Posted on 05/20/2008 8:16:31 PM PDT by waimea.man
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposed in discussions Monday with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, that a naval blockade be imposed on Iran as one of several ways to pressure Iran into stopping its uranium enrichment program. ...
"The present economic sanctions on Iran have exhausted themselves," Olmert told Pelosi, adding that the international community needed to take much more drastic steps to stop Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. Olmert also said there was a great deal of space between the present sanctions and military action. Aggressive action could be taken that was not violent, Olmert told Pelosi.
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A naval blockade?
For the life of her, Pelosi couldn’t understand what belly buttons had to do with Iran.....
Heady stuff. Whew.
she must listen to Dr. Savage that was his plan 6 months ago
He waited until Bush had left Israel and then suggested this to Pelosi?
Is this the normal way to conduct diplomacy?
It is for Pelosi, and Olmert is on thin ice, so what’s to lose?
Maybe she was over there to give the DNC response to Bush's speech?
oh no lets go over there and wear pretty veils and bat our big eyelashes at al ma dinnah jacket
that’ll surely be more a more civilized and enlightened approach
It was Olmert that proposed the blockade, not Pelosi. Olmert doesn’t listen to Savage....
Olmert is the village idiot trying to reason with Nurse Ratchit....
Cute idea, but dollars to donuts, that would just activate a Berlin airlift via the Caspian Sea. The Russkies are into torpedoing our designs in that area, you know.
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...very interesting...considering a blockade is an act of war. Does anyone think Bush could get congressional support for that? He will not do it unilaterally. The price of oil would shoot to $200 a barrel, the Iranians will cry to the UN, the Europeans will complain, etc. It’s a non-starter. I prefer the plan put forth by an former intel consultant... inform every airline that does biz with the US and Iran that unless they suspend all flights to Iran we will not give them landing rights in the US.
I wonder if could do the same with Iran exporting of oil - any business that purchases oil from Iran for sale in the world will be banned from doing any business in the U.S. So if ‘A’ buys oil from Iran they are not allowed to do business in the U.S. If ‘A’ sells it to ‘B’ then ‘B’ gets the same treatment. It would not be perfect but it would impose a burden on Iran’s chief form of cash to run their regime.
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