Too bad the American Jews vote overwhelmingly democrat...what goes around comes around.
President George W. Bush has three options here.
He may accept the entire report, and apply every one of its recommendations.
He may adopt some of the recommendations, and either ignore or reject the remainder.
Or he can do the right thing, and reject the entire report for the rubbish it is, laying down the foundations for his legacy for all time.
No surrender, no regrets.
If the recomendations of the surrender commitee are adopted.......
it will be annihilation.
It looks like Israel must act on its own in order to save us all.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
So Caroline, are you, or are you not, in favor of Israel immediately bombing out Iran's nuke capacity. You are being a bit coy about that. Stop that.
Somebody needs to tell George W. that the war is no longer about victory. He doesn't seem to get it yet. :-)
Great article.
Olmert must go and Peretz with him. You must elect Bibi at the next opportunity.
The US should have joined hands with Israel and we both should have gone into Iraq and killed all of the extremists. Not jail them, kill them.
Israel also needs to announce it will never allow a Palestinian State on the West Bank and that they have a year to leave and then those left will be expelled.
The US should sign a pact with Israel that says if Israel is attacked by anyone the US will respond with all means at its disposal.
If it is true that the vast majority of the Iranian people despise the regime, then instead of risking lives to attack their numerous nuclear sites and the decoys, we should wait until Ahmedinejad and all the mullahs are in parliament and vaporise it.
Let the US and Israel join hands and fight these scum to the death. If Syria and Saudi and Jordan and Egypt want to join in, so be it. Lets get it over with now, because it will happen one day. In fact the longer we leave it, the more likely the enemy will get nuclear weapons.
Glick may be right that that fevered swamp we call "Washington" has decided to let Iran go nuclear. But President Bush is not "Washington."
Despite all the gleeful yipping of the media that George Bush is "impotent" --makes me think of the scene in the Chronicles of Narnia where the demons shear off Aslan's mane before driving a dagger through him (though I'm not saying Bush is the equivalent of Aslan/Christ)-- there is still power in the Presidency that "Washington" does not have.
Spot on article - ping!
It seems to me if action is not taken soon we'll all be asking how we let this happen and why we didn't see this coming. Yet it's all self-evident. This is like a failure of nerve and to me resembles the Rape of Nanking (See the book by Iris Chang) in that the Chinese soldiers allowed themselves to be slaughtered and to give up to small numbers of Japanese who would march them out and chop their heads off. Instead today, we have repeated assaults on civilization by Iran and Syria and the US and Israel don't take effective action to stop these attacks, even as Iran boasts that it intends to wipe Israel out. It's suicidal to the degree of insanity. And the American war on George Bush has made the US nearly impotent.
It'd be interesting to see an Israeli attack force fly across Iraq to attack Iran only to be interdicted by US & British warplanes. What then?
So, what do Freepers think? Was this a sly move on Gates' part to add more reason for Iran to walk circumspectly? Or was Gates being thoughtless and letting the cat out of the bag? Everyone assumed Israel had nuclear weapons, but was it right for Gates to confirm it? In the world of diplomacy, being fairly certain of something is a little different than having it confirmed by someone in the know.
If the Baker doctrine holds sway, then the ME is looking at a total disaster, with Israel stuck in the middle.
Which will make what's been happening in Iraq look like a childrens picnic and then what are the MSM/Dems going to say...before long they'll be begging for Rummy to come back.
... the resta use, don't interrupt your naps!
Olmert must go! I may be in Israel this summer and neither Ahmadinejad,nor any of his allies will frighten me away. Last night on Glen Beck's show, he ran a cartoon called "The two minute history of the Middle East." I think it presented an excellent history of Israel's wars with its hostile Arab neighbors, in a humorous way that anyone could understand. The stakes will be extremely high for Israel and for America in this upcoming war with Iran, unless by some miracle, Ahmadinijad gets assasinated first. Nothing less than a total victory will be acceptable. Its a clash of good versus evil. I pray for my relatives in Israel every day. I'm waving the stars and stripes, the Israeli flag and the Don't Tread On Me flag and blowing the shofar. No retreat! No surrender!
"Gates admitted in his Senate hearing that Iran is producing many bombs - not just one.
Since it is possible to destroy Israel with just one bomb, the Americans should be asking themselves what Iran needs all those other bombs for. There are senior military sources in the US who have been warning the administration to take into consideration that the day that Iran attacks Israel with a nuclear bomb, 10 cities in the US and Europe are liable to also be attacked with nuclear weapons."
Break out the Maalox and read this: http://www.therant.us/staff/kraft/10242006.htm
"Thirdly, in his testimony in the Senate on Tuesday, Gates casually mentioned that Israel has nuclear weapons. In so doing, he unceremoniously removed four decades of ambiguity over Israel's nuclear status."
Way to go, @sshole! Israel is our only real ally in that part of the world, and the officially deniable existence of Israeli nukes gave various Arab regimes the figleaf necessary to avoid starting up a nuclear weapons program. Now the figleaf is gone. Gates, you schmuck, one simple statement has just created as much instability as Dean Acheson's statement that South Korea wasn't within our defensive perimeter (thereby inviting the Norks to attack the South, which they did...at a cost of a couple million lives over the next 3 years). Idiot!
Glick is correct - Israel is now all alone, at least if Bush follows enough of the Iraq Surrender Group's recommendations. The Israeli public MUST realize, and SOON, that their very existence is at stake...and get rid of their Neville Chamberlain and replace him with an Israeli Churchill. Maybe it is Bibi Netanyahu, maybe not, but anyone outside of the present government's leaders would be a vast improvement.
Oh, and lest I forget: James Baker is the Devil. If I passed by him and he was on fire, I wouldn't pi$$ on him to douse the flames.