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Bush Wants the Hizballah-Israel War to Give Iran a Bloody Nose
Debka/GAMLA ^ | July 17, 2006 | Debka

Posted on 07/17/2006 11:00:37 AM PDT by Challenge

Bush Wants the Hizballah-Israel War to Give Iran a Bloody Nose

GAMLA INTELLIGENCE NEWSLETTER

Since the onset of the Israel-Hizballah war on July 12, US president George W. Bush never tires of repeating that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorists and that it is up to Syria to press Hizballah to stop shooting rockets at Israel.

His secretary of state Condoleezza Rice says she doesn’t see how an immediate ceasefire can solve the Middle East crisis.

UN secretary general Kofi Annan, playing along, is in no hurry to take a hand. “It will be a while before fighting ends,” he says calmly. And Germany’s Angela Merkel thinks the kidnapped Israeli soldiers should be returned before any talk begins.

Britain’s Tony Blair would like to put an international force into southern Lebanon, but Bush put him off none too gently according to an open mike at the G-8 summit. Anyway, south Lebanon already has an international force. It is called UNIFIL, and it has never stopped Hizballah firing a single cross-border shot.

All the world powers assembled in St. Petersburg for the G-8 summit agreed that Hizballah started the war as Tehran’s proxy terrorist arm. They picked up on the attitude of the US president, who is telling Israel: Let it run; but keep civilian casualties down and don’t kick too much Lebanese infrastructure.

Even Arab governments, which automatically fought any Israeli military action in the past, have formed a solid Sunni Muslim front, led by Saudi Arabia, which is content to watch the Shite Hizballah take a beating and the burgeoning Shiite assertiveness in the region squashed.

The Olmert government is eagerly exploiting this leisurely international climate to smash as much of Hizballah’s terror machine as he can before Washington holds up a stop sign. Monday, July 17, a clutch of would-be ceasefire brokers descended on Beirut and Jerusalem. None came with Bush’s nod, so they will not get very far.

In Tehran, the hardline supreme ruler, Ayatollah Khamenei, picked up on the prospect of the only export arm of Iran’s Shiite revolution facing a hammering in a drawn-out conflict. Sunday, July 16, four days into the hostilities, he spoke his first words in support for Hizballah. Typically, he struck out at UN Security Council resolution 1559 when he declared: No one will ever disarm the Hizballah.

On the same day, when black clouds of rockets and warplanes filled the skies of Lebanon and northern Israel, both Tehran and Damascus made a point of supporting Syria – not Hizballah – against a possible Israel attack.


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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: nonbreakingnews

1 posted on 07/17/2006 11:00:38 AM PDT by Challenge
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To: Challenge
UN secretary general Kofi Annan, playing along, is in no hurry to take a hand. “It will be a while before fighting ends,” he says calmly, with visions of $$$ dancing in his head .
2 posted on 07/17/2006 11:02:38 AM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Zechariah_8_13

It will take far more then a bloody nose to put an end to these maniacs.


3 posted on 07/17/2006 11:03:18 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Challenge

We should use this time as an excuse to kick some Shiite ass in Iraq as well. Why not double-tap that SOB Sadr right now? I bet the news wouldn't even pick up the story.


4 posted on 07/17/2006 11:06:40 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Liberalism's main product is Destruction and Death.)
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To: Challenge

There's a whole lot of islamics that need some thump-therapy.


5 posted on 07/17/2006 11:14:46 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: Challenge

A bloody nose?

Personally I think it should at least be a lacerated liver, with a few fractures, concussions and contusions thrown in for good measure.

Bloody nose, indeed.


6 posted on 07/17/2006 11:16:22 AM PDT by Maceman (This is America. Why must we press "1" for English?)
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7 posted on 07/17/2006 11:17:28 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: Maceman

"Personally I think it should at least be a lacerated liver, with a few fractures, concussions and contusions thrown in for good measure."

I'd keep throwing them down deep wells, so as they can chat to that to any immams liveing down them....


8 posted on 07/17/2006 11:31:22 AM PDT by crazycat
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To: Challenge
Anyway, south Lebanon already has an international force. It is called UNIFIL, and it has never stopped Hizballah firing a single cross-border shot.

Worth repeating. In fact, sometimes they've been LESS than helpful, as in the 2000 kidnapping/murder of IDF soldiers caught on video, which the UN completely denied existed and thwarted efforts by Israel to obtain.

9 posted on 07/17/2006 11:34:42 AM PDT by agrace
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To: Challenge

I had another orifice in mind, personally.


10 posted on 07/17/2006 11:35:51 AM PDT by RichInOC ("I'm'onna make yew squeal lahk a pig, boy. C'mon...squeal now...WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!")
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To: Challenge

Bloody nose?

Break that F'er.

I also understand that if it's hit up and in it'll be fatal.


11 posted on 07/17/2006 11:50:36 AM PDT by diverteach
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Nuke 'em!


12 posted on 07/17/2006 12:02:02 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Challenge

It appears most are content to let Israel kick a** as long and as wide as they want. This is a good thing.


13 posted on 07/17/2006 12:43:01 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Challenge

Bush may be getting some traction in diminishing Iran in the eyes of the Arab World.


14 posted on 07/17/2006 12:53:01 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
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To: Challenge

make it happen!!!


15 posted on 07/18/2006 5:01:18 AM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: Challenge

I'd say taking out the Iran nuke plants would be a bloody nose


16 posted on 07/18/2006 12:16:00 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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