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Home Front: WoT
Obama Warns of Hizbullah Retaliation over Iran
2015-08-06
[AnNahar] President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
has warned that any possible rejection by the Congress of the Iran nuclear deal, would force the U.S. to attack Iran, a move that could lead to a Hizbulalh retaliation against Israel.
Israel has been preparing for that, while Hizb'allah has gotten ever more men and material involved in that Syria thing. At the other end of the pincer, Hamas, has not yet replaced the rockets and missiles expended last summer, not to mention redug the tunnels into Israel. War now is the best option Israel has.
So Champ thinks we should knuckle under to threats instead of standing up to them? That doesn't surprise me in the least...
"It would be destructive both to the U.S. and to Israel," Obama told Jewish leaders on Tuesday, according to Israeli media reports.

"An American military action against Iran's nuclear facilities will not end with Iran declaring war on us. Iran's defense budget is $15 billion. The American defense budget is $600 billion. What Iran would do, and could do, is respond a-symmetrically by increasing its support of terrorism."

"Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
 rockets will rain down on Tel Aviv," he stressed.

The U.S. president's meeting came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a live webcast aimed at Americans Jews. The PM railed against the agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in sanctions relief, calling it a "bad deal" that leaves Tehran on the brink of a bomb.

The White House is preparing for the likelihood that politicians will vote against the deal next month and is focusing its lobbying efforts on getting enough Democrats to sustain a veto. Only one chamber of Congress is needed to sustain a veto.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  See also WASHINGTON TIMES > OBAMA WARNS OF US-ISRAEL WAR AGZ IRAN "SOON" IFF CONGRESS KILLS NUCLEAR DEAL.

and

* BIGNEWSNETWORK, WORLD NEWS > OBAMA TELLS US CONGRESS REJECTION OF IRAN DEAL WILL LEAD TO [new = another] WAR.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-08-06 23:59  

#5  Craven, that's the word that comes to mind.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-08-06 15:21  

#4  OMG he really is that shit.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-08-06 14:55  

#3  would force the U.S. to attack Iran

Preznit Pissypants wouldn't lift a finger against his puppetmasters
Posted by: Frank G on the road   2015-08-06 14:02  

#2  Mad Mullah Hussein Obama from Illinois simply confirmed that the Shi'a militant group Hezbollah funded by Iran has no problem bombing Israel. So that is why the Mad Mullahs, who also shout "Death to America", should be allowed to move forward with their nuke program. Along with sanctions to be lifted so that more money can be generated for sponsoring more terror.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2015-08-06 12:01  

#1  A couple of arclights on Hizbullah positions would settle them down real quick but Baraq Neville Chamberlain Obama prefers to threaten the Jews.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-08-06 11:42  

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