Britain 'on board' for US strikes on Iran

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

British defence officials have held talks with their Pentagon counterparts about how they could help out if America chose to bomb Iran.

Washington sources say that America has shelved plans for an all-out assault, drawn up to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities and take out the Islamist regime.

The Sunday Telegraph has learned that President Bush's White House national security council is discussing instead a plan to launch pinpoint attacks on bases operated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds force, blamed for training Iraqi militants.

Pentagon officials have revealed that President Bush won an understanding with Gordon Brown in July that Britain would support air strikes if they could be justified as a counter-terrorist operation.

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Some British military and intelligence figures fear that any endorsement of US plans, however hypothetical, will only embolden the White House faction, led by Vice-President Dick Cheney, which wants major bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/07/wiran207.xml

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I fully expect to wake up some morning and find out Chimpy has gone and bombed Iran and started a new war!

[saigon68]

1. Yes with his pathetically small genital array

He needs something to "Boost his manhood"

[More Than A Feeling]

2. Has everyone learned nothing?

:banghead:

[Gregorian]

3. Those who have have been silenced.

They own our media. They make the message. We've all been shoved to the rear of the playing field. It's pretty hard to fathom this stuff. Absolute stupidity and evil.

[PFunk]

4. I see the labor end if their leader does back bush on this.

and I don't know what will replace because I don't think it would be the Tories.

[lovuian]

5. Britain is a major part of this whole NWO

they have never gotten over the Loss of the Empire

[Acadia Blue]

6. This is just sick. Its the money and the oil, and how many troops

are they going to send to dumbo?

[IndianaGreen]

7. Congress already gave Bush the green light to bomb Iran with the Lieberman resolution

Bush will point out to that resolution as the legal basis to defend US troops in Iraq by bombing Iran. Bush knows that the Democratic Congress will not impeach him no matter what he does.

[daleo]

8. My first thought too

By declaring the Iranian Army a "terrorist organization", congress gave Bush a green light for "pinprick attacks". He can then escalate at his leisure.

[bahrbearian]

9. Its been explained very carefully that Congress did not authorize

force. It's just critical economic santitions,,, isn't that right Hillary, Hillary?... oh she's over at Jim Webbs office trying to fix something.