In June of 2008, IAEA Director, General Mohamed ElBaradei, said that Iran would have a Nuclear Weapon in as little as six months. The six month window has now come and gone, placing any invasion of Iran in a "midnight scenario" - the potential for Iranian Nuclear Retaliation.
Iran is pressuring Arab and other Muslim nations to confront Israel over the full scale invasion of poverty stricken terrorist stronghold, Gaza.
Now, with President Bush set to leave office within the week, Informed sources in Washington tell Newsmax that Israel indeed will launch a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities soon – possibly in just days.
An Israeli strike against Iran will cause retaliatory strikes against US troops by Iranian sympathizers in Iraq, drawing out a mission that is very near total completion. Such a strike will cause Hezbollah to launch attacks from Lebanon along Israel's northern border. Syria may join in the defense of her ally, and invade the Golan region - or at least begin military bombardment in that region. And finally, any attack on the enrichment facilities is likely to trigger a launch of an Iranian long range missile tipped with nuclear warheads, aimed at Israel - who will likely retaliate with their own nuclear strike.
The first shots of the first major nuclear war may be days away. If Newsmax is accurate, troubling days are ahead.
Pools of neocon saliva on the floor.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bolton agrees, by the way: http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3559502,00.html
It wouldn't surprise me if the Neighborhood Bully strikes Iran. The level of the depravity he's evinced in Gaza leads me to believe that he's just starking raving mad enough to do it. With all sorts of accompanying "rewards", of course, for his ally, the United States of America. Lechaim!
And the end result? As realists such as the late Lt. Gen. William Odom argued, Iran will eventually have the bomb anyway. Israel may be able to forestall the inevitable, but that's it. And we of course, along with them, will suffer all the resulting blowback.
Tell me again: WHY are they our ally?
http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=13295