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US reportedly warned Israel not to strike Iraq
2018-09-04
[IsraelTimes] US officials recently warned Israel not to strike Iraq, the Kan public broadcaster reported, as Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman signaled the IDF could target Iranian military targets in Iraq if they threatened the Jewish state.

Arab sources tell the broadcaster that the US asked Israel not to carry out any Arclight airstrikes in Iraqi territory, reportedly saying "please leave Iraq to us."

The report says the American warning came several weeks ago, before Tehran deployed ballistic missiles on Saturday, inside Iraq, that are capable of hitting Israel and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Posted by:trailing wife

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

#15  @herb

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

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

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

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

#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  

#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  

#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  

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