Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Attacking Iran for Israel? : Ray McGovern
"How about Congress? Could it act as a brake on Bush and Cheney? Forget it.
If the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) with its overflowing coffers supports an attack on Iran, so will most of our spineless lawmakers.
Already, AIPAC has succeeded in preventing legislation that would have required the president to obtain advance authorization for an attack on Iran.
And for every Admiral Fallon, there is someone like the inimitable, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a close associate of James Woolsey and other “neo-cons.”
McInerney, a Fox News pundit who was a rabid advocate of shock and awe over Iraq:
"[The air campaign] will be easy. Ahmadinejad has nothing in Iran that we can’t penetrate, and several hundred bombers, including stealth bombers, will be enough to do the trick. Forty-eight hours duration, hitting 2,500 aim points to take out their nuclear facilities, their air defense facilities, their air force, their navy, their Shahab-3 retaliatory missiles, and finally their command and control. And then let the Iranian people take their country back.”
INSANE!!!!!!!!
