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Posted on 03/13/2008 8:55:14 PM PDT by Flavius
Iran is smuggling missiles to Hezbollah through Turkey, a senior idf official has said. Citing a source within the Israeli government, research department Brigadier General Yossi Beiditz told EU ambassadors in a briefing last week that Iran continues to ship arms and equipment to terrorists via planes traveling through Turkish airspace or overland in trucks disguised as Turkish cargo carriers. From Turkey, the missiles travel through Syria before being delivered to Hezbollah compounds in Lebanon.
One clear example of this smuggling operation occurred in May 2007 when Turkish officials confiscated a train shipment of Iranian weapons, including 300 rockets, registered as cleaning materials.
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One of these days Israel is going to but a stop to this stuff.
They are ... this close to giving Iran what they so richly deserve. It doesnt look like we here in the USA have the balls to do it. So I say go Israel. have no mercy on the cock roaches.
Do you really think the EU officials want to hear anything?
Eventually they will hear a big bang in their backyard. Until then, this is a problem they largely want to wish away.
“One of these days Israel is going to but a stop to this stuff.”
They can’t. The problem is way to big for them to handle or get their arms around. In the meantime half of the West Nations play see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
911 was nothing more than the natural progression to what has been going on in Israel/Lebanon for decades. Ignoring won’t help or fix it. Retreat will only worsen it. This is a zero sum game.
Well I woudn't exactly call those things "long range," but certainly long range enough to hit any target in Israel. And with the capability to carry WMDs to boot.
Iran's been begging for a big war for a long time, and one of these days they'll get what they're begging for. Israel puts up with a lot of junk, but I suspect WMD-carrying missiles in the hands of Hezbollah crosses the line.
which is why I believe that we need John McCain in the White House.
Mcain is hillary is obama.
You re gonna be a disapointed puppy shortly.
Have you been in the military yet?
no. why does it matter ?
Why does it matter?
You McZombie shills are going to get your man, in November, but we’re gonna feed you cat-sh*t tacos all the way until then.
May as well lay back and enjoy it.
I am thinking in terms of what is best for my country. I will volunteer for the McCain campaign here in Ohio. and I will work as hard as I can to get him elected because in my heart I believe that he is the right candidate.
I have thought hard for a long time and prayed about this. believe me.
He is the WRONG candidate, but he’s OUR wrong candidate, so we’ll eventually vote for him.
Don’t let your tender heart be callused over this; there will be yuck.
I am not saying your wrong. but God has a way of blessing us with the right President at the right time.
I mean Abraham Lincoln was a rather unconventional candidate that wasnt really high on anyones favotite candidate list.
Since the US is gutless on Iran, I am hoping Israel will step up. We should have gone after Iran before and especially when the 9-11 report pointed out their support of the terrorists IIRC.
Now?
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Sometimes that whooshing sound is the Holy Spirit departing a nation...
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McCain is the best option, but even he will face a West that’s not united nor does it want too. Half of Europe and Asia *wants* to stand on the sidelines. It’s cheaper, less dangerous, and much less ugly for them this way. Those who really step in and get involved will all get a bloody nose in the process; they will all deal with elevated terror threats and a large economic burden through increased defense spending. Justifying a steady flow of caskets coming home with the same argument year after year, even if true, eventually becomes difficult for the politician. McCain won’t change the fact that many out there don’t want to do anything and look the other way, rationalizing their behavior through schadenfreude (as we saw in Iraq), attacking the legitimacy of intervention (The no blood for oil line), and pretending away the threat as we see so clearly in Europe today (Pim Fortyn, Van Gogh, Madrid, London, the streets of France, Danish cartoonist murder plots......etc).
McCain will keep us standing and in the fight, but he won’t make a difference when it comes to bringing in others. Obama equates to retreat and unlike present day won’t pressure others to contribute, that’s why he will get the approval by all those who don’t want to do anything, the appeasers.
Obama would be a disaster and would do more than just unravel the success in Iraq. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Hamas, Hezbollah, the war between Israel and Lebanon……… it’s all intertwined and his over simplistic argument more or less pretends as if all these things are separate events in time and space with no interrelationships. The idea is to pretend as if he’s strong on national defense, a positive politically, but separate himself from Iraq, something that “right now” does not feel good to the public. Reap all the positives and separate out the negative. While this sort of political gerrymandering makes good sense to get votes, it has absolutely no connection with reality. Just like in the Cold War where the Cuban missile crisis, Nicaragua, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Afghanistan which were all battlefields and connected to a larger struggle between Communism and the Western free world; today you have a struggle against an Islamic paradigm that can’t come to grips with an open society that is organized around economics and a political process. Like the Soviets they censor Western ideas, images and thought, like the Soviet threat this world is incompatible and threatened by the very nature of Western society. Where does the Imam, Sheik, Ayatollah, or Mufti, the Kadafi, Hussein, or Royal Family fit into the equation if society is organized around a political process, where laws are made by legislative bodies and interpreted by courts……? Our society places the power brokers in the Islamic world on the curb, and they don’t like that idea. Like with the Soviets, this struggle is with an enemy that has an expansionistic and violent agenda. Like in Lebanon, Sudan, Thailand, India and the Philippines, it seeks to dominate and impose it’s religion as well as social order onto other people. It does not coexist, it conquers. Its manifesto (Koran) proclaims this; the leaders preach it, and the real world gives proof that the deeds fall in line with the words. A nice little video with Kadafi spelling it out, which never was aired in any MSM: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8068548659841341963&q=kadafi&total=600&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=36 Did you know Lebanon was Christian up into the 60s? Or that the conflict in Sudan is essentially a war between the Muslim regime (backed by other Arab and Muslim nations) and Christian South? One hardly hears about Abu Sayyaf, check up what their agenda is and where they operate.
The simple person likes to separate out Iraq today, just like the fools years back did with the invasion of Grenada for example. Grenada wasn’t seen as connected in anyway to a larger Cold War by the anti-war pundits and liberals. Never mind DDR engineers designed the airfield, Cuban engineers (armed – military personnel in civilian cloths partially) built it, and Soviet money funneled through sympathetic Latin states paid for it. Coincidentally on an island with practically no tourism and industry, a runway large enough for strategic bombers was being built, but then like today, there were many blind people who did not WANT to see the connection. Vietnam is another example. There we faced SA2 and 3 SAMs were being shot at our planes, MIGs were in the sky flying against us; these machines were not built in Vietnam, nor were the RPGs, radars etc. Who was funding this? Does Jane Fonda’s who rode on a popular mood to build her fame and fortunes suppose that Vietnam paid for this equipment? The day we left, the Soviets moved into Vietnam: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1964253.stm The day we retreated the domino theory that was laughed at, proved itself right in Laos, Cambodia, and finally with Thailand that stood up against the onslaught. But to the self proclaimed intellectual who looks at all this as separate events, it never comes together into a larger picture that all these were mere battles in a war which in the mother of all oxymoron’s was called the “Cold War.” A lot of people died in the so called “Cold War.” Simple people look at this superficially, and they are easily swayed by the popular feel good messages of those like Obama.
Unfortunately, a well groomed appearance, astute body language, well chosen worlds, a nice suit, and a handsome man, won’t change the reality of the threat we face. One thing is for sure, and that I would bet money on, if he executes a retreat, terrorism will follow us home, the threat with Iran will grow, and other pariah’s like Libya have the potential to turn on us again. An Obama equates to an abandonment of Israel, the only free republic ruled by law in the Middle East. Obama is a walking talking and breathing catastrophe in waiting.
There is only one direction, foreword. Failures along the way does not mean we quit, it means we adapt, change strategies, tactics, leverage new technology, etc. But there is no turning back on this one without a disaster ensuing. From our credibility, mid East stability, 26 million Iraqi’s condemned to some new despot, the rise in power by Iran, loss of control over a region vital to our national economic interests, abandoning Iraq makes no sense in any way, EXCEPT that it sounded good when things were looking bad.
Yes, McCain is the only alternative that makes sense.
I am beginning to wonder.
But also, work your fanny off to get the demo majority out of BOTH houses of Congress -- they are just as dangerous, if not more so, than those two vying for the presidency.
Someone needs to take out the Tehrannosaurus....
Hamas’s Declaration of War Against Israel—How should Israel respond?
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 13, 2008 | Alan M. Dershowitz
Posted on 03/13/2008 7:32:36 AM EDT by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984952/posts
(Israel) Bracing for the big one
The Economist
Posted on 03/13/2008 2:54:34 PM EDT by maquiladora
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985181/posts
Israel Threatens to Hit Back if Hizbullah Launched Retaliatory Attack
naharnet
Posted on 03/13/2008 6:10:56 AM EDT by maquiladora
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984930/posts
Hezbollah becoming more visible in West Bank after assassination of its military chief
IHT
Posted on 03/13/2008 2:44:27 PM EDT by maquiladora
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985176/posts
Shiite Crackdown after Mughniyeh Mourning Stirs Up Sectarian Tension in Kuwait
Naharnet | 13 Mar 08 | Staff
Posted on 03/13/2008 7:40:58 AM EDT by forkinsocket
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984957/posts
Facebook moves Judean and Samarian Jews to ‘Palestine’
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/ | Carl in Jerusalem
Posted on 03/13/2008 6:21:42 PM EDT by ventanax5
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1985278/posts
Before you go shooting your mouth off, you need to kick some doors open in fallugia.
Right now you are just a “wannabee”
Do your time. It doesn’t have to be in combat.
You can serve your country in many ways. not just 1. Some people are not cut out for military.
You can help your country by doing good things here.
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