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| Pentagon chief: Israeli attack on Iran would endanger region |
| 2009-03-16 |
 On the eve of Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi''s visit to the United States for talks on Iran''s nuclear program, his American counterpart, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen, warned last Thursday that an Israeli attack on Iran might lead to escalation, undermine the region''s stability and endanger the lives of Americans in the Persian Gulf "who are under the threat envelope right now." ... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 This way to the gas chambers, ladies and gentlemen... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-03-16 14:39 |
| #8 Sounds like official U.S. policy is to acquiesce to development of an Iranian nuclear weapon. Not the kind of signal I'd want to send those bastards. But, hey, unauthorized pagan-type things might be fun. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-03-16 11:47 |
| #7 It's the Persian New Year this week. Lots of unauthorized pagan-type things going on. The mullahs will have their hands full, what with all the Jaheliah... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-03-16 10:36 |
| #6 Israel could turn the tables on Iran and start a sabotage campaign in Iran proper. The difference being that a trained expert saboteur can bring a large city to a grinding halt quickly. A single company of such men spread throughout Iran could make the country chaotic. No electricity, no fuel, fires, water catastrophes and contamination, ships sinking, food adulterated or ruined, farm animals dying, industrial accidents, computer havoc, you name it. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-03-16 09:53 |
| #5 They're only Jews, TW. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-16 09:17 |
| #4 Because the Americans in the Persian Gulf "who are under the threat envelope right now" are in more danger from the Iranian threat of nuclear war than the Israelis at whom the missiles are aimed? Clearly there is a subtlety of analysis beyond my simple and uneducated understanding. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-16 08:43 |
| #3 .....an Israeli attack on Iran might lead to escalation, Then again it might lead to a termination of the Iranian nuclear effort, as it did with the Iraqi effort on 07 June 1981 at Osiraq. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-16 08:04 |
| #2 Did you forget this . . . .  Or maybe it was too obvious. :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-03-16 01:49 |
| #1 Because the region is rock stable right now? Come on.. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-03-16 00:23 |