Philip Giraldi wrote the following in the most recent edition of The
American Conservative magazine (not available online):
The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick
Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command
(STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in
response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United
States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran
employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within
Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including
numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many
of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be
taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in
the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually
being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United
States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning
are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing--
that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack--but no
one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
I just wanted to highlight this sentence:
As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran
actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the
United States.
Now, I support making plans for how we would respond to another
terrorist attack, but they are planning to start a war with nuclear
weapons involved if we are attacked again, and once again, they
won't be going after the person/people who actually attacked us but
a place that has good targets. (Rumsfeld famously wanted to go to
Iraq because Afghanistan didn't have any good targets.)
This administration is utterly insane.
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