This is an interesting article... it entails the resolve of the
Bush Administration Arm Chair fantasy, "A Cat Walk" and "Home By
Christmas", in their intention to Attack Iran.
Note : Iran has not Invaded anyone thru modern History, they were
invaded by Iraq, the aggressor, and Why did the US support the
aggressor, if they are the so-called "world police" and " a
responsible world power" ? Doesn't do what they preach.... without
proof can they justify an invasion that has no threat to
them....
US TROOPS PREPARED TO ATTACK IRAN
Excepts... BTW this hilarious....
In January 2006, a major military base located in the western
United States received voice instructions from National Command
Authority (NCA) to get their logistics train underway and train up
their troops for desert warfare.
The current National Command Authority is comprised of a
Commander-In-Chief who deserted his post during the Vietnam War,
and a Secretary of Defense who, despite never having donned a
uniform in defense of his country, did succeed in cashiering and
countermanding enough combat-experienced generals to engineer the
current debacle in Iraq.
Which desert? the commander wanted to
know.
You dont need to know, he was told by the
NCA.
With their mission unstated, infantry staff officers presumed that
this redeployment of more than 10,000 combat-tested troops, as well
as supporting armor, artillery and air reconnaissance would soon be
heading back into Iraqwith enough force, as my source put it, to
finally go in and do it right.
US commanders pointed out that their tanks were not going
to be taking any scenic drives through Persian peaks exceeding
7,000 feet, and occasionally topping out over 10,000. The missing
oxygen required to sustain life would also not be enough to sustain
heavy-lift helos attempting to chopper in all those bullets and
beans well above their rated service ceilings.
Bad idea, they said. The Soviet Red Army had conclusively and
catastrophically demonstrated what happens when troops attempting
to assault unfamiliar mountain defiles without armor and adequate
air support confront homeland defenders armed with anti-air and
anti-vehicle rockets fighting from good cover. Especially when said
shooters are not afraid to die.
We cant do this, the generals told Rumsfeld and his
amateur warmakers. Your plan will not work. Most of our people
will get killed.
No worries, the Sec Defs best and brightest assured the
generals. Well cross the eastern border from Afghanistan near
Zahedan, and use the Iranians own railroad to transport everything
we need down hundreds of miles of hotly contested train tracks
right into Tehran.
After weve blown up the tracks and sidings in the preliminary air
campaign to prevent the Iranian army from taking train rides? the
generals wanted to know. How exactly will that work? Even an
intact stretch of track, they went on, can be put of commission by
a disgruntled local tossing a single grenade.
Relax, the White House war wizards came about onto another tack.
Well air drop all the transport vehicles you need from
high-flying C-130s.
You cant HALO a Humvee! the conquest-infatuated
civilians were informed. In practice exercises, High Altitude drops
of heavy vehicles attained terminal velocities before streaming
their chutes at the moment of Low Opening. And stream they did!
Humvees arriving beneath shredded canopies tended to shed wheels
and parts in all directions, before bouncing their junked chassis
300 feet past ducking observers. At that point, the generals
explained, jumping in and driving to Tehran was not really an
option.
Another small problem, they pointed out, was that since breaking
off all diplomatic relations with Iran more than a decade before,
US military commanders with an urgent need for accurate
Intel had zero clue what was happening inside that shrouded
country.
Sure, theyd been violating Irans sovereign airspace as ordered,
flying picture-snapping UAVs through the mountains looking for
targets for months. But constant climbing and divingand high winds
in the mountain passeshad left the unpiloted Predators with little
fuel for loitering.
Even when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle did spot a feature of possible
interest, it was often impossible to tell a painted plywood or
Styrofoam decoy from a real truck or howitzer.
Just like what happened in Kosovo, the generals remembered, after a
massive US-led aerial bombing campaign massacred civilians,
initiated an industrial pollution holocaust, irradiated the country
with uranium-waste warheadsand saw most of the Serbian artillery
and tanks driven past UN Observers after the ceasefire.
No problem, said the White House. With more than 10,000
potential targetsmany of them located in the center of modern
cities like Tehranwell simply bomb the crap out of the entire
country. With oil fires deliberately lit off by the
defenders blinding the US attackers night vision equipmentas well
as Hellfire missile sensors, and the lasers needed to guide smart
bombswaves of terrain-challenged cruise missiles suffering from
poor accuracy under ideal conditions, would somehow hedgehop
mountain ridges to initially deluge Iranian cities and outlying
centers with high explosives and depleted uranium.
Not coincidentally, this multi-billion dollar urban renewal
project would generate tremendous profits for Bush administrators
tied through banks and the Carlyle Group to US arms manufacturers,
and reconstruction giants Halliburton and Bechtel.
This ruinous yet highly lucrative attack would be
immediately followed by B-52s, carpet bombing Iranian cities and
countrysidejust like theyd done to Vietnam, Cambodia and
Basra. Deeply buried nuclear research facilities would be
used to field test experimental nuclear bunker-busters.
Nervous generals worried that the resulting clouds of radioactive
dirt, debris and human flesh would rain downwind over Pakistan,
India, Burma and China to the east, before contaminating North
America and both hemispheres.
Read the whole article here, and witness the Neocon
Rumsfield's wet dream. http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/839133.shtml