Bush: ‘I Know I Would Respond’ If Iran Were To Attack Israel

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/30/bush-iran-israel/

Bush: ‘I Know I Would Respond’ If Iran Were To Attack Israel

Before his press conference today, President Bush met exclusively with a group of GOP congressional leaders. According to Fox News, which spoke with some of the members at that discussion, Bush unequivocally promised that he would attack Iran if Iran “were ever to attack Israel.” Bush told the lawmakers, “I know I would respond. … In order for diplomacy to be effective, all options have to be on the table.”

Watch it/read transcript at link~

The Bush administration continues to publicly insist that it is pursuing a “path of cooperation” with Iran. But behind closed doors, in meetings such as the one today, the White House seems to be charting a different course. David Wurmser, who until recently served as Vice President Cheney’s Middle East adviser, told a “small group of people” that Cheney is pushing for an Israeli attack on Iran:

{T}he magazine quoted David Wurmser, until last month Cheney’s Middle East advisor, as having told a small group of people that “Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz — and perhaps other sites — in order to provoke Tehran into lashing out.”

According to the report, “The Iranian reaction would then give Washington a pretext to launch strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran.“

Bush and Karl Rove also recently met privately with Norman Podhoretz for 45 minutes, listening to his case for war with Iran. Earlier this month, Podhoretz told CSPANs, “I believe President Bush is going to order airstrikes before he leaves office.”

Americans increasingly view a strike on Iran during Bush’s term as inevitable. A new Zogby poll finds that 53 percent of the public believe it is “likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election.”

[orleans]

1. so all we have to do is strike israel (and say iran did it) and we're in

another fucking war! whoopie!

[elehhhhna]

2. Bush and what Army?

[BrotherBuzz]

4. The Air Force and Navy appear to be a little underutilized at the moment

Air strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran would be a snap. It's the backblow after the smoke clears that worries me.

[Wiley50]

3. I Wish Putin Would Make the Following Statement

Putin: ‘I Know I Would Respond’ If Israel Were To Attack Iran


Time for a good ole cold war stand off


Putin could stop this shit in it's tracks
esp if he could get China to join him

[spanone]

5. these sons of bitches are capable of pulling the trigger at any moment

[Javaman]

6. false flag coming to a nation near you. nt