Posted on 04/02/2012 9:47:34 AM PDT by WPaCon
Much controversy has arisen recently about the Obama administration leaking details of Israel's planned raid on Iranian nuclear sites by using Azerbaijan as a staging area. The reason for the leaks is simple: if Israel attacks Iran, Obama will lose the presidential election this fall, and BHO will do anything to prevent that from happening.
If Israel were to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear weapons capability, Iran would retaliate by attempting to close the Strait of Hormuz as it has often threatened. The U.S. Fifth Fleet patrolling the area would likely be called upon to keep the Strait open, and expanded American military involvement in the region could not be ruled out. World oil and financial markets would be roiled. Israel would be hit with a barrage of rockets and international condemnations. And relations with strategic competitors such as China and Russia would hit the deep freeze. President Obama would have many 3AM telephone calls to deal with.
But the real pain for Obama would come from the political price he would pay as Americans saw gasoline prices skyrocket (again), dead and wounded U.S. soldiers and sailors coming home from the Middle East (again), plummeting financial markets (again), possible terror attacks on U.S. soil (again), and internet disruptions from Iranian cyberwar. No president could survive politically from such a series of calamities. Thus president Obama is desperate to delay any Israeli attack on Iran until after the November elections, even to the extent of foiling Israel's near-term military plans.
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Best reason yet to attack NOW.
who was the last president turned out of office in the middle of a shooting war? You could argue LBJ would have lost, but we’ll never know.
Just based on the title. I hope they do attack - it does not matter if they are successful.
Or he leaked the details because he is just a pr*ck. Given what I have learned about Baraq, that seems more reasonable..
Because it’s always about Obama.
An attack would interrupt his campaigning (or should but who knows with this guy).
I don't know about these particular leaks, but why would Israel leak THEIR plans to Barry-O and company?
They're not stupid.
They must know that telling Barry-O is tantamount to publicizing it.
We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t. If Israel attacks Iran all hell will break loose and it won’t be ‘conventional warfare’ coming to a city near you.
We’ve neglected to include the fact that the MSM will (of course) do whatever they can to 1) make us believe that Israel acted totally on their own, 2) there was nothing the Cretin-in-Chief could do (we know that already..he’s a t*rd), 3) none of this would have happened if we had aborted George Bush, and finally 4) it all could have been avoided if we had nominated Ms Fluke as a supreme court judge (after all, she is obviously equally qualified as any of the liberal idiots that are currently consuming oxygen there).
The first move of an Israeli attack might be to shut down the US command and control circuits. Blinding us and making it impossible for the US to track and report of the raid.
Never underestimate the media's ability to put a positive spin and deflect blame on whatever mess Obama get's us into.
And never underestimate the stupidity of the American Voter, because they will easily fall for it
This may have been a test to show others in the Israeli government that Obama is wholly untrustworthy.
The real jumping off point may be elsewhere in the region.
I would gladly endure higher gas prices if it meant:
1. Obama is kicked out on his anti0Semitic Muslim @ss in November
and
2. Israel takes out the Iran’s nuclear weapon capability.
I should clarify my statement; If Israel goes on the offensive to defend itself….
For Hussein, it's one of those happy ocassions when interest and preference coincide.
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