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On 4/14/14, 12:23 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:01:23 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/14/14, 10:54 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:29:15 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I certainly prefer Mrs. Clinton as POTUS to any of the GOP clowns and
crazies. Your assumption the Israelis might have attacked Iraq back then
is nothing more than conjecture.

Israel did attack Iraq, Lebanon and Syria so it was not only possible
but the most likely scenario.
They also had no problems murdering anyone who ****ed them off.

I know what Israel *did*. *You* were trying to convince all that if we
hadn't attacked Iraq, Israel would have, for sure. That's the position
of an absurdist.

What is absurd is you ignoring, not only what they did but what they
threaten they are going to do in the future.
With the Israelis, the military option is always a reality.
Unfortunately we end up sharing the blame when Israel embarks on one
of these misadventures and if they ever do get in over their head we
will be drawn in.

There's no question Israel is a pugnacious state. If it were otherwise,
it would have ceased to exist after declaring itself in the late 1940s.

That being said, your claim that Israel would have attacked Iraq if we
hadn't at the time in question is nothing more than conjecture and in
this case, a forecast in reverse.

What Israel claims it may do in the future does not tell you what it may
have done at the time in question.

Israel is a firm and longtime ally of the United States.
Thanks to President Jimmy Carter, Israel and its most powerful former
enemy, Egypt, are at peace and will remain so. I don't see an Arab state
landwar against Israel sans Egypt.

If the Iranians start lobbing missiles at Israel and they do serious
damage to the population, it is likely Iran will cease to exist as a
nation, a move that, of course, would please Russia, since Iran is a
client state of the latter.