The New York Times is reporting that we almost helped carry out an act of war against Iran at the behest of our BFF:
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush rejected a plea from Israel last year to help it raid Iran's main nuclear complex, opting instead to authorize a new U.S. covert action aimed at sabotaging Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, The New York Times reported.
Israel's request was for specialized bunker-busting bombs that it wanted for an attack that tentatively involved flying over Iraq to reach Iran's major nuclear complex at Natanz, where the country's only known uranium enrichment plant is located, the Times reported Saturday in its online edition. The White House deflected requests for the bombs and flyover but said it would improve intelligence-sharing with Israel on covert U.S. efforts to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.
Even dumb-fucking Dubya knew the implications of such a ridiculous request:
According to the Times, Bush decided against an overt attack based on input from top administration officials such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who believed that doing so would likely prove ineffective and could ignite a broader Middle East war.
And, our BFF is pissed that our intelligence didn't match up with their want to expand the Middle East Clusterfuck
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Israel made the push for permission to fly over Iraq for an attack on Iran following its anger over a U.S. intelligence assessment in late 2007 that concluded Iran had effectively suspended its development of nuclear weapons four years earlier. Israel sought to rebut the report, providing evidence to U.S. intelligence officials that they said indicated the Iranians were still working on a weapon.
Aren't you all so glad that we're BFFs? 'Cause my friends always ask me to take a dump in his neighbors' yard. Friends?! Looks like we've got to find some new ones. In fact, you know what? They can go suck a collective egg.
I guess it's not hard to be angry when you're sacricing someone else's military men in women, huh? I'm sure they wanted us to take the fall, too, if we went through with it. This "friendship" is awfully one-way, isn't it?
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as all this was playing out, see here, here, here (Murdoch), here, here (Murdoch), and here.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
pro-Bush puff piece....
not to come to Israel's defense, but this reads more like a Bush puff piece designed to present Bush as "reasonable" in the face of the hot-headed Israelis.
It doesn't make a lot of sense --- for instance, Bush is characterized as "demurring" on bunker busters, but being adamantly opposed to the use of Iraqi air space? WTF
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I mean, we're talking about giving Israel nuclear weapons (and the accompanying technology) here, and he merely "demurs", while the necessary use of US controlled airspace is adamantly opposed? Its not like there is any other feasible route to Iran -- or at least one that the US does not "control" the airspace of like Saudi Arabia and Turkey. (Were the US to "allow" Israeli bombers to fly over Turkey or Saudi Arabia, it would be the end of US defense relations with those countries.)
IMHO, the word "Israel" should be read as "pro-attack Bush administration officials who encouraged an Israeli attack" and "Bush" as "the relatively sane people in the administration, especially Gates". (My best guess is that Petraeus was really the "hell no" guy, because it was his troops who would be attacked by every faction in Iraq.)
Speaking of puff pieces,
georgie and daddy are guests on Faux News Sunday (Cheney's on CNN). I'm sure it's going to get piled high, so if you're watching, wear hip boots.
Obama is on with Stephanopoulos. Wait until you hear what he had to say. Ugh.
Bush gets no praise from me
Just to be clear, I wasn't giving Bush any credit, here. He'd have to be even more evil and stupid than I thought if he'd have supplied Israel with these weapons and let them use Iraq's air space. My point was that even this shitty administration could see how ridiculous a request this was to make of us by our 'friends'.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...