2006-10-03 15:05|| Front Page Top

#15 As much as I would like to see the Ayatollahs get zapped, the above is speculative. Seymour Hersh fever is spreading.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-10-03 18:22|| 2006-10-03 18:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Of course we have plans to kill them. We have plans to kill a lot of losers & invade plenty of dictatorships. To preserve peace is to prepare for war. They'd shit themselves if they knew how thorough our NKor plan is. Master of the fricken' obvious wrote this.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-10-03 22:11|| 2006-10-03 22:11|| Front Page Top

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