memeorandum: Wanna see the whole Middle East go up in flames? (Jill/Brilliant at Breakfast)

9:05 AM ET, January 7, 2007

Top Items:

Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran — Uzi Mahnaimi New York and Sarah Baxter Washington — ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. — Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow …

jules crittenden:

Crossroads — We've arrived at a crossroads in history. The choices are simple. — In a letter to President Bush Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate President Harry Reid said they want out of Iraq. It's over. The American people are sick of it. There is no reason and no will to keep fighting this.

Discussion: Flopping Aces and Don Surber

Hilary Leila Krieger / Jerusalem Post:

Democrats: Nuclear Iran unacceptable — Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position. — The Maryland Democrat said the view is shared by his party, rejecting assertions …

Discussion: Riehl World View

Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:

Are We Still Going to Support Israel If They Use Nuclear Weapons? — Are there no bounds to hypocrisy? The Times is reporting that Israel is seriously considering using nuclear weapons against Iran so that Iran does not threaten the world with nuclear weapons. That would break all irony records.

Discussion: Rising Hegemon

DEBKAfile:

Bush Poised to Stake His All on Iraq Victory — DEBKAfile Exclusive Report — Lt.Gen David Petraeus, new US commander in Iraq — President George W. Bush is poised to stake every US resource to hand on a no-holds-barred military operation all the way to victory in Iraq, after first bringing Baghdad under control.

Discussion: Daily Pundit

Larisa Alexandrovna / Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely:

Nuking Reality — Our carriers are nearly in position as are nearly all the key players and pieces. Israel, as it turns out, will be the proxy element through which the US will spread nuclear democracy across Iran. We are screwed and Israelis are screwed while our two extremist …

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:

Report Says Israel Considering Tactical Nukes To Destroy Iran Nukes — Once again reports are surfacing about Israel seriously considering a strike to take out Iran's facilities that could pose a nuclear threat — this time from the Times Online that says contigency plans are now on the drawing boards.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

Hindrocket / Power Line:
ISRAELI STRIKE PLANNED?

Discussion: Larisa Alexandrovna's …

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Report: Israel training for tactical nuke strike on Iran's reactors

Discussion: Associated Press

Ralph Peters / New York Post:
EYEING IRAN — WHY W'S TAPPING ADMIRAL TO HEAD CENTRAL COMMAND

Discussion: Bill's Bites, The Corner and PrairiePundit

Kim Priestap / Wizbang:
REPORTS: ISRAEL PLANNING NUCLEAR ATTACK ON IRAN

Discussion: Texas Rainmaker

Times of London: Focus: Mission Iran

Jill / Brilliant at Breakfast: Wanna see the whole Middle East go up in flames?

John F. Burns / New York Times:

Before Hanging, a Push for Revenge and a Push Back — When American soldiers woke Saddam Hussein in his cell near Baghdad airport at 3:55 a.m. last Saturday, they told him to dress for a journey to Baghdad. He had followed the routine dozens of times before, traveling by helicopter …

Discussion: The American Street, Prairie Weather and jules crittenden

David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Plan for Iraq Requests More Troops and More Jobs

Discussion: Washington Post, Eschaton, Booman Tribune, PoliBlog (TM), State of the Day, BAGnewsNotes, The Democratic Daily, The Mahablog, Unqualified Offerings, Flopping Aces, AMERICAblog and Decision '08

Independent:

Future of Iraq: The spoils of war — How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches — Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.

Discussion: Brilliant at Breakfast and AMERICAblog

Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Democrats Try a New Balance on Capitol Hill — Less than 24 hours after taking over as speaker, Representative Nancy Pelosi summoned the new chairmen of five committees with responsibility for various aspects of Iraq policy to her office to review and coordinate plans for hearings and inquiries.

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Marc Santora / New York Times:

30 Dead in Baghdad Clash; Bodies Hanged on Lampposts — A fierce clash left at least 30 people dead in central Baghdad late Saturday night as Iraqi Army forces fought with gunmen in an area where several residents had been killed and their bodies hanged from street lampposts, the Iraqi military said.

Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:

Spurious Rumor Alert — Is John D. Negroponte's selection as deputy secretary of state a stepping stone to taking over from Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state? — Will Condi then replace the ailing Dick Cheney as vice president? — It's sure fun to speculate, isn't it?

Discussion: Brilliant at Breakfast

Los Angeles Times:

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation — The world's largest philanthropy pours money into investments that are hurting many of the people its grants aim to help. — First of two parts — Ebocha, Nigeria - Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb.

Discussion: Economist's View

New York Times:

U.S. Inquiry Backs Charges of Killing by Marines in Iraq — An American government report on the killing of 24 Iraqis, including several women and children, by marines in the village of Haditha in 2005 provides new details of how the shootings unfolded and supports allegations by prosecutors …

Discussion: PoliPundit.com and Washington Post

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Media Matters lies about HA's response to Jamilgate — Here's what's cooking on their front page as I write this. I'm surprised they used a good photo of Michelle; the official left-wing Malkin-as-hate-object signal is one of those goofy screencaps from her appearance on Hardball.

Discussion: Nitpicker, Big Lizards and Patterico's Pontifications