[F14 Pilot]

ping

[ride the whirlwind]

Mr. Imus pressed: "Are you the president now?"
"No," Mr. Cheney said. "But that was a nice try."

Sly fox.

[zbigreddogz]

Good ole Isreal. The world's smallest, and biggest, a$$kickers, depending on how you look at it.

We really owe them a lot. They take out the trash when nobody else will dare.

[SunkenCiv]

any such strike would leave "a diplomatic mess afterwards"

Heh... sure would be funny though. Main problems would seem to be that Israel doesn't have a viable air route (thanks in large part to the United States past and present) to the multiple targets. Attrition would also be high using planes. A missile attack can't be easily guarded against, but isn't likely to destroy the desired targets.

Also, it would likely pump up the Iranians against Israel. The Iranian public needs to keep its hatred focussed on the mullahcrats.

[American in Israel]

"You look around at potential trouble spots, Iran is right at the top of the list," he said.

And if you take out the word potential, Iran is still right at the top of the list. Car bombs, infiltrators and weapons into Iraq now, and open warfare in the past, Iran has always wanted to own Iraq's piece of the action.

But with Israel saying that they may act first, is it a statement about a preemptive strike, or a race between Israel and America?

I hope someone is going to act first, I suspect it may be Iran if the politicians keep discussing things...

[Convert from ECUSA]

Ping

[television is just wrong]

Well, why not?/ They are one of our strongest allies. As long as they are defending themselves.

[the invisib1e hand]

That's code for "if you even think they're gonna move, hit 'em first," isn't it?

[Calvin Locke]

Misdirection?

Feint to the West, nailed them from the South?

Hold them by the nose, and ...

[epow]

Netanyahu (sp?) said tonight that Iran will soon have the ability to hit western Europe with nuclear missiles, and not long after will be able to hit the big U.S. cities along the east coast. I imagine that Israeli intelligence knows as much about Iran's progress toward building nuclear bombs and ICBMs as the Iranians themselves do.

North Korea and China have been selling the mullahs rocket technology to build ICBMs, and the rogue Pakistani nuclear physicist gave or sold them the know how they needed to finish building nuclear weapons. I believe that the mad mullah whackos in Tehran will fire off a nuke at somebody, probably Israel, as soon as they get a workable missile/bomb package ready to go.

The Iranian nuke plants are buried deep underground and Iran now has the latest model Russian AA missiles guarding it's airspace, so the Israelis may not be able to take them out with planes and conventional bombs as they did Saddam's nuke plant. I wouldn't put it past the Israelis to take out the Iranian facilities with their own nukes if they think it's necessary to Israel's survival. I just hope Bush and company won't try to stand in their way if and when it all comes down to either that or Israel's annihilation.

[M. Espinola]

Israel must protect her public from the very real threat of Iran's unstable terrorist promoting dictatorship, which is now made far worse with Russian supplied technology for nuclear missiles.