[PAA-Discuss] FW: Seymour Hersh: US Considers Use of NuclearWeapons Against Iran

[john perdue]

thanks for the heads up on this Lee.  One more reason to put these shores behind me.  There comes a time when you must decide, should I stay or should I go now.
I am looking for one or two crew members to join me on a long voyage, probably Panama area and then towards South Pacific or whatever seems right.  It would be nice if you had some experience sailing offshore as I have none but I am confident I can pick this up pretty quick.  I have a big steel boat, plenty of room for 3 to 6 people.  I am close to being done, maybe 5 or 6 weeks if I focus.  And so if you've thought of doing something like this it's worth checking this out.

John
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>From: Lee Loe <leeloe at igc.org>
>Sent: Apr 9, 2006 12:18 AM
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>Subject: [PAA-Discuss] FW: Seymour Hersh: US Considers Use of Nuclear	Weapons Against Iran
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>From: hckiely [mailto:hckiely at comcast.net] 
>Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:38 PM
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>Subject: Seymour Hersh: US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran
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>Published on Saturday, April 8, 2006 by  <http://www.afp.com/> Agence France
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>US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran 
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>The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing
>campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to
>destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker
>magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.
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>The  <http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact> article by
>investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the
>White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a
>potential Adolf Hitler.
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>"That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior
>intelligence official as saying. 
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>A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser is quoted in the article as saying that
>"this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to
>change the power structure in Iran, and that means war." 
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>The former intelligence officials depicts planning as "enormous," "hectic"
>and "operational," Hersh writes. 
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>One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a
>belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the
>religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the
>government," The New Yorker pointed out. 
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>In recent weeks, the president has quietly initiated a series of talks on
>plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of the House of
>Representatives, including at least one Democrat, the report said. 
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>One of the options under consideration involves the possible use of a
>bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, to insure the
>destruction of Iran's main centrifuge plant at Natanz, Hersh writes.
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>But the former senior intelligence official said the attention given to the
>nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the military, and some
>officers have talked about resigning after an attempt to remove the nuclear
>option from the evolving war plans in Iran failed, according to the report. 
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>"There are very strong sentiments within the military against brandishing
>nuclear weapons against other countries," the magazine quotes the Pentagon
>adviser as saying.
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>The adviser warned that bombing Iran could provoke "a chain reaction" of
>attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world and might
>also reignite Hezbollah.
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>"If we go, the southern half of Iraq will light up like a candle," the
>adviser is quoted as telling The New Yorker. 
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>C Copyright 2006 AFP 
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