Israel Seeking U.S. Permission for Iran Air Strike?
The U.K. Telegraph is reporting that Israel is seeking U.S. permission for flyovers of Iraq to attack targets of opportunity in Iran:
Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran’s [...]
The U.K. Telegraph is reporting that Israel is seeking U.S. permission for flyovers of Iraq to attack targets of opportunity in Iran:
Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq. But to do so the Israeli military authorities in Tel Aviv need permission from the Pentagon.
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Time’s up.
Iraq is a sovereign nation. (Ok, ok, don’t split hairs, here. Let’s pretend. Work with me.) By every international convention of air space control, it would seem to me that the government of the Republic of Iraq would have the sole legal authority to grant Israeli flyovers.
Am I missing something?
Update: I’m not sure that the intended heavy dose of snark in my posting above came through as well as I originally intended. I don’t believe for one moment that any of the words in the Telegraph story (other than, perhaps, the pronouns) are true.
Allow me to thank Booman for articulating my feelings so I don’t have to. 
Rich -yes, you are missing something. Iraq is NOT a sovereign nation. It is under occupation by the US.
But of course, you knew that. I am certain that you also know that the US is now in the time period of the occupation called ” A Decent Interval.” That is the period, first described by CIA Sai Gon Chief Frank Snepp, as the period after which we lost, to the time when we actually leave. It took us about 6 years to leave Viet Nam. We lost in the Tet Offensive in 1968.
We lost Iraq in the April 2004 attack on Fallujah. We should be out of Iraq by 2010.
Good to see you around, sen. bob! Been awhile.
Interesting theory. Yeah, it’s seemed kind of odd to me that after the U.S. “housecleaning” in Fallujah in 2004, in 2007 there seems to be an awful lot of resistance still operating in Fallujah. I thought residents had to have retinal scans, or something like that, to get into the city? (Attn casual passersby - that was snark).
Your time line is probably spot on. It’ll take a Dem president a year or two to sort out the mess once that the Bush regime drops into the new president’s lap.
“It’ll take a Dem president a year or two to sort out the mess once that the Bush regime drops into the new president’s lap.”
Presupposing we ever have another election, that is.
Hi Richard,
Israel denied the story before the ink was even dry. It’s a neocon psy-op of the kind that the Telegraph is only too willing to host.
Regards, C
“the US is now in the time period of the occupation called ‘ A Decent Interval.’”
What about this time period could be remotely construed as decent?