Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Next War

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Editorial: The next war / Plans for an attack on Iran are misguided
Friday, April 21, 2006

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Apart from the folly of President Bush launching the United States into a war with Iran while American forces are spread-eagled across Iraq, there are other ominous aspects to such a development in the Middle East.

According to a lengthy report by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker and other sources, there are already U.S. combat troop teams in Iran, carrying out reconnaissance and identifying bombing targets. The longer they stay, the more likely it is that Iran will end up with U.S. prisoners. Any capture of Americans would provide Tehran with a propaganda coup, and it would require difficult negotiations to pry U.S. prisoners loose. Iran could demand an exchange for prisoners being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, for example.

A second troublesome point about a possible U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities is that use of tactical nuclear weapons -- bunker busters, they are called -- is apparently part of the planning. Administration sources have denied that use of nuclear weapons is under consideration. We certainly hope so, because any U.S. first use of nuclear weapons would be so contradictory to international agreements signed by Washington and to its stated position on nuclear weapons, that it would practically put America in the category of outlaw state.

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:toast:
Great work by the P-G Editorial board

[acmavm]

1. The nation is coming out of its coma. And it's long overdue.

[4dsc]

2. So where's the outrage???

NOWHERE!!!

[partylessinOhio]

3. I agree, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

Too many in the media and the public discuss expanding the war into Iran as a matter of fact. What has happened to the mindset that war and use of nuclear weapons is NOT ANATHEMA?

I don't know what happened to my country. I don't recognize it anymore.

:scared:

[William Seger]

4. "...it would practically put America in the category of outlaw state"

Hello?! We already qualified for that title with the illegal invasion of Iraq.

[GOPBasher]

6. That's what I was thinking, too.

I can't believe the author used the word "practically." *Practically*?! What the hell are you talking about? That's kind of like saying, "Hey, I'm practically a human being!"

[William Seger]

7. Or "George Bush is practically the worst President ever."

[Oversea Visitor]

5. Damn chimp greedy

He wants to be famous
He wants 2 Vietnam mot one :nuke:

[RufusEarl]

8. The July 2nd test in Nevada,

will be to determined the size of a tactical nuclear weapon. The admin is saying it's not a nuclear test, and in theory it's not. But the test of a large non-nuclear munition for the express reason to built a tactical nuclear bunker buster bomb, is in theory a nuclear test.