Poll (informal) - is Israel dragging us into WWIII?

[the_real_38]

Yes or No would be sufficient

[oasis]

1. no

[Systematic Chaos]

2. No, WE'RE dragging us into WWIII

But the Israel/Palistine situation doesn't help. I'll grant you that much.

[kalian]

3. Gee...umm....YEAH!

:eyes:

[IranianDemocrat]

4. No- Bush's foreign policy insanity is.

.

[Muddleoftheroad]

5. No

The Mideast has been at war for 55 years. This is nothing new.

[Mari333]

6. yes and let me add

http://www.iraqwar.org/Armageddonupdates.htm

so are the neocons, xian fundies, and NUTS who support PNAC

[the_real_38]

7. Syria, now they're threatening Lebanon...

... looks like a "road map" to Armageddon.

[Muddleoftheroad]

21. Basically the same place

Syria runs Lebanon. It's like having an argument with a madman and the robot he controls.

[IranianDemocrat]

23. Don't forget Iran and their new missles that can reach Israel.

The mullahs will try to find any reason to use those things.

[the_real_38]

24. Yeah, Iran is the factor that ....

... can make it totally crazy - do they actually have the nuclear missiles yet? Or are they just conventional warheads?

[IranianDemocrat]

27. IMO They will get nuclear weapons within months, but they already have...

Shahab 3 conventional warheads which can reach as far as Israel.

[the_real_38]

29. Can you see a war of nuclear attrition in the mideast...

... We're going to see tensions like we've never seen. Israel is looking at the option of bombing Iran pre-emptively now (remember that they took out that Iraqi Nuclear reactor in the 80's), from what they've been saying (of course, they were talking about possibly killing Arafat a couple of weeks ago). I think Likud has been emboldened now that their countryman Wolfowitz is guiding our mideast policy.

[Muddleoftheroad]

30. What do you mean "countryman?"

nt

[the_real_38]

31. The word is that Wolfowitz...

... has dual citizenship - U.S. and Israel. And through the PNAC, he wants to implement a policy toward the Arabs that's modelled on the Likud Party's (a paragon of success, that is, too).

[Classical_Liberal]

8. Their Likud Leadership is dragging us into WWIII

, with a big assist from the fundy christians.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. It's Likud

[Classical_Liberal]

18. Are you stalking me?

What does this have to do with Grey Davis?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

28. No I was reading the thread and there you were

[tridim]

9. Jack Van Impe

is probably having an apocalyptic orgasm right now.

I'm ready Jeebus, come and get me! Oh, and my hair too.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. No

[Brucey]

12. No.

Unless you redefine a world war.

[Forkboy]

13. maybe

[Aidoneus]

14. the sky is probably not falling

I'm not sure what they're up to here (maybe that's the point), but I doubt it'll be more than a limited amount of trouble.

At any rate, "BFEE" deserve no credit.

[teknomanzer]

15. No...

Implying that Israel can so dominate the United States is about as believable as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In other words it is complete rubbish.

The Bush administration is at the controls. They choose the policy. They are responsible not Israel, Likud, or Sharon. If the U.S is embarking on a journey towards destruction it is because the Bush team is at the helm.

[the_real_38]

19. I don't know about that...

... Bush was trying to distance himself from that -> their leadership is nuts right now - and they couldn't have picked a worse time, with the situation in Iraq as hot as it is.

[Pallas180]

16. No, bushit already did that.

:puke:

[Terwilliger]

17. this thread will locked quickly

it is considered an intemperate question

[gristy]

20. If anybody is, Bush is dragging us into WWIII

But I don't think the insanity in the Middle East will result in WWIII. The other big players - Russia and China - just don't have any overriding self-interest to jump in (for or against). They're happy to see us duke it out on our own and waste ourselves in the process. Pretty much the same goes for Europe, except they would never jump in against. But they aren't going to jump in with us either.

[the_real_38]

22. Israel was making threats against Iran...

... that's where we might see threats from others.

[La_Serpiente]

25. It's not just Israel

It's not just Israel...IT'S BOTH THE USA AND ISRAEL...if we got those cronies from Nixon's past (Rumsfield, Cheney, O'Neill is gone though), then we wouldn't be getting into WW III. It baffles me to think that so many people supported Bush during the 2000 campaign. It also baffles me that so many Democrats played chicken shit during the 2002 congressional election.

[dsc]

26. Why can't this country ever accept responsibility for its actions

We blame Latin Americans for our drug problem. We blamed Asians for Korea and Vietnam. Now it is Jews and Arabs for our involvement in the Middle East. Our leaders are the problem not Isreal, Syria or anywhere else.

[Classical_Liberal]

32. Our leaders are not elected in a vacuum

. No-one is blaming Jews. Most Jews don't support the war, but there is a powerful coalition of fundamentalist and minority Likud supporters who do.

[AnnabelLee]

33. Locking

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