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Offline TomSea

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‘Netanyahu urged Obama to bomb Iran’
« on: November 13, 2017, 01:58:08 am »
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‘Netanyahu urged Obama to bomb Iran’
Tovah Lazaroff


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Kerry, Netanyahu in Tel Aviv July 23. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Israel asked the Obama administration to bomb Iran, former US secretary of state John Kerry said during a conversation he held in London at the Chatham House think tank this week about Tehran’s nuclear threat.

“Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu was urging President [Barack] Obama to bomb Iran,” Kerry said. He did not clarify when that request was made.

“Every leader I met with in the region..., [including Egyptian president Hosni] Mubarak, personally, to my face, said, ‘You have to bomb Iran, that is the only thing they understand and that is the only way you will stop them having a nuclear weapon,’” Kerry recalled.

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Re: ‘Netanyahu urged Obama to bomb Iran’
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2017, 02:33:40 am »
That’s a Catch-22 because not doing it has given them time to progress and conceal.  Doing it under the Obama administration would have meant half-assed execution.
I disagree.  Circle gets the square.