The Real Combatants

This from the Jerusalem Post:

Six hundred Iranian Shihab-3 missiles are pointed at targets throughout Israel, and will be launched if either Iran or Syria are attacked, an Iranian website affiliated with the regime reported on Monday.

"Iran will shoot at Israel 600 missiles if it is attacked," the Iranian news website, Assar Iran, reported. "600 missiles will only be the first reaction."

Well. The bluntly plain message is... If Bush attacks Iran, Iran attacks Israel.

Something for Bush and his masters to consider... Saddam only launched a few missiles - obsolete and inaccurate ones at that - at Israel when the fireworks were re-ignited by the latest American incursion into this conflict. Iran says it will launch 600 far more accurate and modern missiles, which means Israel will take some real damage this go-around and experience some real war horror. That may be the only thing that has stopped Bush's attack on Iran so far.

Up to now, while Americans are dying by the thousands, the Jews have had only the occasional unguided small rocket attacks to absorb with their minimal damage and casualties. Most of those unguided weapons miss completely, and land harmlessly in the desert. But 600 modern guided missiles that will hit their targets - all in a matter of minutes - will make it an all-new wargame for Israel.

Yes, yes, Israel has Patriot missile interceptor sites. The Patriot system will bag a few missiles, but a swarm of 600 incoming targets will overwhelm the system. It's highly probable that 75% of more of the missiles will reach their Jewish targets, most of those targets being dense population centers, and who knows what will be in the warheads of these things... biological, chemical, maybe even the possibility of Chinese or Russian tactical nukes?

If Bush attacks Iran, it will be because the Jews think they can either successfully blunt the Iranian missile attack, or absorb the damage without severe consequence. Or even worse, Bush and his Israeli allies may believe that Iran doesn't have the claimed 600 missiles, or won't launch them if attacked.

If they are disastrously wrong, and you have to acknowledge that their over-confidence is frightening, my money says Israel would definitely respond with their non-existent nukes.

Perhaps Bush (foolish, foolish man that he is) would send in a few of those "misplaced" Bomber-launched nuclear cruise missiles he has just ordered re-positioned.

The possibility is that Bush's(and accordingly America's) legacy will be as the man - and nation - that ignited WW3.