White House: Iran Continuing to Isolate Itself

Maybe Obama could apologize for having an American Embassy sully their sacred land in the first place.

oh no.. if iran kees this up,w e might even threaten them with MORE multination talks. am sure they are just quaking in their boots. cant wait to see how BO wins them over with that much ballyhooed oratorial skill of his

If you ask me we are the ones with our policies over the last 60 years post Mosaddeq that have been isolating ourselves. Sure we have got some nations to go along with us because we were rich and powerful via reserve currency and innovations, but what happens as we enter the fiscal doldrums?

Makes me miss W. BO is inept. Maybe an Iran summit is the solution, on the swing set of the WH.
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Iran has no fear or respect for the United States and is functioning like a rogue elephant on a rampage. Our once great Republic has no effective leadership and is becoming a joke to the rest of the free world.

Is Obama trying to earn a merit badge?

Iran is a Signatory to the NPT. Although Rouge nations such as Israel did not sign the NPT and have undeclared numbers of nuclear bombs, they never were inspected by the IAEA and as the matter of fact we gave them what they needed. So, why should all the Islamic countries of the Middle East be living under this threat from them? They get invaded for all sorts of reasons! Is that why Israel can commit atrocities in the Gaza and UN writes reports such as the “Goldstome”, but they never get censured or reported to the security counsel or boycotted by the west and us?!
Then if the NPT DOES NOT worth the paper it is written on, Iran should follow the the example of the Zionists state and do away with the NPT and kick the IAEA out and have undeclared number of A-bombs, so no one be able to touch it either! Then NPT is toast and gone! Happy?

Now if GWB was around, then any actions the US took would have been seen as exaggerated. But as Obama is seen as a balanced and fair man, the mullahs will be blamed, and the world can get out of this log jam. Obama can now say to the world that these mullahs are seriously involved on some crazy project based on dogma and that there are much smarter and more capable people in Iran that can manage the country and the nuclear program more intelligently. But maybe I can be cynical and think that Obama does not say that and lets this regime be an excuse to crush Iranians and not grow to their full potential and eventually be isolated as a pariah state like N Korea. Afterall we Iranians have unbelievable resources in the gas and oil, with a very young vibrant population, as well as being located in one of the best real estates in the world, at the cross roads of all nations. Left to modernize to its full potential the whole of Western Asia would be serious competition to the West much more than East Asia ever was.

Uh oh, looks like Obama is going to have to put little Ahmad in time out. He’s not playing nice with the other kids.
I hope our great leader doesn’t want to “talk” to Iran too much. Listening to him without a teleprompter could surely be put on the same level as waterboarding.

Iran realizes oil wont last forever, and we are the ones living in the past, with out nuclear facilities, but Iran can’t have them? Close our facilities first, send them a message! Oil good, electricity bad! Send another message and get rid of all our nuclear bombs! I wish GW Bush was out of office so we could have a president who doesn’t listen to all the “BIG OIL” men. Get ready for another war, not over oil, but over not using oil! Send more messages, electric vehicles bad, burn oil, have more children, so we can send them off to war! Who did kill the electric car? Same people who are going to start a war with Iran over thier right to produce electricity. The media didn’t call us a rouge nation when we started producing nuclear energy, why is Iran? And we actually used nuclear bombs!

when GWB was in power he gave strict orders to the Zionists and the US air force not let them cross the line. What he knew about Iran was passed on to B. Obama after the inauguration.
So, if Iran fought a war with the battle experience Iraqi forces for 8 years during her revolution under embargo, sanctions, when we gave Sadam all the poison gas and ammunition and satellite intelligence he could use to see the Iranian Army movement and still they kicked Sadam’s behind, you should be careful what you are asking for.

Well if the U.S. does attack Iran, get ready for a draft and higher taxes. No more free wars on the backs of the poor and future generations. The rich will need to pay and fight for these wars.

wpqr99; Is this an argument? “..Have they ever used them? No..”, Should we for it?!
Again you argue “..One word – deterrence..”. That would work if the other side had them as well. At this point Iran has declared they don’t have plan and it is not in their defense structure. It might change later, but they don’t have one yet. So, ther eis no “deterrence” as you say.
Again you argue “..As long as a country does not have hostile intentions toward Israel, it has nothing to fear..”. Well with the Zionists short and violent history, invasion of each and every neighboring country, the latest “Goldstone” report by the UN, “Sabra and Shatila massacres” in Lebanon etc. etc. It seems the “hostile intentions” is from them. They can’t stop threatening Iran with bombing!! I don’t think anyone would take them serious when they keep taking the Palestinian lands and expand in the occupied territories. So, when it comes to peace and tranquility in that region no one trust them. They are not Middle Easterner, they are considered European migrant.

wpqr99… How can you accept a country’s existence if it just occupied your land illegally and with brutal force?

Dabbas: are you talking about the United States? Was it legal for Europeans to come to America, wage war against its native inhabitants and steal an entire continent? Is anyone today questioning the United States’ right to exist? Why the double standard?

Mohandas – The military is overwhelmingly lower income folks. Sure there are always exceptions, but don’t kid yourself. The poor have always shouldered the burden in such endeavors.

This is of, course, leading up to the inevitable.

The MSM continuing to isolate itself from the Global Warming conspiracy revealed in ClimateGate.

As long as China needs Irans oil, they can build the nuclear equipment without fear from the U.S. since it is now beholden to do what China wants or have its I.O.U.’s called and then go into bankruptcy. Hope and change you can believe in? How about debt and servitude you can pay for, thanks Obama for turning our great nation into a debtor pauper.

Ed stated “I think the US is afraid of IRAN.”_________I could not agree with you more. About 3 or 4 years ago, GW was mouthing off about Iran would NOT be allowed to go nuclear. What happened to that??

What happened to the new way of working with the hard questions and the hard countries that the previous administration were just arrogant with. Well, so much for on the job training. With Obama, Axelrod and Emanuel in charge maybe we can just give Iran more money and they will do what we arrogant American want them to do. Change is just a six letter word nothing else.

This secret facility in Iran was developed on George Bush’s watch and exposed by the Obama administration.
Interesting – the North Koreans’ also produced and tested nuclear weapons on Bush’s watch.
At least now, Obama has gathered a large consensus against Iran, the parameters have been laid out for Iran – and Iran has been given their chance to co-operate.

matyra – You are absolutely correct. This has been in the works since the Carter Doctrine. Can you believe peace-loving Jimmy Carter set us one this militant path of belligerence and arrogance. After all it is our oil. God just made the mistake of putting it uder their sand. Not to mention Operation Ajax creating 60 years of hell with Iran.

Let’s bomb them. No troops, no invasion, just bomb their nuke sites.

The so-called International Community and the UN is nothing buy toothless hot air.
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Not really, they pretty much choked Iraq to death with sanctions after the Desert Storn slaughter. And the UN inspectors were right – they had accurately assessed there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Posted by: grizzlybare | Nov 29, 2009 11:23:01 PM
People can really be blinded by their own ignorance; there has been a strong international coalition put together to attempt to work Iran into a suitable agreement, impose sanctions . . . and take whatever further steps necessary.
Are you really foolish enough to think bombing is the right first step?
Did you know North Korea developed and tested its first nuclear weapon on George Bush’s shift?
Did you know the secret nuclear facility in Iran was developed on Bush’s shift, and uncovered during the Obama administration?

Not really, they pretty much choked Iraq to death with sanctions after the Desert Storn slaughter. And the UN inspectors were right – they had accurately assessed there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Actually, tierra, Saddam didn’t care a bit about the sanctions.
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Nonsense. Iraq was largely impoverished. When Bush attacked, Iraq couldn’t even get a plane into the air. It was not a war, it was a slaughter.
And the Saddam’s had no weapons of mass destruction; the sanctions and the UN restrictions and inspections damaged Iraq.

tierra, i don’t like bush or obama and attempting to show that one was more effective or less so than the other vis a vis iran is foolish. no one has been able to do anything with iran. ahmadenijad couldn’t care less about who tells him what. this all does make obama look quite foolish, however, considering his naive promises during the campaign to open a dialogue with iran. and it’s also a little bit of egg on the faces of the blithering idiots in the media who interviewed ahmadenijad during the bush administration and attempted to portray him as some kind of decent and reasonable person. i’m not sure there’s anything that can be done about iran’s nuclear facilities short of military action, and i’m not sure the repercussions from that would be any less severe than an iran with nuclear weapons. that said, there are certain areas of foreign policy where trying to parse bush v. obama makes little sense, and this is clearly one of them.

500,000 centrifuges…

With the conversation going back and forth on what happened on which President’s watch…it’s sort of silly. If you want to really play the blame game…I could be wrong but wasn’t it under Clinton that we “let” Bin Laden walk away, at one point our CIA even trained him…start with that administration Tierra, and go from there. Lastly, the worst mistake Bush made was taking Saddam out of power. With all of his brutal tactics that he used, we now see those tactics were very effective (and at some times necessary) to control these animals over there. These militants and certain tribal fighters (against the allies), are complete animals and since they cannot behave, they need harsh tactics to scare them and put them in their place. I do not support what Saddam did, but I do now see why he acted that way…I am not sure if these individuals will ever be able to behave. As long as they belive their God wants war, they will fight. Parking lot time…end this.

tierra, don’t distort my words. i said the media looked foolish because they gushed over the man like he was some kind of deep-thinking man of ideas. it’s fine to interview someone with an aim of understanding, but to accept his absurd prepared statements in light of the years of actions and statements to the contrary is foolish. and yes, obama looks naive and always will for being such a dupe as to believe he could have a dialogue with ahmadenijad for the same reasons the media looked foolish. either that, or obama is so self-absorbed that be believes his own press about the wonderful transcendence of his personality being able to break down every barrier no matter how difficult. NO ONE (including his own vice-president) believed that campaign-trail blather. so, yes, the media ended up looking like fools and obama looks naive. obama’s two biggest foibles are his ego, and his followers, which feed on one another. he’s like the child whose parents never allow to fail…even if not failing means blaming the teachers, the refs, god and everyone else. accordingly, he views himself as invincible and his followers praise him like a deity. grow up, admit he’s not perfect, stop blaming someone else for everthing that goes wrong on his watch.

Talk,Talk,Talk,We should have elected a special position for a talking campaigner,seems like that is all Obama does.Other than Spend, Tax, and borrow money we do not have.

And we don’t have to hit them all. You can still stop a car by shooting the fuel pump. You don’t need to shoot the entire car.