CBS - Israel Prodding U.S. To Attack Iran!

[MikeWB]

Why isn't he going to Vatican to receive his orders?!

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(CBS) Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen leaves Tuesday night on an overseas trip that will take him to Israel, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin. The trip has been scheduled for some time but U.S. officials say it comes just as the Israelis are mounting a full court press to get the Bush administration to strike Iran's nuclear complex.

CBS consultant Michael Oren says Israel doesn't want to wait for a new administration.

"The Israelis have been assured by the Bush administration that the Bush administration will not allow Iran to nuclearize," Oren said. "Israelis are uncertain about what would be the policies of the next administration vis-à-vis Iran."

Israel's message is simple: If you don't, we will. Israel held a dress rehearsal for a strike earlier this month, but military analysts say Israel can not do it alone.

"Keep in mind that Israel does not have strategic bombers," Oren said. "The Israeli Air Force is not the American Air Force. Israel can not eliminate Iran's nuclear program."

The U.S. with its stealth bombers and cruise missiles has a much greater capability. Vice President Cheney is said to favor a strike, but both Mullen and Defense Secretary Gates are opposed to an attack which could touch off a third war in the region.

U.S. intelligence estimates Iran won't be able to build a weapon until sometime early in the next decade. But Israel is operating on a much shorter timetable.

"The Iranians, according to Israeli security sources, will have an operable nuclear weapon by 2009. That's not a very long time," Oren said.

For now, the Bush administration is counting on new economic sanctions which took effect Tuesday to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program. But nobody's counting on it.

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[Anonymous]

I hope Mullen and Gates can keep "the crazies in their box" like that other guy tried... Fallon was it?  Please no WW3!

[MikeWB]

Remember when Bush was flying to Israel to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary? I heard a rumor that he was planning on taking Pollard to Israel with him and free him there as a present. Well, someone in CIA heard of that so they arrested that other Israeli spy and spoiled Bush's plans.

So it looks like there are some people inside the CIA that know what is going on! Let's just hope Iran is not attacked and WW3 does not happen!

[kolnidre]

Shouldn't be a surprise. Didn't some rabbi thank Shrub in advance for agreeing to attack Iran?

That Michael Oren character is the worst kind of treasonous tribalist. Born and educated in the US, he received major US government grants. He then "made Aliyah," served as an officer in the IOF, and lives in IsraHell. But he still plays the US-targeted media like just a regular "Middle East expert" Yank. He wrote a book on the 6-Day War that was so highly touted as objective and nuanced I bought it (literally and figuratively), but after reading a couple chapters I couldn't stomach the obvious Zionist bias. Maybe I'll try again some time, as it's a detailed study on the wide projection of the Jewish victimhood complex.

Oren also did a hatchet job on James Bamford, calling the USS Liberty attack a case of mistaken identity and declaring it "case closed." He is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, whose mission statement warns against the "enormous dangers from assimilation and disunity from within." In other words, it's a tribal think tank. They can say it, but David Duke or Farrakhan can't.