IRAQ WAS NOT ENOUGH

 

Israel and its American lackies
itching for war with Iran

 

'Military plan against Iran is ready'
The Jerusalem Post, 10 June 2007

By YAAKOV KATZ

WASHINGTON — Predicting that Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon
within three years and claiming to have a strike plan in place, senior
American military officers have told The Jerusalem Post they support President George W. Bush's stance to do everything necessary to stop the Islamic Republic's race for nuclear power.

Bush has repeatedly said the United States would not allow Iran
to "go nuclear."

A high-ranking American military officer told the Post that senior
officers in the U.S. armed forces had thrown their support behind
Bush and believed that additional steps needed to be taken to stop
Iran.

Predictions within the U.S. military are that Bush will do what is needed to stop Teheran before he leaves office in 2009, including possibly launching a military strike against its nuclear facilities.

On Sunday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut said the U.S.
should consider a military strike against Iran over its support of Iraqi
insurgents.

"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action
against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,"
he said. "And to me, that would include a strike over the border into
Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which
they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers."

Joint exercises with Israelis

According to a high-ranking American military officer, the U.S. Navy
and Air Force would play the primary roles in any military action taken against Iran. One idea under consideration is a naval blockade designed to cut off Iran's oil exports.

The officer said that if the U.S. government or the UN Security Council decided on this course of action, the U.S. Navy would most probably not block the Strait of Hormuz — a step that would definitely draw an Iranian military response — but would patrol farther out and turn away tankers on their way to load oil.

On Sunday, the Israel Air Force held joint exercises with visiting U.S.
pilots, but IDF sources dismissed speculation that the drills were
connected to an attack on Iran.