Why These Are NOT ORDINARY TIMES We Are Living In

This is fucking ridiculous, the kind of ridiculousness that could get a LOT of people killed:

The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing--that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack--but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.

Yes, let's just all go to hell because no one is willing to "damage" their careers.

And how much do you want to bet there are nice plans in the works for "another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States"?

These are NOT ORDINARY TIMES, and we must fight this lunacy with all we have.