Hell, I think it’s WAY past time!
Bravo Sierra.
The sooner Israel realizes that Bush does not have their best interests at heart...the sooner they’ll stand a chance of holding off the terrorist Muslim hordes.
It’s a shame on the rest of us, that Israel is the only Nation courageous enough to do it.
naw! Bush wants to wait until Iran has her nukes all in a row ready to go! If Israel had bombed in the spring, the U.S. would have supported her, for sure! Israel is our only allie in that part of the world.
“Beg forgiveness, not permission.”
I wonder how many will die because of this decision.
What upcoming Jewish holidays?
It’ll most likely happen after the election and McCain wins. Then it’s “bombs away!”
I don’t believe a single word of this.
However, if it were true, I wouldn’t blame Bush for not wanting to play. The American people no longer back him. Had I been Bush, I would have told our country to go to hell along time ago.
He needs to ride it out and then go fishing.
Something is decidedly fishy here. The administration was seemingly all in favor of blowing the poop out of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, and then suddenly, in just a few days, they slammed on the brakes across the board. I remember it distinctly.
This was not, could not be a political decision. It takes weeks to get the whole administration, any administration, to change direction in normal circumstances. This means that the reason is purely military. And something so undeniable that there is no argument against it.
This means one of two things: either the US has the means to totally, absolutely, neutralize any nuclear threat from Iran, which is what I suspect; or Russia has threatened to go to war if the US attacks Iran. I think this is highly unlikely, despite Medvedev’s and Putin’s recent military pushiness.
What is known is that the US, because of President Bush’s unilateral action, has at least 300 PAC-3 anti-missiles surrounding Iran, as well as several other anti-missiles systems, such as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), which augments the Israeli’s own ARROW anti-missile defense system.
And while defenses can be very good, it is unlikely that they are ever perfect. So this implies an offensive anti-missile capability as well.
The obvious answer is an in-theater airborne anti-missile laser system, or likely more than one. The Boeing YAL-1A, adapted to use a high power solid state pulse laser instead of a chemical laser, might be able to take out so many missiles in launch phase or even on the ground or in the silo, so that any missile that was able to get to altitude would be a sitting duck for conventional anti-missiles.
If such aircraft with such capabilities are in theater, it means that Iran has only a very limited window in which it could launch a sneak attack. For as soon as the US had an inkling of an attack, these aircraft would be in the air, and the missile defenses would be on full alert.
If Israel bombs Iran the McCain administration won't bat an eyelash.
bmflr
No more right now. We’ve got enough on our plate.
Go for it Israel... we’re all busy right now and won’t notice.
A conservative Likud Israeli leadership would not have to ‘ask for permission’ from anyone regarding protection of the county’s survival from the likes of Iran’s Russian supported butchers.