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Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike
Aretz Sgiva ^ | 3-1-2015 | Mark Langfan

Posted on 03/01/2015 9:36:33 AM PST by tcrlaf

The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.

According to Al-Jarida, the Netanyahu government took the decision to strike Iran some time in 2014 soon after Israel had discovered the United States and Iran had been involved in secret talks over Iran’s nuclear program and were about to sign an agreement in that regard behind Israel's back.

The report claimed that an unnamed Israeli minister who has good ties with the US administration revealed the attack plan to Secretary of State John Kerry, and that Obama then threatened to shoot down the Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.

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Former US diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski, who enthusiastically campaigned for Obama in 2008, called on him to shoot down Israeli planes if they attack Iran. “They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?” said the former national security advisor to former President Jimmy Carter in an interview with the Daily Beast.

“We have to be serious about denying them that right,” he said. “If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a 'Liberty' in reverse.’

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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To: null and void

I guess it was a heavily self deprecating mea culpa (in part because I felt stupid for leaping before I looked).

Either way I guess we both learned something valuable :)


201 posted on 03/02/2015 8:42:43 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: jurroppi1
Either way I guess we both learned something valuable :)

Indeed!

And that's why I love FR!

202 posted on 03/02/2015 8:56:51 AM PST by null and void (As always, keeping a low profile with anything you do is to your advantage.)
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To: selfdefense

Yep, I, VerySadAmerica, thinks it’s “very sad”.


203 posted on 03/02/2015 10:38:10 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: WTFOVR

The military isn’t allowed to have live ammo around him.


204 posted on 03/02/2015 11:47:17 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Scouts Out!)
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To: WTFOVR

Too much collateral damage unless using something like JDAMs or JSOW.... NYC for example:

http://thebulletin.org/what-would-happen-if-800-kiloton-nuclear-warhead-detonated-above-midtown-manhattan8023

And yeah I know that these people are nuttier than squirrel turds.


205 posted on 03/02/2015 12:11:50 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Scouts Out!)
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To: 2CAVTrooper
http://thebulletin.org/what-would-happen-if-800-kiloton-nuclear-warhead-detonated-above-midtown-manhattan8023

That's pretty scary. Al-Baghdadi said, "See you in New York." Bibi's thinking, "I don't want this to happen in Jerusalem." We'll see if we have the stones to do some preventive medicine. .

206 posted on 03/02/2015 12:57:22 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: clintonh8r

The Air Force isn’t going to be as trigger happy as you are making them out to be.


207 posted on 03/02/2015 1:02:08 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Scouts Out!)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Nothing I wrote could be equated with “trigger happy.” That would be like saying Chris Kyle was on a “killing spree.” But I stand by my point: if they are given a legal order to shoot down an IAF (or any other) aircraft they will do their best to do just that.


208 posted on 03/02/2015 1:11:56 PM PST by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam)
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To: clintonh8r

It is the duty of an officer to question if an order is “legal” or not. They are not robots, and they are not going to blindly follow any order that they think is questionable.... IE indiscriminately firing on US civilians, shooting down known allies, etc.

The perfumed princes of the five sided puzzle palace may be all “Yes Sir! Three bags full sir!” in regards to EmpERROR Zero, but the field commanders (who are the ones that matter BTW) are nothing like that.


209 posted on 03/02/2015 1:36:51 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Scouts Out!)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

You aren’t telling me anything I don’t know first-hand. Being ordered to shoot down any foreign warplane is not nearly as close to a possibly illegal order as being ordered to fire on unarmed civilians of one’s own country, so that’s not a very good comparison. Add to that the speed with which events happen in the air and the potentially lethal effects of hesitation, and chances are that young aviator is going to execute that order and ponder its legality or morality later.

I certainly don’t agree with it, I think it would be a goddamn disgrace to attack an allied aircraft on a mission that does not endanger US interests, but I think it would be very possible under the current circumstances.


210 posted on 03/02/2015 1:58:04 PM PST by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: clintonh8r

I honestly don’t think it would happen.

Would our jets scramble? Maybe.

Would they close for a visual? Probably.

Would they fire without being fired upon? No.

As long as the Israelis don’t lock on we’d have no valid reason to engage. And vice versa.


211 posted on 03/02/2015 2:33:04 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Scouts Out!)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Can they be shot down with ship to air missiles?


212 posted on 03/02/2015 2:45:01 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: marron

Dunno, but I kind of think foot soldiers, to put it crudely, do what they are ordered to do.


213 posted on 03/02/2015 2:45:33 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Of course they do. But someday you have to take off the uniform and live with what you did.


214 posted on 03/02/2015 2:57:37 PM PST by marron
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To: tcrlaf

http://www.mediaite.com/online/conservative-blogs-explode-over-report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down-israeli-planes/


215 posted on 03/03/2015 6:52:42 AM PST by TinkofOhio
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To: tcrlaf

bump


216 posted on 10/13/2015 1:47:47 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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