G-8 BACKS EU3: GIVES IRAN A DEADLINE. AND THEN WHAT!?

NYTIMES:

Diplomats from the world's richest countries set a deadline of next Wednesday for receiving a "clear and substantive" response from Iran to the package of incentives offered by major powers in exchange for its suspending its enrichment of uranium.

In the first explicit timetable for Iran to formally respond to the offer, foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized economies issued a statement that "We are disappointed in the absence of an official Iranian response to this positive proposal." They said that Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, and the European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet on July 5, adding that they expect "to bring these discussions to a rapid conclusion."

AND THEN WHAT THEY DO IF IRAN STALLS?! WILL THEY HAVE ELBARADEI JUST SEND IRAN ANOTHER VERY TOUGH-WORDED LETTER!?

The time for talking and letter-writing and diplomacy uis OVER. It is time to act. I think that we need to start cranking up our preemptive military "machinery": meaning, it's time to get our forces deployed and missiles ready.

Iran has it coming to them! Especially when we couple Iran's nuclear ambition with this:

WASH POST: Iranian Gunmen Caught in Iraq:

Iraqi security officials said Iranian fighters had been captured in the fighting, in which a sniper shot dead the commander of an Iraqi quick reaction force and two of his men. They did not say how the Iranians had been identified.

And with this: Iran was behind KHOBAR - which occurred 10 years ago, this week.