Originally posted by: Butterbean
It's a lock Israel is going to attack Iran. How involved the US is is another issue. The NIE report last Dec tried to publicly undercut Bush admin by saying Iran was not a nuclear threat and would not be until 2012-15. Israel was stunned by this stunt (not unlike Turkey's reaction about congresss passing resolutions about genocide to embarass Turkey and threaten their logistical support for the war in Iraq). Now on top of a congress that plays games with realities and support for Israel the Democrats have a candidate that Hamas supports openly.
Like Carter all the bad actors see Obama will not opposse them strongly and indeed shares some of their views. So Israel see's its being painted into a corner. One one side is the nut job in Iran who wants to see war and chaos so the Mahdi can return - and on the other side you have allies who are growing weak, dishonest and think teaching 5 yr olds masturbation and gender dysphoria is a more pressing need. Israel will be using tactical nukes (they already been practicing) and the attack needs to be with a year or so - and definately sooner if Obama wins (Ex Mossad cheir said maybe between election and any inauguration
Former Mossad Chief Says Attack Iran
http://www.reuters.com/article...2-Jul-2008+PRN20080702
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...rld/article1290331.ece
"What the Israeli reaction to the NIE report means for the peace process."
"But last week?when the National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran stated that Iran is no longer developing nuclear weapons?this long memory came back into play. Israel, again, felt the chilling threat of possible abandonment by its closest ally. So much so that an Israeli Cabinet member compared the reactions to theNIE report to those detailing the "transports to Auschwitz." A long memory indeed.
"With today's NIE, we see the entire U.S. intelligence community not only, in effect, coming down on the side of the doves but concluding that the threat animating the hawks doesn't even exist," wrote Fred Kaplan in Slate. The next day, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that his working assumption would not change. As far as Jerusalem is concerned, Iran still has an active nuclear program.
The NIE was a wake-up call for all Israelis who believed that America and Israel saw the Iranian threat through the same lens"
http://www.slate.com/id/2179713/
The Democrats and the anti Bush authors of NIE report tried to use report to block any action and they just made it more likely. No surprise the Democrats would pull rug out from other allies since it betrayed its own troops in grand fashion when it stuck knife in them when insurgencey began.
Good people cant vote for Democrats anymore.