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12/10/2009

22 hours ago ago from The Omega Report

Experts say Iran has clear path to nuclear weapons Iran and Hezbollah Prepare for Pre-Emptive War If attacked, Iran wants Syria to hit back at Israel. Damascus hedges EU warns Israel not to divide bloc over Jerusalem Syria warns Israel it risks closing door to talks Turkey warns IAF against using airspace Israeli PM offers new benefits to settlers Obama administration assures Jewish evacuation' Egypt ...

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Iran: Well hit Israels nuclear sites if attacked | The Total Collapse

2 hours ago ago from The Total Collapse

by TheTotalCollapse.com on December 12, 2009 Iran would strike back at Israeli weapons manufacturing sites and nuclear installations if Israel attacks the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Israel has not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to resolve an international dispute over Iran's nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at making bombs. ...

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Iran continues to position itself to attack Israel

4 hours ago ago from Hellcat Republican

Iran seems dead set on attacking Israel. We have heard some of the bizarre claims coming from Iran, that the Holocaust never happened. We know they're a little nuts. Now we are seeing Iran trying to set up Syria to do the attacking . If there aren't enough weapons in Syria already, expect to see a military buildup there, especially with weapons coming from Iran. Iran's modus operandi to date has been to fight through proxies. They ...

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If attacked, Iran wants Syria to hit back at Israel. Damascus hedges

9 hours ago ago from My Country Matters

No doubt this is more smokescreen rhetoric from the madmen in Iran.   Sure, let's ignore the illegal nuclear buildup in Iran and have the world focus on tiny Israel, who is only trying to defend itself against these aggressors.     DEBKA file Exclusive Report December 10, 2009 DEBKA file 's military sources report that this message Iran's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi brought to Damascus where he is attending a session of ...

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Obama's critique of Bush's Holy War

5 hours ago ago from Spiritual Politics

As Michael Sean Winters has pointed out with asperity, the Beltway reaction to President Obama's N obel speech as amounting to an "echo" of George W. Bush has been idiotic. Yes, there's evil in the world. That was the point of the speech? But it wasn't simply that Obama laid out an approach to American war-making that was, in its careful Niebuhrianism, a very far cry from the George Bush who declared as recently as a couple of years ago ...

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Analysis: Obama is wartime president accepting Nobel Peace Prize

22 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.

If any further evidence were needed of the distance between running for president and being president, it came Thursday in Oslo as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The politician who had sought the White House as the champion of the antiwar forces in his party spoke as the commander in chief, offering a principled defense of waging just wars. This Story The incongruity of a ...

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Randall Amster: Keep Your Eyes on the Peace Prize

11 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

We have to give Team Obama credit for a truly historic and thoroughly incredible Nobel acceptance speech. Whereas the teachings and legacies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi were recalled as admirable yet not "practical or possible in every circumstance," we were reminded that Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon were pragmatic peacemakers, and furthermore that America consistently strives to work both with and through the United ...

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Iran could face 'significant additional sanctions,' Gates says

14 hours ago ago from Washington Post - World

KIRKUK, Iraq -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that world powers will soon impose significant additional sanctions on Iran over its failure to engage in talks on its nuclear ambitions. This Story Gates, speaking to a group of about 300 U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq during a weeklong tour of war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, played down the prospect of military action against Tehran. There are no ...

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MJ Rosenberg: Obama at Oslo: Israel Exempt From International Standards

46 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post

I am one of those who believe that President Barack Obama actually deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. He deserved it because, in the months since assuming the presidency, he restored the United States from a nation "gone rogue" into the one it has been throughout its history. That is, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, a nation with "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind." Under the previous administration of Bush, Cheney, ...

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Analysis: Obama's case for war in support of peace

18 hours ago ago from PopEater

WASHINGTON -Barack Obama split the difference in his Nobel speech, laying down a doctrine that will likely define his presidency: a steadfast defense of warfare against evil, praise of nonviolence and exhortations for mankind to affirm the "spark of the divine" in everyone. As he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, the world's highest honor for peacemaking, Obama voiced his starkest rejection yet of the pre-emptive war doctrine and unilateralism ...

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