Is Israel pushing for war now? June 5, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : Church/State, Government , trackbackIs Israel using the end of the Bush administration to push for war with Iran? Is this a case where two leaders may entangle their nations in a war based on speculation , at a time when Iran has made corrective steps to comply with the IAEA ? Or is it that we want them to thumb their nose at the IAEA to justify an attack on Iran? Somebody needs to remind the President sometimes being a friend means saying no.
The Washington Post is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to use his White House visit today to push President Bush to take a more aggressive approach toward Iran — and there are some signs that he’ll have a receptive audience.
Both Olmert and Bush are badly wounded . Olmert is facing corruption allegations that could drive him from office. Bush is unpopular, with even the Republican candidate trying to keep him at a distance. It’s in this environment that the Jewish Telegraph Agency reports: “Ehud Olmert will urge President Bush to prepare an attack on Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported.
“Citing sources close to the Vice President Cheney appears to be on the warpath, pushing if not for a preemptive U.S. attack, then for an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities or U.S. airstrikes on suspected training camps for Iraqi insurgents within Iran — either of which would presumably provoke a protracted U.S. military campaign.
According to the conventional wisdom, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been holding Cheney at bay. But as Helene Cooper and Isabel Kershner write in the New York Times, Rice “escalated the Bush administration’s anti-Iran rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing its government of pursuing nuclear weapons and calling any dialogue with its leaders pointless until they suspend the country’s enrichment of uranium.
Will Bush cave to the pressure?
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One question John regarding this comment by you: “Is this a case where two leaders may entangle their nations in a war based on speculation , at a time when Iran has made corrective steps to comply with the IAEA ? Or is it that we want them to thumb their nose at the IAEA to justify an attack on Iran?“…
John where are you getting the impression that Iran is making these corrective steps?
Surely you can’t believe an outfit as corrupt as the U.N. is has any credibility what so ever on this or anything else for that matter…