Air Force probes mistaken transport of nuclear war

This was NO ACCIDENT. I have friends who deal with cruise missiles and tactical nukes on a regular basis. NO NUKE can be moved 50 Feet without multiple forms of authorization and high level signatures. This smells out loud like a Black Operation, gone bad. Some jackass probably couldn't keep his mouth shut long enough for the mission to be completed. Some time between now and the end of this year, Iran will have their own nukes, and their own working ICBM system. We have probably been sending these cruise nukes to Israel, a few at a time, to prepare for the inevitable; as promised by Mr. Ahmadinejad and the Radical Shia Revolutionary Supreme Ruler Ayatollah of Iran. The Iranian rulers are serious about starting a nuclear war, to bring about the return of their 12th Imam; a mystical figure in Shia Islam who will supposively return Persia and Shia Islam to prominance and even World Domination. By Pentagon estimates, there are at least 1,200 targets that must be destroyed in Iran, to eliminate their nuclear bomb making facilities and the Iranian military capabilities. What most of us do not know, is that Iran's Navy has had submarines, (bought from the former Soviets who needed the cash) with ICBM and cruise missile launching capabilities. They also have a new ultra high speed torpedo developed with help from Germany, that is far better and far faster than any of ours! It is a good thing that their old Russian subs are very noisy and easily detected, older model diesel/electric ones. But they are very well maintained, also with a lot of help from our German friends.
Israel has an estimated 250 to 350 ICBM assorted Nukes in their arsenal. These are more than enough high yield warheads to turn both Iran and Syria into glowing dust. But that is not the desired effect. Low yield tactical nukes and neutron warheads of the type on most cruise missiles are more precise in their more limited destruction, for surgical strikes. Iran, and the Iranian people do not need total and absolute destruction. Only those things that are the threat to the free world need destroying. The vast majority of millions among the 80 million Persian People are innocent good people, (being held hostage by the new theocracy in power in Iran) who should be spared; just as we did not kill all of the Japanese and Germans in World War II.
The abject silence of all of the Arab Nations over the Israeli Air Force's open in-your-face fighter bomber jet incursion over Syria and Turkey (the dry run for an attack on Iran) shows their disdain for both the Iranian nuclear aspirations, and the new group alliance of Syria with Iran, China, and Russia. The Arabs see Iran, though the open enemy of Israel, as a new nuclear enemy to be feared and not trusted. Besides, over 90% of the Arab World is Sunni Muslim; the enemy of all Shia Muslims.
The Israelis have already put the U.S. on notice that if we do not attack Iran's military and nuclear facilities, that they would do so without us. It is to our advantage to help them. We are already fighting a proxy war with Iran, the Iranian sponsored Hezbollah terrorists, and the Iranian supported Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and the Al Qaeda/Taliban in Afghanistan. The Nation of Israel has as much right to defend itself as any other nation. I believe that helping them is the right thing to do for many reasons. If Israel wants the job of destroying the Iranian nuclear bomb program, and the Iranian Revolutionary Armed Forces, then we would be crazy not to help them accomplish this worthy, and necessary task. I believe that these five cruise missiles were to be offered to that end. I am only sorry that the very likely covert movement of them was comprimised somehow. God help us. I believe that it is only a matter of time before the bad guys make yet another try at nuking us. The previous terrorist nulear bomb attempt up north and also the one on the west coast were foiled. Let us hope that the third try is not the one that is charmed. Our open border policy is biting us in the butt right now with the illegal aliens and free flow of spies and terrorist wanna-be types. They are already here. This will be the way they get to us, if the next nuke is not just sent to us in a shipping container. The Iranian Revolutionary Government must be destroyed, before they and their terrorist friends destroy us.
An old proverb: Have your enemy for lunch, before he has you for supper.

And now the FRENCH weigh in on this!?!! People, WAKE UP!!!
The following article is from the AP on CNN.com:


PARIS, France (AP) -- France's foreign minister warned Sunday that the world should prepare for war if Iran obtains nuclear weapons and said European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against the Islamic country.


French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called for more effective sanctions on Iran.

Negotiations and two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions have failed to persuade Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program, a process that can produce fuel for nuclear power plants as well as material used in atomic weapons.

Iran insists its atomic activities are aimed only at producing energy, but the U.S., its European allies and other world powers suspect Iranian authorities of seeking nuclear weapons.

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking on RTL radio, called for "more effective sanctions" against Iran if it continues to resist the demands to suspend uranium enrichment.

"We will not accept that such a bomb is made. We must prepare ourselves for the worst," he said, specifying that could mean a war. He did not elaborate on what kind of preparations that would entail.

"We have decided, while negotiations are under way ... to prepare for eventual sanctions outside the United Nations, which would be European sanctions," he said.

Kouchner was not specific about what penalties Europe might impose, other than to say they could be "economic sanctions regarding financial movements."

"Our German friends proposed this. We discussed it a few days ago," he said.

Sarkozy reportedly floated the possibility of European sanctions against Iran this summer. In a major foreign policy speech last month, he mentioned the possibility of an attack on Iran, which he said would be as "catastrophic" as Tehran getting a nuclear bomb.

In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Bush administration is committed, for now, to using diplomatic and economic means to counter the potential nuclear threat from Iran.

Don't Miss
Iran 'reaches nuclear target'
Bernard Kouchner: rebel and patriot
"I think that the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian threat, the Iranian challenge, through diplomatic and economic means is by far the preferable approach. That's the one we are using," the Pentagon chief said.

Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on state television that enriched uranium fuel is ready to be shipped from Russia to Iran's first nuclear power plant.

The project has been beset by repeated delays due to payment problems on the Iranian side, according to the Russians. Iran, however, maintains it is because Moscow has been caving into Western pressure to halt the project.

Sunday's announcement comes after talks in Moscow between Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Russian nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko to address delays in completing the $1 billion Bushehr power plant.

Iran currently has the ability to enrich small amounts of uranium for nuclear fuel but still nowhere near enough to power a nuclear plant, much less create a weapon. Russian officials say the Bushehr plant cannot open until six months after the current fuel is delivered.

Great article, by somebody who knows:

COMMENTARY
By Jack Jacobs
Military analyst
MSNBC
Updated: 8:13 p.m. CT Oct 2, 2007
It has been said before: from any standpoint, Iran is among the most dangerous countries on the face of the earth. Now, in the October 8 edition of The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reports that the Defense Department is preparing plans for a bombing campaign, principally targeting Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities. The article is a bit breathless and hyperbolic, and not surprisingly, it has generated some hysteria about a potential war with Iran. Nevertheless, Hersh isn’t the only one thinking about a strike on Iran.

Most people outside the Pentagon don’t realize that the Defense Department makes plans for every conceivable national security contingency — and quite a few that are almost inconceivable. And by law these plans are reviewed and re-certified every year. There are plans to defend the island of Taiwan if China attacks it. There are plans to attack North Korea in a wide variety of scenarios. What happens if Russia attacks Western Europe? Well, we have a plan for that. So, it should come as no surprise that we have plans for Iran too.

Part of any plan is the use of combat aircraft. Extensive target lists are always developed and refined. So there is a menu of targets to attack in Iran, and there has been such a list since at least 1979. For quite a while, Iran’s nuclear facilities at ab-Ali, Natanz and al-Beshir were targeted, but after we went to Iraq, Iran’s nuclear development was geographically scattered and sited in underground facilities. These days, as Hersh reported, our intelligence about this is not very good, and in my judgment we missed our chance several years ago to slow Iran’s nuclear research. So a plan to hit Iran is not about nuclear proliferation.

The article suggests that the U.S. wants to strike to reduce Iran’s support of Iraq’s insurgents, who are killing Americans every day with sophisticated improvised explosive devices, and to get Iran’s attention in the hope that it will reform and stop its threatening behavior.

It’s hard to see how limited strikes against formations of Revolutionary Guards will motivate Iran to do anything positive. Reports are that Ahmedinejad is not well-liked among his own countrymen, and although he occupies a very public position, it is largely ceremonial. Originating inside Iran, blogs on the subject of Ahmedinejad’s recent visit to the United Nations were almost uniformly critical of him, but even so, one can’t expect that air strikes on troops or headquarters will cause a general uprising of Iranian moderates, who will then throw the mullahs to the wolves. Would that were so.

In the employment of combat power, as in any endeavor, one of the most significant questions is, “What can go wrong?” While it’s always possible that a strike on Iranian forces will result in Iran’s becoming more docile because it doesn’t want us to hit them again, we have demonstrated that we are not keen on escalation, and escalation is what we would likely get.

But Iran is behind many, perhaps even most, of the casualties we sustain in Iraq. IEDs produce the large majority of killed and wounded, and our armored vehicles are very vulnerable to the new family of explosively-formed penetrators that are manufactured in Iran. Furthermore, Iran produces huge 240-millimeter mortars that Shi’a insurgents can use with deadly effect against military and civilian targets. For the American military command in Iraq, getting these weapons off the battlefield is very important, and if there is to be any strike against targets in Iran, it will be against the facilities that manufacture them.

Can these targets be struck with little or no collateral damage? Yes. Is there some danger of an Iranian retaliation? Yes again.

We should never be averse to using the military instrument of power to achieve logical objectives, and we have done it successfully many times. And there are good military reasons to strike the facilities that produce Iranian weapons used against our forces. But if we’ve learned anything in the tragic adventure in Iraq, it’s this: we should think clearly about what happens after the strike — we’d better do a good job of it.

This article has me thinking Armageddon, or the beginning of it. I gather that if Iran is allowed to pursue WMD, Iran will strike Israel. That is their publicly stated objective, to wipe Israel off the map. I think that the Nov. 17 date of some type of attack against Iran and Syria is inevitable, if not sooner. Iran must never be allowed to possess a nuke. The West and Israel must stop this terrorist rogue nation from acquiring WMD. Iran will deploy even a rudimentary device at Israel the moment it is operational at Tel Aviv, or Jerusalem, in which Israel will unleash its' own nuke arsenal. Lets' stop this madness while we still can. Let history not repeat itself with nukes in the mix. So much is at stake. Iran must be stopped at all costs now, or pay a much higher price if the Iranian regime launches a nuclear strike on Israel. That is a very scary possibility if we do nothing.

Tracker1, as I have said in a previous post, the Israelis have 250 to 350 nuclear devices. Some are advanced neutron multi warheads. As I have also said before, the Israelis on their own are capable of turning all major population centers into glowing rubble. But as I have also said previously, total annihilation of Iran and Syria is not desired, nor necessary. Neither the U.S. nor Israel have a genocidal mind set. Arguably, the best intelligence gathering organization on the planet is the Israeli Mosad, followed by British Intelligence, and a close third are the Russians. They know in virtual real time what is happening, weeks before we find out the real story here in the U.S. This is because we have stupidly let go of our ground assets in the field in preference for a satellite surveillance system that pales in comparison. Like with everything else, it also takes assets on the ground to do a proper intelligence job.

Killing every living Iranian and Syrian is not the answer. Killing anyone that does not deserve killing cannot be justified. What must be done is the elimination of the 1,200 or so military and nuclear facilities that are spread out over Iran; and also the targets in Syria on which Israel has already begun to destroy. What makes them a threat to the world, as they have repeatedly promised, must be destroyed. Iran has received weapons grade plutonium from France in the past; enough to build at least five large warheads, and all of the nuclear materials from Kim Jong-Il in North Korea from his newly dismantled nuclear program. The whole world is at DEF CON 2, with DEF CON 1 having actual missiles in the air.
Why do the Israelis want a half dozen of our cruise nukes? Today's version of the Tomahawk
Cruise Missile is the best there is in the world. Further, the type of warhead used on our cruise missiles have an adjustable yield nuclear device. You can thread the needle, and match the bomb requirement to the target for a high precision strike on a target.

The Israelis are ready, and could easily respond if necessary. However, the Israeli Government is playing the U.S. too. The U.S. wanted to move against Iran last summer, and the Israelis acted like they were ready and willing to move with us, but they asked for $30 Billion in CASH from us to undertake it with us. We printed the money and gave it to them. They reneged on the deal, but kept the cash! How stupid is that of us as a world power. Nothing was said about it either. We are suckers, in that regard.

With regard to the Raytheon Patriot Anti-Missile System: It was junk when it was first delivered, they worked very hard on it to perfect it, and it is still a pile of carp! It was obsolete on delivery. It failed miserably during Desert Storm, and gave a false sense of security to too many. The weakness is that it does not function under volley fire of multiple incoming targets.
All the enemy needs to do is fire several missiles simultaneously, and it will maybe take out one or two, but all of the rest get through to their intended targets. This is not good. Patriot is obsolete junk. The enemy figured out how to defeat it in its first week of deployment in combat.

On the other hand, the Russians have a similar system to the patriot, but it is 100% effective
100% of the time, with each missile fired taking out each it's own separate incoming target. The Iranians bought PLENTY of them over the past two years, and have put quite a few around their friends in Damascus. The biggest problem between Russia and Iran is that the Iranians have not been paying their bills on time, and the Russians have cut them off from new purchases for a while, but the Chinese have stepped in to fill that arms void.

On yet another note, Chavez of Venezuela is big pals with both China and Iran. He replaced the Americans that had been running his oil fields with Iranians. The problem there is that, like the Iranian oil fields his oil fields also became much less productive without American know how and oil tools. Neither Chavez nor the Iranians now have half of the money they would have to commit world mayhem with. Not to be left out, Russia's Putin is building an AK-47 assault rifle factory in Venezuela to support revolutionaries throughout the Americas. With our Wal-Mart, et al, trade dollars, the Chinese are quietly buying up all of the real estate along the Panama Canal Zone. Hmmm... but that's another story.