Report: Pentagon Has 3-Day Plan to Knock Out Iran's Military

"The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert in Sunday’s edition in the Times of London.

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Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organized by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”. He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran “before it is too late”.

One Washington source said the “temperature was rising” inside the administration. Bush was “sending a message to a number of audiences”, he said to the Iranians and to members of the United Nations security council who are trying to weaken a tough third resolution on sanctions against Iran for flouting a UN ban on uranium enrichment.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week reported “significant” cooperation with Iran over its nuclear program and said that uranium enrichment had slowed. Tehran has promised to answer most questions from the agency by November, but Washington fears it is stalling to prevent further sanctions. Iran continues to maintain it is merely developing civilian nuclear power."

There is of course no ONE blueprint, but a series of options that depend upon ever-changing variables, and wiping out Iran's entire military in 3 days is virtually impossible. But severing command, control, and supply, is doable in a relatively short period of time. Iranian President Imadimeadozen is playing the usual game of chicken that all jerkwater entities employ when faced with annihilation, and is betting upon the good graces of Russia and China to prevent an American led attack.

On our side of the fence, work on Iraqi oil refineries have been going along at breakneck speed around the clock in order to somewhat plug the Iranian crude oil gap, but the bottom line is the fact that George W. Bush will not allow the likes of Hillary Clinton to assume power without first dealing with the Iranian menace himself. There is time; we know, they know it. But we are talking about a full scale war, one of relatively short duration of course, but we'd be throwing everything we've got left into the field and it wouldn't be pretty. Iran would counterattack by hitting parts of Iraq via both standard military means as well as terrorist activity, and a lot of our boys would be facing an all-out rash of roadside bombs the likes of which have yet to be seen.

But we've little choice at this stage of the game. The impotent UN is worthless, and a nuclear-armed Iran is simply not going to happen.