Posted on 01/30/2009 12:15:05 PM PST by lewisglad
The time element, however, for accomplishing Iran's task of nuclear weapon development appears now to be a year or less. This is the projection on which the Israeli Defense Ministry is basing its plans. Tehran is fully knowledgeable of this and it is thus extremely important for the Iranians to get the Obama administration into talks as soon as possible in order to put deterrent pressure on the Israelis.
Jane's Defense Weekly has already reported that it expects the less-advanced American "bunker busting" bombs (GPU-27, 28) have already been delivered to Israel. The original request, nearly two years ago to over-fly Iraq to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, was turned down by Washington. All that did was to send the Israeli Defense Ministry back to its drawing boards for alternate attack routes and methods.
Ali Khamenei knows the Israeli attack on Gaza also carried and important warning for Iran that Israel will not wait to seek external approval of what its considers necessary military action. The only questions left, therefore, are how and when the Israelis will choose to interdict Iranian nuclear weapon development.
To ensure that there will be no Israeli preemptive bombing of Iranian nuclear weapon sites in the next 12-18 months, there must be a clear action by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei halting the creation of the Persian bomb. President Barack Obama has a very tight window within which to work his much heralded negotiating magic; otherwise a new Middle East conflagration will begin -- and soon.
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Iran Orders Takeout - Delivery in 30 Minutes or Less!
Be in prayer.
This was assured on 11/4 when Obama was elected.
Israel cannot count on the US to keep Iran from nuking up.
Unfortunately, I’m very doubtful that Israel can conduct such an operation successfully without our help (Iraq overflight) or the use of its own nuclear weapons.
"Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
What the heck does that mean? Ok, here is some more...
"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it. This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us."
"There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision.' Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."
I just pray they have the common sense NOT to tell this administration anything about their plans until it’s over with.
Rahm would keep his mouth shut of course, but I bet there are plenty of Obama people who would call the NYT the instant they found out their plans.
.........and Zero sends aid to Gaza. Wunnerful.
We get an empty suit in the White House, our finance and economy is going down the tubes, North Korea cancels non-aggression pact with South Korea, Israel readying to take out Iran that may have nukes within a year.........hooboy! The hits just keep on coming!
Debka speculated that Iran could be semi-operational with a dirty bomb by mid-February. Good times!
Interesting. You might be right.
Takeout? Sounds more to me like home-cooked...as in Shake n' Bake.
As an American taxpayer, I will be proud to say...
“There will be more to come....”
“...mens hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth.”
- Luke 21:26
ping
Magic? Like this guy?
So Israel overflies Iraq. What are we gonna do...shoot them down? They radio who they are and it’s done. Of course under a Hussein administration, Iran would probably be warned as the planes crossed Iraqi airspace!
“This was assured on 11/4 when Obama was elected.
Israel cannot count on the US to keep Iran from nuking up.”
I assumed that it would happen before 01-20-09
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