[Vision2020] Bombing Iran, not Iraq

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Reporter: U.S. gearing up for strikes on Iran
CAIRO (CNN) -- The Pentagon is engaged in intensive planning to carry out a bombing campaign in Iran on a day's notice to halt the flow of Iranian aid to sectarian militants in Iraq, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday. 

A bombing campaign could be ready to launch as soon as this spring, Hersh wrote in an article published Sunday in "The New Yorker." Previously, he said, the Bush administration had been focused on plans to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and possible regime change. 

The Pentagon on Friday said in a written statement that "The United States is not planning to go to war with Iran. To suggest anything to the contrary is simply wrong, misleading and mischievous." 

But Hersh told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that U.S. military plans are "very far along" and that U.S. special operations and intelligence forces have been crossing into Iran "for months." In the New Yorker, he wrote that top U.S. military officers are "counting on the White House's not being foolish enough to do this in the face of Iraq and the problems it would give the Republicans in 2008." (Posted 7:40 pm.)
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