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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:37 PM
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Well, if anyone needed to use Saudi airspace for a strike on Iran they'd probably get permission now
Just sayin'

PB
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:39 PM
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1. They would not have gotten permission before?
Just sayin'
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:45 PM
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3. Probably not. What once was a lead zeppelin might now be a trial balloon.
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:50 PM
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5. Why not? We have been working with them to do air strikes in Yemen.
Why not against Iran?
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 05:56 PM
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7. It gives the sauds a little fig leaf if isreal launches airstrikes. Nt
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 06:01 PM
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8. They could not just cry Nukes?
I see nothing this gives them they do not already have.
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 12:37 AM
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10. They have been. Doesn't seem to pique the interest of anyone anymore because
has been played to death.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:42 PM
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2. Pre-emptive Change You Can Believe in?
:shrug:
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bbinacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:49 PM
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4. I hadn't thought of that
good point.
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Romulox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 04:51 PM
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6. If only there were a *name* for a doctrine that allows for pre-emptive strikes on "evil doers"...
:shrug:
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PufPuf23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 06:47 PM
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9. 9/28/11 - POTUS Obama approves the sale of bunker-busters to Israel that alarms ME
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- The disclosure that U.S. President Barack Obama approved the sale of 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs to Israel, which wants them for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear installations, has sent ripples of alarm across the Middle East, including Israel itself.

Fears that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a right-wing hawk who has vowed to eliminate what hard-liners view as an existential Iranian threat to the Jewish state, could order a pre-emptive strike, have been emblazoned in headlines run by the liberal daily Haaretz in recent days.

"Netanyahu's messianism could launch attack on Iran," said one.

"Netanyahu must be stopped from attacking Iran," declared another.

Fifty-five U.S.-made bunker-busters, designated GBU-28 Hard Target Penetrators, were secretly delivered to Israel in 2009

more at:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/09/28/Israeli-bunker-busters-cause-Mideast-alarm/UPI-44581317237477/

The USA or Israel would be insane attack Iran so probably won't happen.

The WH and Congress should STFU with the sabre-rattling IMO.
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Hugabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 12:51 AM
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11. Hell, you could probably get Saudi Arabia to launch the airstrikes themselves
No secret the Saudis don't like Iran.
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