Bush Administration Contingency Plans Concerning Iran Revealed by BBC News

In a new report which I have just seen, BBC News is reporting that contingency plans already developed by the U.S. military call for wide-ranging air strikes inside Iran, targetting not only suspected nuclear sites but regular military sites as well. While I have read such reports numerous times over the past several months, this seems to be one of the first times, if not the first, that a major news outlet such as the BBC has reported this in video format.

My sources (available to any savvy Internet sleuth) have said for months that the United States under G. W. Bush was planning for a possible military strike against Iran. The assumption (with justification) has been that Washington was seeking some sort of trigger event to give the attack an air of legitimacy. Such a pretext has been used many times in military history, of course.

I will be following this matter with great and grave interest, as any attack on Iran would almost surely ignite tensions in the region, possibly leading to a regional conflagration. As I commented to friends in an e-mail today alerting them to this post, as anti-war demonstrations are planned here in the U.S. concerning the war in Iraq, the administration has long since set its sights on a new target -- Iran. As was the case with Afghanistan and Iraq, there is a tie-in with big oil which never tires of attempting to secure direct and complete control of mid-east oil from the ground (drilling operations) to transport (oil tankers) to processing (refineries, petro-chemical plants and plastics factories) to retail (gasoline stations).

I will place a current and active link, valid as of this writing, to the BBC web page which contains this story. Look for the headline, "US 'Iran attack plans' Leaked" and click on video to view the report.

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Iran+U.S.+&go.x=32&go.y=10&go=go&edition=i