White House Denies Imminent Plans to Attack Iran
By webreporter on May 20, 2008 in Featured
The Bush denied an Israeli media report that it plans to attack before its term ends. And of course, Bush, Cheney and the rest of the Bush Crime Family have such a stellar track record for telling the truth that we should all blindly accept their denials.
In fact, if today’s denial is anything like their past responses to such queries then we all best batten down the hatches…..switch the “q” in Iraq to an “n” and prepare for another 5 to 10 thousand body-bags brought to you by “Bush/Cheney Productions.
All joking aside, "An article in today's Jerusalem Post about the President’s position on Iran that quotes unnamed sources - quoting unnamed sources - is not worth the paper it’s written on," said the statement Tuesday by Dana Perino, the White House press secretary. (an Dana never tells a lie!)
The Jerusalem Post article picks up a story from Army Radio that quotes a senior Israeli source who in turn quotes a senior Bush administration official as saying in a meeting last week during President Bush's visit to Israel that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney favor attacking Iran, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are hesitant.
The Jerusalem Post broke the news this morning: George Bush intends to attack Iran in his final months in office.
"The official claimed that a senior member of the president's entourage, which concluded a trip to Israel last week, said during a closed meeting that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were of the opinion that military action was called for."1
"Let me respond by reaffirming the policy of the Administration: We, along with our international allies who want peace in the Middle East, remain opposed to Iran's ambitions to obtain a nuclear weapon," Perino's statement said. "To that end, we are working to bring tough diplomatic and economic pressure on the Iranians to get them to change their behavior and to halt their uranium enrichment program. As the President has said, no president of the United States should ever take options off the table, but our preference and our actions for dealing with this matter remain through peaceful diplomatic means. Nothing has changed in that regard."
As the president has said, no president of the United States should ever take options off the table, but our preference and our actions for dealing with this matter remain through peaceful diplomatic means. Nothing has changed in that regard," the statement said.
Bush visited Israel last week during a Middle East tour. At several points during his trip, he reiterated his call to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons. "Every peaceful nation in the region has an interest in opposing Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions," Bush said.
"To allow the world's leading sponsor of terror to gain the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations," he said at the World Economic Forum meeting Sunday in Egypt.
Congress has the power to stop him. There is a resolution already in the Senate called S. Res. 356. It's a straightforward and simple resolution that says, "A resolution affirming that any offensive military action taken against Iran must be explicitly approved by Congress before such action may be initiated."
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