Posted on 10/06/2010 10:48:30 AM PDT by nuconvert
Finance minister calls for naval blockade within two to six months.
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz called Monday for a naval blockade of Iran within two to six months, saying sanctions have failed to convince the Islamic republic to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
“We’ll need more than talk and sanctions,” Steinitz told a meeting here of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. “It’s high time the West and the United States gave Iran a deadline to change its behavior. … We need a clear deadline for Iran to become open for inspection otherwise the ramifications should be like you did with Cuba in 1962. It kept the U.S. from going to war. It’s time for clear messages and deadlines.”
His comments come at a time when Iran has acknowledged that computers at its Bushehr nuclear power station were hit by a computer virus. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly vowed a military response.
An adviser to the Kuwaiti government on Iran, Sami Alfaraj, has raised the possibility that Iran might unleash a dirty bomb on the West. Such a device consists of a conventional explosive that is used to spray radioactive material over a wide area. It is designed to frighten and requires those exposed to be decontaminated; buildings and land in the blast zone would be unusable for long periods of time.
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BOOM!!!!
mega ultra super kaboom!
If the clock hasn’t been ticking before, it is now.
If you prick us do we not bleed? ...If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Let the missiles fly Israel!!!
Time is up for Islam as a whole...
Too late.
SHould have done something before the Sympathizer moved into the White House
Ditto
Good luck with that from the apologist-in chief!!!
BANG!!!
Not going to happen. If the West starts this, the first thing Iran will do is close the Straits of Hormuz through which about 40 % of the crude oil travels, gas in the West will go to $6-$8 a gallon and the West will cave...OR we will be in WW III overnight!!! Not going to happen.
Right! Obama is going to do what is right for the World.
I hardly think so.
Dream on.
Why is this, anyway? I'm more libertarianish on social issues at times myself, but why wouldn't a Jew (esp. an Orthodox Jew) agree with social conservative values?
You are sooooooooo very right on this. It is likely that Iran would also use this as an excuse to send terrorists guided by their military on attacks against various USA targets through out the Middle East.
I predict that within 6 months Iran along with Russia, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan and other Mid East countries will attack Israel and will get their arse whipped.
Glass their ass Israel!
Thanks nuconvert.
The Congress has the power to pass articles of war. They don't need the President's concurrence to do that.
You're describing the Battle of Armageddon.
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