What if Israel bombed Iran? The view from Washington.

WaPo ^ | 9/21/2012 | Karim Sadjadpour and Blake Hounshell

[mojito]

President Obama is enjoying a quiet dinner with Michelle, Sasha and Malia at the White House residence on a Thursday evening in October when he gets the call.

Two dozen Israeli fighter jets have just entered Jordanian airspace, apparently en route to Iran, chief of staff Jack Lew tells him. They will enter Iranian airspace, via Iraq, in approximately 85 minutes.

“Damn it,” Obama says under his breath. “Bibi told me he was going to hold off.”

Within 45 minutes, the president’s national security brain trust has convened in the Situation Room. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta informs the group that attempts to reach Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have so far failed but that Israeli military commanders are briefing the Pentagon on Israel’s targets.

Panetta lays out the United States’ options: either persuade Netanyahu to call it off, or shoot down the planes.

[Delhi Rebels]

5. Israeli aircraft purchased from the U.S., are capable of Mach 2 sustained flight. As a rule of thumb, for a nuke-loaded and all fuel tanks full, with all fires lit, F-4 Phantom II, during the Cold War, from RheinMein AB, West Germany to Moscow, USSR, was a one-way of 20 minutes!

At full afterburners it would more likely be one-way from Rein-Mein AFB to whatever part of Germany they were flying over when they ran out of fuel.

[KantianBurke]

ROTFLMAO! Reading your posts is akin to hearing the loony ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic off his meds on the street. Meanwhile the rest of us will concentrate on ensuring our country, THE US, does whats in ITS best interest. Considering the strain on our military, invading Iran aint at the top of the list.

[KantianBurke]

Awww you missed a few does huh? Well you should start taking them again - your bizarre paranoid claims of antisemitism and conspiracy are showing off your disability.