Buck Naked Politics

Is Israel Gearing Up for an Attack Against Iran?

by Damozel | More than 100 F-16 and F-15 fighters participated in an exercise over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece, according to this report in The International Herald Tribune.  Israeli officials just said that Israel regularly carries out military exercises.(IHT)   But 'a senior Pentagon official', speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the exercise served more than one purpose, and that preparing for a strike against Iran was one of them.

One Israeli goal, the Pentagon official said, was to practice flight tactics, aerial refueling and all other details of a possible strike against Iran's nuclear installations and its long-range conventional missiles.

McCain Weighs in on Bush's Failed Detainee Policy

by Damozel | McCain has weighed in on the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush.  He doesn't like it.

The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country. Sen. Graham and Sen. Lieberman and I had worked very hard to make sure that we didn't torture any prisoners, that we didn't mistreat them, that we abided by the Geneva Conventions, which applies to all prisoners. But we also made it perfectly clear, and I won't go through all the legislation we passed, and the prohibition against torture, but we made it very clear that these are enemy combatants, these are people who are not citizens, they do not and never have been given the rights that citizens of this country have. And my friends there are some bad people down there.