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2012-07-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Top Obama official 'briefed Israeli prime minister on plans for U.S. military strike on Iran

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Posted by tipper 2012-07-29 10:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Yoda: No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-07-29 11:14|| 2012-07-29 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 If such a plan even exists, the ONE will not pull the trigger unless he's several points down in the polls in October. It will be this election's October Surprise.

GAD ZOOKS, can you imagine this guy as a wartime president???

Since we've never ousted a wartime president in an election, he might try it. Wendall Wilkie might have been our wartime president if it were not for the war clouds.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-07-29 12:08|| 2012-07-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Washington is prepared to act militarily should diplomacy and sanctions fail

Translation: Let's give the can another kick and wait until after the election.

I bet it was a short briefing.

Posted by SteveS 2012-07-29 12:24|| 2012-07-29 12:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah yes, our very own Tom Donilon conducting formal briefings now as opposed to news leaks?

Quite revealing actually. If key middle eastern player and alleged long time ally Israel, had been a key component of the so-called "U.S. military strike" from the planning onset, no such "briefings" would have been necessary.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-07-29 13:02|| 2012-07-29 13:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Was that before, or after, the Obama administration leaked the plans to Iran?

Entirely possible since this administration leaks like a sieve.

Posted by CrazyFool 2012-07-29 13:07|| 2012-07-29 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Israel denies this one, too:

A senior Israeli official denied on Sunday a newspaper report that US President Barack Obama's national security adviser had briefed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on a US contingency plan to attack Iran should diplomacy fail to curb its nuclear program.

"Nothing in the article is correct. Donilon did not meet the prime minister for dinner, he did not meet him one-on-one, nor did he present operational plans to attack Iran," the senior official, who declined to be named given the sensitivity of the issue, told Reuters.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-07-29 13:36|| 2012-07-29 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks TW. Upon reflection, why would Netanyahu have dinner with the likes of Donilon?

Posted by Besoeker 2012-07-29 13:41|| 2012-07-29 13:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama's adviser

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-07-29 14:10|| 2012-07-29 14:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah yes, our very own Tom Donilon conducting formal briefings now as opposed to news leaks?

Whether or not it happened, the story was released for the same purpose and aimed toward the same audience.

Posted by Pappy 2012-07-29 14:30|| 2012-07-29 14:30|| Front Page Top

#10 the story was released for the same purpose and aimed toward the same audience.

Indeed. I am starting to think that, as a general principle, the truthiness of a public statement matters less than who is saying it and when.

Posted by SteveS 2012-07-29 14:54|| 2012-07-29 14:54|| Front Page Top

#11 During the whole briefing, the Israelis attempted to interrupt Donilon to remind him that Tel Aviv and Haifa are NOT in Iran.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2012-07-29 18:24|| 2012-07-29 18:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Trying to appease the American Jewish vote with lies, eh?

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Ominert8455 2012-07-29 20:01|| 2012-07-29 20:01|| Front Page Top

#13 AGain, ala the "JAPAN/EGYPT MODEL", Iran desires the ability to quickly produce NucWeaps in time(s) of contingency = military crisis.

Iran wants NucWeaps becuz ...
> Defense of the Islamist Revolution.
> Small-country/state Israel has Nukes.
> PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, IRAN IS WANTS NUKES BECAUSE TO HAVE SUCH IS CONSISTENT WID THE DOGMATIC + POPULAR PREMISES ANDOR PROMISES OF POST-COLD WAR "GLOBALISM", I.E. THE WORLD'S "GREAT" OR MAJOR POWERS, INCLUD BUT NOT LIMITED TO NUCLEAR STATES, SHARE POWER + AUTHORITY WID THE LESSOR POWERS.

IOW, in Iran's mind for their Country to NOT have NucWeaps [advanced technologies] directly infers that "Globalism" + related is a FAKE/FARCE. Iff revealed as a "fake/farce", Iran + other world "Rogue" Govts-States will only become more motivated to dev NucWeaps irregardless of the whims of the US-West + UNO.

By the scope of Iran's desired "Japan/Egypt MOdel", ITO there is no reason for the US = US-Allies, UNO to attack their Country as IRAN WILL ONLY BE NUCWEAPS-"CAPABLE", NOT DE FACTO NUCWEAPS-ARMED.

The only rationale, then, for a US or US-led milstrike scenario agz Iran is that somehow IRAN POSES A CLEAR-N-PRESENT-DANGER ["realistic/real-time" immediate threat] TO WORLD TRADE, e.g. closure of the Straits of Hormuz + Iran attack on Saudi, ME oil fields, NOT AS PER NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

The POTUS Reagan Admin had the Gulf of Sidra, vee Libya's Uncle Muammar, + later the Kuwaiti Reflagging, both of which took place while Iran was preoccupied wid Uncle Saddam's Baathist Iraq + 1980's Iran-Irag War [SCUD-led "War of the Cities"] - ITS HIGHLY DOUBTFUL POTUS BAMMER WILL HAVE THE LUXURY OF A DE FACTO BLOODY, PROTRACTIVE IRAN-VS-KSA MIL CONFLICT TO DIVERT IRAN'S ATTENTION FROM MIL-TERROR COUNTER-RESPONSE AGZ THE US THIS TIME AROUND.

Lastly, Iran may dev the Tech = Proficiencies for advanced Uranium or Post-Uranium NucWeaps, + indigenous LRBM = ICBM? delivery system] circa 2015. By then the "defense of trade" motive for US war agz Iran will no longer suffice.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-07-29 20:46|| 2012-07-29 20:46|| Front Page Top

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