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The American magazine quoted Intelligence officials in two countries as saying Israel has been seeking Jordan's "permission" to bomb these sites, but the Jordanians have so far declined to grant such permission.
The official said, "You know the Israelis - sometimes they want to bomb right away. But they were told that from the Jordanian perspective, the time was not right."
Clinton said Monday "I'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people. But suffice to say we are certainly planning to take action."
Originally posted by micmerci
So it would be better to wait until Syria decides to use their chemical weapons before doing anything? I think that when it comes to national security, proactive is always better than reactive.
Originally posted by micmerci
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
I think any sovereign nation has an equal right to protect themselves.
Originally posted by micmerci
reply to post by whatsecret
Where do you think some of Syria's chemical weapons came from? One word ...Iraq
Israel has a highly advanced military and I believe that a conflict with their neighboring countries would cause the US to get involved, which would cause much death and destruction which is something I am tired of seeing.
Sorry OP if I got too far off topic.
I agree with your addition to my observastion, regrettably as much as I would like to see the current government of Israel "taken out" by any means necessary I fear what the outcome would be if the Arab league finally decided to do something.
Israel has a highly advanced military and I believe that a conflict with their neighboring countries would cause the US to get involved, which would cause much death and destruction which is something I am tired of seeing.
My preferred way of regime change in Israel would be one where the citizens of Israel revolt, kind of like some of their Arab neighbors have recently done. If they claim to be a democracy, let the people speak.
Originally posted by jimmiec
reply to post by whatsecret
There are satellite images of 17 Russian trucks moving Iraqs chemical weapons into Syria. Along with Iraqi generals eye witness testimony that airplanes interiors were stripped to move chemical weapons to Syria. Russia threatened to help Iraq if anything was said so Bush took one for our boys. Clinton,Pelosi,Reid and many other Democrats knew there were WMD's in Iraq to boot.
Originally posted by micmerci
reply to post by whatsecret
Iraq wasn't GIVING Syria anything. They were transporting their own WMD's out of the country to appear on the world stage as the innocent martyr. They were successful at that it seems as are Syria and Iran, presently.
According to Tawfiq, Saddam Hussein gave the order to dismantle Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programmes in 1995, after his brother-in-law and arms chief Hussein Kamel defected and briefed the UN inspectors. "I was Saddam's scientist," Tawfiq declared, with an ironic smile. "In 1991 if you exposed something you were killed. In 1995 if you hid something you were killed!" Sawsan dutifully gathered this information and returned to the United States to pass it on to her handlers. But the CIA was unimpressed. "Saad told me there was nothing left," she told AFP. "That everything had been either destroyed or dismantled by the UN and the regime has abandoned its nuclear programme. And he begged me to explain all that back in the States.