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US said to mull 'surgical strike' on Iran
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 09.10.12, 07:10
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31. # 11.Are you blind, or plain stupid ?.
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (10.09.12)
Iran declared war on Israel,by financing and arming hamas and hizbullah,Iran bombed the Jewish center in Argentina,with the help of the local Argentinian Antisemites,Iran also bombed the Israeli Embassy in Argentina,and who will be the target of Iran's nuclear bombs ?. if this is not war what is ?.
32. Ascendance of Iran as a regional superpower is inevitable
Steven Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (10.09.12)
...due to Iran's sheer size, oil wealth, educated population, and the limitations of the West to contain Iran in the Eastern hemisphere. Iran will be around for centuries, while Israel's Apartheid future is uncertain. Israel is too small, and America is too far away to stop Iran from evolving naturally into a regional superpower. The most the West can do is to delay Iran's ascendancy.
33. TWO HOURS FOR TWO DAYS
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (10.09.12)
Wow!! That is indeed a brilliant plan.
34. #29 Robert - I did refute them with FACTS
BEN JABO (MACHAL) ,   ISRAEL   (10.09.12)
Iran operates through it's proxies.
35. #21 What makes anyone think
BEN JABO (MACHAL) ,   ISRAEL   (10.09.12)
that the terrorists will hang around waiting for the "Surgical Strike", they'be long gone, since the USA has broadcast they may make the strike
36. Will you just calm down! It is just a "diplomatic tool".
Harry Wright ,   UK   (10.09.12)
Obama is just trying to BOOST his as good as non-existent foreign policy. He is in real panic now after Romney's foreign policy speech yesterday. Yesterday, he did not even want to talk to Israel's prime minister about Iran's nuclear program. Today, he is eager to portray collaboration between the two states. If you doubt the panic, just look at who he has recruited for his campaign - Big Bird. I mean, how much more desperate can he get???? Today too, he is invoking Iran and Israel which he rejected but two weeks ago.
37. #4, You want a war?
Jake   (10.09.12)
Then you and your fellow armchair generals can go raise a private army and make your own war, like was done in the olden days. Neither the Israeli nor the US government are all that keen on starting a war.
38. This "trial balloon" looks like another White House leak
Jake   (10.09.12)
to embarrass Israel
39. #11, Robert, I see you are ill acquainted with the facts
Jake   (10.09.12)
Notwithstanding Iran's ongoing proxy war and its threats against Israel's existence, and dispatching Revolutionary Guards to Syria to assist Assad in his killing spree, your statement that Iran "hasn't attacked anyone" is patently false. A number of times over the past couple of years, Iranian troops have entered Iraqi territory, to target Kurdish strongholds in Iraqi Kurdistan. Do they have the right to invade Iraqi territory at will? No, I don't think they do.
40. @ 22
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (10.09.12)
I want you to honestly state to me, how does being destroyed by nukes advances Islam? Do you really believe the propaganda that is spitting out from both sides advances anybody's cause? I am not saying Iran with nukes is a good idea, because no one despises an Ayatollah like me (1979). Israel might have a good reason to keep a few nukes hanging around as long as there is no comprehensive peace with it's neighbors, however in regards to Iran, without near perfect intelligence about it's intentions and or capabilities I don't want to read 2 years after the war our intelligence was faulty after a war that could last years and cost trillions and an undertemined amount of lives. This war doesn't have to happen today so to speak, it can wait until we have exhausted all other means and really put the pressure on Iran such as massive military pressure that will probe it's air space etc along with a private ultimatum that gives them a way out if they are actually building nukes. Obama is being cautious and rightfully so, the American economy is in shambles and spending million dollar missiles in a possible long large war will not help our recovery.
41. # 12 Cameron If I were you, I wouldn't bet on that.
big bad Jew ,   United States   (10.09.12)
But being an arm chair warrior, watch your theory go bye bye like obama the next to be retired ex President. Prognostication is best when backed by some facts. I doubt sincerely you're privy to Israeli war plans.
42. #39 "Do they have the right to invade Iraqi territory?"
Robert ,   Australia   (10.10.12)
Your best friend and ally, the US, has caused more innocent and civilian deaths than the rest of the world put together by the utilisation of their proxy wars. You should wake up to yourself. Israel has no compunction in
43. Are you nuts??
Robert ,   New Jersey, USA   (10.10.12)
Robert, you are truly certifiable! The US being responsible for more innocent civilian deaths?? Mao alone allowed 70 million of his subjects to die in his Great Leap Forward. I won't mention the number Hitler, Pol Pot, Lenin and Stalin and other of your idols killed in their Utopian dream-fantasies. Please know your wishful fantasy to diminish the US is shared only by you and the next Utopian dreamer, Obama, whom we grown up Americans pray will not get another four years to bring his "dream From My Father" to fruition.
44. Israeli war plans, #41?
Cameron ,   USA   (10.10.12)
Ain't seen jack shit so far in that respect save for endless Israeli worrying & whining. Only the abilities & firepower of the US fleet can get you off this hook you're hanging on.
45. #42 Robert, just to remind you
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (10.10.12)
that it's Israel & Iran are the topic being discussed Of course, you have some statistics of who killed what, and how many? If so, let's see them, otherwise yiou're talking through the top of your hat
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