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Is The U.S. About To Invade Iran?
TBI ^ | 11-6-2011 | Global Macro Monitor

Posted on 11/06/2011 7:51:04 AM PST by blam

Is The U.S. About To Invade Iran?

Global Macro Monitor
Nov. 6, 2011, 7:23 AM

Global Macro Monitor

Here is something brewing off radar.

We’re wondering if this is a factor as to why crude is bid and gold is coming back? Debka wrote last week,

The inference was clear: The Israeli Air Force was strengthening its cooperation with Western allies in preparation for a NATO assault on Iran.

The IAF also got a chance to study the lessons Western alliance air force tacticians had drawn from the eight-month Libyan operation which ended on Oct. 31.

Next, the IDF’s Home Command announced a large-scale anti-missile exercise in central Israel starting Thursday morning, Nov. 3.

Finally, Defense Minister Ehud Barak left for an unscheduled trip to London shortly after a secret visit to Israel by the British chief of staff General Sir David Richards earlier this week as guest of Israel’s top soldier Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz.

If the British general was in Israel only this week, why was Barak is such a hurry to visit London?

The answer came from the British media, which reported as soon as he arrived that the Ministry of Defense in London had accelerated and upgraded its contingency planning for participation in a US-led assault on Iran. They carried an account of plans for deploying large naval units including submarines to the Persian Gulf.

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KEYWORDS: invasion; iran; israel; oldnews; war
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1 posted on 11/06/2011 7:51:05 AM PST by blam
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To: blam
Obama Attack Iran?

Yeah, right. The only thing he can lick is an ice cream cone.

2 posted on 11/06/2011 7:52:54 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: blam

Debka...wrong 99.9999% of the time.


3 posted on 11/06/2011 7:53:48 AM PST by BreezyDog (PLAN A: A Peaceful Restoration of the Republic.....PLAN B: A Restoration of the Republic)
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To: blam

No question whatsoever that the U.S. owes Iran one super-sized shipment of whipass. Hard to believe that Barak Hussein Obama would be one to deliver it.


4 posted on 11/06/2011 7:54:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: blam

Israel most likely...the USA under Bambi...NEVER!


5 posted on 11/06/2011 7:57:00 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: blam

No this Regime is too busy playing Brave Brave Sir Robin everywhere to do anything proactive against real enemies


6 posted on 11/06/2011 7:57:44 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: blam

If the US is headed for Iran, that would make it understandable that Obama wasn’t too fussed about our troops leaving Iraq. One of the big threats to stability in Iraq is Iran. If Iran is going to be distracted by defending itself, maybe Iraq won’t be bothered as much.


7 posted on 11/06/2011 7:58:34 AM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: married21

Another datapoint is Saudi. The recently publicized plot against the Saudi ambassador (I think that was his job) would certainly be a factor in the overall equation. It could be that Riyadh is giving the attack a green light.


8 posted on 11/06/2011 8:01:45 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: blam

If we are, it’s the polticians who will have to fight it. I don’t think that the military is in the mood for another “war” right now. Especially when you consider how bad the politicians screwed up the last two in Iraq and Afghanistan.


9 posted on 11/06/2011 8:01:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Just bring back the draft. Plenty of people camped in downtown everywhere just looking for something to do.


10 posted on 11/06/2011 8:04:09 AM PST by bigheadfred (wogga wogga)
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To: blam

Only if it’ll keep jug ears in business.


11 posted on 11/06/2011 8:05:50 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Hard to believe that Barak Hussein Obama would be one to deliver it

He is amoral and if an "October Surprise" would help him win the election, he will do it.

12 posted on 11/06/2011 8:05:58 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: bigheadfred

You’re right. The state run “media” has been comparing the fleabaggers to the WWI vets, maybe it’s time we provide them with the opportunity to become REAL veterans.


13 posted on 11/06/2011 8:06:05 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: married21

actuallly if the US was going to invade Iran then it wouldn’t pull troops all the way out of Iraq first. They would leave them in Iraq and move them directly to Iran.


14 posted on 11/06/2011 8:06:14 AM PST by plain talk
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To: blam

Misleading headline. Everything in the article points to airstrikes originating from land and sea. Splitting hairs, maybe, but that’s not an invasion.


15 posted on 11/06/2011 8:07:35 AM PST by edpc (My silence IS an answer)
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To: bigheadfred
"Just bring back the draft. Plenty of people camped in downtown everywhere just looking for something to do. "

Yup...those gay, female drill seargents will whip them into shape in no time.

What a joke everything has become.

Up is down - down is up!

16 posted on 11/06/2011 8:09:13 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

Very, very bad time to try such a stunt. The military budgets are being decimated, morale will be sinking so low it will sound like a voice from the bottom of a well. “Hello, anybody
there, please HELP!” The brightest and best of the soldiers will walk - most have already seen enough of the Middle East. Probably see that in the other forces as well. Those that remain will be the dregs, with lower educational levels and maybe conduct issues. This from an old Navy junior and Army spouse and educator ...20+ years in the business of working with soldiers, but what do I know?


17 posted on 11/06/2011 8:10:06 AM PST by ArmyTeach (Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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To: plain talk

Good call ...


18 posted on 11/06/2011 8:14:31 AM PST by ArmyTeach (Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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To: blam
This question gets asked about once a month, mostly by debka.

The same question was asked frequently during the GWB administration. There were so many people here ABSOLUTELY sure it would happen SOON. It never happened. I said it wouldn't then, & I'm saying NOW, Obama is NOT gonna attack ANYONE between now & the election.

What the Israelis do before the election is an entirely different matter.

19 posted on 11/06/2011 8:17:19 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: blam

Wrong question.

The right way to frame it:

“Would Obama be willing to do our friends the Saudis a big favor if the result was also to wag the dog for his 2012 reelection?”

There, I think, the answer is more clear.


20 posted on 11/06/2011 8:21:41 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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