Report: Panetta says Israel could strike Iran in spring.

[FarLeftFist]

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a "strong possibility" that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said Thursday in an editorial.
When asked about the opinion piece by reporters travelling with him to a NATO meeting in Brussels, Panetta brushed it aside.

"I'm not going to comment on that. David Ignatius can write what he will but with regards with what I think and what I view, I consider that to be an area that belongs to me and nobody else," he said.

"Israel indicated they're considering this (a strike), we've indicated our concerns," he added.
The Post columnist said Panetta "believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June before Iran enters what Israelis described as a 'zone of immunity' to commence building a nuclear bomb."

President Barack Obama and Panetta are "said to have cautioned the Israelis that the United States opposes an attack, believing that it would derail an increasingly successful international economic sanctions program and other non-military efforts to stop Iran from crossing the threshold," he said.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/panetta-says-israel-could-strike-iran-spring-report-232458035.html

[graywarrior]

1. Yeah, I'm watching that on Piers Morgan

[Cleita]

2. I hope we stay out of it, like we have in the past. n/t

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

3. Electioneering?

After all, Israel will know that Obama has had one or two 'Jewish problems'. I don't believe that the man himself has been anything but deferential to the country, but some feel differently.

If they strike and the Obama administration keeps the United States out of it, that's substantial material for a Republican party eager to pivot attention away from a domestic policy so obsequious to the extreme wealth of a tiny few and rancid to the point that even the wall-to-wall coverage of a primary season is serving to diminish its standing in the polls.

I prefer to think that this is all brinksmanship / speculation and that neither Israel nor Iran will plumb such terrifying depths anytime soon.

[gopiscrap]

4. Fucking Isreal

we need to cut their aid!!!

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Flap, flap, flap go the gums.

More BS for the American political season...ten years of the same shit. Who knows? One day it may come to pass. Just like the Apocolypse.

[T S Justly]

6. Panetta is the spokesman and Secretary of Defense...

For the wrong Department of Defense.

[SwampG8r]

7. my sister said she would slap me shitless

in 1967
i am still full of shit
saying and doing are not equal