Beck Panel Discusses Israel’s Options in Dealing With Iran
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The problems facing Israel today are great and they are many. During his show Friday night, Glenn Beck and his expert panel discussed what options the Jewish nation still has, particularly in dealing with the radical Islamic Iranian regime, seemingly hellbent on wiping Israel off the face of the map.
Lieutenant Gen. William G. Boykin told Beck that the time for Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities is now.
“I would strike, and I would strike now,” Boykin said. “I would strike before the election, he will have U.S. support and he will have support from Obama.” However, he added that if Obama is reelected, he would be less inclined to stand by Israel if they attacked Iran.
Watch the entire fascinating segment via GBTV, soon-to-become TheBlazeTV, here:
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StronzateDiDestra
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:19pmWhy don’t you cool down a bit and listen to what is likely to be the most well informed man there is:
January 2011:
When Meir Dagan steps down as director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, he says that Iran would not be able to produce a nuclear weapon until 2015.
“Israel should not hasten to attack Iran, doing so only when the sword is upon its neck,” Mr. Dagan warned.
Later he said that attacking Iran would be “a stupid idea…. The regional challenge that Israel would face would be impossible.”
All these holeyer then thou war mongering Christian and Jewish extremists, are no better than the Muslim extremists.
But hey, if religion is no good for making war – what is it good for?
Preemptively kill’em all…………
Report Post »tzion
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:17pmYour asking that Israel follow the advice of a man whose information was from over a year and a half ago? Why didn’t you cite a statement from the last couple of months? Couldn’t find one that said what you wanted? No country is stupid enough to follow such advice.
You‘ll also notice that Israel didn’t attack Iran at all in 2011, thereby following the precise advice they were given then even though Netanyahu was Prime Minister. Maybe that advice was good in January 2011. I personally didn’t expect Israel to do anything last year outside of a few covert operations which seem to have taken place. It wasn’t until spring of 2012 that I felt an Israeli strike was less than a year away.
Report Post »stopspendingourmoney
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:55amGreat! Start world war 3 before the election? I will have to pass on that idea..
Report Post »StronzateDiDestra
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:10amImminent Iran nuclear threat? Yes, starting back in the 1970ies a
Late 1970s: US receives intelligence that the Shah had “set up a clandestine nuclear weapons development program.”
1979: Shah ousted in the Iranian revolution, ushering in the Islamic Republic. After the overthrow of the Shah, the US stopped supplying highly enriched uranium (HEU) to Iran. The revolutionary government guided by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned nuclear weapons and energy, and for a time stopped all projects.
1984: Soon after West German engineers visit the unfinished Bushehr nuclear reactor, Jane‘s Defence Weekly quotes West German intelligence sources saying that Iran’s production of a bomb “is entering its final stages.” US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.
Though Israel had secretly done business with the Islamic Republic after the 1979 revolution, seeking to cultivate a Persian wedge against its local Arab enemies, the early 1990s saw a concerted effort by Tel Aviv to portray Iran as a new and existential threat.
1992: Israeli parliamentarian Benjamin Netanyahu tells his colleagues that Iran is 3 to 5 years from being able to produce a nuclear weapon – and that the threat had to be “uprooted by an international front headed by the US.”
Report Post »StronzateDiDestra
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:11am1992: A task force of the House Republican Research Committee claimed that there was a “98 percent certainty that Iran already had all (or virtually all) of the components required for two or three operational nuclear weapons.”
Similar predictions received airtime, including one from then-CIA chief Robert Gates that Iran’s nuclear program could be a “serious problem” in five years or less.
1995: The New York Times conveys the fears of senior US and Israeli officials that “Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought” – about five years away – and that Iran’s nuclear bomb is “at the top of the list” of dangers in the coming decade. The report speaks of an “acceleration of the Iranian nuclear program,“ claims that Iran ”began an intensive campaign to develop and acquire nuclear weapons” in 1987, and says Iran was “believed” to have recruited scientists from the former Soviet Union and Pakistan to advise them.
1998: The same week, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reports to Congress that Iran could build an intercontinental ballistic missile – one that could hit the US – within five years.
2004: Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell tells reporters that Iran had been working on technology to fit a nuclear warhead onto a missile. “We are talking about information that says they not only have the missiles but information that suggests they are working hard about how to put the two together,” he said.
Report Post »StronzateDiDestra
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:13am2004: Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell tells reporters that Iran had been working on technology to fit a nuclear warhead onto a missile. “We are talking about information that says they not only have the missiles but information that suggests they are working hard about how to put the two together,” he said.
June 2008: Then-US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton predicts that Israel will attack Iran before January 2009, taking advantage of a window before the next US president came to office.
Dagan was the Director-General of Mossad from 2002 till 2011.
Following his departure, Dagan made several controversial public statements concerning the prudence of an Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilties.
After Dagan voiced criticism of the prime minister, he was asked to return his diplomatic passport before its expiration date.
The most credible voice I can find anywhere
Report Post »StronzateDiDestra
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:15am1992: A task force of the House Republican Research Committee claimed that there was a “98 percent certainty that Iran already had all (or virtually all) of the components required for two or three operational nuclear weapons.”
Similar predictions received airtime, including one from then-CIA chief Robert Gates that Iran’s nuclear program could be a “serious problem” in five years or less.
1995: The New York Times conveys the fears of senior US and Israeli officials that “Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought” – about five years away – and that Iran’s nuclear bomb is “at the top of the list” of dangers in the coming decade. The report speaks of an “acceleration of the Iranian nuclear program,“ claims that Iran ”began an intensive campaign to develop and acquire nuclear weapons” in 1987, and says Iran was “believed” to have recruited scientists from the former Soviet Union and Pakistan to advise them.
1998: The same week, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reports to Congress that Iran could build an intercontinental ballistic missile – one that could hit the US – within five years.
2004: Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell tells reporters that Iran had been working on technology to fit a nuclear warhead onto a missile. “We are talking about information that says they not only have the missiles but information that suggests they are working hard about how to put the two together,” he said.
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:24pmLoyd Drako. I think you are missing a very important aspect of the Muslim mind. A good way to get along with an Arab( yes I know Iranian are not Arab) is to be the stronger more dominate, and ready,willing and able to throw down and kick as*. If Israel wipes Iran from the face of the earth Arab nations will crawl of their bellies to make peace with Israel. You can never trust that they will give you and even break. In one of W.C. Fields movies he says.” Never enlighten a sap, never give a sucker an even break, count your change before leaving the window.” There I think that sums up the Arab attitude toward each other and especially for Jews and Christians.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:31pmIsrael does not have the physical capability to “wipe Iran off the face of the earth.” You are talking about a country of 50 million people and nearly a million square miles. The Arab world, and the broader Muslim world, would not be cowed by such an Israeli atrocity, it would be enraged, and rightly so. A limited strike to set back Iranian nuclear development, yes, a war of annihilation, no. Even Netenyahu is not considering that, only some of his more extreme American enablers.
Report Post »Classical Liberal
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 1:06am@stephen, “If Israel wipes Iran from the face of the earth Arab nations will crawl of their bellies to make peace with Israel.”
This is the cancer that will destroy not only the republican party, but the soul of America. No man should think so little of the lives of millions. We must never allow ourselves to be duped into murder and war by the propaganda machine.
Supporting Israel does not mean hoping that they destroy their neighbors. We need to move towards peace, not towards more meaningless war and bloodshed.
Report Post »kimosd1
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:06pmThe administration is no friend to Israel. If it was it would not have supported the overthrow of Mubarak. They knew that the Muslim Brotherhood would take over and undermine the treaty between Egypt and Israel. While claiming that the movement for “democracy” was up to the Egyptian people and outside interests should not interfere the POTUS and the SOSUS were making speeches that, “Mubarak must go !”. If Israel goes before the election the US response will be lukewarm at best, giving the appearance of support to Israel only if it helps their re-election. If they go after the election with a Democrat win they can’t count on any help If Romney wins they may be forced to help to save face. It’s a crap shoot but either way Israel will do what they have to do.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:10pmIsrael will do what it always does, and that is, start another war. That’s what they do second best. Their best at oppressing Palestinian, or claiming victimhood. That’s a toss-up.
Report Post »Auntie izlam
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:44pm@ “The-JERK”…..I see you are aptly named.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:10pm@Jerk
More from the propagandist. Time to use some truth to clear up your talking points that don’t even cite a single fact.
Jordan, the country that has the largest Palestinian population in the world and to which they are the indigenous population, is ruled by an autocratic totalitarian ruler of Arabian descent. One of these rulers, King Hussein, slaughtered Palestinians living in his own country in a massacre known as Black September. During this month long atrocity, which not a single Arab leader, including Arafat himself, ever condemned or acknowledged, more Palestinians were murdered than have died at Israeli hands in over 70 years of conflict.
Either Israel is the worst oppressor in the history of the world or Israel is actively trying not to be the oppressor. To draw any other conclusion one must ignore the facts and use rhetoric to make their point. The Jerk is an expert on both counts seeing as I myself have pointed these facts out to him in the past. Just look at his post: pure rhetoric that doesn’t so much as mention a single event to fit its narrative.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:03pmWar mongering with no regard for consequence.
Report Post »pahrumper
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:25pmIsrael should not delay, and what ever do not plan on the radicalized muslim for help
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:04pmAnother warmonger.
Report Post »dutchy
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:09pmAlmighty God will be with his people, Israel. God will protect them!
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:53pmBe wise, PM Netanyahu, do it after November 06, 2012, doing such before November 06, 2012 will benefit Obama!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:58pmAnother warmonger that can not wait for more bloodshed.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:46pm” … his expert panel discussed what options the Jewish nation still has… .”
Is that any different than asking what options the Aryan nation still had? Jewish nation = Aryan nation. Both are ethnically pure seeking entities, exclusionary.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:18pmWithout evidence to back up your claims your words are just propaganda.
Report Post »commoncents5
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:59amWho are the people that were living in Jerusalem that cried crucify Him? They were called Jews because they lived in the land of Judea. Just like if one lived in Ohio is an Ohioan but where did they originate from? The Kenites, the decendants of Cain lived among the Israelites in Jerusalem for protection. They became scribes etc. So does that explain why so many of the Jewish faith enjoy the same mind set of Obama? The groups that do not honor the living God as their Master have all come together to honor their father who is of the world. Therefore the living God calls them fatherless because He created all souls. The Kenites,offspring of Cain live among us and continue to reject God. The Lord will return AFTER the false christ or impersonator of Christ is here 5 months. The false one(play actor) will look like the Lamb but will deceive and have the voice of the dragon. Christ has told us over and over not to be deceived because Satan has powers and will use scripture,education,financial & political means to deceive every soul that will be willing to be used.
My point, God’s Word will play out just like it has been written so have you read it? This is the generation of the fig tree (good & bad figs)!very bad figs.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:48pmChrist gave his opinion of the Jewish Pharisees, money changers, in John chapter 8.
Report Post »GMI
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:23amWhere is all the hate from the hollywood jewish cabal for the iranians? They threaten to wipe their people off the face of the earth and no response? But they like to act so tough in the press against Romney and Ryan, why the silence? They have such a moral high ground, I can‘t believe they’re just cowards? I’m sure little billy mahr can walk the walk, he’s such a brave man.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:59pmThey are too busy attacking Christian values here in America. Better wake up.
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:54amBeck is right. If Israel waits until after the election, Obama will not only turn his back on Israel, but may well help Iran.
Israel has no choice, Iran IS GOING TO ATTACK the second they have the ability to nuke Israel.
Be warned American citizens, God WILL NOT allow Israel to be destroyed.
He will defend Israel, and he will destroy all who attacked her, and all who did not stand with her.
Joshua 24:15 Choose this day who you will serve, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:57pm“Be warned American citizens, God WILL NOT allow Israel to be destroyed.”
Pure idiocy. Israel’s destruction, hypothetical by the way, has nothing to do with Americans or their interests. You rabid, radical, religious fundamentalists abuse religions for your secular desires. You are evil.
Report Post »dutchy
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:15pm@Jerk, are you the voice of the fallen angel? Sounds like you have alot of hatred in you!
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:26amIn the famous words of Admiral Ackbar…”It’s a TRAP!”
Report Post »A.D.Hominem
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:41amKudos. Now if you could just figure out how to type that with the Admiral’s Jimmy Stewart like drawl.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:59amWhenever Israel decides to commit to the attack; then there shall be only one thing to expect from Obama – he will engage against Israel to ensure their destruction.
Report Post »DJFrey
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:04amPM Netanyahu is nuts if he attacks Iran in October in order to take advantage of President Obama’s vulnerability running for re-election. A strike against Iran during the presidential election would be calculated to force American support for a war with Iran.
By taking this action, the Israelis run the risk of being overwhelmed in a conflict on four fronts, that include a rain of missiles from Hezbollah as well as from Syria. Moreover, Assad’s adversaries could turn from civil war in Syria to attack a common enemy. According to sources in Israel, Egypt has established antiaircraft missile batteries in the Sinai; terrorists do not posses fighter-bombers. Egypt has also deployed tanks on the Sinai border ostensibly to intimidate Islamists who have proliferated in the the desert.
As long as Syria remains in turmoil, Netanyahu should wait and avoid a possible military confrontation his forces can not contain. There is a difference between a calculated risk and a gamble. A calculated risk, like the D-Day invasion, allows a military force to recover. A gamble on the other hand, like Custer’s attempt to wipe out the Indian encampment on the Little Big Horn, can end in irretrievable disaster.
http://napoleonlive.info/what-i-think/mullahs-want-the-bomb/
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:14pmAbsolute nonsense. A gamble and a calculated risk are the same thing. A gamble has the same chance of succeeding as a calculated risk. Custer lost because of his arrogance, lack of intelligence of the enemy, and having Benteen leaving him fluttering in the wind. Nothing went right for Custer that day. His Gatling guns he left behind at the fort, he did not wait for General Terry. He was out looking for glory and publicity, he and his men found both.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:31pmI guess the military complex leaders need more homes, cars, whatever. So what if our kids get killed. So what if there’s a retaliatory strike against America. The industries that depend on warhawks to preach to the public are at it again.
Report Post »nobama2012yeswecan
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:24pmPresident Obama could give a rats ass about Israel or Jews or Muslims for that matter..They are barbarians to Obama, all of them…
Report Post »Like Reagan, the threat of a true Christian in the White House will stop Iran!!
It’s over for Obama, and I think there will be trials for some if not all of His Administration..
This was an embarrassment and hopefully a lesson learned..
Communism and Marxism is still alive in these people and they are being manipulated for an even greater Society”
This is what happens with Tenure, give these Elites nothing but time and money to think this **** up
KidCharlemagne
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:30pmnobama2012yeswecan
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:24pm
Like Reagan, the threat of a true Christian in the White House will stop Iran!!
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Reagan made friends with Iran:
Address to the Nation on Iran-Contra (March 4, 1987) Ronald Wilson Reagan
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:49pmhow are you all better than those so called jihadists with your foreign policy, it seems to me your worse than they are, crusader foreign policy has more deaths and suffering under it than any other. Iran has the right to defend themselves like any other country and like Israel has been attacked by its neighbors many times. Pakistan is as strictly Muslims as Iran and they have never nuked anyone.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:50pmWestern secularism has completely missed the point of the rest of the world which is tied to its gods. Until we start to remember that theology is a 24/7 premise.
This is a war with islam, nothing less. They started it…who has the moxie to finish it? Who has the cajones to evangelize the muslim world? This is the only sure way to end it.
Report Post »Platonician
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:47pmYou are totally right. Unfortunately it might be too late for some regions of the western world. Europe is already controlled by Muslims, in 10 or 20 years countries like France or Holland will be formally Islamic nations. The reason for that is secularism, which has weakened any effective reaction to the Islamic colonization of the World. America is going in the same direction, radical Islamists like Huma Abedin are in control of strategic areas of the US Gov.
Report Post »engineerlady
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:50pmI saw something on PJTV that suggested that Israel may do a James Bond sort of thing – they are smart, and have a lot of moles in Iran. I think that makes sense, lots of sense. Sabotage the program with the infiltrates and buy time, wait until after the election and Romney is in.
Report Post »American_Woman
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:36pmYou can fit Israel into the state of Texas approximately 13 times. It’s so small and surrounded by Arab countries. Israel may very well be destroyed in our lifetime. I for one, do not want to see the most holy places on earth destroyed. The Jewish, Muslims, Christians, and others who live there now don’t deserve to be nuked, nobody does. If we have the power, we should attack the madman who keeps making the threats. Protecting mankind is more important than protecting a crazy leader!
Report Post »Wat Tyler
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:24pmHey! I have one option in mind:
LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:43pmThat will not dissuade them fm harming others in order to gain their Mahdi.
Pray to our first Resource, God, to deliver us all fm the tyranny of the few.
Report Post »DarkJello
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:47pmThat makes just like a whole bunch of sense.
For realz homeslice? Pay attention, think it through, then analyze reality.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:19pmOh my goodness! Barak has all but spelled out HIS playbook for everything!
He has ignored one tiny, Weenzy, LITTLE, MICROSCOPIC THING?!? Thee American People.
Report Post »Israel-do NOT count on the U.S. Gov’t. Israel-count on the U.S. People.
heavyduty
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:19pmEven if Israel left Iran alone, that wouldn’t mean that Iran would leave Israel alone. They aren’t big enough to sustain a nuclear attack and come back. Their only option is to hit first.
Report Post »Wat Tyler
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:31pmThey haven’t done anything to Israel thus far, nor will they. It is all talk for domestic consumption.
Iran is not strong (though they may be if faced with an external attack). DON’T DO THIS!
WW III awaits the aggressors.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:05pmI’m sorry Walter {?} so the REST of the World should just ignore the ramblings of Iran. After all, CNN reports they are but months away from a Nuclear Bomb…right???
Lord of the Flies – they have already stolen the knife. Wonder which Nation is going to be piggy?
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:35pmKangarooJack
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:05pm
After all, CNN reports they are but months away from a Nuclear Bomb…right???
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They’ve been reporting that for the past 30 years though:
“Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979″.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:40amWhether they are 30 days or 30 years away from having a deliverable nuclear weapon, the point is what they will do with it once they have it.
My hunch? Nothing.
By my count, 9 countries have nuclear weapons: the US, Russia, China, Britain; France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. Only the US, has actually used them, and that was in a war already in progress.
Countries do not develop nuclear weapons for use but for display. If Iran gets them, it will keep them close to its chest and use them for bargaining advantage, the apocalyptic rhetoric of certain Iranian leaders notwithstanding.
They would dearly love to see Israel destroyed, but have never threatened explicitly that they themselves will do the destroying.
They are counting on surrogates such as Hezbollah, but since they do not totally control them, they aren’t likely to trust them with nukes. An Israeli preemptive strike would delay Iranian nuclear plans, but at the cost of provoking renewed assaults against Israel from groups occupying parts of its near neighbors, not Iran.
Within Israel tself, there is by no means unanimity that such a strike is necessary. It’s not 1967, when the threat was imminent and obvious.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:18pmIf Obama gets re-elected, he would more likely stand w/the salafists than w/the Jews.
Report Post »OlderCowGirl
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:18pmI would have to agree with Lt Gen. Boykin. On the other hand I’d hate to see either one strike the other, at all. But yet it all seems inevitable. Many people world wide will be sickened and/or die from that terrible war. We need to trust God to set it all straight..
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:52pmIf you want God to fix something, you must give it to Him. For only He can work all things out for good for those who love Him and trust Him.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:57pmThe belief that war is inevitable can help make it inevitable. Read some history. I recommend whatever you can find on the origins of World War I.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:16pm“I would strike, and I would strike now,” Boykin said.
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That’s a bad move, Mr. Boykin:
“Beijing, August 22, IRNA: “China biggest purchaser of Iranian crude oil
Similar to a situation in which the U.S. would obliterate any aggressor (even Israel) that tried to attack Saudi Arabia, the Chinese would most assuredly have a response to any aggressor that tried to attack Iran.
Crude oil is literally the lifeblood of big, expanded economies like the U.S. and China and this is why an attack on either Saudi Arabia or Iran is literally treated like a direct attack on the U.S. or China respectively.
When in doubt, then do the math first.
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:20pm@Kidcharlemagne, Remember=
Report Post »Joshua: Shall we play a Game.
Mr. Boykin: Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Joshua: Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of Chess?
Mr. Boykin: Later. Let’s play Global Thermonuclear War!
Joshua: Fine……
KidCharlemagne
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:42pmDEFCON4
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:20pm
@Kidcharlemagne, Remember=
Joshua: Shall we play a Game.=
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‘War Games’…..Matthew Broderick and Dabney Coleman (seen it a few times!)……
Things sure were simpler back in the day when it was just the U.S. vs. the Soviets, weren’t they? (LOL)
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 12:36am@Kidcharlemagne,Thanks in reply, it looks like the “Soviets” were edited out of the remake of “Red Dawn” ..
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:31pmAbsolute twaddle! If Israel trounces Iran, they will be selling( either Iran or Israel) oil at discount prices. They’ll need the cash to rebuild. Now one of the signs of the end times is China moving through Russia, down to Israel. Hum perhaps you are correct. Oh well never mind.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:06pmIsrael can leave Iran alone and let them defend their country and themselves from people who have attacked them, you would think these 2 being through similar experiences could understand each other on that.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:27pmAnd Iran could leave Israel alone by not calling it an “evil Zionist regime” that must be purged, not supplying weapons to Israel’s sworn enemies who have openly declared their desire to see Israel annihilated, and not sponsoring terror attacks against Israelis. You’ll notice that Pakistan has never been guilty of these actions before or after gaining nukes. To the contrary, Pakistan itself is living proof that a people can gain independence without having to spill a drop of innocent blood.
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