U.S. Military Plans Iraq Fallback Strategy, Salvador Option
March 12th, 2007Early stages of planning, eh? I showed that U.S. Central Command was looking into the Salvador option over two years ago.
Via: Yahoo / Reuters:
U.S. military planners have begun work on a fallback strategy in case the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq fails, including a gradual pullout of U.S. forces and more emphasis on training and advising Iraqi forces, the Los Angeles Times reported in Monday’s editions.
The strategy, based partly on the U.S. experience in El Salvador in the 1980s, is in the early planning stages, the newspaper said, citing U.S. military officials and Pentagon consultants who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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The United States sent 55 Green Berets to El Salvador to help its military fight rebels from 1981 to 1992, in a drive to make the U.S. military presence less visible, the newspaper said.
It said Pentagon officials said the Iraq plan would have to entail many more advisors, but that the El Salvador model had influenced planning.
Hi Kevin, can you confirm the delivery of 500 bunker busters to Israel?
Also, I did not realize that the jackpot of Iranian oil was just over the border with Iraq in Khuzestan.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb06/Pilger13.htm
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“But what of Iran’s promise of “a crushing response”? Last year, the Pentagon delivered 500 “bunker-busting” bombs to Israel. Will the Israelis use them against a desperate Iran? Bush’s 2002 Nuclear Posture Review cites “pre-emptive” attack with so-called low-yield nuclear weapons as an option. ”
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“While the Pentagon has no plans to occupy all of Iran, it has in its sights a strip of land that runs along the border with Iraq. This is Khuzestan, home to 90 percent of Iran’s oil.”