Is U.S planning to attack iran?

Question

I read a story that said the U.S. is refitting its planes B-2s with massive bunker buster bombs that would be able to penetrate deeply buried targets kinda like irans nucleur buried sites is this a possibility? http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/7/26/212543.shtml?s=al&promo_code=37B3-1

Answer 1

No

We don't have the political capital, the support of the public, the military bandwidth or the treasury dollars for such a campaign.

It will be many many years before we attack another country without an act of war committed against us

Answer 2

I predict that Israel will be doing the attacking, although jeez they certainly fell on their face trying to fight Hezbollah last Summer... Although at this point, no one (not Israel, certainly not Bush, and neither his successors) is interested in making Iran another Iraq everything-goes bloodbath with a dozen different groups with their own agenda running around. No one is going to try to topple Iran's government.

We know where their nuclear facilities are via satellite and spies/informants, I am sure. These facilities aren't as easy to hide as the actual weapons, which they have not made yet. So their facilities will be bombed and I am sure some "industrial factories" will suffer the same fate. End of story.

I don't think even if Iran comes out tomorrow and announces that, yes, they are enriching uranium for a nuclear weapon, that we are going to see a ground offensive.

Traditionally, large-scale ground offensives have been used for wars over territory... Or for "finding" WMDs and ousting a dictator. I think everyone looks at Iraq and thinks that if we "require" our whole army there, must be the same with Iran... But our whole army is in Iraq because every person in the world that doesn't like us has ended up in Iraq and now they don't like it that they are all there, so they are killing each other and us, too. We don't want this in Iran. We want them to stop their program, and beyond that, we won't care if they start some kind of genocide over there right now. At this point, we're not going. We're not even going to go fight tribal leaders in Sudan.

Answer 3

I firmly believe the insane Bush administration will come up with a plausible excuse for attacking Iran by the end of this year - or, at the very latest - by next spring (last year, I predicted it would happen by the spring of 2007). It's just a matter of time....until the Bush propagandists figure out an excuse that most 'ditto heads' will buy ('weapons of mass destruction' won't work a second time). -RKO- 07/27/07

Answer 4

If the U.S. isn't (planning an attack), it better!

At least PLAN, if not actually act. But I think a plan has been in the works for a loooong time, and at this point it is just a matter of waiting for the perfect time (like after an attack on the US that can be pinned on Iran).

And I don't mean as an excuse or lie, I mean that they know if they just went in, people will scream and yell about Iraq, but if they wait until the inevitable Iranian terrorist act, they can then "respond" and people won't yell as much.

It would be nice if they could just do what is inevitable according to established military doctrine and homeland security needs without worrying about public opinion, but that's just the way it is. Politics always messes up wars, if you let it get involved.

Answer 5

It may be, but they would not use Bunker busters on nuclear cites due to the risk of radioactive contamination. They would use them to destroy command and control like in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Although a provocative move probably just some saber rattling, in an effort to be ready to back Israel if JD forces bomb reactor sites again.

Answer 6

Bush /Cheney would like to, But IAEA says Iran is not making bombs and has cooperated with investigations
for the most part, the missing Uranium hexafloride was less than a kilo, rather than the twenty pounds required to report to IA EA. so as the echo chamber tries to build public outrage to support war, cooler heads know that it would be a huge mistake. But Bush/Cheney never think about mistakes since they make money on the war. still want to go for it.

Answer 7

Yes they have been planning to attack Iran since before 9/11. Ahmadinejad is trading oil in Euros now, and the US is mad about that. Our US dollar has lost 50% its value since 2000. Iran is pumping oil like crazy and the US wants to shut them down, just like Saddam was pumping so much oil that in 1999 it was .89 for a gallon of gas where I live. The USS enterprise is in the Gulf now and its is 46 years old and scheduled for decomission. The US plans to blow up this carrier and pretend that it was the Iranians. Think they wont do it, look up the gulf of tonkin, or Operation Northwoods. The US gov has done hundreds of false flag operations.

Answer 8

We've been "planning" to attack Iran since the Islamic Revolution. We have just been waiting for an excuse. I was personally involved in an attempt at an "excuse" in 1993. They didn't bite. Please don't ask what because that would just be a silly question.

Answer 9

Yes, and no. It is necessary for military to make plans as to how to wage war against any potential enemy, and Iran qualifies. But as for specifics, the situation is hardly hot enough to justify worrying about specifics. Actually, a blockade of Iran would suffice to bring it down, as it imports the majority of its gasoline.

Answer 10

No.

The religious right may be nuts for WANTING to bomb a country that is more than capable of kicking our butts, but I don't think Bush or Cheney are that suicidal in the head.

(But I could be wrong.)