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"Therefore I have heard of military operations that were clumsy
but swift, but I have never seen one that was skillful and lasted a long
time. It is never beneficial to a nation to have a military operation
Continue for a long time."
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu also said: "To win without fighting is best."
For the
last two days I've been embroiled with a pretender to inside information,
a 'Dominick Perez,' (DP) about the coming war on Iran and his
prospective overview's of US strategic and military plans for the pending
US invasion of Iran.
This writer claimed to be a veteran of some sixteen years in the US Air
Force, but he has failed to give his name, rank, or serial number: Which
tends to nullify any special expertise he might want to claim for his
statements; quoted below. The slant here is obviously a fantasy that
smells like Rumsfeld, but reads like Cheney. My comments are preceded by a
small 'k).'
DP) "Any attack is likely to be on a massive multi-front scale but
avoiding a ground invasion. Attacks focused on WMD facilities would leave
Iran too many retaliatory options, leave President Bush open to the charge
of using too little force and leave the regime intact.
US bombers and long range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000
targets in Iran in a few hours."
k) Translation: We're going to try and bomb Iran back to the stone-age,
because we have no troops to spare and we're already overwhelmed in both
Iraq and Afghanistan at the present time.
Overlooked in this rosy scenario is the new automated launching system
that Iran has just completed that will automatically launch all it's
defensive missiles whenever attacking planes or missiles cross into
Iranian air-space. These missiles can reach Qatar, Kuwait, the Green Zone
and Tel-Aviv, not to mention the US Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf, within
minutes. Iran has its own satellite, and it is being further assisted by
Russian intelligence-not-to-mention the newly formed Defense pact between
the Russians, the Chinese and the three Stans that was created right after
Bush stole the first election-simply to act as a check upon US military
over-extensions, in the Middle-East.
Apparently the US War Department has chosen to ignore the recent
Chinese demonstration of their capability to take out any satellite within
minutes by using Chinese rockets from earth to the target of their choice
in space: this could cripple the US military's use of GPS in combat, and
thereby immediately alter the course of any US or Israeli invasion of
Iran.
DP) "US ground, air and marine forces already in the Gulf, Iraq,
and Afghanistan can devastate Iranian forces, the regime and the state at
short notice."
k) This is laughable: Of course this assumes that the attacking planes
can penetrate Iranian airspace and get to those targets. Bear in mind the
Russians have recently revamped the Iranian Air Defense shield surrounding
Tehran and other key targets inside that country. US troops "in the
region" are overstressed, under-equipped and basically worn out now
-and this "plan" is to send them against a 10 million man army
fighting to protect their own lands and homes, but with real weapons not
rocks and Molotov-cocktails.
Sun Tzu said (two-thousand years ago): "When power and resources
are exhausted then the homeland is drained. The common people are deprived
of seventy percent of their budget, while the government's expenses for
equipment amount to sixty percent of its budget.
DP) "Some form of low level US and possibly UK military action as
well as armed popular resistance appear underway inside the Iranian
provinces or ethnic areas of the Azeri, Balujistan, Kurdistan and
Khuzestan. Iran was unable to prevent sabotage of its offshore-to-shore
crude oil pipelines in 2005."
k) The CIA has been working openly inside Iran for months now in an
attempt to destabilize that nation; but people tend to come together when
attacked from the outside - regardless of any internal political
disappointments those people might have with their own government at the
time. When the bombs begin to fall inside Iran; it may be US intelligence
agents that will find themselves under attack, rather than the government
of Iran - the same Iran -- that will be answering the attack upon their
country with everything that nation can throw up against us.
Sabotage is no stranger to US forces inside Iraq - and has yet to be
contained in over five years of warfare. And anyone might note, that it is
because of the resistance that arose AFTER "Mission
Accomplished" was Declared, that the real resistance inside Iraq
began to decimate the pretensions of the US military's claim to a
"victory" in their conquest of Iraq.
DP) "Nuclear weapons are ready, but most unlikely, to be used by
the US, the UK and Israel. The human, political and environmental effects
would be devastating, while their military value is limited.
Israel is determined to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons yet has
the conventional military capability only to wound Iran's WMD programs."
Sun Tzu: Those who win every battle are not really skillful-those who
render others' armies helpless, without fighting are best of all."
k) Israel has between 200 and 600 nukes. The US Nuclear arsenal is the
world's largest, and yet these two belligerent bully nations (the US &
Israel) are willing to provoke WWIII just to 'prevent Iran from
hypothetically having the nuclear capability within the next ten years.'
It should be noted that the US broke the nuclear non-proliferation
agreements when we gave India highly secret nuclear technology - no
questions were ever considered, much less raised.
Pakistan is a nation that has also sold nuclear technology, and has the
bomb themselves. That country is about to lose its military dictator, and
might just join that portion of the Muslim world that is intensely opposed
to US colonialism in the Middle-East. No threats are being made there,
because they already have the bomb: and they might retaliate.
'The Plan' I'm commenting on is nothing more than a far-flung
Rambo-like fantasy-'rosy' to the point of pure folly. Iran sits astride
the world's shipping lanes for oil. The Straits of Hormouz are very narrow
and Iran is guarding them with the ferocity of over 200 Sunburn and Onyx
missiles that can each carry nuclear warheads - any one of which his
capable of eliminating an aircraft carrier with a single hit. According to
recent reports these missiles travel between mach 2.0 and 2.8, and are
undetectable by radar. What kind of military genius would be willing to
risk the lives of so many of their own people-for a hypothetical that is
still ten years off?
DP) "The attitude of the UK is uncertain, with the Brown
government and public opinion opposed psychologically to more war, yet,
were Brown to support an attack he would probably carry a vote in
Parliament. The UK is adamant that Iran must not acquire the bomb."
k) The "word" of the United States is not taken seriously by
any nation, any longer: thanks to the massive volume of lies, on which our
current positions the world over have been based. Everybody knows we lie
about everything we say we're doing - or claim to be representing -
regardless of the theater of operations. Why should our 'official position
on Iran be any different? It isn't! The Bush administration stole its way
into power, then immediately attempted to attack and plunder their way to
global empire. What the world has now witnessed is a failed military
adventure that has lasted longer than WWII in a place about the size of
California. We have expended unbelievable amounts of treasure and the
blood of millions to accomplish this petty aim of the Decider and his
backers-and yet he has still failed to accomplish anything he said we
sought. Osama is still unaccounted for, Iraq is worse off now than it was
under Saddam, we have tried to imprison everyone that disagrees with our
policies or our methods. Along the way we've also destroyed every aspect
of all that he said we were fighting to protect.
The constitution has been methodically shredded, human rights, have
become a joke in the face of the sanctioned torture and spying that the
government of the US not only condones-but seeks to escalate with every
passing hour. The congress that was constitutionally created to protect
the people from just such fantasies-have mostly sold their sworn oaths of
office for promises of re-election from an unregistered foreign entity-AIPAC.
And the courts have remained silent since the day that the Supreme Court
broke the law and took the case of candidate George W. Bush all the way to
stopping the vote count in Florida: and thus insuring that a false count
would give the presidency to the imposter we remain saddled with today.
DP) "The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to
deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely. The US retains the
option of avoiding war, but using its forces as part of an overall
strategy of shaping Iran's actions."
"BOTTOM LINE, PERSIAN RESISTANCE WILL COLLAPSE IN THE FACE OF OUR
ONSLAUGHT. IT WILL MAKE THE STORMING OF BAGHDAD LOOK LIKE A KID'S GAME IN
COMPARISON."
k) Far from being the terrifying declaration that Perez was aiming for
- when seen in light of some of the additional facts on the ground - it
appears clearly once again - that things just simply are NOT what the
Decider keeps trying to tell us that they are. . .
Sun Tzu, in his classical treatment said many things that tend to put
these Bush-Wars into perspective. But clearly the operative watchword in
waging all "wars" has to be: "To win without fighting is
best!"
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