Obama Seeks Time for Sanctions on Iran as Israel Prepares for Air Strikes

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-07/obama-downplays-iran-military-action-talk-in-bid-to-avert-israeli-strikes.html

President Barack Obama said there is a “window of opportunity” for diplomacy and sanctions to compel Iran to give up any effort to develop nuclear weapons, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. lawmakers those efforts won’t work.

Their divergent comments -- Obama at a news conference yesterday and Netanyahu on Capitol Hill -- highlighted the differences that persist between the two leaders over the need for military action against Iran a day after they presented a unified front at the White House.

Obama may have bought more time for diplomacy and sanctions by reassuring Netanyahu that a nuclear-armed Iran would be as great a threat to the U.S. as it would be to Israel, said current and former U.S. officials. Netanyahu, though, made it clear that Israel’s patience is limited and that he’s prepared to order an attack on Iran if it doesn’t abandon its suspected nuclear weapons development.

“We’ve waited for diplomacy to work. We’ve waited for sanctions to work. None of us can afford to wait much longer,” Netanyahu told the American Israel Political Action Committee March 5.

[Fumesucker]

1. Is a nuclear armed Iran a bigger threat to the US than a nuclear armed North Korea?

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3. depends? what project do you want money for? nt

[DCKit]

4. No, but apparently a nuclear armed Israel is. nt

[liberal N proud]

5. This isn't about being a threat to the US

Even though we will be in it.

We are going to get drug into a war just because war mongers in other parts of the world decide to go boom - boom.

[CAPHAVOC]

6. The insane strategy

Looks to be for Israel to strike and slow down the Iranian Uranium Bomb to give the Obama sanctions time to work. Ku-Ku..Ku-Ku.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

7. Yes.

[dem4mylyfe]

2. k&r

[woo me with science]

8. Get the money, get the profiteers and warmongers, out of government.

Occupy now.

[Odin2005]

9. Israel is out of control.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Shouldn't we all make sure that Iran actually has a nuclear weapons program first before attacking?

What if it doesn't and we bomb them anyway? Then, what? It's scary to me that nobody but us (and President Obama) is thinking about such things.

[Marrah_G]

11. I really, really hope the Gov of Israel does not do this

This will not make them any more secure and will more likely cause a war in which their sons and daughters, and ours, will lose their lives.

As the mother of an airman and a soon-to-be soldier, right now I am more nervous about Israel's actions then I am about Iran's.