How Long Until Iran Is Nuked Up??

From Little Green Footballs:

As we noted Friday, the media were reporting that IAEA “watchdog” Mohamed ElBaradei warned that an attack on Iran would turn the Middle East into a “ball of fire” (goodness gracious), and threatened to quit his job.

What the media did not tell you: in this interview in Arabic with Al-Arabiya TV, ElBaradei also said, quite explicitly, that Iran is able to produce a nuclear weapon in six months to a year.

Follow the link above to watch the interview yourself. This should disturb every man, woman, and child in the world, especially all of us living in Israel or America. After all, Ahmadinejad has sworn to see a world without Israel and America, and has given no indication other than his total willingness to start World War 3 to accomplish that goal.

Another signal that we're careening toward a major, major world war (predicted in the Bible, in the book of Ezekiel) is that Russia continues to affirm and protect Iran. Joel C. Rosenberg has written extensively about this war, and concludes that hostilities will ensue in a war against Israel led by a coalition of Arab states led by Russia and Iran. That Russia continues to signal their support of Iran only adds fuel to Rosenberg's fire. His interpretation includes little if any mention of the United States, which could be consistent with a Barack Obama presidency, which is almost certainly going to do nothing other than sit down and talk to Iran as they plot to destroy us.

Israel, however, is sending a big signal of their own, running a massive military exercise earlier this month. Though Israel is not officially commenting, it seems pretty obvious that this exercise was intended to tell Iran to keep its distance. Of course, it's not likely that will happen, given Ahmadinejad's craziness. Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is a little more direct (excerpts):

John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in.

The Arab world would be "pleased" by Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, he said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

"It [the reaction] will be positive privately. I think there'll be public denunciations but no action," he said.

"The Israelis have one eye on the calendar because of the pace at which the Iranians are proceeding both to develop their nuclear weapons capability and to do things like increase their defences by buying new Russian anti-aircraft systems and further harden the nuclear installations .

"They're also obviously looking at the American election calendar. My judgement is they would not want to do anything before our election because there's no telling what impact it could have on the election."

But waiting for either Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, or his Republican opponent John McCain to be installed in the White House could preclude military action happening for the next four years or at least delay it.

"An Obama victory would rule out military action by the Israelis because they would fear the consequences given the approach Obama has taken to foreign policy," said Mr Bolton, who was Mr Bush's ambassador to the UN from 2005 to 2006.

"With McCain they might still be looking at a delay. Given that time is on Iran's side, I think the argument for military action is sooner rather than later absent some other development."

If you have not yet read Rosenberg's book 'Epicenter', you really need to pick up a copy of it. In it, Rosenberg provides a wealth of interpretation, evidence, history, and fact to support his theory. If you want to understand the tidal forces causing conflict in the Middle East, this is the book you need to read.

War is coming, the only question is when. Pay attention.

There's my two cents.