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2018-09-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
US reportedly warned Israel not to strike Iraq
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Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 please leave Iraq to us.

The Trump administration will end in early '25 at the latest.

When Obama succeeded Bush the "Bush-Sharon letter exchange" turned into a non binding declaration of intent by a former US administration, even though at the time it was seen as a de facto agreement.

'Statements by the US' (by whom and under whose authority) carry much less weight than official letters signed by a POTUS.

This is a problem.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-09-04 03:04||   2018-09-04 03:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Wherever I see Iran moving arms toward my doorstep, It is mitzvot that I destroy them. No matter where they are.

Signed: The LORD and Israel.
Posted by newc 2018-09-04 03:46||   2018-09-04 03:46|| Front Page Top

#3 We already took out Iraq to protect Israel. Now we have to do it again? How many wars are we going to start on their behalf?
Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-09-04 04:57||   2018-09-04 04:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Shut up and do what your rulers tell you to, McCoy!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-04 05:16||   2018-09-04 05:16|| Front Page Top

#5 US reportedly warned Israel not to strike Iraq

Hope they got a big FU in return.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-04 06:12||   2018-09-04 06:12|| Front Page Top

#6 We already took out Iraq to protect Israel.

Eh? All Saddam Hussein did against Israel before the invasion was provide pensions to the familiesof Palestiniansuicide bombers. His ambition to do more was stymied when Israeli pilots destroyed the unfinished Osirik nuclear reactor in 1981.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-04 07:32||   2018-09-04 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and of course the decade-long Iran-Iraq war and international sanctions lasting until the invasion of 2003 were further distractions. Saddam Hussein was perfectly happy to train terrorists of all sorts, including non-Muslim ones, but his real concerns were much closer to home than Israel, it seems to me.

Honestly, while all the Muslim countries can be counted on to rant ad infinitum about Israel, and they all would go into raptures if the Jews were driven out, each time they tried open war it was a mortifying fiasco (1948: 1956,1967, 1973). This is why they sponsored the PLO, etc. to act as proxies — the intifadas and general mayhem were intended to conquer where the Mighty Arab Armies (tm) had failed. As we have seen, however, Palestinian terror has been just as ineffective as those armies. As have the BDS movement, international diplomatic pressure, and those silly Gaza flotillas.

In fact, while the Arabs and their Palestinian sock puppets have been focussed on persuading the West to take their side of things, Israel has been building unsentimental trade and diplomatic ties to the rest of the world. Bibi Netanyahu is as hard-headed a businessman as Donald Trump, and the de-socialization of the Israeli economy has yielded all sorts of interesting results.

... or were you being sarcastic, Mr. McCoy?
Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-04 08:00||   2018-09-04 08:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Hope they got a big FU in return.

Sounds to me like a public Cover Your Ass move. "Hey, we told them not to, but they did it anyway. You know how they get. Them Juice are crazy, man!"
Posted by SteveS 2018-09-04 08:20||   2018-09-04 08:20|| Front Page Top

#9 If Mexico was posing a military threat to the US (Oh, wait, cartels...) we'd be interested in exactly how much "advice" from other countries about what to do or not do about it? Besides, we don't need outside advice, we have Soros, the Kochs, the Chamver of Commerce and the dumbocrap party. We don't need any steenking "advice" from foreign countries...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-09-04 10:00||   2018-09-04 10:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Let us not forget Saddam's highly inaccurate Scud missiles that he fired in Israel's direction in Hope's of taking out the refinery, endangering both civilians and neighboring countries.
Posted by gorb 2018-09-04 10:51||   2018-09-04 10:51|| Front Page Top

#11 We certainly didn't attack Iraq to prevent them from using WMD. Because there weren't any.

Israel felt threatened so we had to take them out.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-09-04 13:18||   2018-09-04 13:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Ok, he knows too much - dispatch the black quadcopter drone to Herb's location.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-04 13:36||   2018-09-04 13:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Shhhh, g(r)omgoru. We don’t want to give away all the secrets. A swarm of artificial hymenoptera will be much more discreet.
Posted by trailng wife 2018-09-04 13:47||   2018-09-04 13:47|| Front Page Top

#14 The ones with the cameras and long range microphones?
Posted by gorb 2018-09-04 14:18||   2018-09-04 14:18|| Front Page Top

#15 @herb

The Kurds Saddam gassed to death beg to differ.
Posted by mossomo 2018-09-04 18:13||   2018-09-04 18:13|| Front Page Top

#16 HM's a "Concerned Conservative"
Posted by Frank G 2018-09-04 18:47||   2018-09-04 18:47|| Front Page Top

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