Posted on 03/20/2006 12:43:57 PM PST by veronica
US President George W. Bush said he hoped to resolve the nuclear dispute with Iran with diplomacy, but warned Tehran he would "use military might" if necessary to defend Israel.
"The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to destroy our strong ally Israel. That's a threat, a serious threat. It's a threat to world peace," the US president said after a speech defending the war in Iraq.
"I made it clear, and I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally Israel," said Bush, who was apparently referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for the destruction of Israel.
On the atomic dispute, Bush said he hoped "to solve this issue diplomatically" with a "united message" to Tehran from Washington, London, Paris, Berlin as well as Russia "hopefully" and China.
The message would be that "your desire to having a nuclear weapon is unacceptable," he said.
Bush also touched on Iran's agreement to discuss Iraq with the United States, saying that "it's very important, however, for the Iranians to understand that the discussion is limited to Iraq.
"We're using this as an opportunity to make it clear about our concerns of interference within a democratic process that is evolving," he said, saying that the talks will not decide Iran's relations with a sovereign Iraq.
"Ultimately, Iraq-Iranian relations will be negotiated between the Iraqi government and the Iranian government," he said.
Axis of Evil - Iran, Iraq, North Korea.
One down, two to go.
bttt
"Well, interesting public statement but if Israel decides to make a midnight bombing run then where does that put us?"
Less than 1000 miles from Tehran.
That will be the next polling question, worded in a manner to make President Bush look like he's hungering for a fight that Americans won;t want.
It all goes back to the French Revolution.
Let Isreal lead any fight against Iran. We will help as needed of course, but we do not need to keep fighting all of Isreals battles. Just my $0.02.
Do you think we:
1) Should send MORE American boys to die in the middle east to satisfy Booosh's lust to invade Iran, or
2) just cut & run in Iraq and elect Democrats this fall?
I'm sure they'll all conveniently forget that as they begin a new round of attacks on the integrity and honor of the President.
Bush means what he says ... getting interesting out there.
Wow. Before I linked back to onyx' post, I thought you had some serious problems, Flavius! :)
LOL -- pretty good -- a little fine tuning, but you're on their wave length...lol.
You're a funny fellow. Germany was the more immediate threat, deal with Russia later. Germany would have crushed Russia without our help and then they would have taken us out also..Maybe that outcome sits well with you, but not me.
FOTFL!
I thought that phrase rang with an unpleasant sort of familiarity... so: I Googled it.
Iran is trying to dominate a lot more than Israel. Don't think their missiles are aimed only at Tel Aviv..
Just goes to show you that you gotta be real careful about jumping to conclusions with insufficient data on this here Internet. :)
Did you see POTUS speak today and answer questions afterward? I saw most of it, but T-storms knocked out my Dish TV for an hour or so. I hope C-SPAN will replay it.
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