"Israel could force the hand of the Bush administration"
"Bush May End Term With Iran Issue Unsettled"
Pffft! Sigh!
We can ALL HOPE SO, 'eh?
WASHINGTON — .... On the military front, the picture is fuzzier. Two senior administration officials said that barring a move by Israel, which one characterized as “the wild card” on the Iranian issue, this administration would not be likely to pursue military strikes against Iranian nuclear targets....
What a flat-out lie. You think he's leaving with out doing it?
Gone all this way on the neo-con plan only to quit now?
Thanks for the disinfo, NYT!
But there remains the possibility that Israel could force the hand of the Bush administration, foreign policy analysts and diplomats said....
WHY? Why would the most powerful nation on earth have their hand forced by a country they subsidize to the tune of $6 BILLION a year?
Unless...
Israel might be willing to act alone if the United States did not....
What used to be called EXTORTION or BLACKMAIL where I come from.
“Israel prefers this threat be dealt with peacefully, by dramatically increasing sanctions and maintaining a credible resolve to keep all options on the table,” said Sallai Meridor, the Israeli ambassador to the United States. “But time is running out.”
What is ever PEACEFUL about what Israel does, anyway?
Iran, he said, “should understand that under no circumstances will the world allow it to obtain a nuclear capability.”
Speak for yourself, Zionist!
Mohamad ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Al Arabiya television that he would quit his job in the event of a military strike on Iran....
Oh, yeah, that'll stop them!
Like you guys prevented the Iraq invasion, right?
Bye-bye, ElBaradei!!!
Israeli officials have expressed fear to the Bush administration that a new administration would take months, if not years, to decide on its approach to Iran.
Translation: ISRAEL FEARS OBAMA!
The consensus in the United States and Europe is that Iran is still at least two years away from a nuclear weapon. Israeli officials say they believe the threshold is closer to a year.
If they even want one at all.
There is an acceptance of that in the Zionist-brainwashed West and their propaganda lackeys keep pushing it.
Yup, the Times is going to stop the next war, sure!
An Israeli military strike on Iran would almost certainly require American help. For one thing, Pentagon officials say, it would take hundreds of sorties to take out a big swath of Iranian air defense. For another, the United States controls much of the airspace around Iran. Beyond that, Iran would hold the United States accountable for an Israeli strike, and could retaliate against American troops in Iraq.
In Moscow on Friday, Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov urged dialogue rather than confrontation with Iran and said that the United States and Israel had not offered any proof that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program. “So far we have not seen any,” Mr. Lavrov said, according to Interfax news agency.
YUP!! And wait until you get a load of this:
A trip to Tehran last weekend by European diplomats with a new package of incentives was largely for Iranian public consumption, and to appease Russia and China by appearing to be still trying to woo Iran, European and American diplomats said....
Oh, so the GREAT DEAL we offered is a SHIT FOOLEY to FOOL the Russians and chines, huh?
Well, the ONLY PEOPLE FOOLED are SHIT-CHEWING 'murkns, and I AIN'T ONE of them!!!
As for the Iranians, Russians and Chinese?
They SEE THIS SHIT for WHAT IT IS and they KNOW the ZIONIST, Neo-Con CABAL is a gaggle of WAR CRIMINALS!!!!
And that goes for the New York Times here, too, the shit enablers!!!
Administration efforts to convey a sense of urgency about stopping Iran’s nuclear program were dealt a blow late last year with the release of a National Intelligence Estimate reporting that Iran had stopped work on a nuclear weapons program in 2003. In recent months, Bush administration officials have tried to walk back from that report, repeating often that Iran’s nuclear program remains a threat...."
But there won't be any attack. Sigh.
So sick of the MSM shit spew!
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency warned in comments aired yesterday that any military strike on Iran could turn the Mideast into a "ball of fire"
.... Iran yesterday criticized the recent large Israeli military exercises. The official IRNA news agency quoted a government spokesman as saying that the exercises demonstrate Israel "jeopardizes global peace and security."
Yeah, that's right!
Israel's military refused to confirm or deny that the maneuvers were practice for a strike in Iran, saying only that it regularly trains for various missions to counter threats to the country.
But the exercise the first week of June may have been meant as a show of force as well as a practice on skills needed to execute a long-range strike mission, US officials said.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel has pointedly declined to rule out military action.... US officials also have refused to take the threat of military action off the table."
WHOSE threatening peace, readers?
Whom has Iran invaded over a shit crock of lies lately?
Also see: Israel Writes The New York Times News Pages
The New York Times: Israel's Mouthpiece
