Middle East Current Actions with Future Objectives! Part A
March 17, 2006
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There is little question that Iran and Hamas have a common objective in the Middle East – To get the foreign devil governments out of Iraq and the Middle East as soon as possible, and to destroy the little devil Israel. It has been their plainly stated policy for a very long time and it will not change.
The only thing that is flexible is the “best way” for them to accomplish those two major objectives.
The “best way” changes from month to month, but the objectives will remain constant until the “time of Jacob’s trouble” begins in Zechariah 13:8, lasts for 1260 days in Revelation 12:6, and ends at Armageddon in Revelation 16:16, at which time the woman Israel is restored to her God by Messiah in Zechariah 13:9, followed by Messiah’s reign over all the earth in Zechariah 14:9.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
President Bush made it clear this week, by reaffirming his Doctrine of Preemptive War, that he was prepared to go to more violent ends than Iran had anticipated.
The following article by Pete Baker (Washington Post) beings this out quite well.
The article was taken from the Alert Center Jerusalem Report.
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Bush to Reaffirm Doctrine of Preemptive War
Peter Baker (Washington Post)
March 16, 2006
President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy Thursday reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. The strategy expands on the security framework developed by the Bush administration in September 2002 that shifted U.S. foreign policy away from decades of deterrence and containment toward a more aggressive stance of attacking enemies before they attack the U.S. (Washington Post)
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The next article was taken from the DEBKAfile Report, and is a good account of President Bush’s resolve to practice internally in Iraq what he has proposed to do, if necessary, in Iran, unless they back off.
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US military launches largest air-ground assault in Iraq since 2003 invasion, involving 50 aircraft, 1,
500 US and Iraq troops, 200 tactical vehicles.
DEBKAfile Report
March 16, 2006, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
They are targeting insurgent strongholds in the hotbed Salaheddin province around Samarra 100 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Al Qaeda sanctuaries are believed to abound in that area. On the first day of Operation Swarmer, large weapons caches were discovered, containing artillery shells, explosives, uniforms and supplies of IED-making materials, which the Americans accuse Iran of smuggling into Iraq. The air force is dropping ground troops, making air strikes and providing support.
The assault will continue for several days. It comes in the wake of the sectarian violence triggered by last month’ s bombing of the Shiite
shrine in Samarra, attributed to al Qaeda, which has cost at least 1,000 lives.
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The following article, by the Associated Press in the Jerusalem Post, may well indicate that President Bush got his point across by the actions described in Articles 1 and 2.
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Iran Ready to Talk with US about Iraq
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
March 15, 2006
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Thursday that Teheran was ready to open talks with the United States over Iraq, marking a major Iranian foreign policy shift.
This is the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that Iran is officially calling for dialogue with the United States, which it has repeatedly condemned as “the Great Satan.”
“To resolve Iraqi issues and help establishment of an independent and free government in Iraq, we agree to (talks with the United States),” Ali Larijani told a closed meeting of the parliament Thursday.
But on Thursday, President George W.
Bush, undaunted by the difficult war in Iraq, reaffirmed his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy nations on Thursday and said Iran may pose the biggest challenge for America.
In a 49-page national security report, the president said diplomacy is the US preference in halting the spread of nuclear and other heinous weapons.
“If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur – even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack,” Bush wrote.
Titled “National Security Strategy,” the report summarizes Bush’s plan for protecting America and directing US relations with other nations. It is an updated version of a report Bush issued in 2002.
Iran has expressed grave concerns about the prospect of more violence in Iraq, where bloody sectarian fighting and reprisal killings have broken out in recent weeks.
Larijani did not address the nuclear issue, which the United States and Iran are currently in dispute over.
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As I was preparing Article 3 for transmission, a new article arrived from a press conference saying that President Bush had agreed to talk
to the Iranians about security in Iraq. This has been a fast moving week geologically and politically.
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