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David Frum : "America will not attack Iran in 2008"
Mail to Freeper drzz | 12 10 2007 | drzz

Posted on 12/10/2007 7:20:37 AM PST by drzz

Mr Frum is a former speechwriter of President Bush and currently adviser of presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.

I contacted author David Frum today and he wrote to me that he thought America won't attack Iran in 2008.

He didn't elaborate much, because he was "pressed for time" but I thought if Frum thinks Bush won't do it, there is little chance Bush will do anyway.

Bad news, folks... Bush has just become a dove and Israel is in danger.


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1 posted on 12/10/2007 7:20:41 AM PST by drzz
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Forget him- what is the Vegas line?


2 posted on 12/10/2007 7:24:11 AM PST by 11th Commandment
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Bad news. You are treating as crediable a whiny RINO crybaby who got canned from the Bush White House. Frum knows nothing.


3 posted on 12/10/2007 7:24:19 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Hillary Clinton has never done one thing right. She thinks that qualifies her to be President?)
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To: drzz

SInce when is Frum the supreme authority on Foreign policy?


4 posted on 12/10/2007 7:30:36 AM PST by SolidWood ("I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.")
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I thought it was a valuable opinion, as Frum has ties with the White House, where he worked in 2000-2001.


5 posted on 12/10/2007 7:34:19 AM PST by drzz
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It is not because you don’t like the opinion that you should attack the one who just REPORTED the opinion.

Well, Frum knows the Bush administration well...


6 posted on 12/10/2007 7:35:19 AM PST by drzz
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Well there’s still 21 days left in 2007


7 posted on 12/10/2007 7:48:47 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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LOL


8 posted on 12/10/2007 7:51:33 AM PST by drzz
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Let’s bomb the bastard on Christmas day.


9 posted on 12/10/2007 7:51:48 AM PST by drzz
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I saw three bombs come flying in on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day in the morning.


10 posted on 12/10/2007 7:56:04 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: drzz

He’ll be correct if Israel does the job.


11 posted on 12/10/2007 7:58:01 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: drzz

Yes, it is that... an opinion. Frum may have some insight from the neoconservative circles, but he has been out of the Bush administration since 6 years. I doubt that he has some special insight.


12 posted on 12/10/2007 8:04:27 AM PST by SolidWood ("I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.")
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I do not think President Bush will share what he is going to do regarding Iran with David Frum. In fact less than a handful of very trusted people, that includes Vice President Cheney, know exactly what President Bush will do toward the the Iranian terrorist regime nuclear facilities. Based on the history of President Bush, I know that he will not allow Iran to acquires the nukes, it is speculation on my part but I am very confident in these speculations.


13 posted on 12/10/2007 8:05:42 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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Frum used to have ties to the White House but not as much anymore and for sure not with President Bush and his trusted advisors on foreign policy. In fact he is one of the cowards who went against the war in Iraq when things were not going well, now that we are winning the war he may have changed his tune as did many other cowards.


14 posted on 12/10/2007 8:08:22 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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I don’t think he became “against the war”.

If you refer about the Vanity Fair’s scoop, it was an hoax.

I contacted Frum about this matter last year and he told me so : http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGIyM2M4NzFlNTQwN2QxNzU0MDg4MjNiMjMwYjk4Zjk=


15 posted on 12/10/2007 8:15:11 AM PST by drzz
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David Frum on Iraq in 2006 : “My most fundamental views on the war in Iraq remain as they were in 2003: The war was right, victory is essential, and defeat would be calamitous.”


16 posted on 12/10/2007 8:19:29 AM PST by drzz
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If this is the case then I apologize for the comment I made about him regarding the Iraq war although I read some articles in the past supporting what I said earlier about him on this issue.


17 posted on 12/10/2007 8:50:05 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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David Frum on Iraq in 2006 : “My most fundamental views on the war in Iraq remain as they were in 2003: The war was right, victory is essential, and defeat would be calamitous.”

Here is a post that I wrote this morning about the latest NIE report that details the calamities which Frum was talking about:

>>>>The DUmbos political hacks in the Intelligence community and the State Department are usurping the CIC’s power and sabotaging his efforts to protect us and achieve total victory in Iraq. These people are out to defeat and humiliate their own country just to get at President Bush.

Nukes aside, and let’s assume that the Iraqi population is singing Kumbaya and al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is totally defeated. We still can’t withdraw from Iraq and leave behind a strong Iran ruled by Mullahs and a president who talks to a well.

Iran will swallow Iraq whole and threaten the Gulf and the rest of the ME moderate regimes and the world oil supplies.

Adding the strong possibility (certainty, IMO) of Iran developing nukes, there is almost no way to come back and fight them conventionally when they are protected by a nuclear umbrella.

Any US Government official who doesn’t understand this situation 100% shouldn’t be where he/she is.

If we reach that point, God forbid, we didn’t learn anything from the lessons of the Carter years.

I have faith in President Bush who’ll take out Iran before he leaves office and will not care about the DUmbos’ threats to his legacy. He will put the US security above his legacy, as he should. <<<

18 posted on 12/10/2007 9:00:26 AM PST by melancholy (Beware of Ho Chi Minh's offspring, Ho She Marx , invading the WH.)
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This doesn’t pass for journalism.
19 posted on 12/10/2007 9:39:55 AM PST by Perdogg (Elections have consequences)
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Let’s bomb the bastard on Christmas day.

Let's bomb him on February 11. That will be the 29th anniversary of the Islamic takeover of Iran. Let's make it a blast.
20 posted on 12/10/2007 9:57:52 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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