It appears as if the United States government has received its marching orders. We need to attack Iran before New Year’s 2008. The Australian carries a story on the plan for the months ahead in: Fallout fear puts deadline on nuclear sites attack. Notice that they cite the ever independent, balanced, no vested interest here, Jerusalem Post.
IRAN is several years away from nuclear capability but any plan for a pre-emptive attack on its nuclear sites may have to be implemented before the end of the year to avoid the danger of serious radiation fallout.
Sources cited by The Jerusalem Post say a US or Israeli strike on the Iranian facilities would probably be carried out before Iran had enriched weapons-grade material in sufficient amounts to trigger a nuclear catastrophe if hit.
Iran is believed to be attempting to produce a critical mass of enriched uranium before the end of the year. Any attack after that would risk triggering fallout that could kill civilians over large distances and make parts of Iran uninhabitable.
The same consideration figured in the timing of Israel’s attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981.
The Israeli cabinet decided then to approve the attack when it learned that a shipment of enriched uranium fuel rods was due to arrive at the new reactor south of Baghdad. An attack on the reactor once it became “live” would release massive radiation, experts had warned. It would turn the bombing into a nuclear attack, despite the use of conventional armaments.
Israeli warplanes demolished the Iraqi reactor before the rods could be installed.
In view of the possibility of an early strike against the Iranian facilities, several foreign embassies in Tehran are reportedly updating their emergency evacuation plans, including choosing alternate land routes out of the country…
Since it appears that Israel has not sated its appetite for innocent blood in Lebanon, they are aiming for a surgical strike on Iran, via their puppet state, the United States. The funny thing about surgical strikes, carried out by leaders imbedded in Washington, is that such distant leaders, with their fingers on the ‘fire’ button make mistakes.
Mistake the amount of weapons-grade material on-site, even by a day, oops, millions dead, including, ironically, U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, our allies on the ground, the Turks and Russians, and Israeli citizens.
In the category of God helps those who help themselves, let’s get on with the impeachment of the entire present administration. Barring that, let’s also hope that our generals, admirals, and commandants have the courage to say no more.
God, please keep our weak leaders from carrying out the will of a foreign government, grant courage to true leaders, and have mercy on us and the whole world.
