Re: Thousands of U.S. troops headed to israel.
- From: Sanity <sanity-clause@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 08:31:12 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 5, 10:11 am, bodhi <psychedelictour...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 4, 9:59 pm, sagetea2...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/jpost-several-thousand-us-troops-to-isr...
On Dec 20 Jerusalem Post reported thousands of American soldiers were
deploying to Israel to take part in the "the largest-ever missile
defense exercise" in Israel's history. So far, the U.S. media is not
covering it, but Iran sure is.
"it's only a movie .... only a movie ......"
Day One -
The War With Iranhttp://www.rense.com/general69/dayone.htm
(UPDATED) The war began as planned. The Israeli pilots took off well
before dawn and streaked across Lebanon and northern Iraq, high above
Kirkuk. Flying US-made F-15 and F-16s, the Israelis separated over the
mountains of western Iran, the pilots gesturing a last minute show of
confidence in their mission, maintaining radio silence.
Just before the sun rose over Tehran, moments before the Muslim call
to prayer, the missiles struck their targets. While US Air Force AWACS
planes circled overhead--listening, watching, recording--heavy US
bombers followed minutes later. Bunker-busters and mini-nukes fell on
dozens of targets while Iranian anti-aircraft missiles sped skyward.
The ironically named Bushehr nuclear power plant crumbled to dust.
Russian technicians and foreign nationals scurried for safety. Most
did not make it.
Targets in Saghand and Yazd, all of them carefully chosen many months
before by Pentagon planners, were destroyed. The uranium enrichment
facility in Natanz; a heavy water plant and radioisotope facility in
Arak; the Ardekan Nuclear Fuel Unit; the Uranium Conversion Facility
and Nuclear Technology Center in Isfahan; were struck simultaneously
by USAF and Israeli bomber groups.
The Tehran Nuclear Research Center, the Tehran Molybdenum, Iodine and
Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility, the Tehran Jabr Ibn Hayan
Multipurpose Laboratories, the Kalaye Electric Company in the Tehran
suburbs were destroyed.
Iranian fighter jets rose in scattered groups. At least those Iranian
fighter planes that had not been destroyed on the ground by swift and
systematic air strikes from US and Israeli missiles. A few Iranian
fighters even launched missiles, downing the occasional attacker, but
American top guns quickly prevailed in the ensuing dogfights.
The Iranian air force, like the Iranian navy, never really knew what
hit them. Like the slumbering US sailors at Pearl Harbor, the pre-
dawn, pre-emptive attack wiped out fully half the Iranian defense
forces in a matter of hours.
By mid-morning, the second and third wave of US/Israeli raiders
screamed over the secondary targets. The only problem now, the
surprising effectiveness of the Iranian missile defenses. The element
of surprise lost, US and Israeli warplanes began to fall from the
skies in considerable numbers to anti-aircraft fire.
At 7:35 AM, Tehran time, the first Iranian anti-ship missile destroyed
a Panamanian oil tanker, departing from Kuwait and bound for Houston.
Launched from an Iranian fighter plane, the Exocet split the ship in
half and set the ship ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. A second and
third tanker followed, black smoke billowing from the broken ships
before they blew up and sank. By 8:15 AM, all ship traffic on the
Persian Gulf had ceased.
US Navy ships, ordered earlier into the relative safety of the Indian
Ocean, south of their base in Bahrain, launched counter strikes. Waves
of US fighter planes circled the burning wrecks in the bottleneck of
Hormuz but the Iranian fighters had fled.
At 9 AM, Eastern Standard Time, many hours into the war, CNN reported
a squadron of suicide Iranian fighter jets attacking the US Navy fleet
south of Bahrain. Embedded reporters aboard the ships--sending live
feeds directly to a rapt audience of Americans just awakening--
reported all of the Iranian jets destroyed, but not before the enemy
planes launched dozens of Exocet and Sunburn anti-ship missiles. A US
aircraft carrier, cruiser and two destroyers suffered direct hits. The
cruiser blew up and sank, killing 600 men. The aircraft carrier sank
an hour later.
By mid-morning, every military base in Iran was partially or wholly
destroyed. Sirens blared and fires blazed from hundreds of fires.
Explosions rocked Tehran and the electrical power failed. The Al
Jazeerah news station in Tehran took a direct hit from a satellite
bomb, leveling the entire block.
At 9:15 AM, Baghdad time, the first Iranian missile struck the Green
Zone. For the next thirty minutes a torrent of missiles landed on GPS
coordinates carefully selected by Shiite militiamen with cell phones
positioned outside the Green Zone and other permanent US bases.
Although US and Israeli bomber pilots had destroyed 90% of the Iranian
missiles, enough Shahabs remained to fully destroy the Green Zone, the
Baghdad airport, and a US Marine base. Thousands of unsuspecting US
soldiers died in the early morning barrage. Not surprisingly, CNN and
Fox withheld the great number of casualties from American viewers.
By 9:30 AM, gas stations on the US east coast began to raise their
prices. Slowly at first and then altogether in a panic, the prices
rose. $4 a gallon, and then $5 and then $6, the prices skyrocketed.
Worried motorists, rushing from work, roared into the nearest gas
station, radios blaring the latest reports of the pre-emptive attack
on Iran. While fistfights broke out in gas stations everywhere, the
third Middle Eastern war had begun.
In Washington DC, the spin began minutes after the first missile
struck its intended target. The punitive strike--not really a war said
the harried White House spokesman--would further democracy and peace
in the Middle East. Media pundits mostly followed the party line.
The president scheduled a speech at 2 PM. Gas prices rose another two
dollars before then. China and Japan threatened to dump US dollars.
Gold rose $120 an ounce. The dollar plummeted against the Euro.
CNN reported violent, anti-American protests in Paris, London, Rome,
Berlin and Dublin. Fast food franchises throughout Europe, carrying
American corporate logos, were firebombed.
A violent coup toppled the pro-American Pakistan president. On the New
York Stock Exchange, prices fell in a frenzy of trading--except for
the major petroleum producers. A single, Iranian Shahab missile struck
Tel Aviv, destroying an entire city block. Israel vowed revenge, and
threatened a nuclear strike on Tehran, before a hastily called UN
General Assembly in New York City eased tensions.
An orange alert in New York City suddenly reddened to a full-scale
terror alarm when a package detonated on a Manhattan subway. Mayor
Bloomberg declared martial law. Governor Pataki ordered the New York
National Guard fully mobilized, mobilizing what few national guardsmen
remained in the state.
President Obama looked shaken at 2 PM. The scroll below the TV screen
reported Persian Gulf nations halting production of oil until the
conflict could be resolved peacefully. Venezuelan president, Hugo
Chavez, announced a freeze in oil deliveries to the US would begin
immediately. David Cameron offered to mediate peace negotiations,
between the US and Israel and Iran, but was resoundingly rejected.
By 6 PM, Eastern Standard Time, gas prices had stabilized at just
below $10 a gallon. A Citgo station in Texas, near Fort Sam Houston
Army base, was firebombed. No one claimed responsibility. Terrorism
was not ruled out.
At sunset, the call to prayer--in Tehran, Baghdad, Islamabad, Ankara,
Jerusalem, Jakarta, Riyadh--sounded uncannily like the buzzing of
enraged bees.
Horrendous report Bodhi; the corporate “news” won’t be able to avoid
confirmation (in a few day of course) if it’s true. The shit seems to
have hit the fan…
.
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