Posted on 09/11/2007 2:03:15 PM PDT by jbwbubba
U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan Tuesday , September 11, 2007
By James Rosen WASHINGTON —
A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.
Germany — a pivotal player among three European nations to rein in Iran's nuclear program over the last two-and-a-half years through a mixture of diplomacy and sanctions supported by the United States — notified its allies last week that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to support the imposition of any further sanctions against Iran that could be imposed by the U.N. Security Council.
The announcement was made at a meeting in Berlin that brought German officials together with Iran desk officers from the five member states of the Security Council. It stunned the room, according to one of several Bush administration and foreign government sources who spoke to FOX News, and left most Bush administration principals concluding that sanctions are dead.
The Germans voiced concern about the damaging effects any further sanctions on Iran would have on the German economy — and also, according to diplomats from other countries, gave the distinct impression that they would privately welcome, while publicly protesting, an American bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities.
Germany's withdrawal from the allied diplomatic offensive is the latest consensus across relevant U.S. agencies and offices, including the State Department, the National Security Council and the offices of the president and vice president. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, the most ardent proponent of a diplomatic resolution to the problem of Iran's nuclear ambitions, has had his chance on the Iranian account and come up empty.
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“If the dammed Frogs would have stood with us from 2002 through March 2003, and whispered in the ear of Saddam that a comfortable exile was waiting for him and his family in Paris, we may not have had to fight.”
hard to say; sitting despots with hordes of blood-enemies are very loathe to trust such exile as anything but a death-sentence, even when facing a threat of invasion at the same time. Also the personality type which becomes a ‘brutal dictator’ (aka hussein) doesn’t tend to back down, ever.
Doesn’t mean the french were helpful; chirac clearly preferred business as usual in Iraq.
Interesting that this comes out the same day as news of Russia’s new bomb aimed at “terrorism” comes out. Sounds like World War 3 is brewing.
John Keegan has excellent books on both the First and Second World Wars which cover this if you are interested. Germany did fight in both and started (along with the USSR in the division of Poland) WWII, though to say that Germany started WWI is inaccurate.
We (the US) rebuilt the BDR so fast after WWII not because we liked the germans or not but in part because we were gearing up immediately to counter the USSR’s interest in expansion, illustrated by the blockade of berlin (leading to the berlin airlife), for example.
great photo of Ahmawhackjob!
caption: “Allah Save Me, I am About to Get a JDAM Suppository From the Americans”
Are the German people expressing solidarity with their Jew killing Muslim Nazis brothers of the desert?
I guess the term Islamanazi is a factually correct nomenclature...
We see two failed peoples in iraq and iran. The iraqis can’t get their act together as to running, securing their own country; and the iranian people haven’t risen up and dumped the mullahs and their nutjob-shill. And so the elements of armageddon are coming together because of these 2 failed peoples...
Use tactical nukes on each and every nuke facility in the country...make them untouchable for centuries due to radioactive contamination.
Use tactical nukes on each and every nuke facility in the country...make them untouchable for centuries due to radioactive contamination.
Use tactical nukes on each and every nuke facility in the country...make them untouchable for centuries due to radioactive contamination.
sorry
LMFAO
...interesting—right after the IDF showed us that Russian SAM batteries are crap.
Israeli Media Confirms IAF Struck Near Euphrates (last week)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894867/posts
Ding! Ding! Ding! LOL...Awesome...but you nailed it!
Not going to happen. Total BS...
I heard ya the first Two times.
I’m not judging whether bombing Iran is prudent or not...
but if we do end up getting into a conflict with Iran, expect there to be major reprecussions in Iraq, specifically the South where there is a majority Shiite population.
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