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Israel 'Will Attack Iran' Before New US President Sworn In, John Bolton Predicts
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 6-23-2008
| Toby Harnden
Posted on 06/23/2008 2:31:32 PM PDT by blam
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To: Ancesthntr
Brother, I sure wish you were President!
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:24:39 AM PDT
by
Convert from ECUSA
("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
To: blam
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posted on
06/24/2008 8:39:04 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Ulysse; seekthetruth
63
posted on
06/24/2008 2:00:26 PM PDT
by
dervish
(Obama's "change" - Wright, Church, Johnson, Jerusalem, Public Finance, and counting)
To: 353FMG
What a difference a Defense Minister makes.
Then: Amir Peretz, an unqualified political appointee
Now and when Syria was bombed : General Ehud Barak
Barak may be a leftist, but he is a first class general.
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posted on
06/24/2008 2:10:55 PM PDT
by
dervish
(Obama's "change" - Wright, Church, Johnson, Jerusalem, Public Finance, and counting)
To: dervish
Hate to think of what would take place if Obama just happened to become President!
To: Two Kids' Dad
Israel can detonate some small nukes in the ionosphere and fry all the electronics in a sizable area within Iran. EMP has never been effective against military targets, even their mostly geriatric ones which are still semi-hardened. If you're close enough to a military target to damage it with EMP you're close enough to damage it with high explosives. Also not clear if Israel has the specialized EMP warheads, and if they used large general purpose warheads in the atmosphere, well, the whole world would then be at war with Israel.
That wouldnt kill the civilians, but would render a response from Ahmadinejad impossible.
You're forgetting what embedded cells overseas can do even if the EMP thing worked (it won't).
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posted on
06/24/2008 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
To: AdmSmith; freedom44; Valin; odds; sionnsar; LibreOuMort; Pan_Yans Wife; Army Air Corps; GOPJ
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posted on
06/24/2008 3:43:53 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
(Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists)
To: blam
I doubt the Iraqi government would allow this. We could force them to, but to do so would kind of invalidate the whole nation building thing.
So that leaves cruise missile strikes. Sorry guys, I don't think this is going to happen. If it does, then we better have a plan to pull a “Xenophon” with the guys left in Iraq, because dang near every Iraqi will turn on us.
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:05:09 PM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Bobalu
“Bolton/Anyone else that McCAIN”...
Couldn’t you stop with that endless stuff.That’s non sense!
By “Anyone” do you include OUBAMA?
Thank you to be clearer
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:10:06 PM PDT
by
Ulysse
To: prairiebreeze
I thought it was congress that determined the size of the military. Certainly they control the appropriations for it.
Apologies for the late response, lost the thread in the shuffle. You are correct, only Congress can handle the appropriations for a larger military. However, Congress has made it clear they do so only at the recommendation of the Commander in Chief. He did not push for an increase in the size of the military, even though members of Congress made it clear they would have supported him on the issue and supported raising the caps (in fact I believe McCain was a very vocal supporter of this). It was very clear we were about to enter a war that was going to take a long time to fight and that after all of the cuts made with the first Bush and then Clinton, we were needing a lot more people. Instead, Bush has relied on stop-loss and on the IRR and on the active National Guard and Reserve components. That can only take us so far (and it has).
To: af_vet_rr
I’m wondering if Rumsfeld’s input carried quite a lot of weight during that time. I still have a lot of respect for Rumsfeld although he clearly made the wrong decision about the troops surge.
Perhaps he listened to poor advice from inside the Pentagon, I don’t know.
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posted on
06/30/2008 8:26:04 AM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(I didn't leave the republicans, they left me.)
To: blam
Hm, I think Bolton is right. I mean, he has insight in some “secrets”. I think he already knew, that Israel will strike, if Obama wins.
I also think, Biden, Powell and Albright did mean an Israeli attack on Iran with their talking about a international crisis.
To: Postal Dude
The clock is ticking. We’ll see.
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posted on
11/05/2008 6:05:29 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Make it so!
We sure as heck won’t have the balls to do it!
Israelis, doing the jobs Americans won’t.
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posted on
11/05/2008 6:15:30 PM PST
by
edge10
(Don't blame me, I voted for the Hero, not the Zero)
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