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Report: Israel Held Drill As Preparation For Attack On Iran
Haaretz ^
| June 20, 2008
Posted on 06/20/2008 3:14:56 AM PDT by Fennie
U.S. officials say Israel carried out a large military exercise this month that appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, The New York Times reported on Friday.
Citing unidentified American officials, the newspaper said more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters took part in the maneuvers over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece in the first week of June.
It said the exercise appeared to be an effort to focus on long-range strikes and illustrates the seriousness with which Israel views Iran's nuclear program. The newspaper said Israeli officials would not discuss the exercise...
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; bombiran; bush; drill; iran; iraniannukes; iraq; islam; israel; obama; pentagon; wot
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To: KTM rider
I cant believe almost half of America is even considering an Islamic president ... They're not... don't take seriously ANYTHING the DBM polls say in June, July or August. Obama's biggest vote-killer isn't that he spent some formative years in a Madrasa Islamia... it's that he was a follower of black-liberation theology for 20 years and seems to be a Marxist to boot.
America is open to a black president... but not a duplicitous one.
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posted on
06/21/2008 4:04:32 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("Duck I says... ")
To: LibLieSlayer
Israelis are GODs chosen people... but you knew that. No, Christians are God's chosen people.
Jews are further down the list.
To: Fennie
Israel, and the US, will not attack Iran, and Iran knows it.
It would be a one way trip for the Israeli pilots. If the US allows them to overfly Iraq, it will be viewed as the US attacking Iran. Which we do not have the men, material, or money to do.
We can't even finish up the job in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran is an order of magnitude greater. Couple that with Russia getting very nervous about NATO on all over her western and now southern borders, and it could set up a world war.
83
posted on
06/21/2008 5:56:10 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: humblegunner
That's funny... my Lord and personal savior is a Jew... and GOD as HIS father chose the Jewish people for the birth HIS son.
LLS
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posted on
06/21/2008 7:10:01 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(REAGANISM... not communism!!!)
To: LibLieSlayer
John 10:9
Those "chosen people" need to get the Word.
To: Fennie; All
I’m really confused by this revelation that Israel has been doing a drill to hit Iran.
The biggest advantage you have against your enemy is SURPRISE! Why on earth would Israel want Iran to know it’s coming to get their little project and make it a cement parking lot ..??
And .. if Israel is really planing this .. are they using the USA to give out the information? .. because Israel may have told us they were going to hit Iraq’s nukes (years ago), but we never made it public.
This just seems strange to me that this exercise has been made public.
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posted on
06/21/2008 9:21:30 AM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
To: devolve
87
posted on
06/21/2008 2:53:35 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: potlatch
.
Ooooooops
Backtracking my original post you just replied to!
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posted on
06/21/2008 3:45:43 PM PDT
by
devolve
(- Men - I want you all to relax! Let the 101st Airborne try again in 4 years! - Gen. George Patton)
To: devolve
89
posted on
06/21/2008 3:50:39 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: Fennie
To: humblegunner
We've overflown the Mediterranean many times.
Why is it heroic when Israel does it?Don't know how "heroic" it might have been. But it was a message. The same message that SAC used to send with it's non-stop around the world flights. Only both more and less so. By demonstating that they had the capabilty to conduct a *conventionaL* strike at the same distance as Iran is from them, they've made such an attack much more credible. Without the ability to condict a conventional strick that from from their own airfields, the Israelis woudl be stuck with the Samson option. Nukes, on missiles. The lack of necessity for using nukes, makes any threats more credible.
Hopefully, like with SAC, the message will be received and their will be no war, but with Amanutjob, it's hard to say if any deterence, short of introducing him to his 72 virgins and the 13th Iman would do the job.
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posted on
06/21/2008 10:58:02 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Fennie
“The New York Times reported on Friday.” Think about what the old gray whore wants to happen and how she is always working to prevent Israel from doing what it must which goes against the socialist/commie agenda of the New York Slimes.
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posted on
06/21/2008 11:09:27 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: Fennie
“The newspaper said Israeli officials would not discuss the exercise...”
Ya think?
93
posted on
06/22/2008 10:24:00 AM PDT
by
toddlintown
(My kingdom for a beer!)
To: Grampa Dave; F15Eagle; Salem; SunkenCiv
"The Obamination gets elected Potus and it is January 20, 2009. The Obamination has just said his version of being sworn in as Potus: I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will not support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, I will not bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and I will not faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me Allah. As the Obamination starts to speak, his Pentagon guy with the football tells Obamination, that shorty after he was sworn in, Israel destroyed the political and military assets of Iran and Syria. The Mossad has killed every al Queda leader in Iran, Iraq, fghanistan, Europe and America. Also, Israeli leaders on world wide tv are showing and documenting the Obaminations full Islamofascist connections and most of the rats in Congress. They have demanded the surrender of those members of Congress and the Obamination to Israel and Iraq for abetting the killing of innocent Israelis and Iranians by supporting Islamofascists. George $oreA$$ and his family members and various phoney non profit leaders are in Israel at this time being tried as War Criminals."
WOW! That is some scenario! If such a scenario happened, I imaging the majority of "typical bitter religion clinin' gun totin'" Americans would consider Israel to have saved civilization and be more pro-Israel that most of them already are.
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posted on
06/23/2008 4:48:09 AM PDT
by
Convert from ECUSA
("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
To: Convert from ECUSA
If that happens, the pink pantie and rainbow pantie wearing liberals would have their silk laced panties all tied up in tight bunches.
The left wingers in control of Congress and the Obamination would be outraged. However, their outrage would have no impact on what was done.
These actions by Israel would insure overall safety for its citizens for decades. The proxie/armies/fronts for Iran like Hamas would have no funding, and their scumbags would be hunted and putdown by the IDF and Mossad like rabid dogs.
Iran and Syria in the areas of former military bases and nuclear sites would glow and be off limites for several decades.
Israel will not commit suicide by standing by and doing nothing if the Obamanation wins in November.
95
posted on
06/23/2008 8:15:48 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
( Kerry was a Uber Liberal, Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas makes Kerry look like Jesse Helms!)
To: Fennie
Loose lips sink ships....
To: Grampa Dave
Ain't it the truth!
"If that happens, the pink pantie and rainbow pantie wearing liberals would have their silk laced panties all tied up in tight bunches."
ROFL! CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABS, PBS, and parts of Fox News would have a howling fit if Israel went "Old Testament" on Iran, Syria, the various Amalekstinians, etc. Their pointy elitist heads would explode. Can you see Chrisie Matthews, Shepherd Smith, etc. broadcasting the event?
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posted on
06/23/2008 10:30:21 AM PDT
by
Convert from ECUSA
("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
To: Fennie
When Israel attacks Iran, gas will obviously surge a dollar or two almost immediately.
Is that what it will take to start drilling and building refineries?
98
posted on
06/23/2008 3:48:44 PM PDT
by
conservativeinferno
(My SUV is the urban squirrel's worst predator.)
To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
Boy, sure does seem to be a lot of spoil in that picture,
the amount of earth and rock indicates a lot of subterranian galleries.
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posted on
06/23/2008 3:58:55 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
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posted on
06/23/2008 5:24:55 PM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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