Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs: US will back Israeli strike on Iran

[bananas]

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13407

Headline News
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 by Staff Writer

Lieberman: US will back Israeli strike on Iran

Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that he received the tacit blessing of Europe and the United States for an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

“If we start military operations against Iran alone, then Europe and the US will support us,” Lieberman told Army Radio following a meeting earlier in the week with NATO and European Union officials.

Lieberman said the Western powers acknowledged the severity of the Iranian nuclear threat to the Jewish state, but said that ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are “going to prevent the leaders of countries in Europe and America from deciding on the use of force to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities,” even if diplomacy ultimately fails.

The message Lieberman said the NATO and EU officials conveyed to him is that Israel should “prevent the threat herself.”

[Totally Committed]

1. Oh, jeezuss........

“If we start military operations against Iran alone, then Europe and the US will support us"

What is it, do you suppose, about the name "Lieberman"? It doesn't mean "f*cking warmonger" in Yiddish, does it?

TC

[Adsos Letter]

2. This shouldn't surprise anyone... n/t

[Tom Joad]

3. I have little doubt Bush/Clinton/Obama/Edwards will support any and all action Israel takes

Avigdor Lieberman has also called for deporting Israel's Arab population. I have no doubt this would not be met with any criticism by the aforementioned politicians, who haven't even hinted that they would have any qualms about Israel's actions.

They all supported carpet-bombing Lebanon with cluster bombs...

[Totally Committed]

7. I agree with you on this.

Now, what do we -- can we -- do about it? Our Party keeps running these corporatist/AIPAC toadies. What can be done to stop them?

Any ideas?

TC

[Tom Joad]

9. Organize! US Campaign to End Occupation is a good place to start

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/

[tularetom]

4. Yet another nutbag Lieberman roams the earth

WTF does he mean "back"? when Israel starts something it can't finish they're gonna come crying to us to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. And then what? We're going to start a big ass war with Iran just to save them?

Actually with the loonies in office now, that's a likely scenario. But if it doesn't result in blowing up the entire fuckin planet, it will brand Israel and america as rogue nations forever.

[Sapere aude]

5. Iran does not have a nuclear weapon and does not have the ability to deploy one.

This is again about oil and Israel is the Judas goat.

There is no reason for any American to support an attack on Iran by Israel!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. That tail has been wagging the American dog for a long time.

[Tom Joad]

8. John Bolton sure wants confrontation with Iran... listen to this!

On Bolton's Extremism and the Israel Lobby's support of Bolton, please look here.
http://www.stopaipac.org/boltontape.htm


We are releasing a transcript of conference call with John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, and AIPAC, specifically the "American Zionist Call Club" members of AIPAC.

Below is a smaller 2 minute very candid expression of Bolton's view of U.N. resolutions against Iran that were demanded by the U.S.

Transcript of that portion:

Former Ambassador Bolton: Let me turn now to the question of Iran and what I think the situation is there. The Security Council just passed a resolution. The resolution that the Security Council passed at the end of last month imposing certain limited sanctions on Iran, obviously the product of a long effort based on Iran’s refusal to comply with the earlier Security Council resolution that gave them until August 31st to cease their uranium enrichment activities. I’d have to say because I’m a private citizen and therefore a free man again, and these are my personal views, now, that this sanctions resolution is very disappointing. It is not as tough as I would have liked to have seen it. In many respects the Russians did an outstanding job from their point of view in protecting Iran, in narrowing the scope of the sanctions, in limiting the effectiveness, I think, of many of the things that we wanted to try and do to prevent the Iranians from continuing to make progress on their nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

I think the Iranian reaction to the sanctions resolution has been very telling in that respect, although they’ve passed a resolution in parliament to re-evaluate their relation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, they have not rejected the sanctions resolution, they have not done anything more dramatic, such as withdrawing from the nonproliferation treaty, or throwing out inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which I actually hoped they would do – that that kind of reaction would produce a counter-reaction that actually would be more beneficial to us.

[TexasLawyer]

10. IAEA: Iran Agrees to Nuclear Concessions

Hopefully this will head off a strike. The last thing this world needs is another unwinnable, pre-emptive war.

IAEA: Iran Agrees to Nuclear Concessions

Friday July 13, 2007 12:16 PM

By GEORGE JAHN

Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iran has lifted its ban on visits to a nuclear facility by U.N. experts and now will allow them to inspect the site, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday.

It also said Tehran was ready to answer key questions on past suspicious experiments that the international community fears could be linked to a weapons program.

The IAEA - the U.N. nuclear monitor - said Iran promised the concessions earlier this week in meeting between its officials and a senior delegation from the Vienna-based agency.

Years of Iranian stonewalling have left the IAEA unable to ascertain whether Tehran is telling the truth in asserting that it has no nuclear weapons ambitions and that its atomic activities are meant strictly to generate power. Its refusal to cooperate with the agency was the trigger that prompted U.N. Security Council involvement last year that led to two sets of sanctions.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6777274,00.html

[Karenina]

11. Oh dear...

:SIGH: You're KILLING your MOTHER... MENSCH!!!! :SIGH: