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Bush Opposed Israeli Plan To Bomb Iranian Nuclear Production Bunkers

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Monday, January 12th, 2009

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President Bush last year opposed an Israeli plan to launch an air strike employing earth-penetrating ordnance to annihilate deeply-buried nuclear processing facilities in Iran, according to The New York Times Web site. For Israel, this is an existential question. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be wiped from the map, and that it soon shall cease to exist. Israeli leaders thus are very concerned about illicit Iranian production of nuclear materials that could be further processed into atomic…

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