Anyone remember that report published years ago about how back in spring 2008, allegedly Israel asked President Dubya if he would publicly support them if they commenced military airstrikes against the purported Iranian nuclear development sites? He said no, and said strikes never happened. If that anecdote is true, Dubya made the right decision.

With that in mind...

UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears

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Britain's armed forces are stepping up their contingency planning for potential military action against Iran amid mounting concern about Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme, the Guardian has learned.

The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will seek, and receive, UK military help for any mission, despite some deep reservations within the coalition government.


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They made clear that Barack Obama, has no wish to embark on a new and provocative military venture before next November's presidential election. But they warned the calculations could change because of mounting anxiety over intelligence gathered by western agencies, and the more belligerent posture that Iran appears to have been taking.


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The Israeli cabinet was reported on Wednesday to be debating whether to launch air strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in the coming weeks. The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the defence minister, Ehud Barak, are lobbying in favour of action, but other senior ministers are urging caution.

In response, Iran has warned, as it has in the past, that any attack by Israel would result in retaliation against the US. The Iranian news agency ISNA quoted Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran's military chief, as saying: "The Zionist regime's military attack against Iran will inflict heavy damages to the US as well as the Zionist regime."


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But Keane and other military colleagues giving evidence on Capitol Hill all stopped short of advocating an air strike against Iran. That has been line for years from the Pentagon, which sees all-out war against Iran as the worst of options.


who's up for a 4th war in a decade? We've got another trillion bucks under our couch cushions somewhere. God knows that there is no Anti-War movement in America, with the population on Iraq/Afghanistan either apathetic or not giving a shit while playing HALO instead.

the NeoCons are beating hard the same drums for more war, and Romney such a pussy push-over to that party base, he would start a war if he is elected. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that I could say the same thing to a degree with the current President when you read this:

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"I do not think the US has the stomach for it," Sam Gardiner, a retired air force colonel who taught strategy at the National War College and who has specialised in carrying out war games targeting Iran, said. But if Israel went ahead, it would be difficult for the US to stay out. "The US would have to be involved and finish it," he said.


Finish it?

Of course this all could be hot smoke, alot of this shit leaked simply a public posture of braun, deter the Tehran regime. I mean that first link talks of the British planning contingency plans, not planning to do it tomorrow after it picks up eggs and booze at the store. Big difference. Then you also read about the debate itself in Israel turning against the proposed strikes:

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In all the rising volume over Netanyahu and Barak’s plot to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilties, by far the most important sound in the air is silence – the silence of the heads of the IDF, IDF Intelligence, Mossad and Shin Bet. In his Friday column that broke it all open, Nahum Barnea wrote in Yediot Aharonot that the four security/intelligence chiefs – Benny Gantz (IDF), Aviv Cochavi (IDF Intelligence), Tamir Pardo (Mossad) and Yoram Cohen (Shin Bet) were all opposed to an attack. Since then, none of them have denied it, none of them or “sources close to” them have said a word. Which means it’s confirmed – all four leaders of Israel’s professional military-intelligence establishment are against bombing Iran.


To be continued?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/02/uk-military-iran-attack-nuclear

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/02/us-heading-war-iran-obama

http://972mag.com/finally-israel-wakes-up-to-the-israeli-threat/26931/