The one benefit of Israel’s air attack plan in Lebanon in 2006 was to show to the US that an air attack won’t work now anymore than it did in the Battle of Britain or the air war over Germany.
Iran can respond to an air attack by unleashing the Mahdi army in Iraq. It has Russian supplied anti-ship Sunburn missiles. Iran is dangerous, more so than Saddam. Iranians are more nationalistic than Iraqis, and this includes the Iranian diaspora and secular Iranians.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=384CFE53-5830-4377-B773-0F53C0602871
| Christiane vs. Christians and Jews |
By Phyllis Chesler
FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/27/2007Christiane Amanpour’s hit piece on Christians and Jews and the West in general shows how a Christian Iranian ex-pat in the West identifies with Iran in a war with the West. We should not expect anything else. In a war with Iran, we need a decisive victory and occupation that renders Iran’s assets and resources useless.
Study: US preparing ‘massive’ military attack against Iran
Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday August 28, 2007
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Study_US_preparing_massive_military_attack_0828.html
“Considering a war with Iran:
A discussion paper on WMD in the Middle East”
Embargoed to 01.00 Hours GMT
28 August 2007
Dr Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher
September 2007
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Page 65 of the pdf covers Iran’s possible responses to an air attack.
August 28, 2007 at 7:56 pm
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6662/
NEWS: Dan Plesch recycles old US-Iran war warning as ‘new analysis’ Print E-mail
Written by Randy Talbot
Tuesday, 28 August 2007
On Tuesday, Raw Story reported on a paper asserting that the U.S. has made preparations to attack Iran massively, with an aim to destroying “Iran’s WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus, and economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order.”[1] — Though reported as news, Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher’s report in fact contains little if anything that is new. — Plesch has a long history of predicting that a U.S. attack on Iran is imminent. — In the London Guardian on Oct. 18, 2005, Plesch argued that the Bush administration was likely to attack Iran “to win the mid-term elections and retain control of the Republican party.” — In the Feb. 19, 2007, New Statesman, Plesch cited “British military sources” in a warning that an attack could occur “any day” — which is also what he asserts here. — There are few if any analytical elements in this so-called “new analysis” that are not also in Plesch’s February piece, but this does not prevent Raw Story from hyping it as “exclusively provided to RAW STORY late Friday under embargo.” — The report is based on “open source analysis,” which means that Plesch and Butcher lack inside sources. — It is an exaggeration on the part of Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane to call Plesch “well-respected,” since many commentators have over the years pointed out Plesch’s penchant for being wrong. — Plesch first became widely known in Britain in the 1980s in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. — He founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) in 1987 and directed it from Washington, D.C., until 2001, when he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies. — Since 2003 he has been associated with the University of London, and now describes himself as “an associate of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, a visiting senior research fellow at Keele University, and a senior associate of the Foreign Policy Centre.” — He has published widely as a journalist, writing for the London Guardian, the London Independent, the New York Times, the Observer, Tribune, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times, and has often appeared as an analyst on BBC, CNN, ITN, and other news media….