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US military chief says attacking Iran would be extremely stressful
Latin America News.Net
Thursday 3rd July, 2008
America's military chief has dampened expectations that the United States is preparing a military attack on Iran.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has also hinted that an attack by Israel would be unwelcome by the United States.
Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, speaking to reporters in Washington after a trip to Israel, was forthright in his concerns about the stability of the Middle East, but said solutions lay in diplomatic, financial, and international pressure.
He highlighted Iran as a destablizing force and said he believed the country was seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but warned that any attack on Iran would have ramifications that no-one could predict. He also warned of the stress a new war would have on the U.S. military.
The chairman said a broad concern exists for the overall stability level in the Middle East. “From the U.S. military perspective, opening up a third front right now would be extremely stressful on us," he said. "That doesn’t mean we don’t have capacity or reserves, but it would really be very challenging, and the consequences of that would be difficult to predict,” he said.
“Every move in the Middle East is a high-risk move, and that’s why it is so important that the international, financial, economic and diplomatic pieces be brought to bear with a level of intensity that resolves this,” Mullen said.
Mullen said his two-day visit to Israel was very informative. Israeli Army Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the chief of staff for the Israeli Defense Force, hosted the admiral. Mullen also met Defense Minister Ehud Barak and toured Israeli bases in the north near the border with Syria and Lebanon and in the south near the Gaza Strip.
“Whenever I visit Israel, I always am struck by the very real threats they face and what I call the tyranny of ‘close-quarters geography,’” he said.
The prime reason for his trip was to reaffirm the close alliance between the United States and Israel and to forge the personal relationships that underpin the relationship. It was the chairman’s third visit with Ashkenazi since taking office in October.
“My position with regard to the Iranian regime has not changed,” the chairman said. “They remain a destabilizing factor in the area. I’m convinced the solution still lies in using other elements of national power to change Iranian behavior, including diplomatic, financial and international pressure.”
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Sure
07-03-08, 12:59 AM |
Military chief says attacking Iran would be extremely stressful for U.S.
We first said” Iran and North Korean are evil” Why are we concerned about their behavior. Can American president eat his word?. We have to live with the danger. Iran very lucky. They learn from what American and Israel are doing and Iran has the very good ideal. How to win if attack. Iran is ready, but Iran wait for U.S. and Israel makes the move first.
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xdockman
07-03-08, 07:53 AM |
Iran
Let some other country or countries take care of Iran. We have enough trouble.
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Anonymous
07-03-08, 10:47 AM |
People like you sawed table legs. A man with a lilcause. Rant on.
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Anonymous
07-03-08, 12:15 PM |
Indeed house cleaning.
Welcome back. Number one carl fan.
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wacama
07-03-08, 02:34 AM |
It will be very stupid and daring if the Iranian armed forces and the crazy oresident of Iranian launch a nuc. bomb to Israel because Israel will retaliate. It will be the first nuclear war in middle east. It will not be pretty at all and it will a hard lesson to all.The Mullah goverment will bring hardship to the inocent people of Iran and it will turn Iranian soil of enternal fire that no country expertice could put it out because a vast oil they have will turn into inferno
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~~~galljdaj+
07-03-08, 06:42 AM |
Who sawed one of the table legs?
The Middle East Table is destablized!
Just who did the tinkering with the table legs?
Who were the Outsiders that came-a-murdering? Stealing? Fixing?
Is it righteousness or greed that is the stresser that is the current motivations?
What constitutional law allows the US pRESIDENT to void the constitutional law of the ratified treaty on International Law?
'Stressful!' What is stressfull is the criminal behavior and the the retaliations that US Citizens will and are enduring, and the root cause is being part of criminal acts!
All the fine words coming from liars does no more than intensify the stresses!
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Sammy
07-03-08, 11:55 AM |
HOUSE CLEANING
Sure
07-03-08, 12:59 AM
“Can American president eat his word?."
No, the American president cannot eat his words, but the American people can eat its president.
And, it is time that the American people start eating, they can start with bringing him to face IMPEACHMENT, and then start to confiscate all of his assets, including those of his family, and all of his relitives, and all of those that have profitted from these illegal personal wars that he has ventured in the name of the American people.
And after that they should turn him over along with all those who voted for this illegal war to the International Criminal Tribunal, for crimes against humanity.
Amerca is a peaceful nation and can do without warmongers, it is time that it will conduct house-cleaning.
Sammy
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