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Pro-Democracy Iranian Dissidents Tell President Obama: “You’re either with us, or against us.”
Flopping Aces ^ | 11-05-09 | Mike's America

Posted on 11/05/2009 5:15:59 PM PST by Starman417

hp11-5-09g Reuters

President Obama's idea of waging "aggressive personal diplomacy"? Attacking President Bush for blustering belligerence:

But he asserted that Iran’s support for militant groups in Iraq reflected its anxiety over the Bush administration’s policies in the region, including talk of a possible American military strike on Iranian nuclear installations.

Yup. That explains Iranian aggression for the last 30 years against the United States.

Meanwhile, Israel seizes 500 tons of Iranian weapons on Wednesday:

Israel displayed on Wednesday the contents of the ship it seized off Cyprus - crates filled with rockets, missiles, mortars, anti-tank weapons and munitions - the largest such haul in the country's history. Israel's claim that the weapons came from Iran were bolstered by Iranian markings on the sides of the containers and what it said was a document proving the ship had set off from an Iranian port.

Israel has not publicly shown the document, however, nor offered evidence to back its assertion that the weapons were headed for Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters. ad_icon

"Hezbollah categorically denies it has any connection with the weapons which the Zionist enemy claims it seized," the group said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Beirut on Thursday.

There was no comment from Lebanese officials.

Israeli defense officials said the arms cache would have given Hezbollah, which fought a monthlong war against the Jewish state in 2006, enough firepower to sustain a full month of fighting on the scale of that war.

However, the officials also said the weapons would not have significantly enhanced Hezbollah rockets' ability to reach deeper into Israel, as the haul consisted of weapons already in Hezbollah's possession.

The defense officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the military has yet to formally comment on the potential value of the shipment's contents to militants.

Iran has never acknowledged giving weapons to Hezbollah. Proof of large-scale Iranian weapons shipments to its proxy forces on Israel's borders could reinforce Israeli demands for tough action - possibly even a pre-emptive strike - against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Israel sees Iran as its biggest threat because of what it believes to be Tehran's ambitions to acquire atomic weapons. Iran says its nuclear program seeks only to generate energy.

Anyone believe that?

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoiran; iran; obama

1 posted on 11/05/2009 5:16:00 PM PST by Starman417
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To: Starman417

Well they are about to find out the hard way what his reply will be.


2 posted on 11/05/2009 5:22:25 PM PST by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: Starman417

Bambi is against them. End of story.


3 posted on 11/05/2009 5:22:42 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Starman417

Surely they dont think the man who recently sold out Poland will speak for freedom in Iran????????


4 posted on 11/05/2009 6:00:05 PM PST by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Nervous Tick
Obama will tell the leaders of Iran to let the crackdown on their citizens begin, and he will tell the Iranians that he has the same in store for American Patriot Citizens who dare to defy him.
5 posted on 11/05/2009 8:31:00 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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