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Administration denies Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli warplanes
Washington Times ^ | 3/1/15 | Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Posted on 03/01/2015 10:04:55 PM PST by Nachum

President Obama threatened last year, according to Middle Eastern news outlets Sunday, to use the U.S. military to shoot down Israeli fighter jets if they attempted to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities — reports the administration denounced later Sunday as flatly untrue. Mr. Obama’s threat reportedly deterred Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from dispatching warplanes into Iran after Israel discovered that the U.S. had entered into secret talks with Tehran and that the two countries had signed an agreement, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. In a statement to The Washington Times early Sunday evening, a senior administration said “that report is totally

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; israeli; planes; proliferation; shoot; threats; war; waronterror
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To: Nachum

Why should I believe Obama?


21 posted on 03/01/2015 10:50:27 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science = Not even wrong.)
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To: Nachum

OK, now I believe it was a credible report. If it weren’t they wouldn’t bother to deny it.


22 posted on 03/01/2015 10:50:44 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Dapper 26

so in other words, you agree with tom cruise and hollywood marxists producers in how they portrayed marines in “a few good men” that they were nutjobs for following orders?


23 posted on 03/01/2015 10:50:50 PM PST by willywill
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To: Nachum

"If you like your warplanes, you can keep your warplanes."


24 posted on 03/01/2015 10:54:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Mastador1

was that california Reggie Love bananas? With a side of commie muzzie sauce?


25 posted on 03/01/2015 11:07:13 PM PST by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: Nachum

26 posted on 03/01/2015 11:12:12 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

Why is Obama fondling a Muslim Santa Claus?


27 posted on 03/01/2015 11:17:33 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Nachum
This is the true meaning of “leading from behind”.

Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, France, Australia and many other nations are combating terror right now.

Obama’s administration is caving into the worst EVIL empire right now, Iran.

It pains the administration to have the truth revealed by a strong (not boot licking)Jew (rightfully so) now that the festival of Purim is upon us and masks will be ripped off.

28 posted on 03/01/2015 11:31:56 PM PST by Netz
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To: Star Traveler

Brzezinsky did threaten it.


29 posted on 03/01/2015 11:40:48 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Star Traveler

Brzezinsky did threaten it.

And little miss Responsibility-to-protect threatened to invaded or some such silliness.


30 posted on 03/01/2015 11:41:48 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nachum

This report has been floating around for a while....it’ not new. I have no doubt Obama would attack Israel.


31 posted on 03/01/2015 11:42:31 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: caww
Russia gave Israel the codes to turn off Russian supplied SAM’s in Syria when Israel bombed their Nuclear facility.

Or at least that's what the Russian manufacturer's competition said... to put a crimp in their sales prospects."Let the buyer beware that this system may fail on command after you pay the Russians millions for it."

32 posted on 03/01/2015 11:47:06 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: laplata
With this Regime, a denial is a confession that they did.

Exactly what I was thinking. And what started out yesterday as a crackpot, wild story now appears to be legitimate. Un-freaking-believable. And every congress critter "outraged" by Netanyahu's visit had to know this already!

33 posted on 03/02/2015 12:15:26 AM PST by keat
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To: Nachum

Pretty quick with the denial.


34 posted on 03/02/2015 12:56:14 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Nachum

And the Benghazi perpetrators will be brought to justice any day now.


35 posted on 03/02/2015 1:07:25 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Nachum

Well that settles it for me.

If the POS denies it he is lying.... He said it....


36 posted on 03/02/2015 2:39:27 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: laplata

“I see your points but I put absolutely nothing past these people.”

US pilots will not fire on Isreali pilots. I wish he had given such an order. He would have been given a harsh dose of reality concerning how our military really thinks of him.


37 posted on 03/02/2015 3:40:13 AM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Official denial? Oh, okay. IOW, Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli warplanes. I'm sure he didn't scream "allah akhbar" -- until after he hung up the phone. Thanks Ernest.

38 posted on 03/02/2015 3:46:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Nachum

Nevertheless this was reported at the time and without any denials. O also screwed up a planned effort to solve the problem by publicly revealing the secret plans how a surprise raid on
the most dangerous islamoNazi nuclear bomb factories was being prepared. Nobody can trust him ( except if it’s to build up the moslem terrorists or of course the Iranian regime itself).


39 posted on 03/02/2015 4:10:19 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: Nachum

Of course they’re going to lie about it. This is what they do.


40 posted on 03/02/2015 4:16:44 AM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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