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Barack Obama – Dangerously Unprepared to Be President
New John McCain Ad: TinyTeam McCain attacks Barack Obama on foreign policy and most notably on calling Iran a “TINY” threat. McCain has slammed Obama previously on Obama’s remarks.“Before I begin my prepared remarks, I want to respond briefly to a comment Senator Obama made yesterday about the threat posed to the United States by the Government of Iran. Senator Obama claimed that the threat Iran poses to our security is “tiny†compared to the threat once posed by the former Soviet Union. Obviously, Iran isn’t a superpower and doesn’t possess the military power the Soviet Union had. But that does not mean that the threat posed by Iran is insignificant. On the contrary, right now Iran provides some of the deadliest explosive devices used in Iraq to kill our soldiers. They are the chief sponsor of Shia extremists in Iraq, and terrorist organizations in the Middle East. And their President, who has called Israel a “stinking corpse,†has repeatedly made clear his government’s commitment to Israel’s destruction. Most worrying, Iran is intent on acquiring nuclear weapons. The biggest national security challenge the United States currently faces is keeping nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists. Should Iran acquire nuclear weapons, that danger would become very dire, indeed. They might not be a superpower, but the threat the Government of Iran poses is anything but “tiny.â€
Now, Jake Tapper over at ABC News says Team McCain is being dishonest and the ad is unfair. But, here is the You Tube video of what Obama actually said and let the reader be the judge.
The ad is accurate in the context of what Obama said.
The script of “TINY:”
ANNCR: Iran. Radical Islamic government. Known sponsors of terrorism.
Developing nuclear capabilities to “generate power†but threatening to eliminate Israel.
Obama says Iran is a “tiny†country, “doesn’t pose a serious threatâ€.
Terrorism, destroying Israel, those aren’t “serious threats�
Obama — dangerously unprepared to be president.
JOHN MCCAIN: I’m John McCain and I approved this message.
Note the new McCain theme: “dangerously unprepared to be President”
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Iran Nuclear Watch: More Nuclear Power Plants
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (centre) and unidentified officials are pictured at a space station at an undisclosed location in Iran on August 16. Iran has said that a home-built rocket sent into space in a move that triggered US concern over possible military use will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth
More targets for the Israeli Air Force.Iran’s official news agency says the country is preparing to build more nuclear power plants.
Tuesday’s IRNA report quotes Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh, the head of a state-owned nuclear energy production company.
He says his company signed agreements with other domestic firms to find locations to build new nuclear power plants. He says the process could take about 13 months.
Iran has previously announced plans to build six more nuclear power plants by 2021.
Iran rubs Israel’s nose in the development of ultimate weapon. In the meantime, the uranium enrichment centrifuges continue to spin at Natanz as Iran’s nuclear weapon development program continues unabated.
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Iran Watch: Unmanned Submarine Threatens Persian Gulf Oil Supply
The Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz
Iran has announced the development of an unmanned smart submarine which will be deployed in the Persian Gulf.In a direct threat to world oil supplies, Iran inflicts more uncertainty and attempts to blackmail the West by playing the OIL CARD.
In the meantime, the uranium ennrichment centrifuges continue to spin at Natanz as Iran pursues its nuclear program.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Defies Deadline
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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seen in Tehran August 2, 2008. The United States said on Sunday that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands that it halt sensitive nuclear activities
No shock here with, again, Iran demonstrating its desire to continue on its nuclear weapons development program.Iran said on Saturday it would not back down “one iota” in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over Tehran’s disputed atomic ambitions.
Western officials gave Tehran two weeks from July 19 to respond to their offer to hold off from imposing more U.N. sanctions on Iran if it froze any expansion of its nuclear work.
That would suggest a deadline of Saturday but Iran, which has repeatedly ruled out curbing its nuclear activities, dismissed the idea of having two weeks to reply.
The West accuses Iran of seeking to build nuclear warheads under cover of a civilian power program. Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, denies the charge.
“In whichever negotiation we take part … it is unequivocally with the view to the realization of Iran’s nuclear right and the Iranian nation would not retreat one iota from its rights,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
And, the United States plus Europe will persue new sanctions ad nauseum.
Flap does not think Israel will wait much longer.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: 5000-6000 Uranium Enrichment Centrifuges
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he speaks during a news conference after the Eight Developing Islamic Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur July 8, 2008. Iran is running more than 5,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, its president was quoted as saying on Saturday, in comments suggesting continued expansion of work the West fears is aimed at making bombs
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today that Iran is running between 5,000 and 6,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges.Iran has more than 5,000 active centrifuges for enriching uranium, its president was quoted as saying on Saturday, suggesting a rapid expansion of nuclear work the West suspects is aimed at making bombs.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s announcement was likely to irritate major powers which have offered Iran economic and other incentives to persuade it to suspend enrichment activity that can have both civilian and military uses.
Western officials said after a meeting with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator in Geneva on July 19 it had two weeks to reply to an offer of a halt to new steps towards more U.N. sanctions if Iran froze the expansion of its nuclear program.
Now, Ahamdinejad is saying that the P-5 plus one nations (United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) are willing to accept Iranian uranium enrichment at this level. This is news to Flap unless the United States has changed its many years’ position of a halt to ALL uranium enrichment as a pre-condition to formal negotiations.
The fact is that Iran will NEVER halt any uranium enrichment. The Iranian Mullahs covet a nuclear weapon to project hegemony over their Arab neighbors and blackmail Israel.
Iran continues to enrich uranium and proceeds towards BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
Stay tuned……
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Barack Obama Watch: Iran Does or Does NOT Pose a Serious Threat?
Barack Obama says “Iran is no big threat to us” on one day then turns around and says “Iran is grave threat” less than 48 hours later.Today since Barack Obama is in Israel, a nuclear Iran poses a “GRAVE THREAT.”U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday a nuclear Iran would pose a “grave threat” and that the world must stop Tehran from obtaining an atomic weapon.
Obama told reporters during a visit to Israel that if elected, he would take “no options off the table” in dealing with the Iran issue and said tougher sanctions could be imposed.
“A nuclear Iran would pose a grave threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama told reporters after visiting the Israeli town of Sderot, which lies close to the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
He said the international community should immediately offer “big sticks and big carrots” to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear program. The West suspects Iran wants to build atom bombs but the Islamic Republic says its aims are peaceful.
“Iranians need to understand that whether it’s the Bush administration or the Obama administration, this is a paramount concern to the United States,” he said in Sderot, which has been hit by cross-border rockets fired by Gaza-based militants.
Barack Obama is a foreign policy rookie. WTF do you think the United States and the European Union have been doing the past few years?
“Big sticks and big carrots” has NOT been successful. Economic and political sanctions have NOT worked.
Iran continues to enrich uranium and proceeds towards BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
First, Senator Obama has to make up his mind whether Iran is a threat or not. Then, he has to formulate a realistic policy – one that does not mirror the “FAILED” Bush Administration one.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Back to Sanctions or Military Action?
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili (L) is pictured before a meeting on nuclear issues with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana (R), and US Undersecretary of State William Burns (3rdR) in Geneva. World powers’ latest bid to make Iran halt its nuclear programme stalled as high-level talks ended without a deal and Washington warned of possible further “confrontation.
In a shocking surprise, even after the United States dispatched Under Secretary of State William Burns to the meeting, Iran “STONEWALLED” the issue of uranium enrichment.
A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment.
In response, the six gave Iran two weeks to respond to their demand, setting the stage for a new round of U.N. sanctions.
Iran’s refusal to consider suspending enrichment was an indirect slap at the United States, which had sent Undersecretary of State William Burns to the talks in hopes the first-time American presence would encourage Tehran into making concessions.
Officials and diplomats refused to characterize the timeframe as an ultimatum, but it appeared clear that Iran now has a de-facto deadline to show flexibility.
The United States and its allies have done all they can do to negotiate with Iran. Iran has stalled for YEARS.
As Flap has said before, time for Israel and the United States to either act or allow Iran BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Back Channel American Nuclear Negotiations with Iran?
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili
In an apparent major shift in United States foreign policy, William Burns, Undersecretary of State and the United States State Department’s number three official will meet with top Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili this weekend in Geneva at talks on Iran’s nuclear program.President Bush has authorized the most significant American diplomatic contact with Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, sending the State Department’s third-ranking official to Geneva for a meeting this weekend on Iran’s nuclear program, administration officials said Tuesday.
The decision appeared to bend, if not exactly break, the administration’s insistence that it would not negotiate with Iran over its nuclear programs unless it first suspended uranium enrichment, as demanded by three resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
Still, after months of accusations and counteraccusations from the United States and Iran, the meeting raised the prospect of an intensified diplomatic push to resolve concerns over Iranian nuclear activity, not unlike the lengthy and painstaking talks that resulted in a deal last month with North Korea.
William J. Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs, will attend a meeting on Saturday with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and Iran’s nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, a senior administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an official announcement on Wednesday.
The Bush Administration has NOT been successful in restraining Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Is this a last minute gambit in order to give cover to Israel, pending a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities?
Should Israel attack Iran, the United States will be blamed anyway and suffer the consequences of another war and disruption of oil importation. So, could it be said then to the world community, “Hey America tried
to negotiate with Iran but they refused?”Or is this a change in the long-standing policy that the United States will NOT negotiate with Iran until they completely suspend uranium enrichment?
A change in this policy would be foolish in that Iran would continue to spin their centrifuges at Natanz, enrich enough uranium to produce a nuclear bomb and reach “BREAKOUT CAPABILITY” while negotiations drag on for another few months/years.
But, this is an interesting development.
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Iran President Ahmadinejad to Visit New York for United Nations General Assembly
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reportedly planning to visit New York again this Fall for the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
Iran and the Mullahs who pull President Ahmadinejad’s strings just love to screw with the United States -especially at Presidential election time.
Flap wonders if Barack Obama will agree to meet with Ahamdinejad – you know without preconditions?
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Will NOT Stop Uranium Enrichment
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) waves to journalists as Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili stands in the background before an official meeting in Tehran July 1, 2008. Iran said on Saturday its nuclear stance had not changed and it was ready to hold talks with world major powers over its disputed nuclear program based on international regulations.
The trial balloon of a few days ago – “freeze-for-freeze†– turns out to be bull – just like all of the others. Iran will not halt uranium enrichment.Iran’s nuclear program remains unchanged, a government spokesman Saturday, indicating that Tehran has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium.
Gholam Hossein Elham’s insistence that Iran would not change the central part of its controversial program came a day after Iran sent the European Union its response to an international proposal to curb its program in exchange for economic incentives. The content of the response has not been made public.
“Iran’s stand regarding its peaceful nuclear program has not changed,” Mr. Elham told reporters.
Iran’s ambassador to Belgium presented the response to the package to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Brussels on Friday, and Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, spoke with Mr. Solana by phone, Iranian state media has reported.
European officials said they were studying the Iranian response and were consulting among themselves and with America, Russia, and China on what to do next.
The Iranian Mullahs covet nuclear weapons and will do anything to obtain them, including the big stall game while they enrich sufficient uranium for BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
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