Rumours of USA Nuking Iran "Strategically", Iran calls Bull*@#$

Yeah, we must all fall in fear from the implications. Please, the suspense is killing me, get it over with.

So Seymoure Hersh, who helped us by reporting the Abu Ghraib incident (actually it's incidents), is now reporting that the US has plans to use 'tactical nuclear weapons' and bunker buster bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities, of which there are many. Some say too many.

Iran says screw the yankees, they're just playing games. I'm paraphrasing of course.

Really though, if you're gonna start the next world war, just say so, and get on with it. What's with the secrecy?

Now, saying that the US will actually do what Hersh says they might do is kinda stretching it. I mean, maybe Bush could impulsively just call for it, press the shiny red button and get news of "operation successful" or "operation failure" and have his script writers work overtime. But it's highly unlikely. For example, the US has the Israelis to worry about. Maybe Iran doesn't have a nuke yet, but they can still make a huge mess of the Israelis, if only psychologically. So Iran has that missile that reaches the Israelis, or that spanky new torpedo no ship can dodge (the US and others have quite a few expensive ships in the Gulf, right in range of the Iranians). All that and what did the US do? Bomb a few installations. Delay the problem? It just comes back. It's such poor planning, and the after-effects are so wide-ranged with no possible good outcome. If such a thing were to happen (and I give it a 3% chance with a possible chance of error at +3%-) then I just want to know how the Americans would react. More peaceful demonstrations? Is there even a lobby for this sort of thing? Write letters. Oooh, such action, Congress would just have to do something. But there's nothing you can do.

Pre-emptive strikes are balogna. To me, they just aren't justifiable. If they are, the US has made terrible examples of when to make pre-emptive strikes.

A little off-topic. Everyone cries about Hezbollah 'taking orders' from Iran. I see a similar relationship between the US and the Israelis. It's harder to see the relationship between the US and the Israelis though. I mean, if the US never supported the Israelis, not only would there have been peace a LONG time ago, the relationship between the US and the middle east would never have been better. There's simply very little use that I can see in their relationship. Instead of being mutual, it's more like the Israelis are the only ones with an advantage.

But hey, they're Chosen.