Obama Claims Bush Administration Dropped the Ball on Iran
President Obama sought to convince the crowd at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference today that “when the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.”
He also placed blame on the Bush administration for letting Iran become the threat it is today, claiming that a policy of putting pressure on Iran was “in tatters” when he took office.
“If during this political season you hear some question my administration’s support for Israel, remember that it’s not backed up by the facts,” the president said.
He also said he has “no apologies” for pursuing the Middle East peace process, which is effectively stalled, while continually pressing that he is a friend of Israel.
“As you examine my commitment, you don’t just have to count on my words,” Obama said. “You can look at my deeds. Because over the last three years, as president of the United States, I have kept my commitments to the state of Israel. At every crucial juncture – at every fork in the road – we have been there for Israel. Every single time.”
“When the Goldstone report unfairly singled out Israel for criticism, we challenged it,” he continued. “When Israel was isolated in the aftermath of the flotilla incident, we supported them. When the Durban conference was commemorated, we boycotted it, and we will always reject the notion that Zionism is racism. When one-sided resolutions are brought up at the Human Rights Council, we oppose them. When Israeli diplomats feared for their lives in Cairo, we intervened to help save them. When there are efforts to boycott or divest from Israel, we will stand against them. And whenever an effort is made to de-legitimize the state of Israel, my Administration has opposed them.
“So there should not be a shred of doubt by now: when the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.”
It was after this that Obama moved on to the topic over which the president is expected to clash with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — Monday night’s gala speaker here — over these few days: Iran.
“Four years ago, I made a commitment to the American people, and said that we would use all elements of American power to pressure Iran and prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. “That is what we have done.”
He claimed that when he took office, the George W. Bush administration had left “the efforts to apply pressure on Iran …in tatters.”
“And so from my first months in office, we put forward a very clear choice to the Iranian regime: a path that would allow them to rejoin the community of nations if they meet their international obligations, or a path that leads to an escalating series of consequences if they don’t,” Obama said. “Our policy of engagement – quickly rebuffed by the Iranian regime – allowed us to rally the international community as never before; to expose Iran’s intransigence; and to apply pressure that goes far beyond anything that the United States could do on our own.”
Because of his administration, the commander in chief said, “Iran is isolated, its leadership divided and under pressure.”
He said that he still believes that there can be a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.
“The United States and Israel both assess that Iran does not yet have a nuclear weapon, and we are exceedingly vigilant in monitoring their program,” Obama said. “Now, the international community has a responsibility to use the time and space that exists.”
The crowd was largely quiet during these comments.
The president acknowledged that there are “no guarantees” that Tehran “will make the right choice,” as suggested by the Islamic Republic’s history.
“I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table, and I mean what I say. That includes all elements of American power,” Obama said. “A political effort aimed at isolating Iran; a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored; an economic effort to impose crippling sanctions; and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.”
“Iran’s leaders should know that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” he added, receiving a standing ovation from much of the audience. “And as I’ve made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests.”
He asked the crowd to remember the “weightiness” of the issue when considering how to confront Iran.
“For the sake of Israel’s security, America’s security, and the peace and security of the world, now is not the time for bluster; now is the time to let our increased pressure sink in, and to sustain the broad international coalition that we have built,” he said.
Obama said the two countries “may not agree on every single issue … but we agree on the big things.”
Teddy Roosevelt said to “walk softly and carry a big stick.” Obama speaks loudly and carries a tiny stick indeed. And believes his tough talk coupled to inaction is actually accomplishing something.
What did we expect anyways, from s man who believes voting “present” is making a decision?
I’ve always said that Barry talks endlessly and carries a limp dick.
We have a president who is a pussy-whipped coward.
When I went to the Army NCO leadership school in 1953, one of the first traits of leadership I was taught is that leading from behind is cowardly. This truth remains del-evident.
Good leader also take responsibility. Poor leaders place blame.
Before he won the election, voters had the opportunity to see Obama’s view of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and it was not reassuring to me or to other readers. Here is the link: http://clarespark.com/2009/09/11/oil-politics-and-obamas-view-of-israeli-history/. What has done since to allay my fears? Surely not presenting the 1967 “borders” as essential to a final settlement.
” ‘Speak’ softly and carry a big stick.”
Typo. You’re correct, of course.
Does anyone remember – or been reminded/taught of – that earlier “Democratic” President James Earl Carter with whom Obama ia by some observers compared. That earlier “Democratic” President who was to be the Saviour of the USA from that embodiment of evil, that Satan the Republican Richard M. Nixon? As Obsms ss New Kennedy is to be Saviour/Messiah from that embodiment of evil, that Satan George W Bush?
Does anyone remember – history being SO boring and irrelevant to the modern world -
the “hostage” episode of Iran, implemented and managed by Carter etal? The beginning of the USA “Democrats” in the world-wide humiliation of that CAN-DO America. No need then for presidential world tours to bend the knee and bow the head to heads of state with histories even today of slavery, inequality in law, in cabal appointments of “Heads of State”, e.g. Libya and Z|imbabwe – erstwhile Chiefs of the UN Human Rights Council,, etc.
Does it matter to Americanans that Democratic Presidents of late, let’s not forget Clinton’s “defense” at impeachment hearings that “it all depends on the meaning of is” etc. which brought into world-wide disrepute America’s “equality in Law”. This “Democratic” President and Congressional crew snickered with the world as Clinton’s activities added to the gaiety of nations AND the glee of the anti-americans of Europe etc?
Does it matter to Americans that the holder of the highest office in their gift is now held by a “Democratic” President who gleefully displays unrelentingly his contempt fot citizens who gave him the gift. In his blatent, unrelenting and unapologetic smirking and arrogations of powers not legal in the legal foundations of the USA.
Do any of these things matter so long as he looks good on TV, changes tack when expedient for the major aim to retain powers to disembowel the USA as the Land of the Free, Land of Liberty, a Country of Law and Melting Pot?
Do any of these matter to Americans of the modern world?
The “tiny stick” is a toothpick with which Obama pricks Iran with.
Does he Really?
Once again, Obama invokes the halo of his white great-uncle’s WWII experience at Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp. Charles Payne said in an interview that he and Barry had never spoken about it, and that he was not in the Obama inner circle. When Obama used it in the ’08 campaign, his great-uncle said it was used for political advantage only, not retelling any story from childhood remembered or shared family history.
Thevery blunt fact is that President Bush would not have been able to do a dang thing on Iran because of men like Barack Obama. That is why, once in office, Obama had to call in his liberal usual suspects and tell them that since he now had access to the real information, his views had changed. This is the meeting where he told the ACLU rep he would be standing on that ledge by himself if he pushed for trials of Bush officials.
Batack Obama is a liar.
I’m going to reemphasize this point–by 2007, George Bush had very little ability to do anything on Iran–he did not have the support of the military, and after 2003 he not been able to count on faithful support from some kind of loyal opposition.
The man could did not have the support to do things. Some of that was his fault. Some of it was disloyalty. Maybe he should have gone ahead anyway. I can’t say. But my real point is that what Barack is really saying is that the only effective way Democrats will allow American foreign policy to be conducted is if the conductor is a Democrat.
Just want to agree with what you say.
And yet, also have to say there is an element of truth to what Obambus claims, in that neither Bush nor the Joint Chiefs were willing to even publicly state the military problems of Iranian supply and direct attacks on our troops in Iraq. At the height of our engagement in Iraq, we should have warned off Iran and attacked their military forces head-on if they kept up (as of course they would). Always better to interdict upstream.
Which does not mean that Obambus is actually *doing* anything today, nor that he is prepared to do anything. All signs are against it, and that he is simply and blatantly LYING about supporting Israel. Just watched ABC This Week, second guess was Axelrod, who is as vile a public figure as anyone since the Nixon White House with that musical quartet of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean. Axelrod’s approach to things is basically to lie his head off, a new lie every three seconds so they pile up faster than you can question them, which of course we know we also got from Bubba Clinton, but Axelrod’s lies are larger, cruder, and more psychopathic (Bubba’s charm was that he preferred small ball, so you were always on the edge of smiling and forgiving the obvious lies). The point here being that Obambus depends on him for strategy and advice. The point being you can’t believe a word Obambus says about supporting Israel.
What do you mean “Bush didn’t have the support of the military”???
He was the Commander-in-Chief.
If Bush had given the order to bomb Iran, the military would have bombed Iran.
It’s pretty obvious that Iraq was higher on Bush’s list of priorities than Iran. Bush and Rumsfeld figured that achieving regime change in Iraq would be straightforward, and that U.S. forces would be completely out of Iraq by early 2007:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB214/index.htm
They were wrong about that.
It turned into an 8 year long bloody nation-building and counter-insurgency exercise, while Iran continued to build up her own nuclear capability. It took 4 more years than originally anticipated for U.S. forces to be withdrawn from Iraq.
And in the meantime, Saddam would have been turning Iraq into a high-tech/cash-flush Afghanistan 2.0, run by a political animal more unpredictable than the true-believing Mad Mullahs in Tehran.
Dealing with Iran would have been problematic if Saddam had been in place … by exploiting the lack of attention and/or the end of the Iranian threat against Iraq to grow stronger and bolder, even to the point of invading Iran himself and turning on our forces to become the Big Man on the Arab Street, or fully implementing the Afghanistan 2.0 paradigm and fomenting a new round of terror in the West.
It is not as cut-and-dried as you might think.
Oh, they would have obeyed. That is different than support, as in “great idea, chief.” And you already answered the reason why. Remember, the military are not automatons. In many ways they are more accomplished and talented than the pols they interact with. I would say usually so.
When Gates came in after Rumsfeld, the JCS sent a little message the first meeting (or so) by saying they would available for meeting with him and the President at the JCS spaces, not the Executive Branch ones. In other words. “we obey, but we are not politicians. We are somewhat independent, and we have seen enough of the mismanagement we have been seeing, and we know we can make political trouble for you if we wish to, so there are going to be some changes.”
I seriously doubt Bush would have had full support from the JCS or Centcom in 2007/8 for an Iran strike, because credibility had been lost by the President by that time. For reasons you mention, among others.
The military high command obeys civilian control. It does not worship at its feet. Or at least, it should not.
The military takes their oath seriously, namely “do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic” and they take it seriously. A helluva lot more seriously than the CIC and many in congress.
Many of the problems in Iraq were spurred by “the loyal opposition” in this country that gave aid and comfort to the enemy in the middle of the conflict. You had Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, Dennis Kucinich, and Raul Grijalva paving the way for aid ($600k) on behalf of Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, and Global Exchange, to “the other side” (Benjamin’s words) in Falujah in 2004. You had a State Department and CIA that were in open revolt over the White House’s orders in Iraq for political–not professional–reasons. Iraq might not have been as easy a situation as the White House had hoped, but it wouldn’t have been near the nightmare it became had the left in this country not committed what I consider nothing short of treason.
The Obama owes Bush a big thank you for Stuxnet.
It’s BUSH’S FAULT! Got tired of blaming tsunamis, Arab “springs” and such for things, eh? Puke.
Sure, it’s Bush’ fault. And you are a tough guy, not bluffing.
He is not bluffing, he is surrendering for real.
Yes, it reminds me of the scene in Blazing Saddles in which Bart threatens to blow his own “head all over this town!” The Olsen Johnson character responds, “Careful men! He’s not bluffing!”
Of course, Obama’s speech also reminds me of the campfire scene.
The old standby: it’s Bush’s fault. And the Smartest President Evah doesn’t seem to realize how ridiculous he sounds, using that tired old excuse.
Actually most analysts understand that the Iranian nuclear program began in the late 70s under LBJ, with the then U.S. friendly Shah. Carter fell asleep on the job and bungled any effort to dismantle U.S. contributed assets and since then it’s been accepted as a problem of international organization jurisdiction (short of initiations of war).
Dude,
LBJ left the White House in 1969. Try again.
Okay, so the Bush policy on Iran was in tatters – in 2008. And in the meantime, what has Obama done about it? There is some point where you can’t blame your predecessor – I guess Obama hasn’t reached it yet. There is some point where blaming your predecessor is no longer credible. That line has been crossed.
Bush’s policy may have been in tatters as you say, but he still had troops based in 2 border countries in the event an invasion was necessary. Those troops bordering Iran have now pretty much been withdrawn, causing the Iranian leadership to heave a sign of relief.
My point is that even if we accept Obama’s “blame Bush” excuse, he still owns this problem.
Bush did drop the ball regarding Iran. So has Obama.
Barack Obama has had over THREE FULL YEARS to get serious stopping Iran’s
nuclear program. He has done NOTHING! Obama was given a golden opportunity
when opposition parties in Iran went in revolt, to undermine the current
Iranian leadership. He did LESS THAN NOTHING! Our fearless leader couldn’t
even come up with a kind word for those who were taking on the Iranian regime.
Bush’s failures (real or imagined) are absolutely no excuse for Obama’s
lack of leadership and incompetence. It would be nice if someone in
the press would ask Obama if he could give us date in the future when
he might actually take responsibility for something. Anything.
This is the guy who travelled to the Victory Column in Berlin to establish his crds with the anti-Bush SPD politicians opposing Merkel. Maybe someone should point out to him that he inherited Gates and Petraeus from Bush.
Did you think This Jackass was going to take responsibility for Something besides being a Liberal Hero ?? Why doesnt he wave his Noble peace prize at it and make it go away ???
Oh please, stop with the blaming Bush garbage. More than 3 years after taking office, Obama still hasn’t figured out that Iran isn’t going to be talked out of nuclear weapons. It took him 3 years to get off his skinny backside an implement sanctions.
Obama cannot be trusted.
Well, if you can ignore China, and Russia, and the 3/4 of the U.N., and the feckless toadies, lackeys, sycophants, Commies, deviant Czars – the Obama Cabinet basically – and Louie Farrakhan, and Rev. Al, Brother Jeremiah, Syria, and Lebanon, half of Africa, etc…
Then we’ve got Mahmoud right where we want him, scared stiff.
I suppose that isolation is why Iran has been sending ships through the Suez Canal to Syria at will. Yep, everybody is against them, will block them at every turn, will stop them at whatever cost…
If Bush fumbled the ball (and if he did, it was due to the “loyal opposition” slapping at it every chance they got), then Obama kicked it down the street and into the grate over the sewer.
Dang straight.
Both the slapping and the kicking, though, are right out of the Progressive playbook. It’s what they do … and why they should be kept away from positions of power.
It’s why it would be a desirable thing to, finally, do something about the American Left. They’ve behaved like this for at least the entirety of my life. At least Muslims have the excuse of being raised with the example of their loathsome “prophet” from birth. American Leftists are born into one of the most wealthy and free societies in recorded history, and make a conscious choice, at some point, to mutate into a walking toothache, and to devote their individual and collective selves to throwing a lifelong toddler’s tantrum and try to tear their own country down.
It gets tiring. And it gets interesting when the money runs out, and resources for government become scarcer, just what the outcome will be when the highchair-banging Left insist the usual handouts they use to pay their voters remain intact. There are a whole lot of the major urban areas of the country which have been controlled by the Left side of the country for some time now. Do they truly think that vilifying the agriculture producing areas of the country is a good long-term policy? Gee, if things got nightmarish in this country, I mean Fort Sumter nightmarish (I realize that I might be getting a little hyperbolic at this point), it sure seems convenient that most of one side is conveniently cooped up in those nice tight locations we can see on the maps of election results.
As I said, perhaps a little hyperbolic. But this country is paying the price for not coming to grips with the Left after their last little play at treason during the Vietnam years, which, as long as the silly overpraised kid who runs this country is playing the blame game, I choose to blame on the Democratic Party. Thanks, Democrats, thanks for allowing these spoiled little shits to take control of your party. Thanks for allowing them to prosper. We won’t forget in the coming Iron Years, we will remember who did this to us.
If bad trouble comes again to our country, I mean Antietam bad, historians won’t refer to it as being “Brother against brother”. It will involve words like ‘cleansing’, or ‘extermination’.
Oh, I almost forgot, I am absolutely not astonished that the Affirmative Action Hire-in-Chief thinks he can utter so childish an evasion as he did. He’s been allowed to do this sort of thing his whole life. Passed from grade to grade, weirdly showered with meaningless awards and accolades his whole life, told he has substance when he has none, told he had accomplishments when he hadn’t really accomplished much except show up and be the right check-box on the application form, why wouldn’t he? It’s got him this far. And what a fine example to set the future generations.
Does anyone really believe that he has Israel’s back? After all, he is about to throw several innocent soldiers under the bus for having accidentally burned copies of the Koran. If he is willing to do that to appease the muslim world you can bet the farm that he won’t do anything to support Israel, who he hates as much as he hates this country.
If Obama were standing behing Israel, it would be for the express purpose of stabbing them in the back.
Absolutely
This [may I borrow, Rush?] SLUT, has to go..
If SLUT seems too harsh, you may choose:
1. #44
2. Alinsky Scholar
3. Black Theology Scholar
4. World’s Premier America Hater
5. I only bow to Saudi Kings
6. Mr. “spread the wealth around”
7. All of..
BHO’s NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is now florid. I guess this is what happens when the thick crunchy layer of buttered sycophancy has been cooking for too long. High office will do that to what pretended to be a man.
Between his own self-infatuation and the need to double-down, and double-down again and again, to claim his November payoff, this kind of BS is only going to get worse. In a month or two, it will seem as sweet as a summer breeze compard to what we’re asked to accept.
As for W and Iran: agree, he missed his chance. He was so stuck on turning Iraq into a dagger of democracy aimed at the mullahs’ heart, that he didn’t want to open another front. But there must have been many, many chances to nail their lying murdering hides to the wall. Tapping their boy Muqtada al-Sadr would have been a good start. Arranging for things –important refinery-type things, big nuclear-lab type things– to vaporize mysteriously in the middle of the night, without a radar signature, would have been even better. Who knows, maybe the mullahs would have begun to get the message.
But whatever W could have done and failed to do, or did do and hasn’t been credited wtih, is beside the point. This loser has been on the job for over 3 years and all he can do is whine. Loser.
Actually, vaporization in the middle of the night isn’t a bad idea. But, how about starting in Morocco with neutron bombs and going east until you hit the Indian Ocean. Add in a little piece of land, referred to in ancient texts as Persia, up to and including Lahore.
Don’t believe your lying eyes and cheating ears, the dog did eat my home work.
“The crowd was largely quiet during these comments.”
Pretty much says it all.
Bush dropped my balls! It’s all Bush’s fault!
head over to israel matzov to get the real dope on obamas stance toward israel.
our friends are surrounded by frothing, angry dogs. we got the shotgun, but tell the friend to apologize.
“when the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.”
And he’ll respect you in the morning, too. Uh-huh.
I am waiting for the college videos to show how much of a marxist punk this SCOAMF is. I hope Breitbarts colleagues can make it happen.
I have no doubt at all, not for one second, if the Israelis tell us when they are going to strike Iran Obama will call Tehran with the information immediately.
The problem the Israelis have is not in how or when to strike Iran the problem is that when we detect their attack starting Obama will spill the beans to the New York Times and Tehran
o must be hopping around like the guys in the Progressive commercial – “It’s like a sauna in here.” He will “have Israel’s back” when he sees the mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv. Oh, and don’t bet on refugee visas for the survivors, either.
Carter should have given Iran 24 hrs to release the US hostages back in 79 or face war. It was a clear violation of international law. There would be a free Iran today and less terror world wide. This President is weak! Oh wait he won the nobel peace prize! For what exactly zero! The world is a more dangerous place with this clown in charge!
Not to defend Carter, but I think any responsible advisor would have told him that would only result in increased Iranian demands and dead hostages. The rescue attempt was the right thing to do. Unfortunately, both our political command and our military just weren’t up to the task.
If the military was not up to the task then that is the fault of the commander in chief is it not?
Like Fredo Corleone had Michael’s back.
It’s fascinating that he got up in front that august group and told them a bald-faced lie and then proceeded to blame Bush.
While he mentions the penny-ante claims of being for Israel by being against the Goldstone Report (which it took months for his administration to finally recognize as erroneous), his administration berated Israel over housing expansions that had nothing to do with anything anywhere except that the Palestinians didn’t want them to do it. He has tried to force Israel to give up much concessions while demanding nothing of Israel. He openly expressed that Israel should move back to the 1967 borders, thereby endorsing that Israel give up all of the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians. And now we have his weakness showing on Iran, where he was given a perfect opportunity at the start of his presidency to help remove the dictatorship there with the approving support of Iran’s people. Now he wants to prevent Israel from destroying any of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Of course Israel would not be able to destroy all of them, but the because he’s too chicken littleish to advise a strike himself, he’ll prevent Israel from doing the same thing, even though it is within the security interest of both countries to prevent Iran from getting the nuclear bomb.
And more “it’s Bush’s fault”. This is what happens when you promote a man who has always been irresponsible into a position of utmost responsibility. He is desperately wanting not to be held accountable for any the messes that he has made. Hope and change has become a slur.
When Obama says “So there should not be a shred of doubt by now: when the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.”, he really means that he will “…stab Israel in the back.”
By “tatters” Obama means Bush’s Iran policy was a policy he didn’t like. No suprise since he has never approved of any Bush adminsitraion policy. Obama before IAPAC was Elmer Gantry under a tent full of true believers.
– own cliche, Mr. President, when Israel finally acts, you will lead from behind?
“He also placed blame on the Bush administration for letting Iran become the threat it is today,…”
Did he get booed for going to the Blame Bush well again for the hundredth time? If not, he should have.
Not just a boo but also a giant horse laugh followed by all the audience leaving the room in unison!
As I recall, the US had taken some prisoners in Iraq that were members of the Quds Force, involved in providing high powered shaped charges used as IED’s that could even disable an M1 Abrams tank. That were not tinkered together by some clever Jihadi.
I also remember the Obama Administration turning said Quds Force prisoners over to Iran, against some objections from the military on the ground in Iraq.
I also seem to remember that there was a popular uprising in Iran two years ago that the Obama administration studiously ignored.
The point being that their policy up until last night was to engage Iran with diplomacy. Between Barack and Valerie Jarrett, there is not a “third world” movement that they do not like. Hence Mubarak deposed in Egypt, etc., etc.
BHO is really a grotesque clown : he just blames GW Bush for his own passivity on Iran …laughable.What a pitiful lier. Anyway today Peres did the ” Mr Nice guy ” part, tommorrow comes Netanyahu and the lies detecting test ” If you BHO don’t act now , we Israel shall perform our duty in no long time to neutralize the nuclear threat of Iran “. Now the only problem is that BHO will do his best to spill the beans to warn Teheran and help the nazi-petrocrats to sink the israeli action . What a great ” friend ” of Israel, and of the western world we have here : A Marxist-Muslim-Mole in the White House.
To me, Obama’s statement constitutes conclusive proof that he’s completely insincere. He can’t possibly believe what he said. Indeed, I can’t imagine how anyone could — and I’d bet my salary that Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t believe a word of it.
This man must be stopped — and not just for Israel’s sake.
My, my, so many people who want to start a war with Iran because Israel says so. Or who want to start a war with Iran because maybe/possibly they might be working on a nuclear weapon even though there is no hard evidence proving such.
I’d like all the warhawks to look up pictures of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall. Look at the 58,000 names on there. It will give you some ideas on what kind of memorial you want to make for the thousands more who will die in more wars based on lies just like that one was.
WWABD ? Answer.
And you can take a long trip and visit the war cemeteries all over Europe, to see what the appeasers of evil have caused, to remember how many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost because evil had not stopped before becoming powerful enough to resists for a long time.
Your words just ignore the history of the last thirty years, years in which the mad mullahs have sponsored and directed terrorist attacks all over the world, not only in the Middle East.
And where the long arm of the mad mullahs dominates today, Lebanon, with hizb’allah, once upon a time lived a lively community of Christians.
And American soldiers are being killed every day by the bombs that Iran gives to the terrorists, in Afghanistan (and in Iraq before).
Of course it is not your problem, you think in terms of “others” who will in any case die for you, to defend you and the Freedom that you so evidently do not deserve.
We recently bombed Libya for about three months and did not suffer a single fatality. So, Wes, you really can’t predict how things will work out.
War on behalf of Israel? Do you honestly think they are the only target of Iran? They are the Little Satan. We are the big Satan.
As for Vietnam, blame LBJ, a Democrat, for that. In 1964, he had a decision to make. At that point, we had lost 201 men in Vietnam. Do we commit fully or not?
LBJ did NOT want to commit us. He knew it would end badly. KNEW it, mind you. When he and the DEMOCRATIC Congress finally did commit us, LBJ was violently ill… literally sick to his stomach. He knew he had just committed tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands to die.
So, why did he do it, then, if he was so opposed? Because it was an election year, and he wanted to get re-elected. If he didn’t do it, he might be portrayed as soft on defense and soft on Communism., and he desperately wanted to get re-elected.
So, he committed us. We proceeded to lose 59,272 more men in a losing, unjust war, a war which tore this nation apart. (This is not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese.)
Why was it so important that he be re-elected? He wanted to bring us the “Great Society”, the “War on Poverty”, and Medicare! All this Liberal agenda was brought to you for the teensy-weensy price of the Vietnam War. It was a small price to pay for all this “success”, right? That’s is what happens when wars are fought for mere political advantage, rather than for righteous causes.
Wars are not wrong. Wrong wars are wrong.
Iran has declared itself an enemy to us. We should kick their butts until they decide we are a bad enemy to have. It is the only language they understand. And we would be fully justified in doing so. It would be a righteous war, one for good cause. Iran is a danger to the world; more specifically, to us. And yes, to our friend and ally, Israel.
So, do not point to the Vietnam War and try to castigate us right-wingers with it, because it was a purely Democratic Party debacle in pursuit of a Liberal agenda.
I have another can of whupass handy, if you are still interested, you Liberal.
Well said.
Not once–NOT ONCE–in all the wars that Israel has fought, has she ever asked the U.S. for American ground troops. Not even for American air support.
All Israel has asked for is a) the weapons systems so she can do the job herself; and b) for the U.S. to stay out of her way.
Hey Wes, the 58000 names on the wall were hung out to dry by Democrat congressmen in a war that was started by the intervention of one Dem president and woefully mismanaged by another Dem president. Ultimately our allies in south Viet Nam were sold out by a venal Democratic Congress.
Awww, don’t be so mean to Wes! It’s not his fault he’s an uneducated imbecile governed solely by his feelings.
If Obama is sincere, why didn’t he support the dissidents in Iran during their uprising? No, Mr. Voting Present, sat on his hands and did nothing. What that tells me, is that he supports the Iranian regime. You could topple the Iranian regime by doing one thing: Drill For Oil everywhere in the U.S. An all out drilling program would drive the futures down immediately. The regime could not last if the price of oil fell dramatically because they’d run out of money. They couldn’t fund their Jihad networks. And really if God had a sense of humor, he would dry up the Islamic oil fields. I can wish, can’t I?
Scum. Absolute scum. No shame, no decency, no integrity. Nothing. And to think over 45% of our electorate think he is just fine. They have no honor either, and no respect for their country if they support this travesty.
After Obama’s foreign policy has been a disaster, he now blames Iran’s current situation on President George W. Bush. Predictable. President Obama is a shiftless cult of personality numbskull who can’t think straight without a script & a teleprompter. He’s a fool. To blame President Bush is parody. It also demonstrates how weak & impotent President Obama is.
Here you have the complete educated idiot, a man that could not pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel!
Good Grief!!! Is there anything this guy would not say? No, he will say anything at anytime. His credibility is less than zero.
It is apparent like that stupid logo with a Big Zero (or O) and do you remember the seal of the Office of the President Elect what a f**king goon!
What a head-shaking display of narcissism that was. Now there is one example no one in the future is bound to follow.
Doesn’t anyone in his administration look at what is really being said about this idiot? I hope they are groveling for jobs when his ship really sinks. It will eventually…maybe by his own body failing from being such an imposter. Lying constantly and playing like you are a leader with real countries and human beings lives at stake has to take some toll tho it doesn’t actually when they are a psychopathic /or NPD. They can’t feel. They truly are robotic and somebody pays him well to keep propping him up to keep talking as an idiot and liar….they too are psychopaths to try to destroy millions of peoples lives.
Don’t ya wish we could hear the little bastard’s conversations with his real puppet masters? Is Moochelle so stupid too? This says so much about what our academia puts out as “college educated” which means NO MORALS OR CONSCIENCE.
I wonder if anyone actually clapped after his transcript was read at his presentation? God forbid if they stood up for this impostor
Obambi…what a puzzy…time for once, Bush fight back!
I’m surprised that our pathological liar President didn’t make the following promises to the AIPAC:
(1)Immediately following my re-election, I will travel to Israel and pray at the Kotel. (western Wall)
(2)Immediately following my re-election, I will move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
(3)Immediately following my re-election, I will grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard and have him released from prison.
(4)Immediately following my re-election I will purchase a home in Judea or Samaria where Michelle and I and the girls can live in following my retirement.
(5)Immediately following my re-election I will undergo ritual circumcision and convert to Judaism.
WOW! So Obama is revving up the blame Bush line for the elections again.
Malignant narcissist with sociopathic tendencies. Sorry, he compares HIMSELF to great leaders of the past. He always lies about what is happening and his own beliefs. He does not take any responsibility for anything but takes credit for everything.
We are so Fluked having this guy as President.
Didn’t the Dems sandbag Bush with some trumped up bogus CIA report about Iran’s lack of nuclear progress sometime around ’06-07? To much public fanfare? Only to be found lacking factual data within the year?
“When Israel was isolated in the aftermath of the flotilla incident, we supported them.”
That is a flat-out lie. The Obama administration came down hard on Israel for defending its own maritime borders. And even after Israel had stopped several ships carrying weapons to Hamas (which is why Israel stopped the ships in the first place), Israel was still criticized by Clinton and those ferrets at the UN for the “over use of force.” Just another reason not to listen to anything the Obama administration has to say about “defending” Israel.
Obama has Israels back? His pals Billy Ayers and his Commie Princess Dorn staged that first flotilla that resulted in useless death! For these ass holes to pollute the world with their backwards venom! They Live above even most 1%ers. These Totalitarians just want the Joy of putting their Boot on your neck! Why you ask? I guess their Mothers never suckled them from the womb possibly? Either that or they are just basic bored RICH KIDS! For me it is a travesty these Bastards with the rest of their entourage are given a pass for what they are doing and done! After all what they wish to shove down your throat has failed time and time again killing Millions in its process! These people are Totalitarian! Socialism Communism Fascism all boils down to this bottom line and are all part of the same! Subservient dependency to these above you as they dictate your life! May the Lord watch over us and bless us all!
Yup. And dubya is the reason that the Chevy Volt is a failure. And Bush spawned the tornadoes that ravaged the south. Bush is the force behind the Arab spring. And the frog extinction. And that multi-car pile-up in Florida.
Our president is a pathetic excuse for a man.
If AIPAC is dumb enough to swallow his malarky again ….
Why isn’t there pressure put on him to ask the L.A.Times to release the Video of him speaking at Khallidi’s party?
Why isn’t he asked about it directly?
(Instead of just asking the L.A.Times for it?)
Why isn’t he asked what it is about it — what could it be? — that he wants to hide?
Has everyone forgotten Obama’s affection for J-Street? The Anti-Israel answer to AIPAC parading as pro-Israel?
huh. you’d think after three years they’d come up with a new whipping-boy excuse. I guess they need some orginal thinkers – should we be concerned about a new tzar? one in charge of whom to blame?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbH5KVPrPo&feature=player_embedded
Watch this video and the truth will be known. Obama’s supporters don’t want this shown.
Avigdor Lieberman made an excellent point in his address. He said that Syria is proof that the international community is not able to protect people. So how can Israel depend on them? Clear, succinct, pithy.
President Obama is a liar, pure and simple. He will say anything to get re-elected. Israel should proceed as if the United States is not their friend. Israel should tell the US nothing about their plans. If they do, it will get leaked to the press. If Obama has his way, Iran will have an atomic weapon which will insulate and protect them from anything they do. God help us all.
What’s more discouraging than this empty vessel, Mussolini-head bobbing wannabe using different forms of, ‘Let me be clear’ or ‘..as Ive made clear.. whereas his ACTIONS don’t jive with his verbiage – is the ‘standing ovation’ he’d gotten at times form the AIPAC guests.
Honestly, can these folks TRULY be that f’in dense?
I liken their naivete to 1930′s-40′s captured Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, political prisoners etc., thinking their going from one train box car to another was for ‘..greener pastures’.
I’m not implying Obama has genocidal-like intentions. I believe his ‘talk’ is just that.
I’m curious if Uhbama was such a blame gaming p ussy when taking over from predecessors at Baskin-Robbins as a kid, his unearned, unremarkable stint at the Law Review, his substituting (the guy wasn’t given tenure! hahaha) gig when teaching Constitutional Law, his microsecond as a Senator etc.,
Man, if only Breitbart’s, LAT’s Obama videos were aired in succession.
This is something that’s been gnawing at me as well.
If the government can close or attempt to close tax, overseas banking practices/ loopholes – why hasn’t the LAT’s Obama video not been sequestered? Just curious.
The LAT’s, well, brags it’s got this video and then.. nada. May as well change their name to L.A. Pravda.
If the aforementioned action isn’t the epitome of journalism/ journalistic integrity being dead altogether I don’t know what is.
The cover for this ideologue’s entire unremarkable, erroneous and unaccomplished life is breathtakingly disgusting.
Not 1 year ago Uhbama spoke of returning Israel to, ‘..pre-1967 borders..’ – only going to show how inept, possessing a disregard and his being out-of-touch Uhbama is.
Though the collective amnesia of the AIPAC attendees truly is remarkable as well.
Standing ovations?
Wow..
Oh, my dearest jewish friends 5,000 thousands years and still your leaders are believing in promises of kings and polititians,. Today AIPAC is clapping, followed by Boca Raton, ACLU, President Obama,the famous MSM. I hope whatever was said and promised to you today is true.Time will have the final word. Well the bottom line is I’m sincerely praying for you and I wish you true peace in the land of your forefathers, but it don’t look good,it do not look good..
this unknown will say and do whatever is expedient, until november. a man who expects to be trusted does trustworthy things. he doesn’t claim to be mr. transparency during the election and then hide evrything about himself one day after being elected. he doesn’t campaign on having every bill on the net for all to read, and then hide behind closed doors and ram his obamacare down our throats. he doesn’t sell thousands of illegal guns to mexican drug cartels to run up some good death numbers for the anti-gun lobby, with hundreds dead in their wake, and then refuse to cooperate with the investigation. and on and on it goes.
in short, he shows you what he is about. he doesn’t hide what we need to know about him like a common criminal. honest men have nothing to hide.
If these at AIPAC have any sense, when they look at Barack Hussein Obama, they will see the face of Jeramey Wright, if not Yasser Arafat, looking back at them.
OK maybe Bush did drop the ball, SO DID YOU Obama! Mr. Obama seems to govern by the theeory that any excuse is better than none, and he has a million excuses.
Barack Obama, the Man of a Thousand Excuses.
Ha ha. He actually only has a couple of dozen excuses – being environmentally conscious, he recycles
Obama did not back up his statements with facts … rather ho scolded us and told us to go do our homework; he insulted our intelligence yet again. Holder is out there on a roll about targeting civilians with drones etc. and they’re both
happily skating away unchallenged, and their agenda rolls on uninterrupted … amazing.
I don’t believe a word Obama says anymore … his demagoguery and lying has reached new heights. Obama’s meeting with Netayahu will be the pivotal moment in his career … if he’s only “got Israel’s back” for political purposes; then it will not bode well for him …. … I hope Obama’s commitment to Israel is long, deep, wide and genuine – regardless of what he hasn’t done and hasn’t said.
Every word a lie.
Iran thinks we have an Afro-Carter in the White House today.
It’ll take another Reagan to put Iran back in it’s place.
I can’t wait to see Barracky boy on “Dancing With the Stars”, “The Voice”, “America’s Got Talent”, and “Sesame Street”. This is where he really belongs.
Then again, he might put Goofy out of his job at Disney World.
If he, “has Israel’s back,” you can bet both of his hands are on Israel’s shoulders.
Hot Air: Obamateurism of the Day
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/05/obamateurism-of-the-day-697/
JustAl, that was funny.
The amazing thing remains the President’s language. It has a painfully present lack of integrity. It hurts so much, because it’s not an accident. It’s expressly to trick. After a string of partially true information, made to sound authentic and substantial – or a paragraph of crap reiterated (why so much repetition, trying to make the untrue into the believed?) – please observe the President’s final sentence:
“And whenever an effort is made to de-legitimize the state of Israel, my Administration has opposed them.” Present tense to past tense. Okay then. Nothing was done at all there in this deliberate sentence! Because if efforts *were made to de-legitimize Israel, then we’d ask, “What efforts and what did you do?” That would be a question that couldn’t be answered.
So you now have (if you wish to emulate President Obama) a tool for your spin game: The trick called, “Past to present tense, actual actions may or may not have occurred, and never will.” Or for short, the “Past to Present Tense Trick.” Have a nice day
I can see it now. Our esteemed leader will establish a bipartisan study group to recommend what we should do about Iran. Findings to be announced in 2013. By that time the president will be free to ignore whatever they come up with. Ha ha, let Bibi handle it! Then bitterly complain. By that time he won’t have to worry about losing campaign contributions from wealthy Jewish people. Watch for it.
dear mr o, did you forget our country had (unfortunately) a president named jimmy carter. if anyone must take the blame for dropping the ball on iran, it’s jimmy carter. we had a pro American, pro-western leader, with a border on the ussr, in iran, i guess that was to much for the peanut sized brain of cater to handle.
I have forgotten which generals were viewing the war on television screens in Florida. That alone symbolizes what is wrong with our high ranking military. I can picture all those guys, sitting in their leather swivel chairs, chests abloom with all their ribbons, commenting on how the war was being fought in the slums of Fallujah. Whatever happened to the generals in some big tents just off some battlefield? They and Obama should all be sentenced to a desert island from which they have to watch old WWII movies and the “dirty dozen” making sure they do
I would like to praise Mr Obama’s recent speech at AIPAC entitled” Don’t Dare Upset My Applecart for the 2012 presidential election.”
How many years of profound obstinance and obdurate obfuscation to rational thought must we the American people be subjected to while our country’s president learns his A, B, C’s? The White House is not kindergarden.
Unfortunately, Mr President’s media minions were out to lunch and they gave Obama the presidential candidate a glowing agog at the second coming of the redeemer of Camelot.
No one wants more fighting and war, plain and simple.
What a shame that we the middle class peasants cannot just sit quietly and enjoy the latest goebbels production extraveganza.How do you expect the fourth best president in history to win a second nobel peace prize if the citizen chants do not cease and desist?
I am sure the Iranian Mullahs are quaking in their sandals from the latest presidential bombast to prevent an in-the-blink-of-an-eye nuclear bomb blast that would erase Israel from existance and the US of A by contagioun.
Iran is a pressing national security threat that has festered through three years of unsuccessful diplomacy.
Meanwhile, legitimate Iranians of all stripes rushed into the streets yearning for freedom and were mowed down, tourtured, raped, hung and systematicallt murdered while America turned its back on the most genuine cry for freedom since the French and American Revolutions.
Mr President do you even uderstand that owing to your campaigning-in-chief lack of leadership we have failed to stand by our allies, embraced enemies, spent our treasure ruinously, devastated our military capacity, debilitated our economy, meekly begged forgiveness at every perceived slight to a global audience, and beought America to her knees in purposeful decline.
Yes, President Obama it is correct you are not going to contain Iran.
Now, when America is basically broke and a rising zeal of militaristic frenzy is clearly evident from competitor nations that consider the U.S. their number one enemy you are about to unveil your plan to reduce our aeging nuclear stock by 80 percent to the acclaim of a happy, happy audience.
Such a reduction would herald the end of containment that has ensured the peace for 60 years.
I understand Iran’s reticence in heading President Obama’s call to postpone their attack until after the 2012 presidential elections, but perhaps they will listen to United Nation’s reason to keep the price of oil down and to cease and desist from goading potential Jewish voters in the interim.
I understand that you are one tough cookie. Please huff and puff and bluff the Iranian theocracy into nuclear disarmament without any preconditions as your letter for engagement promised.
I wonder who President George Washington blamed for the issues he faced during his presidency?
He said NOTHING about Bush/
We really dont need American blood – we never have and never will. We trust no one but ourselves.
He was talking about Rep candidates who know nothing about our country and talk absolute rubbish about it trying to get a coupla votes
Obama is actually right that Bush didn’t do much about Iran, other than saying they were in the axis of evil, which dems like Obama criticised him for saying. Where Obama is spouting BS is claiming he did any better, and that Israel can depend on him. And Israel knows it is BS. Good indicator, whenever a president says he isn’t bluffing, it is because nobody beleives him, normally for good reason. And have you ever noticed that whenever obama says something like “let me make this absolutely clear” he is about to spout some his worste lines of BS.
Unfortuneately I agree. But dont worry. The ayatollahs should be worried.
BUSH DID DROP THE BALL ON IRAN. WHEN THE FIRST TANK COLUMN came out of the sandstorm in 27 days and knocked on the door of Sadaams palace. The Iranians shiited their dishdasches. Kadaffy announced he was disarming. The mullahs thought for sure they were next. That was the time to help the Iranian people develop the capability to throw the mullahs out. The Iranians were broke and starving. Their children were used up as cannon fodder in the Iran Iraq war.
Their daughters were being hung from tow trucks in the village squares plus being stoned. University students were being beaten in their beds. We had eight years to build a revolution. Now the Bush win has been turned into the Obama defeat. The worst is yet to come Obama on the run. If Netanyahu trusts Obama more Jews will die than ever before in the history of Harry Truman’s Israel. Already the Taliban is preparing to make the US retreat look like a Russian defeat. The media will advertise it around the world as such. Obama who took credit for killing Bin Laden and the useless killing of KADDAFY DUCK buried overnight the murder of 22 Navy Seals from Team six. The press as usual covers for him. Already he has five times the kia count on his hands in Afghanistan than Bush had. Bush 461 in 8 years. Obama 2200 in three years. he may even beat BUSH’S IRAQ COUNT before he is finished. Never should have telegraphed his moves. WHO LEAKED THE KORAN BURNING? SOMEONE WHO PANICKED AND JUMPED THE PRESS RELEASE GUN? WHO PACKED 22 SEALS IN ONE CHOPPER? Every day the Iranians saw the Iraqis doing better getting fatter while they had to go to jihad rallies. Now thanks to Obama Bin Laden’s no American left behind on the retreat Iraq is gong back to shiite city. Once again heads will roll.
When Muqtada Al Sadr appears like the Mahdi you will know Iran won Iraq.
“He also placed blame on the Bush administration for letting Iran become the threat it is today, claiming that a policy of putting pressure on Iran was “in tatters” when he took office.”
My gosh, it’s never Obama’s fault, no matter what the problem, is it. The buck never stops on his desk does it. And, pray tell me Mr. President, why is it that nothing you have done, has made ANY of the country’s problems any better, in the three years you have been in office.
Is this country smart enough yet to vote this man out of office in 2012? If not, we deserve what we get.