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To Bomb, Or Not To Bomb Iran
Arab News ^ | April 24, 2009 | Scott Lucas

Posted on 04/30/2009 6:39:46 AM PDT by Strategy

Just over a month ago, President Barack Obama broke a 30-year embargo on US relations with Iran: He offered goodwill not only to "Iranians" but to the country's government. Less than two weeks after the Nowruz adress, Gen. David Petraeus, the head of the US military command overseeing Iran and the Gulf, offered a far different portrayal of Iran to a Senate committee:

Iranian activities and policies constitute the major state-based threat to regional stability. ... Iran is assessed by many to be continuing its pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, which would destabilize the region and likely spur a regional arms race.

(Excerpt) Read more at arab.news.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bama; 0bamaisfailing; idiocracy; iran; israel; military; obama; rookie

1 posted on 04/30/2009 6:39:46 AM PDT by Strategy
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To: Strategy

something for nothing...we break a thirty year embargo, they threaten the only democratic state in the region with annihilation....hmmmmmm funny way of acknowledging our gesture of peace


2 posted on 04/30/2009 6:43:29 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Strategy; administrator

I think both links are wrong—they go to cnet and I don’t see anything about this article on the page.


3 posted on 04/30/2009 6:44:01 AM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (Psalm 121)
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To: Strategy

is the link right?


4 posted on 04/30/2009 6:44:07 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: Strategy

Naw. Burrrrrack will not bomb his pals.


5 posted on 04/30/2009 6:44:56 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Right wing military retiree. Proudly on DHLS hit list!!!!!)
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To: Strategy
Shouldn't there be some consideration of Gen. Patreous as a future president??
6 posted on 04/30/2009 6:46:17 AM PDT by elpadre (Afganista)
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To: RetiredArmy

Barrack will sooner bomb the USA.


7 posted on 04/30/2009 6:48:13 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Strategy

Put me down for “Bomb”.


8 posted on 04/30/2009 6:50:10 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Strategy
Here is the link to the Arab News Article
9 posted on 04/30/2009 7:08:10 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Strategy

bomb bomb iran song Video.flv


10 posted on 04/30/2009 7:36:24 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: shooter223

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9iQ7XazgqA sorry,link didn’t take the first time


11 posted on 04/30/2009 7:38:05 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Strategy

Don’t bomb Iran.
Just offer to refuel Israel’s jets on the way to Iran.
And to replace any ordnance they expend there, free of charge.


12 posted on 04/30/2009 7:40:38 AM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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Iranian activities and policies constitute the major state-based threat to regional stability. ... Iran is assessed by many to be continuing its pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, which would destabilize the region and likely spur a regional arms race.
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13 posted on 04/30/2009 8:48:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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14 posted on 04/30/2009 10:32:35 AM PDT by SJackson (Barack Obama went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Rep. Bobby Rush)
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