Will US join Israel in Iran strike?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Barak hints the US would join Israel in Iran strike

"We share the challenge though our timetables are not the same," the defense minister says at a pre-Rosh Hashana political even[t].

Defense Minister Ehud Barak appeared to hint on Thursday night that he believed the United States would join Israel in a strike on Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Speaking at a pre-Rosh Hashana toast for activists of his Independence Party at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, Barak noted the meeting that he had earlier in the day with Adm. James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and said they dealt with all the developments in the region, but especially Iran.

“The State of Israel will make its decision about its future and its security alone, but the United States is our most important partner,” Barak said at the toast.

“[America’s] cooperation, intelligence-sharing and military support for Israel is extraordinary in its depth and its comprehensiveness, and I’m convinced that it will continue to be that way in every future test,” he said.

Barak, who received an update from Winnefeld on America’s preparedness for dealing with the issues in the region, praised the steps that America had taken to deal with a possible confrontation with Iran.

“We share the challenge, though our timetables are not the same and we have our differences,” the defense minister said.

“Israel maintains for itself the right to make decisions about its sovereignty and the United States respects that, but we cannot mistake the impressive depth of American preparedness to handle the threat [of Iran] from every standpoint,” he said.

Barak said that thanks to American generosity, Israel had been able to improve its situation defensively, noting advances in the Iron Dome, Magic Wand and Arrow antimissile systems.

He said the systems increased Israel’s flexibility and freedom to act.

Winnefeld smiled broadly, exchanging pleasantries with Barak in his office at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv in a brief video released by the Defense Ministry.

The visit comes after Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, dismayed Israeli officials by saying that Washington did not want to be “complicit” in an Israeli strike on Iran.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=284189

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

This is all part of the game that's being played. The U.S. does not want another war, not right now - and neither do Israeli military officials. Barak knows it.

He was doing some strutting in front of his supporters, making statements to counter the "insult" from Dempsey (who said that an Israeli strike would not be able to stop an Iranian nuclear program) but which are also intended to help keep up the pressure on Washington that "Israel might get crazy if it doesn't get what it wants from the U.S." But Barak knows very well that there will not be a war, at least not any time soon.

The deal that's about to be cut in Washington is "We (Israel) may be crazy, but we're not stupid. Just give us more (fill in the blank) and we won't start something you (the U.S.) don't want, but will have to finish."

If Obama comes through with promised assurances, ‘Israel will not attack Iran’ — TV report

Sources tell Channel 10 that Netanyahu regards an Israeli strike as ‘less and less likely’

Israel will not attack Iran this year, provided that President Barack Obama sets out his “red lines” and offers certain other promised assurances to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting between the two tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 27, Israeli TV reported Thursday.

Citing sources “very close” to Netanyahu, Israel’s Channel 10 News said an Israeli attack on Iran is becoming “less and less likely.”

The station reported that the two leaders will meet the day after the Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur (which falls on September 26), when Netanyahu will be in New York to address the UN General Assembly.

“If Obama gives Israel the promised ‘red lines’ and his personal commitments, Israel will not attack Iran,” the report detailed.

On Monday, after the New York Times reported that the administration was considering setting out certain red lines that, if crossed by Iran in its nuclear drive, would trigger a resort to military force, Netanyahu welcomed the idea. “The greater the resolve and the clearer the red line, the less likely we’ll have conflict,” he said.

US efforts to dissuade Israel from a resort to force appeared to be continuing Thursday, with a visit by Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Winnefeld met with Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, having arrived in Israel earlier in the week for talks focused on Iran and other defense issues, on a trip that was initially kept secret.

After their talks, Barak said the US and Israel “face the same challenge [on Iran] but the clocks are ticking at different paces.” He said “Israel reserves the right to make sovereign decisions. The US respects this. Israel and Israel alone will take the decisions that affect its future and its security.”

Winnefeld visited an Iron Dome anti-missile battery near Ashkelon Wednesday and, as a guest of IDF Deputy Chief of the General Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh. He also took part in security meetings that addressed “the cooperation between the two armies,” Army Radio said Thursday.

Also Thursday, former MK and minister Tzachi Hanegbi, who in July left the Kadima party to re-join Likud, said in an interview with Makor Rishon that Israel is now “in the most fateful 50 days in Israeli history since the Yom Kippur War.”

Hanegbi, who used to head the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that every decision that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must make will come at a price. “The practical result of accepting a nuclear Iranian will be a nuclear arms race throughout the entire Middle East,” Hanegbi warned.

Last Thursday, General Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said rather scathingly that Israel had the power to “clearly delay but probably not destroy Iran’s nuclear program.”

He also warned about the counter-productive consequences of such a strike, and took the highly unusual step of adding, “I don’t want to be complicit if they choose to do it.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/if-obama-comes-through-with-promised-assurances-israel-will-not-attack-iran-tv-report/

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

This is all part of the game that's being played. The U.S. does not want another war, not right now - and neither do Israeli military officials. Barak knows it.

He was doing some strutting in front of his supporters, making statements to counter the "insult" from Dempsey (who said that an Israeli strike would not be able to stop an Iranian nuclear program) but which are also intended to help keep up the pressure on Washington that "Israel might get crazy if it doesn't get what it wants from the U.S." But Barak knows very well that there will not be a war, at least not any time soon.

The deal that's about to be cut in Washington is "We (Israel) may be crazy, but we're not stupid. Just give us more (fill in the blank) and we won't start something you (the U.S.) don't want, but will have to finish."

Barak knows it, but someone better let Romney know if he's elected.....

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Barak knows it, but someone better let Romney know if he's elected.....

If Romney is elected, our troops will move into Iran. We will be at war there before we get our boys and gals home from Afghanistan.

[Pooky 3,850]

If Romney is elected, our troops will move into Iran. We will be at war there before we get our boys and gals home from Afghanistan.

I doubt it. No Congress in its right mind would approve another war.

Did I just say "Congress" and "in its right mind" in the same sentence? Yikes!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I doubt it. No Congress in its right mind would approve another war.

Did I just say "Congress" and "in its right mind" in the same sentence? Yikes!

If Romney wins, Republicans will have control of both chambers of Congress. And then we WILL be at war with Iran.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

If Romney wins, Republicans will have control of both chambers of Congress. And then we WILL be at war with Iran.

Only if Obama or Netanyahu doesn't get us into a shooting war first. Looks like we may be going into Syria before then, because everybody is starting to say the American President has no balls.

U.S. intervention in Syria appears unlikely, say officials

Edited September 7, 2012 by The Patriot

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Only if Obama or Netanyahu doesn't get us into a shooting war first.

Not gonna happen. The only way we go to war with Iran is for Mitt to become President. Wanna waste a few thousand young American lives? Vote for Mitt!

[spookyturtle 9,466]

It's only fitting that Romney start a war as soon as he is elected. He can't let Bush and Obama have all the fun.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It's only fitting that Romney start a war as soon as he is elected. He can't let Bush and Obama have all the fun.

Romney also doesn't give a shite about our men and women in uniform. Didn't mention them once in his acceptance speech. Not once. To him, they are merely peons that he will happily waste in Iran. As long as there's a buck to be made.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Romney also doesn't give a shite about our men and women in uniform. Didn't mention them once in his acceptance speech. Not once. To him, they are merely peons that he will happily waste in Iran. As long as there's a buck to be made.

And that differs from prior Presidents?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

And that differs from prior Presidents?

Well, we have one in office right now who is more concerned about getting troops home from existing wars than sending them out into new ones.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Well, we have one in office right now who is more concerned about getting troops home from existing wars than sending them out into new ones.

They should finish the job they started or not have started the mess that's been created. All of the Presidents play games with the lives of our troops who unquestioningly do what is asked of them.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They should finish the job they started or not have started the mess that's been created.

Seems that is what the President is doing.

[mawilson 2,133]

Romney also doesn't give a shite about our men and women in uniform. Didn't mention them once in his acceptance speech. Not once. To him, they are merely peons that he will happily waste in Iran. As long as there's a buck to be made.

So giving a shіt about something can be quantified by the number of times it's mentioned in one's acceptance speech?

Good to know! How many times did Obama mention out national debt in his acceptance speech? Once. Twice, if you include a reference to the "debt commission".

I guess he doesn't give a ####### about it.