Obama Willing to Talk with Iran - An endorsement for Obama

FARS News Agency ^ | Saturday, February 02, 2008 | FNA

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Obama Willing to Talk with Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he would favor holding direct talks with Iran and Syria in a bid to stabilize the Middle East if elected president.

In an interview with France's Paris Match on Thursday, Obama said, "I want to have direct talks with countries like Iran and Syria because I don't believe we can stabilize the region unless not just our friends but also our enemies are involved in these discussions."

He was also quoted as saying he would also hold a summit with leaders of Muslim states to address the growing gap between the West and the world of Islam.

The Illinois senator added that to repair the image of the United States in the world, he would "put an end to the war in Iraq."

"Occupying the country has put the odds against us with the world," Obama said.

Meanwhile, a visiting Iranian official said Thursday in Cairo that Iran and Egypt would work together to resolve the Middle East's top crises such as in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and that both wanted to upgrade their diplomatic relations, severed nearly three decades ago.

Teheran cut diplomatic ties after Cairo signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1979 and provided asylum for the deposed Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday in Cairo.

"It has been decided that we and Egypt will work together for more coordination on regional issues such Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine," Nateq Nouri said. "Iran and Egypt are key regional nations and have too many things in common."

In May, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered to restore ties with Egypt, a strong US ally. At the time, Ahmadinejad said his country was ready to open an embassy in Cairo as soon as Egypt agreed to do the same in Tehran.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

H/T to Gateway Pundit :

Another Endorsement For Obama... From the Iranian Regime
Barack Obama scores another major endorsement...

I don't trust Obama,,,that middle name bothers me greatly!

[Westbrook]

I would not be surprised to see Obama getting an endorsement from Ahmadinijad.

I would not be surprised to see Obama getting an endorsement from al Quaeda, either.

[G8 Diplomat]

You can’t negociate with people bent on your destruction.

[DoughtyOne]

The politics of surrender.

“What did we do that was wrong? What can we do to make you happy? How can we give your terrorist sympathizing governments more credibility?”

The terrorist on the street is going ot love this guy.

[G8 Diplomat]

^Only one way to deal with them: get them before they get you

[TornadoAlley3]

Questions came from presenters in MTV’s Times Square studio and from online and in-studio participants.

If I convene a meeting of Muslim leaders to try to bridge the divide between Islam and the West, I do so with the credibility of someone who lived in a Muslim country for four years when I was a child

Barack Obama Speaking in the forum, Mr Obama said that his multicultural heritage allows him to “see through the eyes of other people” abroad in ways another president could not.

“If I convene a meeting of Muslim leaders to try to bridge the divide between Islam and the West, I do so with the credibility of someone who lived in a Muslim country for four years when I was a child,” he said, referring to time spent in Indonesia.

“And although I’m a Christian I have a sense of that culture.”

[Cicero]

Obama’s father was a Muslim. His stepfather was a Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim in his Indonesian school. He attended a mosque and studied the Qran.

According to Muslims, that makes him a Muslim, and the only way you can leave Islam is death.

Yet the Muslims all seem to like Obama, although he now says he is a Christian. No fatwahs have been issued condemning him for apostasy. I wonder why?

[garyhope]

The Dhims are great at talking.

Too bad they’re just never good at doing or accomplishing much (except destroying freedom and America, raising taxes, weakening our defenses, etc.)

[dowcaet]

Barack “Jimmy” Obama. This guy would be even worse than Jimmy Carter when it comes to national defense. Doesn’t the Democratic Party have any strong defense hawk types in their ranks? Where are the Scoop Jacksons, Les Aspins, and Sam Nunns of the 21st century for the Dems? Can anyone honestly trust today’s Democratic Party with defending this country?

[Rennes Templar]

“Occupying the country has put the odds against us with the world,” Obama said.

All those countries against us had sweetheart deals with Saddam!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Oh and by the way, Mrs. Obama said if they get to the White House they "both" would continue to keep their children at the center of their lives.

Sorry, sister, that dog ain't gonna hunt.

[endthematrix]

Doing overtly what is being done covertly. Obama and the elites putting Baker-Hamilton (ISG) in force.

[Mike Darancette]

Obama, when you negotiate with them what can you offer them?

[Migraine]

This guy desperately needs to be asked whether he would go to the mat for Israel — and it needs to be asked just that way.
Straight up or down answer. No ifs, ands or buts. Whichever answer he gives would sink him.

[Bratch]

If the Presidential race boils down to John McCain vs Barack Obama, it will wind up being a definitive referendum on the war on terror, IMO.

We'll see.

[endthematrix]

I passionately dislike the mutt. But he’s not a sleeper-cell POTUS candidate. He’s not going to even mention Sharia law. He’s a internationalist, America can’t-be-first Marxist. Fellow Illinoisans have been getting the socialist shaft and we’ll get it federally with Obama at the WH.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Is it just because you have a Muslim name or are you a fool?

[endthematrix]

Freedom to continue with European Union business as usual and say nice things about them at "world community" gatherings.

[sheik yerbouty]

The Obamination is Snivel Chamberlain..