What are you doing on November 5th?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Perhaps. Why do you suppose that will be the timing?

I could see that (assuming you meant Israel/Iran) being engineered from a timing standpoint before the election as an October surprise to shift the focus to international events rather than domestic, which boosts McCain immensely.

I will make it perfectly clear that timing it politically with Israel would be wrong. It is going to happen eventually, though, so I could see it happening in that time frame. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if that took place in the next week. Since it was already leaked that the Bush admin told Israel they couldn't support any action, there is plausable deniability, but there is NO question that the Obama camp would be screaming from the rooftops about it.

Because you KNOW that McCain has to have something up his sleeve. October surprises are as much a part of Presidential elections as debates. The Powell endorsement was almost assuredly timed to be two weeks from the election, and Obama has gotten the boost they were looking for. It's been known since August that Powell would be endorsing Obama, and I do not take Powell at his word that he only recently came to a decision on it.

Iran, My bad.

1. Israel believes something needs to be done about Iran's nuclear program

2. Israel needs the support of America, not just in regards to this action but as a nation in general.

3. If they are seen as mucking about in our presidential election that could cause a serious backlash. By striking during the lame duck period, they accomplish their goal, Obama is not tarnished, the people of America don't see it as an US election dodge, and Bush well he's irrellivant at this point.