Posted on 09/15/2009 6:01:52 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Jeffrey Goldberg's well publicized interview with Israeli Premier Bibi Netanyahu showed that Bibi expects Obama to react strongly to rogue nations developing nuclear capability. The Prime Minister hinted that if Obama doesn't take care of Iran he must:
“The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told me. He said the Iranian nuclear challenge represents a “hinge of history” and added that “Western civilization” will have failed if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
In unusually blunt language, Netanyahu said of the Iranian leadership, “You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran.”
History teaches Jews that threats against their collective existence should be taken seriously, and, if possible, preempted, he suggested. In recent years, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has regularly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” and the supreme Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, this month called Israel a “cancerous tumor.”
So far President Obama has done little more than appease Iran. Every extended hand he offers shows how easily the Iranian Despot Ahmadinejad makes our unskilled Commander-in-Chief look like an Amateur.
The truth is, if Obama doesn't act to protect the US and Israel from Iranian nukes, Israel will:
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Well now that Venezeuala is going nuclear (For peacefull purposes) we’ll have one more thing to worry about.
Also this
Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574410672271269390.html
It is very interesting how the Obama administration has done an about face on this issue since he took office.
I support Israel 100%, but if this attack happens, here comes 200/barrel oil minimum.
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