Fox just reported Israel is mobilizing troops

[MrSplitshot]

OK...some good finds...

Interesting.

Maybe routine, maybe posturing, maybe preparations for World War III...don't know...

Interesting.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I grow weiry of Muslims.

They seem so quick to posture, and yet so sensitive and easy to offend. Oh well, I promise to not be offended when you get sensitive and get bombed into Allah's kingdom. If you really want to end up there, me thinks a couple F22's can "show you the way to go home".

And to make you rest most uneasy, I hope the plane that drops the one that gets you has a star of David on it.

[Moveon]

16 battalions and 6 reserve battalions moved to the border.....

Me things the **** is about to hit the fan. I suspect we're about be be involved too, since we moved multiple f-22 fighter groups to the region last week.......

HM.

I read where the F22's oxygen system had failed on a few planes and they grounded the fleet last year or something. But they pressed them back into action recently. Perhaps this is why.

Which boarder are they massing on? The boarder with Syria or Egypt? Jordan. I thought they were going to attack Iran?

If they do attack anyone the price of gasoline will jump up to $5/gal again.

[GeoFisher]

I read where the F22's oxygen system had failed on a few planes and they grounded the fleet last year or something. But they pressed them back into action recently. Perhaps this is why.

Which boarder are they massing on? The boarder with Syria or Egypt? Jordan. I thought they were going to attack Iran?

If they do attack anyone the price of gasoline will jump up to $5/gal again.

I think they are massing the boarder Syria and Egypt. I think they are concerned with terrorism and bad guys crossing the border WHEN the missiles start flying.

It is definitely going to happen........DEFINITELY. Just a question of when.

later,

Geo

[RoadToad]

I don't share your confidence for one main reason: Israel knows that it's going to take more that one single attack to take out Iran's nuclear program. I wish I could google past news programs and give you a link, because there was one I saw recently that illustrated this pretty well. There are over 20 suspected sites in Iran that could part of this program, some of which are deep underground. Most of them, they can't say that one raid would take it out; it probably wouldn't. It would take a sustained campaign to totally disable their program, or even set it back substantially, and Israel does not have the political will for that right now. And I just can't believe you actually think that Obama is about to launch an attack on Iran... to me that idea is so crazy it doesn't need to be disputed.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I don't share your confidence for one main reason: Israel knows that it's going to take more that one single attack to take out Iran's nuclear program. I wish I could google past news programs and give you a link, because there was one I saw recently that illustrated this pretty well. There are over 20 suspected sites in Iran that could part of this program, some of which are deep underground. Most of them, they can't say that one raid would take it out; it probably wouldn't. It would take a sustained campaign to totally disable their program, or even set it back substantially, and Israel does not have the political will for that right now. And I just can't believe you actually think that Obama is about to launch an attack on Iran... to me that idea is so crazy it doesn't need to be disputed.

JMO: Israel and US both know that. I think when the first bomds hit any nuc facility, the Iranians will find a new reason to start coming to the negotiating table. Think of it as the guy in the bar that throws the first punch. Either he gets hit back and loses out right (not gonna happen with Iran), or you cause the guy with the bruise to reconsider prior desire to avoid negotiations.

Another note, we all saw what happens when the US decides to do the "shock and aw" thing. Once a country gets hit, it starts to notice it's inability to protect itself, and that lends more to their considerations on why negotiation hurts less.

With Iran, somebody has to flinch first. Israel will never let that be them. They don't have that luxury.