WASHINGTON: The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday.
The statement was made by retired Lt. General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee, and former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
McInerney said the U.S. has “a new massive ordnance penetrator that’s 30,000 pounds, that really penetrates … Ahmadinejad has nothing in Iran that we can’t penetrate.”
He also said the new Russian bomb was not a “penetrator.”
On Tuesday, the Fox News television channel said: “A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime.”.
Commenting on the report, McInerney said: “Since Germany has backed out of helping economically, we do not have any other choice. … They’ve forced us into the military option.”
McInerney described some possible military campaign scenarios and said: “The one I favor the most, of course, is an air campaign,” he continued.
He said that bombing would be launched by 65-70 stealth bombers and 400 bombers of other types.
“Forty-eight hours duration, hitting 2500 aimed points to take out their [Iranian] 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,” the general said describing the campaign, adding it would be “easy.”
McInerney is well-known among the U.S. conservatives. He is the chairman of the Iran Policy Committee co-chaired by James Woolsey, former CIA director, William A. Nitze, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Richard Schifter, former Assistant Secretary of State, and Professor Raymond Tanter, former Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense to arms control talks in Europe.
The McInerney statement was made following a Fox News report that U.S. “officials are making plans to attack Iran as early as next summer,” since Washington believes diplomatic efforts have failed.
These statements are supplementary evidence, to the already clogged up heaps of evidence, that this administration lacks the most basic rationale. They think that the world can be ruled under the ‘shadow of the bomb’. With nations living engulfed in fear, lest they make a simple utterance against the “empire”.
What they fail to understand is that these very comments motivate the free people of this world; and will eventually lead to the destruction of this increasingly fragile web, also known as the empire.
As for the committee, it is known for its close ties to terrorist organisation Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK/MKO).
As for the committee, it is known for its close ties to terrorist organisation Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK/MKO)
Interesting. Could you please provide more details about this?
As for the rest of this idiotic rants I can only say that US military thinking mistakenly assumes that high tech hardware wins wars. What a stupid proposition! Will these guys *ever* learn? Even a pacifist like Gandhi knew that Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will
You can read about the links between the MEK & Iran Policy Committee in Scott Ritter’s book Target Tehran. As I understood it the IPC was their PR/propaganda front.
Ritter has also said the intelligence published by the IPC at their press conferences with regard to Iran’s WMD capabilities was actually provided to the IPC by Israeli intelligence sources. The Mossad was using IPC as a cover to divert attention away from Iran.
– AA
I meant to say “to divert attention away from Israel.”
– AA
the intelligence published by the IPC at their press conferences with regard to Iran’s WMD capabilities was actually provided to the IPC by Israeli intelligence sources.
Yes, but since Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program (unless one assumes that for the first time in history a country has managed to develop a nuclear weapons program while being inspected by the IAEA) all this is is Israeli propaganda…
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Massoud Khodabandeh, January 13, 2007
Iran Policy Committee (IPC), the infamous lobbying group comprising retired CIA and Arms trade employees, has been assigned to act as the mouthpiece of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MEK, currently on the terrorist lists of the USA, UK, European Union and Canada).”
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=1607
I have some questions for the warmongers of the Iran Policy Committee:
Could Israeli democracy survive the decision to launch a “preventive” nuclear war? Could the Israeli people’s self-image as a morally exceptional population survive the guilt of nuclear aggression against a weak country simply because that country might someday pose a threat? Could Israel after such aggression ever be accepted by the rest of the Mideast or the world as a whole as a legitimate country? Can a people stray that far from civilized norms and just return to decency the next day?
1. How would an attack on Iran change the behavior of other prospective or current nuclear powers, especially if using nuclear weapons or the new superbombs that are virtually equivalent to them?
2. How would nuclear-armed Pakistan, where Islamic unrest seems to be approaching criticality, react to the shock of nuclear attack on a Moslem country trying to achieve its natural place as a regional power?
3. If Israel or the U.S. were to launch a nuclear attack because of Iranian insults and Iranian nuclear research, then what excuse for nuclear war would be too trivial?
4. Will the world suffer through an age of casual nuclear strikes, replacing the era of global terrorism by individuals and small, marginalized groups with an era of governments gone mad?
McInerney is an “expert” for FOX News.
Iran Policy Committee has the smell of MEK about it. Check Sourcewatch and according to RightWeb, IPC has pushed to remove MEK from The List®.
Both of those sources mention Tom Tancredo as one of the promoters of IPC and he’s also been supportive of MEK.
The US needs to watch what happens with China if it goes ahead with war plans. It will be no skin off China’s nose to release more dollars into circulation in what might be described as China’s own version of “economic sanctions” against the US. As Noam Chomsky recently wrote:
They’re desperate. Everything they touch is in ruins. They’re even in danger of losing control over Middle Eastern oil — to China, the topic that’s rarely discussed but is on every planner or corporation exec’s mind, if they’re sane. Iran already has observer status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization — from which the US was pointedly excluded. Chinese trade with Saudi Arabia, even military sales, is growing fast. With the Bush administration in danger of losing Shiite Iraq, where most of the oil is (and most Saudi oil in regions with a harshly oppressed Shiite population), they may be in real trouble.
Re: William Deb. Mills:
Could Israeli democracy survive the decision to launch a “preventive” nuclear war? Could the Israeli people’s self-image as a morally exceptional population survive the guilt of nuclear aggression against a weak country simply because that country might someday pose a threat? Could Israel after such aggression ever be accepted by the rest of the Mideast or the world as a whole as a legitimate country? Can a people stray that far from civilized norms and just return to decency the next day?
If the US were to do the same I’m sure the propaganda & misinformation blitz would be so heavy most people would be congratulating ourselves. I’m sure it would be the same in Israel as well.
– AA
Islamic Republic has even less percentage of support from Iranian People as Saddam did before the American attack, over 75% of Iranians welcome a millitary attack on islamic regime, Iranians throughout their history have shown that they would not support their current unwanted regime against an aggression from an enemy,, case and points are Alexander ,, Arabs ,,, Mongols and most recent Reza Shah in WW2
So Americans are assured even more cooperation of the Iranian Armed Forces than Iraq’s army …there might be pockets of resistance however after an areial bombing people will be able to get rid of the current regime just like melosovic in yogoslavia,, Islamic regime is constantly bluffing ,,, time has come to call their bluff ,, as the general said it will be very easy to decapitate the regime so people can take over …
LETS GET THE BALL ROLLING
NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THEIR COUNTRY BEING BOMBED FOR 48 HOURS BUT IF IT RESULTS IN REGIME CHANGE I AM ALL FOR IT …..
THIS REGIME’S EXISTANCE IS A DANGER TO HUMANITY …..
THE IRANIAN PEOPLE ASK PRES. BUSH TO TAKE A FIRM STAND AGAINST MULLAHS AND HELP THE IRANIAN PEOPLE TO REMOVE THIS REGIME PERMANANTELY AS TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE , RUSSIA AND CHINE WE SAY … PEOPLE OF IRAN ARE WATCHING YOU .. WE URGE YOU TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS IN THE CRITICAL MOMENTS TO COME IF YOU WANT TO HAVE RELATIONS WITH THE DEMOCRATIC IRAN OF THE FUTURE WE ASSURE YOU THAT WE WILL REACT TO GOVERNMENTS, WHO SUPPORTED THIS REGIME, IN THE FUTURE ….
payandeh iran
Hello sloexpert.
I remeber you-YOur mother and sister used to work in shahre noo right?
Oh yes dont tell me– you were their Kos kes– right?
@Sloexpert – making unsubstantiated statement, even in capital letters, does not add credibility to your opinion. Also – it is a mistake to assume that slogans are, even when piled up on top of each other, going to convince anyone of anything. Lastly, making a fool of yourself like you just did only adds to the confidence of those who hold views opposed to yours.