PRES. OBAMA, RESIST NETANYAHU'S PUSH TO BOMB IRAN

Pres. Obama, I support your reelection and I contribute to your campaign.

In return, I do ask that you not let that bully Benjamin Netanyahu throw his weight around regarding the policy of the United States towards Iran.

David Sanger and Isabel Kershner write in today's The New York Times online.

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel inserted himself into the most contentious foreign policy issue of the American presidential campaign on Tuesday, criticizing the Obama administration for refusing to set clear “red lines” on Iran’s nuclear progress that would prompt the United States to undertake a military strike. As a result, he said, the administration had no “moral right” to restrain Israel from taking military action of its own.

 

"Mr. Netanyahu’s unusually harsh public comments about Israel’s most important ally, which closely track what he has reportedly said in vivid terms to American officials visiting Jerusalem, laid bare the tension between him and President Obama over how to handle Iran. They also suggested that Mr. Netanyahu is willing to use the pressure of the presidential election to force Mr. Obama to commit to attack Iran under certain conditions. "

We all know that Bibi is angling for a American military strike against Iran.  That means untold death and destruction.

I am tired of U.S. wars in Islamic countries or anywhere else.  Pres. Obama, continue to resist that warmonger, Netanyahu.

DAVID SANGER AND ISRAELI AIR RAID AGAINST SYRIAN PLANT

We have just returned from hearing David Sanger of The New York Times give a lunch-hour talk at Salt Lake Community College.

I specifically asked Sanger if he were satisfied with his sources for his story in the NY Times on October 13, 2007, about the Israeli air raid on what some people say was a Syrian nascent nuclear weapons plant. Steve Clemons in his The Washington Note expressed some doubt on whether the "nuclear" development plant was more accurately a plant to weaponize Syria's missiles with non-nuclear warheads. Sanger did not quite answer directly yes or no to my question on his sources. He pointed to photos in today's NY Times of the supposed nuclear plant. I personally found the photos not convincing and not corroborating.