Reply #78: This is NOT new

[Tinoire]

BeHereNow had a thread in the old DU where this was heavily discussed the day he landed on that carrier quoting the Isaiah verse announcing the arrival of the anti-Christ.

Whether you believe in anti-Christ or not- what is scary is that he and his friends are making it all a self-fulfilling prophecy.

People interested in this would do well to start looking at all the stuff buried in F/A because the road map, the false 2-yr peace, the blowing up of Al-Aqsa to rebuild the Temple now that a red heiffer has been genetically engineered for the dedication- all of that ties directly into this.

Fundies everywhere working to make this horror a reality. Why do people think there's been so much traffic between government representatives of the fundies in Israel and the fundies here lately.

And now with Sharon threatening to attack Iran? No things are not looking good and they're unfolding according to script. Been following this for 2 years. This is why I feel our only chance to stop this is to elect Kucinich- we desperately need someone who understands the importance of peace and ending the imperialist bend we've been on for decades.

Israel's Red Flag on Iran

By Jim Hoagland
Wednesday, August 13, 2003; Page A27

A grim warning from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to President Bush that Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than U.S. intelligence believes has triggered concern here that Israel is seriously considering a preemptive strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor.

Sharon dramatized his forecast by bringing Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, a three-star army officer who serves as his military secretary, to a meeting with Bush in the Oval Office two weeks ago, U.S. and Israeli sources tell me. Galant showered a worried-looking Bush with photographs and charts from a thick dossier on Iran's covert program.

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But Sharon's presentation to Bush challenges the assumptions and viability of the emerging U.S. nonproliferation strategy on Iran. U.S. intelligence estimates that put Iran's covert nuclear weapons drive about four years short of being able to turn plutonium into a workable nuclear warhead overstate the time factor by at least 100 percent, Sharon argued. One to two years is his projected timeline.

To be sure, Sharon would face formidable logistical and political problems in trying to update Israel's successful preemptive 1981 strike against Iraq's Osirak reactor. His Oval Office briefing may have been designed to pressure Bush to move more forcefully on Iran rather than to advertise an impending Israeli action.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52278-2003Aug12.html