Posted on 06/02/2007 6:13:56 PM PDT by familyop
Military action in Iran not in anyones interest, says Gates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843874/posts
...redo with the link.
Military action in Iran not in anyones interest, says Gates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843874/posts
Hmmm. Looks like a political decision was reached.
Great.
I should have just voted for Kerry, I guess...
It seems to me that Gates and Rice just blinked, and Mohamed ElBaradei is the winner here.
“Rice: U.S. Not Preparing for War Vs Iran”
Shes a fool’s fool and so is her boss.
Iran is already making war against us.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843875/posts
Iran has increased arms shipments to both Iraq’s Shiite extremists and Afghanistan’s Taliban in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to pressure American and other Western troops operating in its two strategic neighbors, according to senior U.S. and European officials.
In Iraq, Iranian 240mm rockets, which have a range of up to 30 miles and could significantly change the battlefield, have been used recently by Shiite extremists against U.S. and British targets in Basra and Baghdad, the officials said. Three of the rockets have targeted U.S. facilities in Baghdad’s Green Zone, and one came very close to hitting the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital, according to the U.S. officials.
The 240mm rocket is the biggest and longest-range weapon in the hands of Shiite extremist groups, U.S. officials say. Remnants of the rockets bear the markings of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and are dated 2007, those sources said. The Tehran government has supplied the same weapon, known as the Fajr-3, to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim Lebanese militia.
I agree, but you don’t just send the two highest ranking cabinet members out there to plainly say it... DOH!
We don’t hear from Condi in what seems like MONTHS and this is what we get? She needs to don her black boots and “Matrix” overcoat again and do some @ss-kickin’.
She’s been making the same kind of statement every day or two about Iran.
Well, I’ve been working 50-60 hour weeks lately (soon to come to an end) which GREATLY cuts into my Freeping d@mmit, LOL!
I’m usually a real ‘Condi Hound’ but don’t see many articles here posted about her these days.
Ping me, would ya? Thanks! :)
It’s hard to believe this is the same woman who served as NSA in Bush’s first term. I’m starting to think there are some kind of pods growing under the State Department building or something.
Sure. Here’s some older news about Rice and Middle East Policy. I’ll try to get some of the more recent stuff regarding Iran.
Rice: Better to have Hamas in power than in streets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733397/posts
Rice: Palestinians deserve to live free of ‘occupation’[at an event of pro-Palestinian group]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717847/posts
US Supplies Fatah With Arms, Rice Decries “Occupation”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718348/posts
Rice: Israel Must Withdraw from More than Gaza and Samaria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333354/posts
2004 Republican Party Platform
(see the info about our “Roadmap”)
http://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf
I’m starting to think there are some kind of pods growing under the State Department building or something.
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In reality, nothing has changed at State in decades. They still just pander and politic all day long. Same ole “stuff”.
The US isn’t planning to engage Iran militarily, because the plan and most of the combat power, are already in place.
And, no, engaging Iran militarily is not in anyone’s “best”interest.
Iran will not take losing their nuclear facilities lightly.
We will not enjoy their response.
It is a last resort, online if all else fails.
Among the possibilities are a US draft, a global depression, and world war.
Part of me understands perfectly the outrage felt when Iran kills even one US Serviceman, (do not think those are unilateral actions), and another part looks for the way through this matrix where the fewest overall US Servicemen die.
If you simply must have a confrontation, be advised...the only future that doesn’t include same is one in which Iran capitulates, in Iraq, and on the nuclear issue.
Iranian capitulation looks unlikely to me, and if they don’t, a military confrontation, before Bush leaves office, is the most likely result.
Here’s an interesting recent post.
Grand Illusions [Condi’s plan for the Middle East—Long]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838777/posts
Sounds like our state department is giving the “green” light to Israel? Just my take.
My hope is that Israel will continue to build its ABM defenses and stand fast. That might appear to be antithetical to my other comments but not if you notice the “range” in the following with a little knowledge of propaganda history and geography.
S. Korea, U.S. verifying reports on test of new N.K. missile in Iran: source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834307/posts
(4,000 kilometer range)
Her motto is "Speak softly and walk in big black boots." Just a couple of days ago she (uncharacteristically) very publicly and highly visibly slapped Vladimir Putin about Cold War mentality and put him in his place in the new World Order ("new" as in with Soviet Union gone). Day later he made a U-turn and joined UN sanctions against North Korea.
Russia makes U-turn, joins UN sanctions against N.Korea
There is no reason for us to say that we're preparing for WAR with Iran. We may bomb Iran's nuclear and military targets without calling it a WAR at an appropriate time, if UN or EUro-troika (Britain, Germany, France with their new and, on average, slightly improved leadership) declare that they are at impasse, or if we gradually and publicly document more evidence of hostile actions by Iran in Iraq to establish casus belli for military actions against Iran, but until that time comes, saying that WE are not preparing for WAR is simply good politics for "crazies' like el-Baradei.
Think Kosovo (atrocity, I know). But WAR is quite different from bombing or other [para-]military actions designed to advance a regime change or change of direction (which in this case would have to go hand in hand).
And, as another benefit, saying that we are not getting ready for "war" might spur a little more anxiety among the Iranian students' movement, leading them to think that their inaction may not be productive.
My 10 bucks says the Bilderberg group meeting that ended today in Turkey hashed it all out already.
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