Knocking out Iran's military

The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert in Sunday’s edition in the Times of London.

All well and good Bad BoB,

they are part of the Axis of Evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Principles
The Nuremberg Principles were a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime. The document was created by necessity during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi party members following World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court refers to the crime of aggression as one of the “most serious crimes of concern to the international community�, and provides that the crime falls within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). However, the Rome Statute stipulates that the ICC may not exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression until such time as the states parties agree on a definition of the crime and set out the conditions under which it may be prosecuted.
Here is the statement of the ICC chief prosecutor on the military action in Iraq:
http://www.icc-cpi.int/library/organs/otp/...bruary_2006.pdf

In the process of "maintaining peace" Americans massacred 5+ million "gooks" ... in the name of "freedom & democracy"

Yes. Intellectually bankrupt.

I think Bush, Blair and others owe the world some answers as to how they came to the decision to take action in Iraq.

There will be no military action taken against Iran.

Can I just remind everyone that to date, in the history of the world, the good ol' US is the ONLY country to have used Nuclear and Atomic weapons on civilians, not Iran, not Iraq, not Afghanistan!

It's not a "with us" or "against us" debate, but to ignore the fact the UK and other countries participated in action in Iraq while solely blaming the US is hypocritical and misses a key part of the situation.

A real solution requires going to the source of the problems and not the symptoms.

I am not virulent Anti-US, I am however virulent Anti-US administration and their corporate, criminal regime!

... I for one, would like to know more about the information available in 2002/2003 and the decision-making process ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2240427.ece
It started with the BBC’s own report on impartiality that effectively admitted to an institutional “liberal� bias among programme makers. Previously these accusations had been dismissed as a right-wing rant, but since the report was published even the BBC’s allies seem to accept it.
Ever since 1963 the institutions have been the villains of the media liberals. The police, the armed services, the courts, political parties, multi-national corporations – when things go wrong they are the usual suspects.

... BBC bias (anti-US in this case) ...

Of course, BBC bias (anti-US in this case) also needs to be taken into account:

OK, I've got a tenner that says the US attacks Iran before Easter.

Weren't you taking bets when the British sailors were kidnapped too?

Germany — a pivotal player among three European nations to rein in Iran's nuclear program over the last two-and-a-half years through a mixture of diplomacy and sanctions supported by the United States — notified its allies last week that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to support the imposition of any further sanctions against Iran that could be imposed by the U.N. Security Council.

The announcement was made at a meeting in Berlin that brought German officials together with Iran desk officers from the five member states of the Security Council. It stunned the room, according to one of several Bush administration and foreign government sources who spoke to FOX News, and left most Bush administration principals concluding that sanctions are dead.

The Germans voiced concern about the damaging effects any further sanctions on Iran would have on the German economy — and also, according to diplomats from other countries, gave the distinct impression that they would privately welcome, while publicly protesting, an American bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Has anyone actually taken a totally removed approach and wargamed scenarios from the Iranian side? I can see a bit of a problem when I do it. Whichever way I wargame it it always leads to massive escalation.

Has anyone actually taken a totally removed approach and wargamed scenarios from the Iranian side?
I can see a bit of a problem when I do it. Whichever way I wargame it it always leads to massive escalation.

But the German economy is less oil dependent than America's and doesn't hurt as much though high oil prices though of course that has been pushing prices up.