U.S. PLAN FOR UNPROVOKED NUCLEAR ATTACK AGAINST IRAN

"... Vice President Dick Cheney's office has requested the United States Strategic Command to draw up a plan to respond to another "9/11 type attack on the US." The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons...

"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.

"According to The Washington Post, the document is "expected to be signed within a few weeks by Air Force Lt. Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, director of the Joint Staff, according to Navy Cmdr. Dawn Cutler, a public affairs officer in Myers's office."

http://search.csmonitor.com/2005/0914/dailyUpdate.html