U.S. developing contingency plan to bomb Iran: report

[sabra]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2007-02-25T005158Z_01_N24222192_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-IRAN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-2

U.S. developing contingency plan to bomb Iran: report

(Reuters) - Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.

The special planning group was established within the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in recent months, according to an unidentified former U.S. intelligence official cited in the article by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in the March 4 issue.

The panel initially focused on destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been directed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq, according to an Air Force adviser and a Pentagon consultant, who were not identified.

The consultant and a former senior intelligence official both said that U.S. military and special-operations teams had crossed the border from Iraq into Iran in pursuit of Iranian operatives, according to the article.

In response to the report, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said: "The United States is not planning to go to war with Iran. To suggest anything to the contrary is simply wrong, misleading and mischievous.

[seemslikeadream]

1. well what is it?

Reuters) - Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.

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[oldtimecanuk]

2. So, anyone got a straight jacket and hand cuffs on them? eom.

[peacetalksforall]

3. So this is how they get around Congress -they start out striking Iraq

focused Iranians, then some little thing happens and they get to proceed to their original agenda - the nuclear sites where they are using stuff sold to Iran by Khan (and Cheney?/HB?/?).