How would this work - We're in Iraq up to our necks, and Iran

[TheCowsCameHome]

is looming large. How do we do anything with Iran if we're spread so thin we can't even control the situation in Iraq? Meanwhile, Palestine is another problem on the horizon.

Where would we get the troop strength if Bush decides to invade Iran?

Does anyone have the answer? The RW isn't saying how we would accomplish this.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I assume Israel would be called on to help

with the idea being that the nuclear activity in Iran is the greatest threat to that nation. I doubt if Israel would engage troops, but would rather use their own nuclear weapons. Their troops would be needed at home, I would think, for if it became known that Israel had nuked Iran, the Muslim countries around Israel might well decide to invade. (I say might because I'm not sure how Iran is viewed by other Islamic countries in the area; Iran is Shia, and the others are primarily Sunni; Persians aren't the same as Arabs. But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and I could see perhaps some states using it as an excuse for all out war.)

[quiet.american]

2. Hmn -- D-R-A-F-T.

Although with this bunch it would probably be called the (mandatory) Elective American Service
Entry (EASE) Act.

[bananas]

3. Why do people keep asking this?

The plan has been widely discussed for over a year.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2005/03/israel.html

March 1, 2005

Attacking Iran: I Know It Sounds Crazy, But...

By Ray McGovern

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The very same men who, acting out of that paradigm, brought us the war in Iraq are now focusing on Iran, which they view as the only remaining obstacle to American domination of the entire oil-rich Middle East. They calculate that, with a docile, corporate-owned press, a co-opted mainstream church, and a still-trusting populace, the United States and/or the Israelis can launch a successful air offensive to disrupt any Iranian nuclear weapons programs -- with the added bonus of possibly causing the regime in power in Iran to crumble.
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What about post-attack "Day Two?" Not to worry. Well-briefed pundits are telling us about a wellspring of Western-oriented moderates in Iran who, with a little help from the U.S., could seize power in Tehran. I find myself thinking: Right; just like all those Iraqis who welcomed invading American and British troops with open arms and cut flowers. For me, this evokes a painful flashback to the early eighties when "intelligence," pointing to "moderates" within the Iranian leadership, was conjured up to help justify the imaginative but illegal arms-for-hostages-and-proceeds-to-Nicaraguan-Contras caper. The fact that the conjurer-in-chief of that spurious "evidence" on Iranian "moderates," former chief CIA analyst, later director Robert Gates, was recently offered the newly created position of director of national intelligence makes the flashback more eerie -- and alarming.
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