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| Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran | |
| 2008-10-13 | |
| By David Owen Only posted this one for the following paragraph: Bush's legacy would be best served by taking dramatic diplomatic action to prevent a war with Iran. He should publicly warn Israel that the United States will use its air power to prevent it bombing Iran, while announcing that he is sending Rice to Tehran to start negotiating a grand bargain whereby all sanctions would be lifted if Iran forgoes the nuclear weapons option. He could indicate that the negotiations would not continue indefinitely, but they would give his successor, as president, time to consider all the options, military and economic. It would also allow time for Israel either to negotiate a coalition to last until 2010 or to hold elections. It would replace the present multilateral negotiations, which are stalled with Russia and China unwilling to move on strong economic sanctions. Above all, it would be a last act of real statesmanship from Bush who is otherwise destined to end his term a miserable failure. BTW, David Owen was the British foreign secretary from 1977 to 1979
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| Posted by:ryuge |
| #8 He was making great sense until he started writing, or speaking. |
| Posted by: Don Vito Omeling5062 2008-10-13 21:20 |
| #7 You mean, like him? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-10-13 15:37 |
| #6 David Owen obviously believes the Israelis should just lie down and die. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-10-13 12:07 |
| #5 What choice do the Israelis have? The Iranians have told them what they plan to do and every day they get closer to doing it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-10-13 12:06 |
| #4 Owen would certainly know all about being a miserable failure. If you put him and Jimmuh in a barrel together and rolled them down a hill, you'd always have a cringing, cowardly, appeasing S.O.B on top. Foreign Minister under Callaghan: yeah, that's about as creampuff as Britain's ever been until this recent punking by the Iranians over the RN captures. This sniveling bastard needs to save his drivel for The One. Bush, for all his faults is a man; that by definition means he isn't interested in this guy's craven idiocy. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-13 11:33 |
| #3 "if Iran forgoes the nuclear weapons option" I think Iran has made itself pretty clear. Only Carter and Obama are too stupid to realize that negotiations just buy the centrifuges more operating time. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-10-13 11:07 |
| #2 why would we bomb israel for doing what we should have done along time ago? |
| Posted by: chris 2008-10-13 11:01 |
| #1 Sounds... Carteresque! |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2008-10-13 10:53 |