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Secret move to upgrade air base for Iran attack plans
IAN BRUCE, Defence CorrespondentOctober 29 2007

The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to military sources.

The improvement of the B1 Spirit jet infrastructure coincides with an "urgent operational need" request for £44m to fit racks to the long-range aircraft.

That would allow them to carry experimental 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs designed to smash underground bunkers buried as much as 200ft beneath the surface through reinforced concrete.

One MOP - known as Big Blu - has already been tested successfully at the US Air Force proving ground at White Sands in New Mexico. Tenders have now gone out for a production model to be ready for use in the next nine months.

The "static tunnel lethality test" on March 14 completely destroyed a mock-up of the kind of underground facility used to house Iran's nuclear centrifuge arrays at Natanz, about 150 miles from the capital, Tehran.

Although intelligence estimates vary as to when Iran will achieve the know-how for a bomb, the French government recently received a memo from the International Atomic Energy Agency stating that Iran will be ready to run almost 3000 centrifuges in 18 cascades by the end of this month. That is in defiance of a UN ban on uranium enrichment and would be enough to produce a nuclear weapon within a year.

Diego Garcia is ideally placed for strategic missions in the Middle East

Diego Garcia, part of Britain's Indian Ocean Territory, has several current missions. US Air Force bombers and Awacs surveillance planes operate from its 12,000ft runway and the USAF Space Command has built a satellite tracking station and communications facility.

The Ministry of Defence says the US government would need Britain's permission to use the island for offensive action. It has already been used for strategic strike missions during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf wars against Iraq.

The UK "sovereign territory" has a garrison of 50 British and 3200 US military personnel.

The atoll, the largest in the Chagos Archipelago chain, lies about 1000 miles from the southern coasts of India and Sri Lanka. It is ideally placed for strategic missions in the Middle East.

The US Department of Defence request for special bomb racks was hidden in a £95bn request to the US Congress last week for extra emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The new Big Blu bomb is 20ft long, weighs 30,000lb and carries 6000lb of high explosives. It is designed to go deeper than even existing nuclear bunker-busting weapons.

The bomb is designed to be dropped from as great a height as possible to achieve maximum velocity and penetrating power, guided on to target by satellite and accurate to within a few feet.

Each B2 bomber would be able to carry only one weapon because of its weight. The B2s, normally based at Barksdale, Missouri, flew round-trip strikes against Baghdad in 2003, but would ideally be positioned closer to its targets for missions against Iran.

The Pentagon has drawn up contingency plans for a range of attacks on Iran. The likeliest is a five-day bombardment, aiming to disable nuclear facilities and all major airbases and radar facilities; the most devastating would involve air and cruise missile attacks on 1000 targets, including headquarters and barracks of the Iranian Republican Guard Corps, over more than a month.

The US branded the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation last week in the latest round of diplomatic sanctions against Tehran.


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Posted by: mary, ankara on 5:50am Mon 29 Oct 07
As an iranian i am readey to learn lesson to us army . may when war with iran start iraq war will be picnic for USarmy .I recommend to US people goes and stop bush and chaneys folish behavier who destabilaizing world and makeing peace dead nowadayes.
Posted by: mary, ankara on 6:06am Mon 29 Oct 07
As an iranian i am readey to teach lesson to us army . May when war with iran start iraq war will be picnic for USarmy .I recommend to US people goes and stop bush and chaneys folish behaviour who make world inconstant and makeing peace and friendship

dead nowadayes.
Posted by: mary, ankara on 6:07am Mon 29 Oct 07
As an iranian i am readey to teach lesson to us army . May when war with iran start iraq war will be picnic for USarmy .I recommend to US people goes and stop bush and chaneys folish behaviour who make world inconstant and makeing peace and friendship

dead nowadayes.
Posted by: Boabby, Vancouver Island on 6:25am Mon 29 Oct 07
Diego Garcia---the island which was deliberately depopulated to make way for the U.S. military machine at the start of the first Iraq invasion. The people were eventually "allowed" to return to their home eventually, but have again been evicted in order to facilitate the present fiasco. A cause for shame---but little sign of it....
Posted by: donald, glasgow on 6:25am Mon 29 Oct 07
Nae need tae rub it in Mary.
Posted by: JJ, Who the heck cares on 11:16am Mon 29 Oct 07
The crack headed Bush administration keeps BS-ing the media with their claims that they are interested of, or even actively pursuing, a diplomatic solution. Unfortunately they have no clue of what the word "diplomatic" means when it comes to approaches between people having an issue with other. The only things we have seen in the media has been threats of various types against Iran. But what ever
Posted by: Contumacious, Puerto Rico on 12:04pm Mon 29 Oct 07
In 1996 the neocrazies promised then Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu' that the US would a find a pretext to bomb Iraq, Syria and Iran. They are determined to keep their word.
http://www.israeleco
nomy.org/strat1.htm
Posted by: lewis orffe, the netherlands on 1:55pm Mon 29 Oct 07
No evidence Iran is making nuclear weapons: ElBaradei

http://news.yahoo.co
m/s/afp/20071028/wl_
mideast_afp/irannucl
earpoliticsiaeaus_07
1028162940
Posted by: Texan, Houston, TX on 2:10pm Mon 29 Oct 07
http://www.navy.mil/
search/display.asp?s
tory_id=31629

Sept. 4, 2007 -DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Terrority (NNS) -- After spending most of Labor Day with U.S. troops serving in Iraq, President George W. Bush made a very brief morning visit Sept. 4 to one of the U.S. Navy’s most remote duty stations in the world: the U.S. Navy Support Facility (NSF) on the island of Diego Garcia, in British Indian Ocean Territory.

“This is the third time now the president has visited a command I’ve been a part of and I’ve always noticed how he gets energized shaking hands and saying hello to our service men and women,” said Capt. Greg L. Looney, NSF Diego Garcia’s commanding officer.

The visit was scheduled with less than 12 hours of notice and a lot of work needed to be done in that short amount of time to prepare for the president’s arrival.
Posted by: Peter Hofmann, germany on 4:13pm Mon 29 Oct 07
You wrote: "Although intelligence estimates vary as to when Iran will achieve the know-how for a bomb, the French government recently received a memo from the International Atomic Energy Agency stating that Iran will be ready to run almost 3000 centrifuges in 18 cascades by the end of this month. That is in defiance of a UN ban on uranium enrichment and would be enough to produce a nuclear weapon within a year."

This is plain wrong. Uranium for a nuclear power plant needs an enrichment to 3-5% . This is what happens in iran. To produce a bomb, you need enrichment to 90% . So this 3.000 centrifuges could run 10.000 years without producing any bombstuff.
Posted by: Atif Mahmood, Pakistan on 4:19pm Mon 29 Oct 07
This possible attack on Iranian military facilities can destroy Iranian Military as well Economy. But what will be Iranian response it will be more than we saw America's response after 9/11. I don't think that America is in such a position to attack Iran and start a new headache in the region. Whatever the effects of the attack will be counter attack by revolutionary guards will effect badly both American military and economy and also American citizens. Iranian are the people who fight 8 years alone with world powers. Can they be defeated by this attack?? It is the spirit who fights not B1s or the 80,000 lb bomb. It's reaction will disable Americans.
Posted by: Alex, Vancouver on 5:09pm Mon 29 Oct 07
So, Mohammed ElBaradei, the chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has told the world that Iran is at least five years away from building a bomb, probably more. This is a man who has had inspectors at all Iranian nuclear facilities, and is probably very well informed. He was informed enough to say that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction or nuclear program to note, and was villified for it by all imperialist nations ready to destroy Iraq and plunder its wealth.

There is one paragraph in this entire article that remotely gives a very thin justification for the imperialists to destroy another country and its population. The article refers to a memo sent by the IAEA. Was ElBaradei's name on it? If not, who sent it? Or is this another manufactured piece of evidence to justify another invasion and new set of war crimes?

What about Israel, who does have illegal nuclear weapons and an illegal nuclear program? They are not opening up their facilities to the IAEA, or playing by the same rules they are trying to get the US to force on Iran. And they are actively involved in population cleansing in Gaza. If the US is to take the "high and mighty" International enforcement role they so want their news agencies to spin their most recent invasion as, they should look to their own backyard and allies first, and not be so quick to reach for the trigger.

There is more going on here than we can hope to understand right now. The US has destroyed their economy, conned other countries in to buying up very risky mortgage debt, lost their international financial credibility and needs more war in the world so they can sell more weapons to keep the rich astronomically rich. Not to mention oil, uranium, and other resources or sources for black money such as the CIA's international "rendition flight" heroin running program. Trace back the justification for these bunker buster bombs, and it just falls apart spectacularly.
Posted by: Robert J Molineaux, USA on 6:29pm Mon 29 Oct 07
Mr. Bruce has put himself way out on a limb by citing an IAEA "memo" without attribution. Might he perhaps provide the name of the author, date and level of authority within that agency. Or is he just spreading war propaganda, and at whose direction?
Posted by: patrick miller, Lexington Kentucky on 6:46pm Mon 29 Oct 07
The BushCo Neocon madmen will attack Iran. It would be bad for the United States and that is the primary reason they WILL do it. The purpose of attacking Iraq, Iran etc is really to undermine and break the USA for the benefit of the goals of: North American Union, The Amero, US Police State, Israel, Oil, in that order, and whatever else is good for the newlyreborn Multi-Billionare aristocracy in the US.... If its bad for ''UhMurikka'' they do it and then bandy about convincing the tard populace of how wonderful it is.
The Iran attack will have to be accompanied by a false flag event, and a nice 'temporary' state of martial law to scare the crap out of the dummies, intimidate the smart-alecs and jail anyone who doesnt like it......get ready its coming right up..... Attack Iran to end America....
Posted by: Martin, Missouri, USA on 7:12pm Mon 29 Oct 07
The B-2s are based at Whiteman AFB in Knobnoster, Missouri. Barksdale is in Louisiana.
Posted by: NOMOREWAR_FORISRAEL, Los Angeles on 7:22pm Mon 29 Oct 07
B-2 (not B-1 as the article had incorrectly mentioned).

http://NEOCONZIONIST
THREAT.BLOGSPOT.COM

http://NOMOREWARFORI
SRAEL.BLOGSPOT.COM
Posted by: Adam Ghaznavi, UK London on 8:53pm Mon 29 Oct 07
patrick miller,:

I hear ye:

MUCH more info on the Petro Amero (to enable the cabal to write off all their debts) via:
http://Lvcifer2.blog
spot.com
Posted by: grassyknolluk, wolverhampton, england on 9:03pm Mon 29 Oct 07
God Save America? Would He?Can He? Will He?
Posted by: KennyG, USA on 9:37pm Mon 29 Oct 07
Grassyknolluk,

God Save America?

Would He? He would if America would repent of her sins and turn from her wicked ways.

Can He? Yes, He Can!

Will He? Only if we meet his criteria, not ours. Otherwise his judgement will come regardless of what the pagan masses think.
Posted by: BM, Glasgow on 10:51pm Mon 29 Oct 07
grassyknolluk wrote:
God Save America? Would He?Can He? Will He?
Well He (or She) didn't save them from defeat in Vietnam or Korea!
Posted by: Sean C., Austin, TX on 2:04am Tue 30 Oct 07
Sad to say, some medias have a lot to do with the twisting of information on national television. US couldn't afford another war, and of course, not with Iran. I think Bush Administration should just get lost!
Posted by: Sean C., Austin, TX on 2:08am Tue 30 Oct 07
mary wrote:
As an iranian i am readey to learn lesson to us army . may when war with iran start iraq war will be picnic for USarmy .I recommend to US people goes and stop bush and chaneys folish behavier who destabilaizing world and makeing peace dead nowadayes.
The biggest problem: Some neocrazies are blocking the way! They always put the blame on the wrong person! You don't know how frustrated it is for many Americans who want the impeachment of Bush, and yet, there are some supporters who kept on putting the blame on the others! For example, one could easily blame Bush for the war in Iraq, but can you believe some try to put the blame on Hillary Clinton who voted for the war in Iraq based on a twisted information Bush? Many people hate Bush, but there are some "forces" behind him that keep toning down the noises!
Posted by: Ardeshir Eftekharzadeh, USA on 2:24am Tue 30 Oct 07
Peter Hofmann wrote:
You wrote: \"Although intelligence estimates vary as to when Iran will achieve the know-how for a bomb, the French government recently received a memo from the International Atomic Energy Agency stating that Iran will be ready to run almost 3000 centrifuges in 18 cascades by the end of this month. That is in defiance of a UN ban on uranium enrichment and would be enough to produce a nuclear weapon within a year.\"

This is plain wrong. Uranium for a nuclear power plant needs an enrichment to 3-5% . This is what happens in iran. To produce a bomb, you need enrichment to 90% . So this 3.000 centrifuges could run 10.000 years without producing any bombstuff.
Peter Hofmann is right on the money. the difference between 3-5%
and 90% is unsurmountable. Iranians have enriched a tea spoon of Uranium. They are not 3-5 years away from Bomb making capability.
Gordon Prather reports that their devices are outdated, their technology is 20-30 years behind. Plus their Uranium Hexa Fluroid are impure
and cause the machines to break often.
Iran is more 10-15 years behind, in line with Nat'l Intelligence estimate, of US intelligence agencies.
We need UK anti-war movement to pressure the government into
denying the US the use of island of Diego Garcia.
UK is closer to Iran than US, attacking Iran using British possessions in the Indian ocean will endanger British people's
safety and security and British interests worldwide.
Posted by: Haroon Sulaiman, South Africa on 6:15am Tue 30 Oct 07
What kind of a self respecting journalist would write such crap without asking who in the IAEA signed the "supposed" memo and if indeed the document is authentic? IAN BRUCE, I guess. Looks like Bush has found another poodle to fill the leash left by Tony Blair.
Posted by: Noura, France on 2:49pm Tue 30 Oct 07
Diego Garcia: you forgot to say that there is a CIA torture black site there. Shame on the US, shame on the UK to allow such a horrible target.
Posted by: Eileen Coles, Long Island, NY on 2:56pm Tue 30 Oct 07
Not for nothin' but it's no secret now, is it... sure this is propaganda, but even that has it's uses in that they are forced to tell us at least some of what is going on.

For what it's worth the majority of us in America do NOT want to attack Iran and some of us are working very hard to propagate that message. It is not that we are afraid of anyone else - it is that we are afraid of ourselves and what some of us seem to have become. Those of us in this country who have still retained our humanity and our sanity still exist but we are being thoroughly ignored. Look at how Condi Rice dealt with the reality of blood on her hands as brought right to her face by brave Code Pink member Desiree Ali-Fairooz. We ask that the international community remember that not all of us are hatefully greedy or insane when the time comes.
Posted by: K on 5:05pm Tue 30 Oct 07
SECRET???? Are you an idiot?????
Posted by: David, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA on 5:23pm Tue 30 Oct 07
A nation is a family, united by trust. Fear creates separation. In the game of Monopoly, one person wins everything, but a nation is a family. Leadership of USA has eroded trust of its own people with its shallow ideology of allowing market forces to dictate policy. Action against Iran could have same impact for USA as Spanish Armada's attack on England had for imperial Spain in 1588. It may reveal to the world the creaking vulnerability of the world's "Super Power," governed by leaders who value gold over people, and who in their greed, act not as good shepherds, but as ravening wolves.
Posted by: Bill K., USA on 6:07pm Tue 30 Oct 07
They want to use Diego Garcia because it is outside the range of Iranian missiles. If the Iranians managed to destroy 5 B-2 bombers it would cost the US $10 Billion in lost Inventory and replacement costs would be astronomical. That is why they want to keep these flying gold palaces safe in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In fact you can bet they won't even be used until the F-18's, F-16's and B-52's have suppressed Iranian Air Defense radars, if that even happens and a Carrier or 2 don't sink to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Iranians lived through 8 years of constant shelling and bombing, 5 days to 1 month would be nothing compared to that.
Posted by: Bill, England, freehootsman.com on 6:15pm Tue 30 Oct 07
I'm very impressed by the high standard of comment on this article, and feel that it reflects everyone's concern about the continuing demonisation of Iran. The article repeats a major piece of disinformation, but does alert people to what is being done in their name, both in the USA and the UK.
Keep up the good work, folks!
Posted by: Amy, Ohio - U.S. on 6:29pm Tue 30 Oct 07
To the Iranians:

I am SO SORRY about what my rotten piece of sh** govt. is planning. As a peace activist, I cannot tell you how seriously depressing it is to be a citizen of this country. 95% of the people here bury their heads in the sand and don't take a stand.

Please know that U.S. peace activists are on your side, on Palestines side, on Iraqs side. We do our homework and we feel absolutely awful about what our country does to countries around the world.

Please take heart in the fact that military COUNTER-recruiting efforts are taking root here and I have been in high schools where the kids are very happy counter-recruiters comprised of peace groups and the Iraq Veterans Against the War are there.

Know that the U.S. people are not the government.

PEACE AND LOVE,
Amy
Posted by: Bill, England, freehootsman.com on 7:31pm Tue 30 Oct 07
For those who are interested in the technicalities of the preparation for more war in the Middle East, there is an excellent article entitled 'The March to War: Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean.'
http://www.globalres
earch.ca/index.php?c
ontext=viewArticle&c
ode=NAZ20061001&arti
cleId=3361
Posted by: miqie, usa on 7:55pm Tue 30 Oct 07
I think that the 30,000lb bomb needs to be reprogrammed with new coordinates: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Lets make that two, just to be sure :)
Posted by: M.E. BASSIM, Egy on 8:05pm Tue 30 Oct 07
KennyG wrote:
Grassyknolluk,

God Save America?

Would He? He would if America would repent of her sins and turn from her wicked ways.

Can He? Yes, He Can!

Will He? Only if we meet his criteria, not ours. Otherwise his judgement will come regardless of what the pagan masses think.
O man! What has seduced thee from The Lord Most Beneficent ?
Him who created hee
Fashioned thee in due proportion,
And gave thee a just bias,
In whatever Form He wills,
Does He put thee together.
Day ! but ye do reject Right and judgement!
Sura LXXXII infitar, or The Cleaving Asunder
84.Then Fight in God`s cause -
Thou art held responsible
Only for thyself
And rouse the believers
It may be The God will restrain the fury of the unbelievers
For God is the strongest
In might and punishment
93. If a man kills a Believer intentionally,
his recompense is HELL, to abide therein (for ever) and the wrath and the curse of God are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him.
Sura IV Nisaa, or The Women
Posted by: Bill, England, freehootsman.com on 8:44pm Tue 30 Oct 07
To M.E BASSIM, Egy

Goodness and Evil cannot be equal. Repay evil with what is better, then he who was your enemy will become your intimate friend.
Sura 41:34

This truth is central to the Christian faith as well. I commend it to all.
Posted by: Anon on 9:50pm Tue 30 Oct 07
October 27, 2007 US War Leaders Implicated In Putin Assassination Attempt By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers Kremlin reports are stating today that the United States War Leaders arein a ‘state of panic’ over the unraveling of their abortive attempt toattack Iran with a nuclear missile launched from the Middle EasternNation of Qatar during the visit of President Putin. The Americans plan, according to these reports, was for the RussianPresident to be killed during the nuclear missile strike on Iran,throwing the Kremlin ‘off guard’ and unable to respond to the combinedUS-Israeli assault upon the Iranian Nation. The chilling details of these reports, however, state that immediatelyprior to President Putin’s October 16th visit to Iran the Kremlin wasinformed by high ranking US Military Officers of the intended nuclearstrike against Iran, and assassination plan of Putin himself, whereuponPutin ordered Russia’s Nuclear Forces to respond with an ‘immediate’counter-s
trike against American Military targets in the Middle East ifthe attack was launched. On October 16th, almost immediately after Putin had arrived in Iran,American Military Forces in Qatar launched a nuclear-armed missiletowards the Iranian capital city of Tehran, but which, ‘almostimmediately’ after the launch, was destroyed in flight and ‘explainedaway’ by the US Military as an ‘inadvertent and mysterious’ launch of aPatriot Missile. According to the US Army spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, and asreported by the Washington Post News Service, the Patriot Missile launchwas "… unexplained and accidental launch, it is under investigation." Russian Military Intelligence reports are stating that after the abortedUS nuclear missile launch against Iran, the 3-person crew of the PatriotMissile Battery in Qatar were ‘moved’ to the giant US Naval SupportActivity base in Bahrain, and which after their ‘interrogation’ 2 of theUS Soldiers, Genesia Mattril Gresham and Anamarie Sannicolas Camacho,were immediately killed and the third US Soldier involved, ClarenceJackson, was shot through the brain and was not expected to survive. These reports go on to state that after US Military investigatorsdetermi
ned that the nuclear material used in the aborted strike againstIran came from one of their own Los Angeles Class Nuclear Submarines itwas ordered back to its port in San Diego whereupon its commander wasplaced under arrest with several members of his crew also being charged. US reports on this incident, and as we can read as reported by the CNNNews Service, state: "The commander of the nuclear-powered submarine USSHampton has been relieved of his command amid an inquiry into misconductby crew members, the U.S. Navy said Friday. Cmdr. Michael B. Portlandlost his post "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,"the Navy said in a statement. Cmdr. William J. Houston will replacePortland. The crew neither maintained inspection records nor conducted therequired inspection of chemical levels associated with the coolingsystem of the ship's nuclear reactor, Navy officials said. The crew thenwent back and falsified existing records to make it appear the work hadbeen done. "There is not, and never was, any danger to the crew or thepublic," the Navy said. Portland's demotion brings to 10 the number of people relieved of dutyon the submarine in the wake of the misconduct probe." This latest attempt by America’s War Leaders to launch a nuclear strikeagainst Iran is eerily reminiscent of the incidents we had previouslyreported on in our September 20th report titled "American Spy SatelliteDowned In Peru As US Nuclear Attack On Iran Thwarted", and wherein wehad stated: "This can be further evidenced by this past few weeks unprecedentedannounc
ement by the United States Air Force that 6 nuclear armed cruisemissiles were removed, without authorization, from their secure holdingfacility, located in North Dakota at the Minot Air Force Base, and flownto Barksdale Air Force Base, located in Louisiana, where they were left‘unattended’ for ‘nearly 10 hours’." So concerned has Putin become with the dangerous actions of the AmericanWar Leaders towards the Middle East that yesterday he labeled them‘Madmen’, and further stated that the action of the US against Russiaare nearing our World towards a crisis point not known since the CubanMissile Crisis. Americas War Leaders, though, appear undaunted in their continued effortto engage the World in Total War, even to the suffering of their ownpeople as oil continues its rapid climb to $100 a barrel and the USdollar continues its apocalyptic collapse. © October 27, 2007 EU and US all rights reserved.http://www.
whatdoesitmean.com/i
ndex1044.htm-- Sorcha Faalsorchafaal@fastm
ail.fm
Posted by: Jaye, NJ USA on 10:56pm Tue 30 Oct 07
We attack Iran there, they (Iranian Sleepers) hit US here, we lose Schools, Malls, Theaters, Restaurants ETC. ETC. and get Martial Law and a Police State. Then with the help of the "Turner Diaries" Minus the Racism we go back to our G-reatly D-esigned piece of paper (our Constitution) after the Second American Revolution (SAR) Begins and Ends in DC with the bodies of Satan's children lighting up the night as human torches. God bless America and Our Constitution! Shalom. Jaye
Posted by: Jazz, USA on 11:49pm Tue 30 Oct 07
As an educated citizen of the US, please excuse the blind patriots-who promote war, and don't even remember what year September 11th happened in-That was in the news too. You can like Iran or not, but if we drop this type of ordinance on Iran, not only will most of us go bankrupt (then the bankers will usher in their Amero), but I can gaurantee you will see a bigger police state than nazi germany-On the FRONT LAWN. A bomb load over 6,000 pounds? Your gonna hit a NUCLEAR PLANT with that? Kiss 150,000 troops goodbye only one country away. The fallout will make everyone wonder if a live nuke would have been as bad. If you want to defend Isreal within policy-thats fine. But doesn't bombing the hell out of up to 3 nuclear sites make Chernobyl look like a cake-walk? Dont forget the oil-Which will PERMENATELY be radioactive, and on ships departed for the rest of the world. Mass death is on the horizon-WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: NightFlight, US on 12:49am Wed 31 Oct 07
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished...
Most Americans have worked very hard to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. We are afraid of saying or doing anything to upset the government. Reprecussions for trying to do the right thing would range from having the Israeli Revenue Service (IRS) hound you and take everything for some bogus tax law to having the local police stop you for a tail light out everytime you leave your property. Somehow, the government of, for and by the people has become tyrannical and oppressive. It didn't happen overnight and we keep voting the same people back in.
I believe that if George Washington were president now, we would be in Iran helping them to construct nuclear reactors to produce their energy for their power needs. Remember, there are two kinds of reactors, ones that make heat for steam and breeders. The breeders are the ones that make plutonium or create the unstable uranium for nuclear reaction bombs. The others will make fissionable material, but about all you can do is make a "dirty" bomb with it. We could be over there creating jobs for Americans instead of enemies.
When our government goes to war with Iran, True Americans should take up arms and march on Washington, DC and clean house. I'm sure a million or more of US could get the job done.
Posted by: eugene, carmel NY USA on 12:56am Wed 31 Oct 07
I believe the "US gooferment" is berift of reality enough to attack Iran, to gain the benefit, if nothing else, of enjoyng the practical equivalent of Marshall law inside the US. This will result in the eradication of the irksome idea of personal liberty brought into the world by the US Constitution.
Posted by: Tatarewicz, Edmonton, Canada on 2:28am Wed 31 Oct 07
The only "Americans" that seem to be pushing for an attack on Iran are the supporters of the AIPAC lobby which has control of US foreign policy through Congress as a result of its funding of the election campaigns of lawmakers. The lobby wants Iran neutralized because that country is one of a few which are calling for a just settlement in Palestine where zionist terrorists used armed force to dispossess indigenous Arabs of their property, contrary to Britain's Balfour Declaration authorizing Jewish settlement there. Iran has not attacked anyone and has no intentions to do so; has just asked that a (democratic) plebiscite be held in Palestine so all of the inhabitants can determine the form of government they want. Zionist control of the US Congress as well as America's media could "make" Bush vulnerable to impeachment on any one of dozens of his goof-ups if he refuses to follow AIPAC advice to attack Iran's nuclear sites and thereby improve Israel's security.
Posted by: Jim Eagle Feather, USA on 4:13am Wed 31 Oct 07
Here is what I told Bush in my last Email to him a year ago: “Go Bush GO! – Get Iran!”
Long ago I realized I might as well join with the Powers That Be instead of spending my life in fruitless bellyaching with pointless bellyachers the world over. They gripe, but will never EVER have the guts and manhood to do what needs to be done, and I am not talking about letter writing and polls. Truth is I realized it is just a part of the natural historical governmental process civilization has been up to now for 5000 years. Freedom was just a romantic hiccup of the late 18th century. The last time I was ready to make the needed stand was back in the early 90s when there were 3 million men in the anti-NWO-militia. But the more I got to know them the more I realized that their grand plan was to scatter to their homes and trailers and wait for the Feds to come and peel their dead fingers off of their guns. They had no fight in them, other than air-conditioning their fat bellies. After having struggled for the US Constitution against the ‘Powers That Actually Are’ since 1974 I finally broke in the late 90s. I surrendered. I spit in the direction of the mankind and the sheeple. So go on sheeple – most of whom HAVE NO IDEA WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE UP AGAINST – go one in your blindness – bellyache. As for me and mine own we say: “Go Bush GO! – Get Iran!”
Posted by: The Pessimist, Oklahoma on 4:18am Wed 31 Oct 07
No doubt the US is preparing for a strike against Iran. The CIC and his neocons normally do the bidding of certain lobbyists (AIPAC) and that direction is to GO. The generals do the bidding of the CIC or lose their pensions.

However, the writer should edit more carefully, i.e., the initial reference was to the B1 which is not a stealth bomber and the B2 operating base is not in Barksdale Missouri. Barksdale AFB is in Louisiana and not the B2 OB.
Posted by: Barney Rubble, USA on 5:19am Wed 31 Oct 07
I must say I have seen ignorance before but this place is astonishing. Do all of you people vote?
Posted by: lagomorph, outer channel on 6:17am Wed 31 Oct 07
50 Brit troops and 3200 Bushie boys; and you say it is a Brit territory? Sorry, it sounds like the u.s. owns it. Bush says jump, and the Brits say how high sir?
Posted by: james, pine gap australia on 7:13am Wed 31 Oct 07
Oil, oil, oil, oil...That's what it's all about. Iran has 'strategic oil', which is the best quality for the US military machine and technology. Such strategic supplies are also found in the corner of Iraq closest to the Iranian border. Remember that Oils ain't oils, as they differ in toxicity and grades. With the worlds supply decreasing and going up in price, economics dictates that it is cheaper to invade Iran and pinch its oil, rather than paying full price from OPEC. OH! Thats right. If you invade a OPEC country, you also have de-proxy rights at OPEC's meetings don't you? Hmmmm....
Posted by: Boabby, Vancouver Island on 7:14am Wed 31 Oct 07
Aye---Robin Cook it was who finally got the Diego Garcia people the "right" to return to their home after the first Iraq fiasco; we know what happened to Him!
Posted by: Bill, England on 7:44am Wed 31 Oct 07
Robin Cook death (and others)

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Posted by: Goose, Azerbaijan on 9:06am Wed 31 Oct 07
Jazz wrote:
As an educated citizen of the US, please excuse the blind patriots-who promote war, and don\'t even remember what year September 11th happened in-That was in the news too. You can like Iran or not, but if we drop this type of ordinance on Iran, not only will most of us go bankrupt (then the bankers will usher in their Amero), but I can gaurantee you will see a bigger police state than nazi germany-On the FRONT LAWN. A bomb load over 6,000 pounds? Your gonna hit a NUCLEAR PLANT with that? Kiss 150,000 troops goodbye only one country away. The fallout will make everyone wonder if a live nuke would have been as bad. If you want to defend Isreal within policy-thats fine. But doesn\'t bombing the hell out of up to 3 nuclear sites make Chernobyl look like a cake-walk? Dont forget the oil-Which will PERMENATELY be radioactive, and on ships departed for the rest of the world. Mass death is on the horizon-WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!
There's no nuclear material in Iran to cause the catastrophic fall out that you describe !!
George W Bush is just a warmongering ****.
Posted by: Ian, London on 9:58am Wed 31 Oct 07
As a human being, I want to know how is it that people are so easily led? War is murder, pure and simple. Iran did not attack America on 9/11. Iraq did not attack America. The Bush administration has lied time and time again. It is America and its allies that are in the Middle East. I don't see a foriegn force on American lands. People please wake up and question authority because it has been proven to lie and kill. In addition question main stream news and look and see the too few hands controlling it all. Wake up America. Wake up World.
Posted by: Jack, Australia on 5:41am Thu 1 Nov 07
Bombing "nuclear facilities" presumably can be interpreted to mean bombing one or more nuclear reactors, thus spreading highly radioactive material over a very wide area. Everything within that area inevitably would be poisoned for a very long period of time. What other label can be attached to such an act other than a crime against humanity and the environment.
Posted by: Hieronymous, THE WORLD on 6:25am Thu 1 Nov 07
GOD HELP US IF IRAN IS ATTACKED BY THE WAR MONGERS.

Many people have been targeted by illegal defense programs and weaponry. The MKULTRA Programs are alive and well and being used by a US shadow government on innocent American citizens, including children. Top Officials have been contacted via CRR and e-mails numerous times with evidence, yet do not respond except for the abrupt firing/resignation of various Top Officials. See May 12, 2006 William Arkin Article "Early Warning - Wiretapping Is Just The Tip Of The NSA Iceberg" with a list of SAP's that include ORION and BASKETBALL. AF Project ORION was part of the Nazi inspired MKULTRA Programs that were allegedly banned in 1977 (note 77 like Flt 77 and London bombing on 7-7, see Book "Requiem World Trade Center" and ref. to Montauk at the end...Montauk was an underground military faciilty where children were caged and tortured in the Nazi MKULTRA programs). AF Project ORiON, pseudonym was DREAMLAND (Timothy McVeigh met two white Army supremicists at the Dreamland Motel and registered as BOB CLEAN, as in Washing/Washington/B

rainwashing), before he blew up the Murrah Bld, which conveniently housed all the 1991 Gulf War Syndrome Vets Medical Records and Indian Land Grant Records, McVeigh was put to death in record time. BASKETBALL is also on the list. (Remember Tenet "Its a slam dunk" and Beslan) Code name BASKETBALL was an 1993 illegal program that was deamed to be about betting on terrorist attacks and assasinations, and led to Admiral Poindexter (like Rocky and Bullwinkle) resigning. The programs are involved with corrupt media elements for purposes of orchestrating terrorist attacks for political and monetary purposes, including massive insider trading via the manipulation of stocks and commodity markets. People who are smart enough to figure out their lives were targeted or uncover this corruption have D4 instituted against them (Deny, Discredit, Disable and Destroy). Directed Energy Weaponry, out of Kirtland AFB is being used on innocent victims, in addition to Microwave and Biochemical Weaponry and NANO. People are being injected with Chips against their will. Warren Buffett who gave his inheritance to Bill Gates and his worldwide vaccination program, advertised on his website Berkshire Hathaway for a genetically programmed replacement and his company GEICO makes "light" of this with Chatty Cathy Dolls Commercials (Project Chatter was one of MKULTRA programs). Buffet is heavily invested in PetroChina and Gates met with the President of China before President Bush, when he visited the US. The Guardisil HPV vaccine advertises "One Less" and shows an Orange Basketball. Mercks sister company Cytrx is involved with Guardisil. The SEC info. shows ties to the Catholic Church in LA (recently sued for $300 mil.), Swiss and French financial companies, Human Genome Project, and the Scientific Advisory Board (linked to Defense Research). Also see USAF 2025 where those in control will make "enemies" (whoever that may be) conform to their desires "the easy way or the hard way". Also see www.istpp.org with links to the Brain Research Institute and mind control movie "what the bleep do we know", where HEGELin's "Manual for a Perfect Gov't " states, "The government now has the tools to ensure IT'S own success (not the peoples) and to be able to quell any resistance to government initiatives." Hegelism was used by Hitler to manipulate the masses. Anyone that has been targeted by illegal, criminal defense weaponry/programs needs to send info. CRR NOW to Senator Waxman in DC/Judiciary Committee on Constitutional & Civil Rights in DC.
Posted by: Bluey, Way down below on 8:37am Thu 1 Nov 07
Hieronymous, you're talking tosh. Go and plant a shrub or something. Sounds like you've affected by Operation Bollux.
Posted by: Bill, England on 10:11am Thu 1 Nov 07
Hieronymus Bosch?

Seriously, there is no smoke without fire, so Hieronymus's article makes intereting reading.
Posted by: hamish, notelling on 10:51am Thu 1 Nov 07
Go back to your job bluey ,continue to earn those further up the pyramid more money, give them more power.
Take only the drugs prescribed by your pharmarep, who isnt really a drug dealer.
let your kids grow up in a damaged world possibly beyond repair.
Consume as much as you can afford, more if possible.
Do not think .It could harm your illusion of the comfortable corner of reality you live in.
Be a good little prole.
Posted by: Rick, CANADA on 4:11pm Thu 1 Nov 07