US rejects Israel's Iranian military threat

[Turborama]

Source: AFP Via Channel News Asia

MELBOURNE: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday rejected comments by Israel's prime minister calling for a "credible" military threat against Iran to ensure it does not obtain nuclear weapons.

"We know that they are concerned about the impact of the sanctions. The sanctions are biting more deeply than they anticipated and we are working very hard at this," Gates told reporters on a visit to Australia for security talks.

"So I would disagree that only a credible military threat can get Iran to take the actions it needs to to end its nuclear weapons programme.

"We are prepared to do what is necessary but at this point we continue to believe that the political-economic approach that we taking is in fact having an impact in Iran."


Read more: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1092037/1/.html

[eridani]

1. Now THIS makes me really glad Obama is president instead of McSame n/t

[harun]

2. Or Hillary.

[Poll_Blind]

7. Yes. In her own words: (VIDEO)

Hillary Clinton on the Nuclear Deterrence of Iran

PB

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Doesn't that put Gates on the opposite side of Lindsey Graham?

[SemperEadem]

4. so is Israel ginning this up to get us to go in and fight Iran for them?

is that what this is about?

[trud]

5. yes, we're supposed to waste US lives and billions of our money

defending the Apartheid state.

Okay, now I'm sure I'm voting Obama in 2012 instead of writing in Howard :-)

[pjt7]

6. I'm glad most Americans are coming to their

senses & realize we don't need to get into a third war, mainly for Israel.

[Joe Bacon]

45. #1 budget cut that should be on the table.

Take Israel off of American welfare.

[Hissyspit]

8. Senator Lindsey Graham: U.S. Should Launch Pre-emptive Strike to ‘Sink and Destroy’ Iran

Source: Raw Story / New York Times

Senator Lindsey Graham: US should launch pre-emptive strike to ‘sink and destroy’ Iran

By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, November 8th, 2010 -- 11:42 am

Graham says military operations may be necessary, Gates says political-economic approach is working

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the United States should use military force to provoke regime change in Iran if economic sanctions do not halt the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

Speaking to attendees of the Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday, Graham said that although the "last thing America needs is another military conflict," having a nuclear armed Iran is completely unacceptable.

Iran claims their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, but many inside the United States believe the regime is planning to manufacture nuclear weapons.

"So my view of military force would be not to just neutralize their nuclear program, which are probably dispersed and hardened, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard," Graham said. "In other words, neuter that regime."

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/lindsey-graham-neuter-iran/

[cap]

9. So who's going to pay for this?

and balance the budget?

Never mind, the Iranians have done a pretty good job of a shell game with their nukes... They aren't as easy to find as all that

[saigon68]

39. He's Fucking Insane

[LiberalArkie]

10. And I am wondering when the rest of the world has all it can stand, and does it to the U.S. of A.

[JuniperLea]

12. Seriously!

How long can we go on being aggressors without some peace loving nation coming to the world's defense?

[Ozymanithrax]

25. When the rest of the world thinks it can successfully project power...

across the Atlantic and Pacific against the nuclear armed will of the largerst military in the world.

Why should they do that when, if left to our own missmanagement, will implode within the next decade.

[pattmarty]

35. You know at the back corner of my mind I have been fearfully.........

............thinking about this. If all of a sudden we were the aggressive nation (like check out Wikipedia, I was fucking amazed) of the world and the Chinese or European alliance would be at war with us AND worse yet we would be "foreign" occupied. These fucking "chickenhawks" and teapartiers heads would explode. In honesty I wouldn't be too happy either, but how exactly can we stop it if TPB have the keys and the car?

[JuniperLea]

11. Fuck US... Fuck you Lindsey Graham!

I hate US for being warmongers and deathpanels. What are we going to do? Just attack everyone we have a disagreement with?

Jesus God I'm sick of this shit. K&R because the world needs to see how pathetic SOME of us are.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. What you said.

At this point, we are doing some pretty serious Evil in the world and, frankly, we deserve everything we are getting. :( :mad: :cry:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. And this imbecile is considered one of the sane ones???!!!

[atreides1]

27. No he's not

This asshat is just like his buddy McCain. He will say whatever it takes to keep his seat, and I'll bet that the TPers already have him in their sites for not being conservative enough.


So what does he do? He starts spouting off about starting another war, when we can't afford the one we're involved in now.

This is plain insanity, let the governments of the Middle East take care of their own back yard. Tell the Saudis and the rest of the Gulf nations, as well as the Israelis, that the US isn't going to send anymore of our men and women to die for them.

If they want this job done, let them do it themselves.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

33. I didn't say he was. I said he's considered one. The media and a number

of Democratic politicians claim that he's some kind of moderate (whatever that means).

[ixion]

15. Yeah, Lindey, that's a violation of International Law...

Just as Iraq was...

[SpiralHawk]

16. Yet another Republicon Chickenhawk

eager to send us and our children off to war -- while he stays home with the other vast gaggle of Republicon chickenhawks and counts up his war profits.

Ptooooey on that.

[Ikonoklast]

34. Sen. Graham actually served in the military.

From Wiki:

Graham decided to join the United States Air Force in 1982, and served on active duty until 1988. Following his departure he stayed in the military, joining the South Carolina Air National Guard<3> and the U.S. Air Force Reserve. During the Gulf War, he was recalled to active duty, serving as a Judge Advocate at McEntire Air National Guard Station in Eastover, South Carolina, where he helped brief departing pilots on the laws of war.<4>

In 2004, Graham received a promotion to Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves at a White House ceremony officiated by President George W. Bush.

Graham served in Iraq as a reservist on active duty for short periods during April and two weeks in August 2007, where he worked on detainee and rule-of-law issues.<5> He also served in Afghanistan during the August 2009 Senate recess.<6> Through 2010, Graham served as a senior instructor for the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Air Force.<7>

Graham may be many things, but a Chickenhawk, he isn't.


Still a major right-wing tool pandering to the Teabaggers as they come for his Senate seat in two years...yeah, he's definitely that.

[SpiralHawk]

42. Hmmm - an exception to the rule

Thanks for the correction

[Ikonoklast]

43. It is the one thing I give the guy credit for.

He's smart, too, just wrong on so many things.

[Turbineguy]

17. ".....use military force to provoke regime change in Iran...."

Seeing how well that went in Iraq, stick with success.

[AlbertCat]

31. Seeing how well that went in Iraq, stick with success.

Along with all those other roaring Repug success stories....like

Deregulation
Tax cuts for the top 2%
Energy policy written by energy companies
Trickle down economics
The War on Drugs
Sarah Palin for High Office!

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

18. just kill 74 million people, just like that?

Insane

[Roy Rolling]

19. Nation Building

So how's that "nation building" thing doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? I wonder how much money Graham gets from war mercenary companies like Halliburton and others that profit from another US war? Welcome to $15 a gallon gasoline . . .

[nolabear]

20. Note to Rest of World. I DID NOT VOTE FOR THESE PEOPLE!

[HereSince1628]

21. This isn't Lindsey's fault, he's just doing what he contracted to do

When the Yahoos for 'Yahu pull your strings, you do the GamBibi's bidding.

[HereSince1628]

24. Just in on the stream...Israeli PM Calls For Military Threat Against Iran

as I was saying... Broder, then Graham then evidence that the yahoos for 'yahu are at it again.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/11/08/general-ml-israel-iran_8083712.html

Israel's prime minister has told U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that Iran must be made to fear a military strike against its nuclear program, Israeli media reported Monday - a departure from the Israeli leader's previous emphasis on using diplomacy to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meeting with Biden in New Orleans, said that although sanctions have hurt Iran, Tehran will be determined to produce nuclear weapons unless it thinks a military strike is a real option, the media reported, citing unidentified Israeli officials.

Article Controls
email

reprint

newsletter

comments

share

del.icio.us
Digg It!
yahoo
Facebook
Twitter
Reddit
rss

Yahoo! BuzzBut U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking in Australia on Monday, said military action against Iran remains an option but it is not the only way to stop it from building a nuclear bomb.

[aquart]

38. A threat is not an attack. A show of force is a standard tool of diplomacy.

Actual attacks are secrets. Nobody goes to the press. Please learn the distinction.

[HereSince1628]

40. Yes, But, what exactly did Graham do except make a show?

He and David Broder both delivered for the 'yahu

[Dr.Phool]

22. Lindsey needs to go get his head checked. Fast.

[hollowdweller]

23. Wow, that was quick

Didn't take long for them to forget about the deficit and try to get us in another war.

[JuniperLea]

26. They confuse BushCo Style War...

With what went down in WWII The Big One... you know, back when the military took care of themselves, back when America put a lot of people to work to make war work. BushCo Style War doesn't boost the economy like that... and Republicans are all about doing the same damn things over and over again knowing damn well they aren't going to work the way they are lying about them working.

Evil. Pure goddamn EVIL!

[pattmarty]

28. And this fucking goofy motherfucker is SUPPOSED to be one............

.......of the "moderate" Republicans? I don't think I am getting paranoid when I say, we really are fucked.

[Angry Dragon]

29. Is he going to volunteer to be in the front line??

I have thought that if leaders want a war then the leaders
should fight each other on the battlefield.
If they have a problem with that then perhaps we would
have less wars.

[thereismore]

30. Great idea Lindsy. Sorry about your penis. nt

[tomhayes]

32. Sounds quick and easy

What could go wrong??

[aquart]

36. Is he completely unaware that human beings live there?

AND THERE HAS BEEN NO ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST US?

[David__77]

37. Lindthay Graham is being so dramatic.

Really needs to shut up.

[COLGATE4]

41. Lindsey's been to too many pijama parties with Lieberman

[Javaman]

44. First he says, "the last thing we need is another military conflict"

then he advocates for one.

That man is fucking crazy.