Israel's Netanyahu Claims President Bush Promised Unilateral Nuclear Bomb Attack Against Iran
We'll nuke Iran - Bush promises Israel
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 16:08 - Wire Services - US President George W. Bush promised Israel's opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against Iran, Israel Radio reported today.
Former Prime Minister Netanyahu, opposition Likud party's hardline chairman who opposes the US-backed Annapolis peace process, reiterated to President Bush his stance, that a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Iran's nuclear installations was the only way to stop the Islamic nation's nuclear weapons ambitions.
"I told him my position and Bush agreed," Netanyahu told Israel Radio.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more..." For the sake of Israel, the easily fooled and gullible Bush will sign the death warrants of countless American kids and possible hundreds of thousands Iranians, all to placate Israel by nuking an "existential" enemy of Israel.
Bush wants to bomb Iranian "knowledge" of nuclear weapons.
If anyone would know that "knowledge" is dangerous, it would be Bush. Or in his case, the lack of knowledge.
Time to hit the panic button.
January 14, 2008 6:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Join Israel when? France has also said that if Iran attacks, Israel, French interests including access oil, they too will bomb Iran.
Daniel A. Greenbaum
January 14, 2008 7:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do you know what "pre-emptive" means? On the other hand, this is Netanyahu, so it can be taken with a mountain of salt.
January 14, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
On the other hand, it's Bush - a certifiable moron.
January 14, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
With French President Sarkozy strutting about the world stage like a Mussolini wannbe, i have no doubt France would join in with the US and Israel in attacking Iran.
Sarkozy realizes that if France isn't in on the initial mugging, they won't be asked to share the loot.
January 15, 2008 2:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I first heard about this story last Thursday evening. It all seems traced back to this one story, which is now available on the Web fairly widely. It's pretty crucial, and explosive, IF it can be verified. But I don't know who the "wire services" are who are cited as the source, and no page I've visited has anything better. Does "wire sources" mean AP, UPI, Reuters, AFP, someone else?
So far I'm treating this as unverified until I find out who the "wire services" are. Anyone available to corroborate? Thanks.
January 14, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
With more research, I STILL can't find any reputable source for this beyong the vaguely-cited "wire services" which cite equally vaguely to "Israel Radio." Looks like disinfo to me.
Not that I doubt that the story could be true. I wouldn't put it past Bush or Netanyahu, or for that matter Olmert, or the large population of warhawk Israelis both in and outside of government (including within Labor and others in the "mainstream left" in Israel.) But with this minimal and suspicious level of sourcing, it smells fishy.
January 14, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Wire services" usually means that the writer selected a mixture of things from different news wire articles and pasted them together like a summary. That certainly looks like what we have here. It jumps from what Netanyahu said to Israel Radio to, at the end, what Bush said in a press conference with Olmert. And the two stories have nothing to do with each other. It is quite sloppy and obvious cut and paste work.
The inflammatory part here obviously all comes from what Netayahu said to Israel Radio about what Bush said to him in a private meeting. To believe it, you have to trust that what Netanyahu said on the radio to an Israeli audience about what Bush said to him is really what Bush said to him and is spin free.
If you haven't found anyone else picking up this kind of rhetoric said by Bush to any other Israeli leaders, then I would suspect "Bibi spin." Deconstructing that might be quite complicated politically, he might, for example, want his radical constituency to think well of Bush at the moment for a reason totally apart from their Iran concerns.
Not only that, but if the Israeli Radio wire was translated from Hebrew, you might have some problems in the translation. Whatever Israel Radio sends out on a wire probably isn't available on the internet, either, probably another reason you are finding nothing.
January 15, 2008 2:59 AM | Reply | Permalink