Posted on 07/30/2008 7:21:27 AM PDT by antivenom
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, met with House Democrats yesterday, talking about his trip abroad and his observations.
Obama told the caucus, according to an attendee, "Nobody said this to me directly but I get the feeling from my talks that if the sanctions don’t work Israel is going to strike Iran."
The notion that Israel is preparing for such an action against Iran's myriad nuclear facilities is not new, with conjecture heating up in May after an Israeli military exercise featuring 150 aircraft flying almost a thousand miles over the Mediterranean Sea in what was seen as a dress rehearsal for an air strike. Now that the Bush administration is engaged in diplomatic efforts with Iran, many Israeli officials are worried the US is getting soft on Iran, prompting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to travel to the US this week to meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Barak's office released a statement saying "a policy that consists of keeping all options on the table must be maintained."
Another attendee at the meeting of House Democrats recalls Obama saying that the good news is that Obama got the sense that the Arab states understand just how destabilizing a nuclear Iran would be -- a "game changer," Obama said -- because they know Israel would probably strike and that would be bad for everyone.
A senior adviser to Obama told ABC News that Obama was heartened to hear Jordan's King Abdullah share that view with him in their private meeting.
The Obama campaign had no comment.
Wonder what kind of moron would talk about ally’s plans, even though 3d hand speculation. Anyone that stupid would have to be Pelosi.
He will never be trusted by Israelis; he is projected as an enemy, but they will use him as opportunities present. The best thing they could do would be to get into it with Iran prior to our election, but they have their own election to deal with and the same “enemy from within”.
Thank you for that mkjessup.
Obama must never, never, never be the Commander in Chief,never.
All of us who profess to love America, who cherish whatever is left of our Republic, have to put our own wishes and desires aside and do whatever we have to do to make sure that the only way Obama gets to the White House is *maybe* by standing in line for the Sunday afternoon public tour that starts (or used to start) around 1:00 pm.
Yep. Maybe by two months from now, he’ll have had lotsa practice!
Come to think of it, I thought of this first. Can I be president?
Love the woman half way through saying," They don't make any sense!" Fast forward to the Obama wet dream.
It is all part of the plan.
Bush would be willing to push the problem to the next President only if it is McCain...if it's Barack, Bush will feel the responsibility to get the job done himself! He knows Obama is likely to be "OK" with Iran having nuclear weapons.
They would be supurb a human shields....
Jeeez, doesn’t ANY journalist have to site their sources anymore? Most everyone here just buys right into this ‘crap reporting’ as gospel word. We all need to raise our standards a wee tad and recognize lazy, lame reporting and bias whether it benefits our side or not. (We don’t need ‘fair and balanced’ just ‘truthful and accurate’).
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