So there’s this BIG STORY that the BBC broke concerning the astonishing revelation that they’ve learned of American attack plans for Iran.
US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed
US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.
It is understood that any such attack – if ordered – would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.
Well, bunkie, it doesn’t take a military genius to figure that information out. I mean, what are we going to attack otherwise, Achmed’s Rug Emporium? Mahmoud’s herd of particularly fine goats? A shopping center? A school?
No, unlike these camel-fornicators, we do tend to attack military targets.
The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.
The UN has urged Iran to stop the programme or face economic sanctions.
Yep, that’s the UN we all know and love: “Stop! Or we’ll say ‘STOP’ again, this time much louder.” All the while, UN’s definition of “sanctions” is a framework whereby their career “diplomats” can channel the corruption and graft in a much more efficient framework. That’s why a UN “diplomat” from some little sh*thole country like Gambia can afford to live like royalty while the common people are catching rats for sustenance.
But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fallback plan, senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected their target sets inside Iran.
That list includes Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. Facilities at Isfahan, Arak and Bushehr are also on the target list, the sources say.
Again, this isn’t rocket science to anyone who’s been around the military with his eyes open.
I got news for you. We probably have target lists for every country in the world, INCLUDING Britain. It’s called “planning”, and it’s what military staff does. Some general walking down the hall in the Pentagon sees a bunch of colonels sitting around drinking coffee and scratching themselves, he says “If you boys ain’t got nuthin’ better to do, make me up a target list for Ireland.” That’s how that works.
I served overseas, holding back the Red Hordes before President Reagan brought them to their knees. In Germany, we had files upon files of plans for how to fight THAT war, and I, only a lowly tank commander, knew of some of them, because they were as obvious as the nose on my face: Like bridges across the Rhine River. Any idiot knew that if the commie hordes crossed the border, those bridges would blow ASAP.
Hell, in Korea, one of the things we checked when our company took over its duty to guard Freedom Bridge was to check the demolition charges ALREADY IN PLACE. Military strategy is pretty straightforward stuff.
Two triggers
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says the trigger for such an attack reportedly includes any confirmation that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon – which it denies.
Alternatively, our correspondent adds, a high-casualty attack on US forces in neighbouring Iraq could also trigger a bombing campaign if it were traced directly back to Tehran.
Sounds a lot like an old joke: “Never strike your child in anger. No, wait until you’re happy and knock the crap out of him.” Real men have these lines that say “No further”. Dimmocrats might have the same lines, but they’re probably like whenever the Ayatollah moves into Barbra Streisand’s mansion and Achmadinejad is the host of the Oprah Show.
Long range B2 stealth bombers would drop so-called “bunker-busting” bombs in an effort to penetrate the Natanz site, which is buried some 25m (27 yards) underground.
Do these guys actually get paid to write the obvious? Of course the expected tool would be a bomb with capability of deep penetration. What’d you think we we gonna do, send in Bubba and Booger and a rock drill? Or maybe Rambo with a compound bow and a quiver full of explosive-tipped arrows? Hey, I’ve got it! Let’s send a crack dealer with one of those terribly lethal assault rifles, because EVERYONE KNOWS that one of those things in the hands of a criminal is able to kill dozens of people all by itself.
I’m telling you, I should be a writer for the BBC. I could have done this one. No, wait, no, I couldn’t. I’d have been ashamed to pen something like this and foist it off as “journalism”.
