Juniper Cobra - Does this mean war with Iran?

[freeradical]

Or are we simply preparing to deploy missile defenses in Israel instead of Poland?

Very interesting...



"STUTTGART, Germany — Some 1,000 U.S. European Command troops will soon deploy to Israel for a large-scale missile defense exercise with Israeli forces.

This year’s Juniper Cobra comes at a time of continued concern about Iran’s nuclear program, which will be the subject of talks in October. Iranian officials will meet with multiple nations, including the U.S., to negotiate the program, which many in the international community suspect is being developed for weapons.

The command denied that the training mission was directly linked to regional threats.

"This is not a response to the Iran threat," said Lt. Cmdr. Taylor Clark, European Command spokesman."

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=64775

[Mac1337]

Who knows. May be it is part of the upcoming negotiations with Iran. The promise of improving US -Iran relations merely by booting the bully Bush is a distant memory now. In that part of the world you are either feared or you are irrelevant. Unless Obama can really scare the them behind closed doors nothing is going to happen. They are not going give up the bomb because something historic happened in the US few months a go.

[Jimmypoo]

If someone would bomb their bomb with The Bomb, that would be the bomb!!

[RgrF]

It means the Bush directive is no longer operational. Instead of targeting Eastern Europe, we are targeting the Mideast. They may or may not get the message.