On (25 Aug 05) Steve Asher wrote to All...
 SA> The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both
 SA> conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more
 SA> than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected
 SA> nuclear-
 SA> weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or
 SA> are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional
 SA> weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the
 SA> response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act
 SA> of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air
 SA> Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the
 SA> implications of what they are doing - that Iran is being set up for an
 SA> unprovoked nuclear attack - but no one is prepared to damage his
 SA> career
 SA> by posing any objections.

Not that Bush cares about the tacticality of the targets!

And I suppose this is going to be the great test of Neutron Bomb
technology (to kill all the people, while leaving the non-living
infrastructure (eg. oil production) intact & usable) :(

Because I care,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))

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