Posted on 03/03/2015 11:55:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In the Oval Office, President Barack Obama responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s address to Congress on Tuesday. In comments that lasted about 11 minutes, Obama told reporters he did not watch the speech (he read a transcript of it instead), and that Netanyahu did not offer any “viable alternatives” that would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
The president began by affirming the bond between the U.S. and Israel and acknowledging the Iranian regime’s “venomous anti-Semitic statements.” Obama lauded the “extraordinarily effective sanctions regime” constructed by Congress and international allies that Iran has, thus far, largely complied with.
“Keep in mind that when we [inaudible] to that interim deal, Prime Minister Netanyahu made almost the precise same speech about how dangerous that deal was going to be, and yet over a year later, even Israeli intelligence officers — and, in some cases, members of the Israeli government — have to acknowledge that, in fact, it has kept Iran from further pursuing its nuclear program,” the president said.
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Obama said what the prime minister is offering is essentially “no deal,” which the president said would cause Iran to accelerate their nuclear program “without constraint.” He insisted sanctions alone are not enough to prevent Iran from doing so, and that he would rather have “no deal” than a “bad deal.” Obama said if negotiations are successful, the deal would be “by far” the best possible route to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu has not offered any kind of viable alternative that would achieve the same verifiable mechanism to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” the president added.
Earlier, a senior administration official told CNN’s Jim Acosta that Netanyahu’s speech amounted to “all rhetoric, no action.”
Watch Obama’s full remarks below, via CNN:
Dumping Obama’s deal is a great start.
“Viable” = “acceptable to the Dear Leader”.
Yawn. Same tired rhetorical devices from him. He’s just worthless.
Obama is such a moron.
You know, back when Nixon first went to China, people said that only Nixon could have done that because he had a reputation as an anti-communist. So he had some credibility there.
Obama has ZERO credibility with respect to any kind of negotiating with Iran.
SO here’s an alternative: put the negotiations on hold until we have a new president.
Sure he did, he said to hold out for a better deal, that Iran needs this deal more than we do and can be made to need it even more. Very clear and concrete.
He didn’t? I could have swore I heard him spend at least 10 minutes giving viable alternatives.
My Labrador understood the analogy, “A pilot without an airplane cannot fly”. And he's the smartest guy in the room?
Hmmm....I tend to think preventing a nuclear Iran is a pretty viable alternative, 0bolaputz.
Maybe we all need to send the Dims/White Hut Bibi’s most excellent AMERICAN/IRANIAN history lesson.
“Make a better deal” = “make them a deal they can’t refuse”.
Obama’s legacy is the Caliphate.
Bibi wasn’t here to offer alternatives, viable or whatever. He was here to say that Israel would not accept deals that endangered Israel’s security.
Obama is such a total ass, a jerk and an embarrassment, and childish, etc.
(He didn’t? I could have swore I heard him spend at least 10 minutes giving viable alternatives.)
He pulled the same BS during the healthcare debate by saying that the GOP had offered no ideas on their own, even when they clearly did. The man is a born liar.
Obama, Pelosi, et al, are in a tizzy because they’ve been discredited.
Viable alternative:
Stop the centrifuges. Surrender the nuclear material.
Allow full unfettered inspections.
Or get bombed.
The truth is whatever Obama says it is. Just ask the media and they’ll confirm my statement...
Once we accept the premise that 0bama would celebrate over Tel Aviv lit up by an Iranian nuclear weapon, we can derive from that what he sees as a “viable” alternative.
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