In an interview today on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulus,” Vice President Joe Biden said it was up to the Israeli government to decide if Iran constituted an existential threat and that the nation was “entitled” to launch a military strike against the nation if they wanted to.
Biden said the United States would make no effort to dissuade the Israeli government from launching an attack on Iran, but was deliberately evasive on the question of whether the US would provide Israel with access to Iraqi airspace for the strike, saying he didn’t want to “speculate.”
Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran over the past several years, and the right-wing coalition government elected earlier this year won largely on a platform of taking an even more hawkish position toward Iran than previous administraitons had.
At issue is Iran’s civilian nuclear program, which despite a lack of evidence Israel claims is being used to construct a nuclear weapon in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel is itself not a signatory of the NPT, and has a large, undeclared nuclear arsenal.
US defense officials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, have warned that a military attack on Iran, whether by the US or Israel, would be blamed on the US and would create a “disastrous backlash.”
"… Biden said the United States would make no effort to dissuade the Israeli government from launching an attack on Iran …"
And how it possibly could make such an "effort"? The scum knows who his actual bosses are. And so do we.
Israel is the ultimate entitlement regime. They are entitled to continue occupation of the West Bank, entitled to billions every year from the US taxpayer, and now we learn that they are entitled to attack Iran if they choose to do so. Maybe Mr. Biden should begin to ponder whether the United States has any national interest in the ME that Israel will damage by its actions. Nah, it's too late for that. Biden is already a totally owned subsidiary.
If the Zionists plan is to depopulate most of the US, and it seemingly is from their actions and leaked information, then a war with Iran that destroys the US military would play right into their hands.
The people that would defend the constitution and resist the communist agenda that is being put in play, are in Iraq. The ones that survive are vaccinated to death based on the past war in Iraq.
It is the boiling of the frog experiment being and the US is the frog. Turn the heat up too fast and the frog will jump out of the pot. Turn it up slowly and the frog will be too weak to jump out of the water by the time it realizes the water is too hot.
The Obama Administration has as many mixed signals as Israel when it come to Iran. AIPAC managed to censor the reports coming from Israel (Haaretz, June 17) Mossad: Iran Will Have Nuclear Bomb by 2014" and Israel Can't Make up it's Mind about Iran Nuclear Timetable". This most recent apparaisal say it would be five years before the Iranians could build a nuclear bomb and our own CIA says six years,IF they decide to try to build one. The new head of IAEA says that there is no evidence that the Iranians are trying to build a bomb. The politicians in Israel and the US including our President and V President are now lying to the US public and singing the AIPAC tune that the Iranians are building nukes. We then have our own Secretary of Defense stating the opposite and warning that any attack against Iran woiuld be a total disaster. This is a very dangerous game that could cause many thousands of people to die.
And, "knuckle head" Joe Biden is entitled to be an asshole.
It's becoming more and more obvious that with Obama's charisma this administration is more dangerous than that of Bush/Cheney. With that winning smile and soft spoken voice Obama is expanding the war in The Middle East to include Afganastan, Pakistan, and soon it wil be Iran, and the liberal imperialists are loving it; especially since the anti-war movement is for the most part silenced now that they have achieved their real goal–an Obama Presidency. This expansion of the war conceived of and dictated by The Israelis will be a disaster for The United States Miliatarily and economically If anyone is still in any doubt as to who runs this contry they are either insane, delusional,or living under a rock. The greatest threat to world peace and security is the Israeli-United States axis of evil.
VP Joe Biden was chosen to run because he is a committed Zionist and he was the party's gift to the Jewish lobby, which had concerns about Obama's pro-Israel credentials. Iran is no threat to the U.S. and we should be trading and dialoguing with them, not threatening them.Just because Iran is one of Israel's many enemies doesn't mean that they are our enemy. An Israeli attack on Iran would destroy our already fragile economy by driving oil prices through the roof. Unfortunately, Biden is only concerned with Israel's interests, not America's.
With Iran in post-election turmoil, the temptation to strike must be almost irresistible. But just as eating the apple presented to Eve and ultimately Adam was too good to pass up, the consequences will be dire. Instead of gaining access to the Tree of Knowledge, the Tree of Ignorance shall be their lot (which, incidentally, many Israel apologists are already sitting under while contemplating the beauty of their US-navel-centric view of the world). While we have been told that the wages of sin are death the wages of stupidity will be economic death for the US as world opinion turns against it despite any attempts at "plausible" deniability. All that the US needs now, like a hole in the head, is for the Iranian armed forces to be "invited" into Iraq, in the US rear. With what is essentially a three-front war, the temptation to beat down Iran with some surgically placed nukes, while apologising for unavoidable collateral damage will really heap the faeces into the fan. As Chalmers Johnson would say"Beware of the blowback"!!
Too bad the American people aren't "entitled" to get their country back from the quisling cowards who have put us all under the control of a "shitty little country" in the Middle East.
What is an "existential threat"? And why does this entitle Israel to kill innocent Iranians? Other than that being the Israeli governments M.O.; killing innocent people for political gain and ethnic advancement. So much for HOPE and CHANGE in America. Bombs away Biden, what a disgrace your administration has become already.
Well then I guess Iran is entitled to wipe out the American forces simply because they're surrounded by them. If the Russians or Chinese did the same to the US, that is "encircling" us, with the Israelis threatening to nuke you should they feel like it I don't believe for a minute you'd stand still.
Clearly Joe Biden is the Israeli sock-puppet du-jour.
Why is Israel "entitled" to attack a sovereign country? Biggest dog on the block is the reason and the WH needs Israel who has bought and paid for political clout for decades. Giving the green light to Israel is the same as loosing a mad dog off its chain. Besides, they don't need permission as they are the nuclear power in the Middle East. It appears we are going to war with Iran to back up Israel at some point soon. Iran is no threat, but then neither was Iraq and we blew that country beyond the stone age. God, I love this country–God, guns and bombs! Full speed ahead. Looks like we are going to have 4 more years of the Bushites.
Jason, if I read it right, what Joe Biden said was (The USA) "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do."
I fail to see where this becomes a "Israel is entitled to attack Iran". Maybe the news feed you have is misquoted, or maybe I don't get the full meaning, but something tells me this is a simple case of somebody along the feeding chain twisting what Biden said? If so, you at antiwar do need to be careful not to fall into the same traps used by the mainstream media.
Regards
If Israel does not attack they will be wiped out by this second Hitler. The sooner they destroy Irans nuclear capability the safer the world will be. Surviving and opposing evil is not free and people will die, Fighting for the survival of the Jewish people is the number one priority of the government of Israel.
America's foreign policy is so hypocritical to be laughable. And who is the real threat in the Middle East? It seems to be the rogue nation of Israel. Blood-lust seems to be running through their veins.