Posted on 09/23/2007 8:12:16 AM PDT by Fennie
Newsweek Magazine reported Sunday that Vice President Richard Cheney may have considered a plan for Israeli missile strikes against an Iranian nuclear site in an effort to draw a military response from Iran, which could in turn spark a U.S. offensive against targets in the Islamic Republic. Citing two unnamed sources the magazine called knowledgeable, the magazine quoted David Wurmser, until last month Cheney's Middle East Advisor, as having told a small group of people that "Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz - and perhaps other sites - in order to provoke Tehran into lashing out." According to the report, "The Iranian reaction would then give Washington a pretext to launch strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran"...
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
LoL!
Excellent!
A military strike has been justified ever since 1979 with the kidnapping of U.S. citizens and Marines. The days of a free Iran will return when the current regime, military complex and infra-structure is demolished. It is long overdue. Why wait? It could be done while the “modern day” Hitler is speaking at Columbia University. One thing he’d notice when returning to the homeland, is that there would be “substantially more parking space.” The Great Oz Has Spoken.
As if we need a pretext.
SUHA Arafat, that is...
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