US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran report

US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran report

The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine reported in its April 17 issue. The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler.

"That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying.

A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser is quoted in the article as saying that "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war."

The former intelligence officials depicts planning as "enormous," "hectic" and "operational," Hersh writes.

One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government," The New Yorker pointed out.

In recent weeks, the president has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of the House of Representatives, including at least one Democrat, the report said.

One of the options under consideration involves the possible use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, to insure the destruction of Iran's main centrifuge plant at Natanz, Hersh writes.

But the former senior intelligence official said the attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the military, and some officers have talked about resigning after an attempt to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans in Iran failed, according to the report.

"There are very strong sentiments within the military against brandishing nuclear weapons against other countries," the magazine quotes the Pentagon adviser as saying.

The adviser warned that bombing Iran could provoke "a chain reaction" of attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world and might also reignite Hezbollah.

"If we go, the southern half of Iraq will light up like a candle," the adviser is quoted as telling The New Yorker.


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Poor George W. Bush. He's so misunderstood. Those 'liberals' just don't understand him. They can't imagine why the whole world going up in smoke just can't be a good thing. Bush is by far the most dangerous SOB on the planet earth, without any exception. God help us all.

 

Using nukes would alienate the last few friends we have in the world.

Russia and China wouldn't stand for it.
If the U.S. uses nukes, it's the start of WW III, and the end of humanity.

 

That is one hell of a bold prediction.

 

not really. what makes it so bold? the human extinction part? or the world war 3 part?

 

extinction.

 

Currently, jr. will not order nukes dropped, or war aganist Iran started.

Because now leaders of jr's own party are getting pissed at his lying arrogance.
bushco is bleeding and is currently slowly sailing in a circle, rudderless, like the Bismark.
And, like the Bismark, the coup de grace is just over the horizon.

With approval ratings the lowest of ANY president, EVER, he's done, stick a fork in him.
Draw up the articles of impeachment, it's such a long list.
From at the very least allowing 9/11 to take place, to the lies about WMD & uranium cakes, to the mailing of anthrax to liberal media as a warning, to the slaughter of innocents in Iraq, the looting of iraq (ever wonder where the billions of $$$ the U.S. took out of Iraq went?), to torture in Iraq, Afganistan and Gitmo, to the blatant violation of international laws inc. human rights, to spying on us, to leakgate, and many others.

GET THIS SACK OF SHIT AND HIS BOYS--DEADEYE DICK, RUMMY, CONDI, ALBERTO, ALL OF THEM, OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND APPOINT AN INTERIM GOV'T.
BRING THE TROOPS HOME FROM IRAQ & AFGANISTAN, GIVE FAIR TRAILS TO THE HOSTAGES @ GITMO.
AND APOLOGIZE TO THE WORLD FOR ALLOWING A CERTIFIED MADMAN TO TAKE CHARGE.

GIVE US BACK OUR COUNTRY.

 

You are one cocky son of a bitch aren't you. You obviously know of every scandal that has ever happened.

 

Impeach him, thats funny, if he is in the middle of a war of that scale you not only cant impeach him but he can hold his seat till its over. You do not have to leave office in the middle of a war and lets face it, if a war went to nukes it would be ALL OVER!

 

Doesn't surprise me one bit.

Coming from a country that teaches it's children that killing is wrong, by killing...

Teaches it's children that all drugs are bad then wants to pump them full of ritalin....

Disposes of dictatorships by becoming a dictatorship...

It makes since that they would try to show the world that nuclear is bad by using nuclear devices to destroy nuclear ambitions!

Az