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We can't wait for Hillary (to deal with Iran)
Jewish World Review ^ | November 6, 2007 | Jonathan Tobin

Posted on 11/23/2007 12:22:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

This past summer during one of the last episodes of HBO's mega-hit "The Sopranos," A.J., the whiny suicidal son of the show's mafia boss anti-hero, was heard to worry about what he saw as the certain bombing of Iran by President Bush.

"You don't know that," his mafia princess sister responded.

Though this stray snippet, which was widely noted in reviews of the show, did not offer any clues as to the fate of the fictional leaders of the North Jersey mafia, it may have heralded the beginning of a new twist on what it means to be "anti-war" in 2007 America. The issue that the series' creators snuck into the public square is beginning to look more like one that will loom larger in the months to come.

HATING BUSH AND CHENEY On the face of it, Iran ought not to be a source of much partisan strife.

Few on even the far left or far right are going to say anything nice about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or his mullah masters, or be many willing to defend the Islamic republic's support for terrorism throughout the Middle East, including their sponsorship of Hezbollah and alliance with Hamas.

And what reasonable person is not scared to death of the idea of Tehran achieving its ambition of acquiring nuclear capability, in addition to the possibility that it would have within its grasp a weapon that would make its oft-stated goal of eradicating the State of Israel a very real possibility?

But that notwithstanding, the administration push to start putting pressure on Iran to back away from its nuclear program is not exactly generating across the board support.

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
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Tobin nails it again.
1 posted on 11/23/2007 12:22:52 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What you will get if you vote Ron Paul, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani...Hillary


2 posted on 11/23/2007 12:27:33 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1
What you will get if you vote Ron Paul, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani...Hillary

...or, the way things are beginning to look, from a third George W. Bush Administration (if their could be one). I regarded the President's statement that Iran would not be permitted to have nukes as a personal commitment from him, to be enforced during his tenure (not a "hand off" of the problem on someone like Hillary, who would simply allow Ahmadinejad and company to do their nuclear thing).

3 posted on 11/23/2007 12:39:32 AM PST by pawdoggie
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To: sageb1

Our heads cut off because they want to love our enemies like a tree hugger.


4 posted on 11/23/2007 12:44:25 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Tobin nails it again.

An amusingly, if unintended, use of an English idiom when used to describe an article published in a Jewish newspaper... ;-)

5 posted on 11/23/2007 1:04:40 AM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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6 posted on 11/23/2007 4:29:58 AM PST by SJackson (seems to me it is entirely proper to start a Zionist State around Jerusalem, T Roosevelt, neocon)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary probably HOPEs Bush takes out the nuke capability so she can criticize and not have to deal with it


7 posted on 11/23/2007 5:48:11 AM PST by uncbob (m first)
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