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US admits it has military plan to attack Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...tack-Iran.html
The United States has acknowledged the existence of a fully-fledged military plan to attack Iran, significantly increasing tensions with Tehran ahead of crucial nuclear negotiations next week.
Daniel Shapiro, Washington's ambassador to Israel, warned the Iranian regime that only "a brief window" now existed to settle the impasse over its nuclear programme through democracy.
Issuing one of the most candid assessments yet made by a senior American official, he assured Israel that, if diplomacy failed, the United States was fully prepared to resort to military force to end the threat the Jewish state says it faces from a nuclear-armed Iran.
"At a certain stage we are going to have to decide whether diplomacy isn't going to work," he told the Israeli Bar Association.
"It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically and through the use of pressure than the use of military force. But that doesn't mean that option is not fully available – not just available, but it's ready. The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it's ready." American officials have tangentially referred to the existence of such plans in the past, among them Adm Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff until last year.
But none has done so in such forthright terms for fear that US intentions could be misconstrued and lead to speculation that an attack was imminent.
Mr Shapiro unusually robust language was aimed at reinforcing President Barack Obama's recent pledge that he "has Israel's back" and comes amid continuing US fears that Benjamin Netanyahu, the country's prime minister, could authorise unilateral Israeli military action against Iran.
But his words will undoubtedly prompt hostility in Iran at a particularly delicate time, with Western powers seeing next week's negotiations in Baghdad as a crucial and perhaps final opportunity to convince Iran peacefully to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, on Thursday announced that the US plans to bolster an Israeli anti-rocket system dubbed the 'Iron Dome’ with $70m in assistance this year. The Pentagon has already delivered $205 million in assistance in previous years.
In an election year?
We have plans to attack Canada, too.
This is damage control with a side of pandering.
As a taxpayer I'm going to be pissed if they only have a plan and not plan(s).
They have plans for plans and still more plans, that is what they do.
I am sorry it is the disclosure of a plan out of many plans.
Terhan is feigning surprise. They have plans for our plans as well as plans to attack several allies. We have plans for those plans as well. That's the thing about plans.
American MaskirovkaOriginally Posted by themacedonian
US plans are better than their plans every planner knows this.
Yes. The plan is the scare them that there is a plan but they will see through the plan and therefore US will surprise them and proceed with the plan.American Maskirovka
In Tuchman's book Stillwell and the American Experience in China
Always thought it was the real way to address "the plan" issue as related to the military.In Washington, Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, summoned from his post as commander of US 3rd Corps in California, records his impressions of the US efforts to fight the war in a letter to his wife. "...A rush of clerks in and out of doors, swing doors awlays swinging, people with papers rushing after other people with papers, groups in corners whispering in huddles, everyobyd jumping up as soon as you start to talk, buzzers ringing, telephones ringing, rooms crowded with clerk all banging away at typewriters. 'Give me ten copies of this AT ONCE.' 'Get tha secret file out of the safe.' 'Where the hell is the Yellow Plan (Blue Plan, Green Plan, Orange Plan, etc.?' Everyobdy furiously smoking cigarettes, everybody passing you on to somone else etc., etc. Someone with a loud voice and a mean look and a big stick ought to appear and yell 'HALT. SILENCE.' You imitation ants. Now half of you get out of town before dark and the other half don't move for an hour. Then they could burn up all the papers and start fresh."
The statement seems to come to pressure Iran ahead of the incoming talks, following a serial of other revelations in the last days: the MEK's report about the military nuclear group work including the 60 names of the scientists; ISIS' evidences about the past involvement of Iran's FM in the nuclear program, the picture of the chamber in Perchin...
If, at this point, our military did *not* have several contingency plans to attack Iran, I would consider that to be pure incompetence, if not malfeasance.
ANY professional Military has plans to attack ANY potential threat. the US has had plans to attack Ireland, Iceland, Britain, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, you name it. Its really common sense to wargame and plan it out ahead of time.
Yes. Thank you. That is it.
Everyone else: I KNOW that there is a plan for every contingency ....... except surrender of course.
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