You laugh now but you might just end up being known as ‘Bill Nichols, Fluffy Bunny Man’, you know I am that devious, and Neal has a talent for avatars… :D

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/facility/index.html :o Pretty large program, and hard to destroy all off it from air. Those mountains are probably carved hollow. They have past the point of no return, i have to say that an Israeli response can come at any time. If Americans werent in Iraq they would have attacked allready. :yep:

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That’s only 48 targets not counting the mines (those don't pose an immediate threat an can be dealt with at our leisure).

Lets assume it takes 30 Cruise Missiles to take out each site that’s 1440 bombs. Lets say the US plans on using just B-52s armed with AGM-86 missiles, 20 per plane so that’s 72 flights needed, there are 44 combat coded in the air force so that requires just over 1 and a half missions per plane.

In reality we wouldn’t just use B-52 but you get the point, the US has a lot of firepower at its disposal. A mass attack against fixed installations like this is what the US Military has been waiting for since WWII!

Let Iran strike first, as CCIP said: There is no other way to form a coalition to fight a war against Iran, if Ahmadinejad is not a bluff, let him show himself to the world.

War with Iran?
 

Not just Defense...
Don't forget the Strategic Studies.

Should make you a regular on this forum!
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How did you know that's what my wife calls me?

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War with Iran
 

Nice sites, MadMike, I bookmarked them.
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It reminds me of characters working behind the scenes that unknown to most play a significant part in formulating policy direction such as in the lead up to the Iraq War. Laurie Mylroie springs immediately to mind with her questionable (big understatement) theories.

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/7/120534.shtml

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Yikes! :o If this were to be true then it would have to rank as one of the most monumental intelligence stuffups ever with the aid of that Russian scientist. :nope:

Yesterday, by chance, I also stumbled over the following quote by Tukydides on the Peloponesian war (as always, my attempt to translate from German). It is advise valid for both sides in this conflict, I think, and a perspective by which both peoples should judge their leaders and imagined intentions of theirs:

German:
Nach Bedarf ändern sie die Bedeutung der Wörter. Dumme Angriffslust gilt als mutige Aufopferung, vorausdenkendes Erwägen als Deckmantel der Feigheit. Wildes Draufgängertum hält man für Mannesart, wägendes Weiterberaten für schönklingenden Vorwand der Ablehnung. Wer schilt und tobt, ist bestimmt zuverlässig; wer widerspricht, verdächtig. Wer mit Überfall einem anderen, der vielleicht plant, zuvorkommt, erntet Lob – erst recht aber, wer einen anderen, der nichts Böses vorhat, dessen beschuldigt

English:
As required for their needs they are changing the meaning of words. Stupid aggressiveness is taken for courageous sacrifice, thinking ahead (and beyond) is taken as the covering of cowardness. Wild daring/recklessness they think is true male virtue, pondering thought and advice is nice-sounding excuse for rejection. The one who is scolding and raging for sure must be reliable/trustworthy, the one who contradicts, is suspicious. The one who is forestalling a feared attack his enemy maybe is planning, earns praise - even more so if he is accusing somebody else of something evil that this someone has no intention of doing.
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Use Google on operation Merlin. There are a couple of reports on it. the site I wanted to quote - I currently cannot access. The Guardian also had a bigger story on it some days ago (also a no-go for me, currently). It's pretty much old - and almost forgotten - news in Germany. Me tends to think it is a true story.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts...678218,00.html

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10755448/site/newsweek/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...5/ixworld.html

Thanks Bill, you must have red my mind. These are exactly the two sites I had on my mind.

Try this on for size:

http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen...0601060708.asp

I would suspect that morale within the CIA isn't very high right now.