What does it matter anyway?
We just a bunch of 'too-pid rubes out here anyway, right, Glob?
"Gates memo says US lacks a strategy to thwart Iran; Analysis cites gains made to nuclear capability" by David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker, New York Times | April 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to government officials familiar with the document.
Several officials said the highly classified analysis, written in January to President Obama’s national security adviser, General James L. Jones, touched off an intense effort inside the Pentagon, the White House, and the intelligence agencies to develop new options for Obama. They include a revised set of military alternatives, still under development, to be considered should diplomacy and sanctions fail to force Iran to change course.
So WHEN is the ATTACK?
Officials familiar with the memo’s contents would describe only portions dealing with strategy and policy, and not sections that apparently dealt with secret operations against Iran, or how to deal with Persian Gulf allies.
Related: Iran is Paranoid
I guess if anyone would know the ex-CIA man Gates would.
One senior official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the memo, described the document as “a wake-up call.’’
TIME to ATTACK!
According to several officials, the memorandum also calls for new thinking about how the United States might contain Iran’s power if it decided to produce a weapon, and how to deal with the possibility that fuel or weapons could be obtained by one of the terrorist groups Iran has supported....
What, HEZBOLLAH going to be FRAMED for the next false flag "terror event?"
Or are they going to say it was "Al-CIA-Duh?"
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Another analysis:
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates angrily reacted to media reports of his classified memo to National Security Adviser James Jones about Iran, claiming that the memo has been taken out of context and was just part of an “orderly and timely decision making process.”
The memo warned that Iran might go through all the steps of producing a nuclear weapon except for the part where they actually produce a nuclear weapon, and warned that the Obama Administration didn’t have a good strategy for what to do in that event.
Though the memo was said to have centered around new discussions to plan for that eventuality, all indications are that Secretary Gates’ solutions were military ones, and that what he chiefly sought were specific strategies for launching a military attack on Iran....
The real issue raised by the Gates memo is that the presumptive future status of Iran as “virtual” nuclear power, without actually violating the nuclear NPT in any way or doing anything but continuing their civilian nuclear program, would be sufficient justification for a military attack....
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Oh, like sort of what went down with IRAQ, huh?
