Israel Planning Nuclear Attack On Iran ?

The Sunday Times newspaper in London is reporting that Israel has drawn up plans for a nuclear attack on Iran. They quote several unidentified Israeli military sources as saying pilots are already being trained for the 2000-mile mission with flights to Gibraltar, a British colony on the west end of the Mediterrean.

The attack is planned to destroy as much of the Iranian nuclear program as possible, in an attempt to keep the Iranians from developing their own nuclear weapons. The attack would target several Iranian targets including the new centrifuges being installed at Natanz, a heavy water reactor at Arak and a uranium-conversion facility near Isfahan.

The sources say the Israelis are planning to use tactical nuclear weapons because some of the targets have been hardened by the Iranians by moving them underground. They would use conventional weapons to blow a path clear for the nuclear bombs that would explode underground.

There are those who think this idea has been released to the media to try and scare the world into taking action against Iran. I hope that is all this is, because it would be a terrible idea for any nation to use nuclear weapons, especially in the Middle East. The closest thing we have to a powder-keg that could set off a world war is the Middle East.

But if the Israelis think this will pressure Bush and his cronies to do something about Iran, they are wrong. Bush has screwed up a war with a militarily weak nation that posed us no threat. He has shown he has no idea how to deal with nations like North Korea and Iran, both of which pose a real threat to world peace.

In fact, I bet Bush thinks the nuclear attack would be a good idea. He even considered using nukes in Iraq. Bush is not very bright, and his idea of diplomacy is simply to threaten others. An Israeli attack would relieve the pressure on him to actually do something constructive with Iran.

I wish this was a problem we could put off until 2008, when hopefully we can put a competent president into office, but it isn't. Israeli intelligence has said they believe Iran could have nuclear weapons in as little as two years. Our only hope lies with the United Nations, and judging by their recent actions, that is a very faint hope indeed.

I don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons. But I also don't want the Israelis to use their nuclear weapons. Both of these options would make the world an even more dangerous place.