Naval Officer: "We Are Going to Hit Iran. Big Time."

[northernsoul]

this is a pretty extraordinary post over at Daily Kos, worthy of extended discussion here.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527

I have a friend who is an LSO on a carrier attack group that is planning and staging a strike group deployment into the Gulf of Hormuz. (LSO: Landing Signal Officer- she directs carrier aircraft while landing) She told me we are going to attack Iran. She said that all the Air Operation Planning and Asset Tasking are finished. That means that all the targets have been chosen, prioritized, and tasked to specific aircraft, bases, carriers, missile cruisers and so forth.
...
I asked her about the attack, how limited and so forth.

"I don’t think it’s limited at all. We are shipping in and assigning every damn Tomahawk we have in inventory. I think this is going to be massive and sudden, like thousands of targets. I believe that no American will know when it happens until after it happens."
...
She had to hang up. She left by telling me that she believes the attack is a done deal. "It’s only a matter of time before their orders come and they will be sent to station and told to go to Red Alert. She said they were already practicing traps, FARP and FAST." (Trapping is the act of catching the tension wires when landing on the carrier, FARP is Fleet Air Combat Maneuvering Readiness Program- practice dogfighting- and FAST is Fleet Air Superiority Training).

caveat: I have no idea who OP is, or how reliable he/she is. But this appears to contain details that would be known by someone on the inside.

Time to plan that permanent vacation to Canada?

[Crabby Appleton]

1. A thread here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1715615

[lynne]

2. Article from Times UK says much the same -

"THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert."

- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece

[cobalt1999]

4. Plans don't mean much though.

We had dozens of plans to attack the Soviet Union. The military should have plans, however it's a long leap from having plans to saying we are going to execute them.

[cobalt1999]

3. wouldn't that be classified information?

She's giving all that out over an open telephone?

Smells a little fishy. I don't doubt plans are in place, that's what the military should be doing...planning for any contingency. Having plans though is a long way from preparing to execute them.

[enid602]

8. perhaps

Or perhaps non-classified disinformation?

[Aviation Pro]

5. It is hard to believe that the only saviors....

...that could contain Motherfucker George Bush and Shitstain Dick Cheeeeney may be the Former Soviet Union and Communist China.

[napi21]

6. Hmmmm, I'm not going to put much faith in that "revalation".

Several things instantly come to my mind.

They PRACTICE trapping ALL THE TIME on any carrier! FARP is done all the time as well!

I've known lots of Navy personnel, both officers and enlisted, and there's ONE thing NONE will ever do! NONE, and I mean NONE will ever disclose classified info, especially on future plans, and it's also quite unlikely that a LSO would even know about them!

Guessing is everyone's option and sometimes even a passtime.

I'm not willing to say Shrub wouldn't do something like that. Far from it. I'm personally VERY AFRAID he just might attack Iran sometime in his last 16 months just because he knows he can! But the info in the OP is speculation at best!

[Thothmes]

9. Ever hear of Chief Warrant Officer Walker?

[soothsayer]

7. what happened to 'loose lips'?

so who are we trying to threaten? china, I think.