John Bolton weights in on Israel's "Responsibility"

"Absent Israeli action, prepare for a nuclear Iran. "

-- John Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

Germany thinks Iran could have a bomb in 6 months

"If they wanted to, they could detonate an atomic bomb in half a year's time."

-- Anonymous expert at Germany's foreign intelligence agency BND

This dude in England begs to differ:

"(Six months) is absolutely a worst-case analysis,"

-- Mark Fitzpatrick, senior non-proliferation fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Obama and Hillary discover what Bush already knew: Negotiating with Iran is hard

The U.S. administration is discovering now that that the attitude of Iranian leaders is harder to sway than they thought on the campaign trail.

-- Ilan Berman, Iranian expert, American Foreign Policy Council, Washington D. C., July 2009

If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.

-- Barak Obama, interview on al-Arabiya television network, January 2009

Idiot.

Ahmadinejad mad! No one goes home without punch in nose!!

As soon as the new government is established, with power and authority, ten times more than before, it will enter the global scene and will bring down the global arrogance. They should wait as a new wave of revolutionary thinking ... from the Iranian nation is on the way and we will not allow the arrogant (powers) to even have one night of good sleep. In this recent election the enemy tried to bring the battlefront to the interior of this country, but I have told the enemies ... that this nation ... will strike you in the face so hard you will lose your way home.

-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, broadcast from IRIB, July 14, 2009

Israeli ships sailing into the Red Sea ...

Two of Israel's Saar class missile boats have crossed through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea. This follows the news earlier this month that one of the Israeli navy's Dolphin class submarines had also sailed to the Red Sea through the Suez Canal.

I am wondering what Russia is thinking right now? I wonder what they are planning.

Admiral Mike Mullen: Clock is ticking ...

"... it is critical for diplomatic efforts to reach a solution before Iran develops a nuclear weapon or faces an Israeli or U.S. strike to turn back its nuclear program. That window is a very narrow window. There's a great deal that certainly depends on the dialogue and the engagement. I'm hopeful that that dialogue is productive. I worry about it a great deal if it's not. . . . [some forecasters believe Iran could be as little as a year away from developing a nuclear bomb], The clock has continued to tick. . . . [Washington must keep all options on the table as it pursues dialogue with Iran], including certainly military options. It (a military strike) is a really important place to not go, if we can not go there in any way, shape or form," the admiral said.

-- Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

Biden gives Israel the green light ...

"Israel can determine for itself -- it's a sovereign nation -- what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else; whether we agree or not. They're entitled to do that. Any sovereign nation is entitled to do that. But there is no pressure from any nation that's going to alter our behavior as to how to proceed, We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do. Israel has a right to determine what's in its interests, and we have a right and we will determine what's in our interests."

-- Vice President Joe Biden, ABC's "This Week", Sunday July 5th.

Oh, by the way, the Saudi's are willing to let Israel fly over their airspace on the way to bomb Iran too (according to a high level Mossad official).

I am assuming we now wait for an Iranian response.