US Nuclear Strike Plans

[Hankaveli]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

LaRouche Warns:
Cheney's `Guns of August' Threaten the World


This release was issued on July 27 by the LaRouche PAC political action committee.

Lyndon LaRouche, on this Wednesday afternoon, issued an international alert, covering the period of August 2005, which is the likely timeframe for Vice President Dick Cheney, with the full collusion of the circles of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to unleash the recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran. The danger of such a mad, Hitler-in-the-bunker action from the Cheney circles would be even further heightened, were the United States Congress to stick with its present schedule, and go into recess on July 30 until September 4. With Congress out of Washington, the Cheney-led White House would almost certainly unleash a "Guns of August" attack on Iran.

LaRouche based this assessment on a series of factors, reported to him over the recent days, beginning with the qualified report, from a former U.S. intelligence official, published in the American Conservative magazine, that Dick Cheney ordered the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to prepare contingency plans for a conventional and tactical nuclear strike against hundreds of targets in Iran, in the event of a "new 9/11-style attack" on the United States. As EIR reported several months ago, the Bush Administration, under CONPLAN 8022, had already placed the relevant "mini-nukes" under the control of theater military commanders, as part of a new Global Strike doctrine, a doctrine originally conceived when Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s.

The recent bombings in London have provided Tony Blair with his own "Reichstag fire" incident, and the full resources of the British "liberal imperial" faction can now be expected to weigh in behind the brutish Cheney circles in Washington.

The most compelling evidence of this "Guns of August" plan, LaRouche emphasized in discussions with colleagues, is the pattern of eyewitness reports of Dick Cheney's state of mind. Cheney is living out an American version of "Hitler in the bunker," lashing out at Republican Senators who have dared to resist his mad tirades, accusing anyone who fails to follow his orders—including senior members of the United States Senate—of being "traitors" and worse.

And finally, LaRouche identified a series of reports from highly qualified Congressional, military, and intelligence community sources, who have confirmed the essential features of the original American Conservative account of Cheney's Strangelove schemes for a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran. These sources have emphasized that these Iran plans are not merely military contingency studies, but represent the policy intentions of Cheney.

For more information, contact the LaRouche Political Action Committee at www.larouchepac.com, or 1-800-929-7566.



If this shit is true I am kind of shook

http://larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2005/lar_pac/050727guns_august.html

 

[Hankaveli]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

 

[PuffnScruff]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

yea, that's not going to happen

 

[*suspect#1*]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

sounds like bullshit

 

[Illuminattile]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

That's the best post I can remember from you

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

and you guys call DMX a crackhead

 

[The.Menace]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

If this shit is true I am kind of shook

If this happens, which I don't believe, the whole world would turn against the US.

 

[Hankaveli]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

If this happens, which I don't believe, the whole world would turn against the US.

hence why I would be shook.

I don't put much past the arogance of the big boys.

 

[PuffnScruff]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

what's that picture from?

 

[Hankaveli]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

what's that picture from?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

 

[Amara]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

If this shit is true I am kind of shook

No reason to be. I would suggest this is normal policy for the United States. My supervisor at uni was telling me today that a report detailing an attack on North Korea had been written. It doesnt necessarily mean it is intented to ever be implemented, it is just the way superpowers, or rather, nuclear powers work - they have a game plan. They dont sit and wait for the shit to hit the fan before formulating their actions. It's preparedness despite whatever shit this author says about it being Cheney's Hitler-like "policy intentions."

 

[Illuminattile]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

what's that picture from?

You need to go watch Dr. Strangelove.

 

[PuffnScruff]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

^ yes i do

amara makes a good point. we can't really think that north korea doesnt have plans to attack us sitting around somewhere in a folder. i mean they hate the u.s. did anyone see the abc news report where n.k. let reporters from the states in for the first time in over 10 years? after watching that n.k. needs to change their ways. they brainwash their own children.

 

[Amara]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

^ yes i do

amara makes a good point. we can't really think that north korea doesnt have plans to attack us sitting around somewhere in a folder. i mean they hate the u.s. did anyone see the abc news report where n.k. let reporters from the states in for the first time in over 10 years? after watching that n.k. needs to change their ways. they brainwash their own children.

Dont get me started on NK, lol. I'm writing my thesis on it now. But it's not about hatred in their case - it's about regime and state survival which is under threat from the US. That is what underlies the issue. They dont hate the US, they fear them and so they retaliate. As for Iran, I'd say it's more about regional stability and security in that sense. So I doubt in either scenario it will lead to a first attack on the US - so there's no real need to worry that these US action plans will come to fruition.

 

[TecK NeeX]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

Well The US government has been warning its citizens that a nuclear attack in the near future is imminent. so It is just a matter of time. They will Nuke a small U.S city to justify a nuclear retaliation against another framed Middle Eastern nation

we can't really think that north korea doesnt have plans to attack us sitting around somewhere in a folder.

Plans to attack the U.S? no, plans to defend against an American assault? yes

 

[PuffnScruff]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

Dont get me started on NK, lol. I'm writing my thesis on it now. But it's not about hatred in their case - it's about regime and state survival which is under threat from the US. That is what underlies the issue. They dont hate the US, they fear them and so they retaliate. As for Iran, I'd say it's more about regional stability and security in that sense. So I doubt in either scenario it will lead to a first attack on the US - so there's no real need to worry that these US action plans will come to fruition.

they do hate the US, when abc news was allowed to come into their country a few months ago for the first time in over 10 years, the reporter would ask people who worked for the NK govt what they thought about the US. they would say they hated america. with a big smile on their face. the children would also say this. they would follow up with we dont know why we hate america, we just know that america is our sworn enemy.
the country is run by vets of the korean war that can;t let go. imo.
post your thesis on the board when your done, i wouldn't mind reading it.

 

[KDeezy]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

so because ABC aired footage of a couple of N Koreans saying they hate the US the whole country hates the US?

Aswell N Korea being well led by a "dictator" not many would risk their neck to go against the grain.

 

[PuffnScruff]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

it was more than a couple. many people from north koreas army. basically everyone they talked too. i know that those people they showed on the report does not make up everyone's opinion in that country and some may be affraid to speak their mind. but it still doesnt change the fact that they are brainwashed. their children are bright, gifted, and very smart children. but they are all human robots in ways that are scary.

 

[Hankaveli]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

yea, that's not going to happen

you sure about that?

New Nuclear Doctrine Includes Pre-Emption Strategy: Pentagon drafts revised doctrine for use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to pre-empt an attack by a nation or terror group... Developing...

http://drudgereport.com/

 

[Hankaveli]

recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001053_pf.html

washingtonpost.com
Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan
Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against Banned Weapons

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 11, 2005; A01



The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

The document, written by the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs staff but not yet finally approved by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, would update rules and procedures governing use of nuclear weapons to reflect a preemption strategy first announced by the Bush White House in December 2002. The strategy was outlined in more detail at the time in classified national security directives.

At a White House briefing that year, a spokesman said the United States would "respond with overwhelming force" to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, its forces or allies, and said "all options" would be available to the president.

The draft, dated March 15, would provide authoritative guidance for commanders to request presidential approval for using nuclear weapons, and represents the Pentagon's first attempt to revise procedures to reflect the Bush preemption doctrine. A previous version, completed in 1995 during the Clinton administration, contains no mention of using nuclear weapons preemptively or specifically against threats from weapons of mass destruction.

Titled "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations" and written under the direction of Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the draft document is unclassified and available on a Pentagon Web site. It is expected to be signed within a few weeks by Air Force Lt. Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, director of the Joint Staff, according to Navy Cmdr. Dawn Cutler, a public affairs officer in Myers's office. Meanwhile, the draft is going through final coordination with the military services, the combatant commanders, Pentagon legal authorities and Rumsfeld's office, Cutler said in a written statement.

A "summary of changes" included in the draft identifies differences from the 1995 doctrine, and says the new document "revises the discussion of nuclear weapons use across the range of military operations."

The first example for potential nuclear weapon use listed in the draft is against an enemy that is using "or intending to use WMD" against U.S. or allied, multinational military forces or civilian populations.

Another scenario for a possible nuclear preemptive strike is in case of an "imminent attack from adversary biological weapons that only effects from nuclear weapons can safely destroy."

That and other provisions in the document appear to refer to nuclear initiatives proposed by the administration that Congress has thus far declined to fully support.

Last year, for example, Congress refused to fund research toward development of nuclear weapons that could destroy biological or chemical weapons materials without dispersing them into the atmosphere.

The draft document also envisions the use of atomic weapons for "attacks on adversary installations including WMD, deep, hardened bunkers containing chemical or biological weapons."

But Congress last year halted funding of a study to determine the viability of the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator warhead (RNEP) -- commonly called the bunker buster -- that the Pentagon has said is needed to attack hardened, deeply buried weapons sites.

The Joint Staff draft doctrine explains that despite the end of the Cold War, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction "raises the danger of nuclear weapons use." It says that there are "about thirty nations with WMD programs" along with "nonstate actors [terrorists] either independently or as sponsored by an adversarial state."

To meet that situation, the document says that "responsible security planning requires preparation for threats that are possible, though perhaps unlikely today."

To deter the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, the Pentagon paper says preparations must be made to use nuclear weapons and show determination to use them "if necessary to prevent or retaliate against WMD use."

The draft says that to deter a potential adversary from using such weapons, that adversary's leadership must "believe the United States has both the ability and will to pre-empt or retaliate promptly with responses that are credible and effective." The draft also notes that U.S. policy in the past has "repeatedly rejected calls for adoption of 'no first use' policy of nuclear weapons since this policy could undermine deterrence."

Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee who has been a leading opponent of the bunker-buster program, said yesterday the draft was "apparently a follow-through on their nuclear posture review and they seem to bypass the idea that Congress had doubts about the program." She added that members "certainly don't want the administration to move forward with a [nuclear] preemption policy" without hearings, closed door if necessary.

A spokesman for Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said yesterday the panel has not yet received a copy of the draft.

Hans M. Kristensen, a consultant to the Natural Resources Defense Council, who discovered the document on the Pentagon Web site, said yesterday that it "emphasizes the need for a robust nuclear arsenal ready to strike on short notice including new missions."

Kristensen, who has specialized for more than a decade in nuclear weapons research, said a final version of the doctrine was due in August but has not yet appeared.

"This doctrine does not deliver on the Bush administration pledge of a reduced role for nuclear weapons," Kristensen said. "It provides justification for contentious concepts not proven and implies the need for RNEP."

One reason for the delay may be concern about raising publicly the possibility of preemptive use of nuclear weapons, or concern that it might interfere with attempts to persuade Congress to finance the bunker buster and other specialized nuclear weapons.

In April, Rumsfeld appeared before the Senate Armed Services panel and asked for the bunker buster study to be funded. He said the money was for research and not to begin production on any particular warhead. "The only thing we have is very large, very dirty, big nuclear weapons," Rumsfeld said. "It seems to me studying it [the RNEP] makes all the sense in the world."

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