Reply #58: You need to get out more. [View All]

[achtung_circus]

• CIA is purged of nonloyalists and replaced with loyalists in key positions...check
Ongoing, and, sadly, SOP for this administration.

• 8 billion dollars earmarked for Iraq reconstruction waylaid...check
(that can finance a lot of black ops)
A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you're talking real money

• set up 14 permanent militarys bases in Iraq that can be used as operation HQs for future invasions...check

• Bolton is force-installed in a rush...check
• Bolton wastes no time to start mucking with UN immediately....check
• Bolton becomes impatient with UN inspections on Iran's nuclear program...check
• Bolton chides the UN that there is limited time (why? what's the hurry?)...check
Why Bolton? Why does it matter? Any US Ambassador will do precisely what his President will tell him to do. If that means a veto, so be it. Bolton's purpose is longer term.

• Nonloyal generals who might be in opposition to an invasion of Iran (or worse), fired or forced to resign...check
Ongoing, and, sadly, SOP for this administration.

• Planted news reports give impression Iran is shipping conventonal weapons to Iraq insurgents...check.
Yeah, a couple of guys with a box of dynamite. No one believed it and it hgot NO traction. That's still on your to-do list.

• Planted news reports give impression Iran is making nuclear weapons....check
Sure, except that estimates are no sooner than 5 years for an Iranian bomb. The IAEA has called Washington on this one, and people are paying more attention to the IAEA since the last clusterfuck.
The US claim of enriched uranium on centrifuges purchased from Pakistan has been demonstrated to be bullcrap.
"Iran claimed vindication Tuesday after tests by the United Nations nuclear agency concluded that traces of highly enriched uranium found on centrifuge parts at two sites in Iran were from imported equipment, rather than any enrichment activities by Iran.

The findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency supported Iran's statements that the material entered the country with parts provided by Pakistan.

The discovery of the traces had previously been cited by the United States as evidence Iran was experimenting with producing highly enriched uranium, which is used only in nuclear weapons."
<http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/25/irans_president_keeps_door_open_to_talks_on_nuclear_program/>

• Black OPs CIA agents forment insurgency in Iran through dissident network...check
Please explain. The US has trouble finding interpreters for Iraq which speaks a more common language than Farsi.

• All military leaves canceled or not allowed after 9/7.....check
So you say.

• Bushes gather "friendly" reporters to a barbque where they have to sign a nondisclosure form as a "thank you' for loyalty thus far, to discuss something secret and get their stories in order.....check


• 700 new soldiers sent to Iraq to help with prison duties (yeah, right, they're paratroopers...hmm)...check
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2005-08-18&ID=...
• 2.000 New soldiers sent to Iraq to help with election and constitution concerns (yeah, right)...check
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24635667.htm
• Therefore nearly 3,000 new troops arrive under "benign" auspices, but available to immediately redeploy once arrived and add to existing troops in Iraq (160,000 that we're allowed to know about) to begin preparations for the ground invasion of Iran....check.
3,000 troops is less than 1 brigade. Do some research on Iran's military. Start here: <http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/balance/Iran.pdf>
Do some research on Iran. Start here: <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ir.html> or start with one very basic fact.
Population: 68,017,860 (July 2005 est.)

TO DO:
• Stage third Pearl Harbor on American soil and blame the Iranians

• Launch limited tactical nuke "bunker buster" bombs on Iran nuke plants

• Launch incursions into Iranian territory with enlarged ground forces.

• drop MOAB bombs on Iranian cities (these bombs were offloaded into Iraq during the beginning of the war and never yet used...I think at least 4)
Do some research on just what a MOAB is. Start here: <http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/moab.htm>

Sorry, not buying this one (at this time)