Greg Myre

moved up and done during daylight hours because the U.S.

had intelligence that all of these senior Iranian figures were coming together.

Saturday is the equivalent of Monday.

It's the beginning of the work week in Iran.

And once the U.S.

found out that they'd all be meeting, presumably to deal with this crisis, that's when they moved up the beginning of the attacks.

And Israel hit these leaders while they were meeting and killed 40 or more of them.

Well, planning in war is a very fickle beast.

You know, rarely, rarely goes as planned.

Well, it seems to be based on that statement.

It's hard to interpret that any other way.

The question is, how do you do that?

Iran is a large country, 90 million people.

It's got a big military police force.

The security forces there are battle-hardened.

We've seen them crack down brutally on the civilian population when there were mass protests in January.

There's not really an armed opposition there.

So how is this going to happen?

It seems like that may be his wish, his desire, but the president also seems like he's not going to send ground troops in.

This is going to be an air campaign by the U.S.