One of the military’s initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One target is Iran’s main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, nearly two hundred miles south of Tehran. Natanz, which is no longer under I.A.E.A. safeguards, reportedly has underground floor space to hold fifty thousand centrifuges, and laboratories and workspaces buried approximately seventy-five feet beneath the surface. That number of centrifuges could provide enough enriched uranium for about twenty nuclear warheads a year. (Iran has acknowledged that it initially kept the existence of its enrichment program hidden from I.A.E.A. inspectors, but claims that none of its current activity is barred by the Non-Proliferation Treaty.) The elimination of Natanz would be a major setback for Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but the conventional weapons in the American arsenal could not insure the destruction of facilities under seventy-five feet of earth and rock, especially if they are reinforced with concrete.
Dear Leader is uneasy. Things are fragmenting too soon, and Negroponte's not ready to make his move yet. Halliburton needs at least the summer to finish building the new
But DeLay is gone, and Frist cannot hold the Senate. The Congress is unimpressed. Even that idiot Sensenbrenner, the man who once wanted Dear Leader as Shogun forever, is irate that Alberto's been reading his email and scanning his hardrives.
Even with Diebold etherizing the votes for the Republicans and the pliant DINOcrats, enough firebrands might reach Congress to make life difficult. Heaven forbid, maybe even take a House.
And although the Courts are now in line, the drive towards Hegemony may be diverted.
Yes, if Dear Leader sees a clear profit in it, he will nuke Iran in hopes of making both Iraq and Iran submissive.
What Dear Leader doesn't realize is these nations take Jihad far more seriously than his base takes their theocon Crusade.
Nuke a city, and millions- possibly billions- of people will not rest in their personal war against us as long as they live.
Pre-emptively nuke a city, and every other nuclear power will think of doing that to America before America can do it to them.
People shoot mad dogs, don't they? And if our mouth is foaming, and we're biting the air...
Anyone got a good C204 time distortion gravity displacement machine? Used is okay with me.
And 2015? No way.
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Somehow this doesn't strike me as a simple binary decision, despite the best salesmen the D.o'D. hire.
Apocalypses are for people subscribing to early iron age religions.
Now ecological disaster, there's something even a PoMo MoFo can sink their rhetoric into.
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