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Report: Israel Held Drill As Preparation For Attack On Iran
Haaretz ^ | June 20, 2008

Posted on 06/20/2008 3:14:56 AM PDT by Fennie

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To: Fennie

Iran’s nuclear facilities are too hardened to be directly rendered ineffective by conventional Israeli airstrikes, even multiple ones... and possiby even by unconvetional (read: bunker-busting) strikes.

But, those facilities prob aren;t self-sustaining. They need fuel, maybe electricity, people, etc. And they also need to be run by a goverment & military with a leadership that is still alive, and one that is not overturned by a people who are begging for the pain to stop.


41 posted on 06/20/2008 8:17:29 AM PDT by sanchmo
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To: sanchmo

Hit their refinery and electric plants too the.


42 posted on 06/20/2008 8:24:14 AM PDT by omega4179 (That is not a birth certificate, Kos.)
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To: johnny7
Churchill didn't hope for Pearl Harbor... but he thanked God America was finally in the game.

You have a much less cynical view of human nature than I do. :-)

See Post 40.

I believe than Churchill probably did hope that something, whatever it needed to be, brought the U.S. into the war on the British side. Britain's very survival depended on it.

43 posted on 06/20/2008 8:26:53 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
"To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder." ...... Winston Churchill writing about his reaction to Pearl Harbor

Someone's read Churchill's memoirs... ;)

44 posted on 06/20/2008 8:27:32 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: Grunthor

The monthly expiration of the futures contract is also happening, and the lowering of Chinese fuel price support is now seen as driving crude oil up rather than down as it was yesterday. Market analyst appears to be a flexible job description. This happened AND that happened, therefore Cause-Effect and tomorrow the opposite and no one with actual money involved even cares.


45 posted on 06/20/2008 8:35:55 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: Polybius
You have a much less cynical view of human nature than I do. :-)

It makes for a better story. ;)

46 posted on 06/20/2008 8:36:18 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: LibLieSlayer

should be were.

As I recall, there is a new covenant


47 posted on 06/20/2008 8:41:16 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: Natchez Hawk

In your opinion...which you are most welcome to FRiend.

LLS


48 posted on 06/20/2008 9:00:34 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (REAGANISM... not communism!!!)
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To: Past Your Eyes
If only we had half the intestinal fortitude that the Israelis have.

We are doing nicely thank you both in Iraq and Afghanistan and other terror havens that fall below the radar. Israel could not be more pleased, we are a staunch and reliable Allie ... they owe their existence, in many respects, to the U.S..

49 posted on 06/20/2008 9:16:51 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Natchez Hawk
"If they could maneouvre the US of A to do another war, sure, but Israel will not fight alone."

Please explain the latest foray by Israel into Lebanon, alone.

50 posted on 06/20/2008 9:34:49 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (McCain / Kerry '08! ************* McCain's Dream Ticket, only the names have been reversed)
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To: Fennie
Image and video hosting by TinyPic Natanz will be at the top of the target list for whoever strikes iran...
51 posted on 06/20/2008 10:39:22 AM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Natchez Hawk
Bluff. If they could maneouvre the US of A to do another war, sure, but Israel will not fight alone.

Every war Israel has fought has been alone. They have fought Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They beat them all, too. Did not need our permission or support. They plan it well and execute the plan to perfection. We can learn from them. You better read up on your history (Just a suggestion)

52 posted on 06/20/2008 11:16:50 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Contempt of court? Do you blame me?)
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To: Fennie

I won’t believe it until it is confirmed by Debka.


53 posted on 06/20/2008 11:44:26 AM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: Rummyfan
And thanks NYT for disclosing this.... Unnamed officals.... appeared to be.... pure conjecture.

Actually, Israel and the US military have both deliberately leaked things to the media, or done certain things in the public's eye (like flying a bunch of fighters over Greece) in order to deliberately send a message to somebody. I have a feeling this was one of those times.
54 posted on 06/20/2008 11:48:58 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Grampa Dave; Alouette; Salem; SJackson; monkapotamus; All

That going be greatest news story EVER THAT theory LOL!

You know Barek should do chooose Islamic rage boy as VP just be honest


55 posted on 06/20/2008 1:16:56 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Uncle Miltie

alone.

And...sucessful?


56 posted on 06/20/2008 1:18:28 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
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To: Rummyfan

This is public because Israel wanted it to be. When Israel wants to strike secretly, we find out what the target was weeks later (remember the strike a few weeks ago?)

Israel is firing one more shot across the bow of Iran. When they decide to attack, we will only find out about it after the fact. They know how to run a military operation, and are not sabatoged by their own press.


57 posted on 06/20/2008 1:22:10 PM PDT by Mom MD (The scorn of fools is music to the ears of the wise)
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To: Rapscallion

“Did not need our permission our support.”

So those airplanes, they just lit some incense, said some prayers, and they magically appeared?

American military hardware—and American tax subsidies to help them “buy” it from us.

Yeah, Israel is all types of rugged individualism. /s


58 posted on 06/20/2008 1:22:56 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
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To: 11bravo wolfhoundf

Add on Ezekiel 38 and Isaiah 17 and I would not want to be moving against Israel at this point in history.


59 posted on 06/20/2008 1:26:19 PM PDT by Mom MD (The scorn of fools is music to the ears of the wise)
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To: Natchez Hawk

Your disdain for the “mythology” that most of us here hold as Truth has pushed you toward anti-semitism. I pity you.


60 posted on 06/20/2008 1:29:04 PM PDT by Mom MD (The scorn of fools is music to the ears of the wise)
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