U.S. Adds Israel to the Iran Equation

[John_TE]

WASHINGTON — In bluntly threatening terms on Inauguration Day, Vice President Dick Cheney removed any doubt that in its second term the Bush administration intended to directly confront the theocracy in Tehran.

Cheney, who often has delivered the Bush team’s toughest warnings to foreign capitals, said Iran was “right at the top” of the administration’s list of world trouble spots, and expressed concern that Israel “might well decide to act first” to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. The Israelis would let the rest of the world “worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterward,” he added in a radio interview with Don Imus that was also broadcast on MSNBC.

latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cheney21jan21.story

 

[rlg94086]

John TE:

WASHINGTON — In bluntly threatening terms on Inauguration Day, Vice President Dick Cheney removed any doubt that in its second term the Bush administration intended to directly confront the theocracy in Tehran.

Cheney, who often has delivered the Bush team’s toughest warnings to foreign capitals, said Iran was “right at the top” of the administration’s list of world trouble spots, and expressed concern that Israel “might well decide to act first” to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. The Israelis would let the rest of the world “worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterward,” he added in a radio interview with Don Imus that was also broadcast on MSNBC.

latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cheney21jan21.story

I also saw an interview of former-PM Netanyahu by O’Reilly regarding Cheney’s statement. O’Reilly thought Cheney was sending a message to Israel that it would be okay. Netanyahu said he thought it was just a comment on Israel’s historic action.

Let’s face it, Israel boldly acts in it’s own interests. They don’t seem too concerned with global opinion when someone has a gun pointed at them.

 

[jsk]

The Israelis would attack if they felt necessary. Many years ago, the Israelis attacked and destroyesd a nuclear reactor outside Bahgdad, Iraq. Lian Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who was killed on Columbia, was one of the pilots who participated in that raid.