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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (16223)8/29/2007 10:02:36 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250
 
Crimson > Israeli officials warned the George W. Bush administration that an invasion of Iraq would be destabilizing to the region and urged the United States to instead target Iran as the primary enemy

That's called covering one's arse, so Israel can't be blamed for the shit that befell the US in Iraq. And also saying to the US that if it doesn't get into more shit with Iran, then it's not Israel's fault. So, whatever happens, Israel is blameless and the US has to accept responsibility.

> neoconservatives in the Bush administration were focused on regime change in Iraq as a low-cost way of leveraging more ambitious changes in the region.

As if the neocons had any other agenda than Israel's hegemony. I suppose that's the kind of loyalty people who do Israel's bidding can expect -- Americans spend thousands of lives and trillions of dollars fighting Israel's wars -- and Israel blames them for screwing up