Council on Foreign Relations told of U.S. plans for Iran Strike

[katty]

cont'd: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/06/front2453837.0534722223.html

Council on Foreign Relations told of U.S. plans for Iran strike

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

LONDON — Western defense sources and analysts told a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations that Britain and the United States are preparing for the prospect of air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities in late 2006 if diplomatic efforts at the United Nations Security Council are not succesful.


"In just the past few weeks I've been convinced that at least some in the administration have already made up their minds that they would like to launch a military strike against Iran," Joseph Cirincione, director of the Washington-based Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said.
At an April 5 seminar by the Council on Foreign Relations, Cirincione said he based his assessment on conversations with those with "close connections with the White House and the Pentagon.

[Skink]

1. Downing Street II.

[rodeodance]

2. ok--but have they told our Congress?

[orwell]

3. CFR...

...the farm club for the Trilaterals. The important thing is to keep the fear level up. Without the bottomless well of fear you can not exercise complete control.

The prep work continues...

[bushmeister0]

4. We've already got the plans.

Willaim Arkin in the WaPo writes that:

"The public needs to know first, that this planning includes preemptive plans that the President could approve and implement with 12 hours notice. Congress should take notice of the fact that there is a real war plan -- CONPLAN 8022 -- and it could be implemented tomorrow."

Second, the public needs to know that the train has left the station on bigger war planning, that a ground war -- despite the Post claim yesterday that a land invasion "is not contemplated" -- is also being prepared. It is a real war plan; I've heard CONPLAN 1025."

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/04/goldilocks_and_.html#more

CONPLAN 8022:

The Nuclear Information Project says:

"At the end of September 2006, the Joint Functional Component Command for Space and Global Strike is scheduled to achieve Full Operational Capability (FOC). That event builds on Global Strike capabilities developed over many years to provide new offensive strike options to the President against proliferators of weapons of mass destruction."

"...the nuclear counterproliferation mission was controversial because it appeared to broaden rather than reduce the role of nuclear weapons. The attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in September 2001 removed those constraints and led to the formulation of new guidance that has spawned a highly offensive Global Strike mission with prompt or even preemptive strike planning against imminent threats anywhere on (and under) the face of the Earth."

http://www.nukestrat.com/us/stratcom/GSchron.htm

[katty]

5. yup, i read this on nukestrat..and more articles earlier