And no sooner is the last post about plans to strike Iran is done...

FOX NEWS : U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan

WASHINGTON — A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.

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.

If sanctions won't go any further (which is really too bad), and Iran will not simply end enrichment in order to start real negotiations, the clock is at midnight.

Two more carrier task forces are on the way to the gulf RIGHT NOW

Why are the Germans itchy?

Sources say news leaks about the prospective designation (of the IRGC as terrorists) greatly worried European governments and private sector firms, which could theoretically face prosecution in American courts if such measures became law and these entities continued to do business with IRGC and its multiple financial subsidiaries.

Continue reading "And no sooner is the last post about plans to strike Iran is done..." »