Scream from the rafters

If nothing else it will cause the right-wing to call us "nuts", but at least it will avert a horrendously stupid act with long-term destructive consequences:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.

The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler.

"That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying.

A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser is quoted in the article as saying that "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war."...

...One former defense official said the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government," The New Yorker pointed out.

In recent weeks, the president has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of the House of Representatives, including at least one Democrat, the report said.

One of the options under consideration involves the possible use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, to insure the destruction of Iran's main centrifuge plant at Natanz, Hersh writes.

Forget for a moment the consideration of tactical nukes -- a decision so monstrous and stupid that there is plainly no way to defend it.

The administration believes that a sustained bombing campaign will cause the populace to rise up against their own government and act with the wishes of the American government.

The stupidity it knows no bounds. None, not at all.

This needs to be screamed about NOW!

To compare another government to Hitler while making these insane plans is the ultimate in irony.

They need to be stopped.

Here is the Hersh article.