Posted on 01/11/2009 1:38:10 PM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — After focusing on the ailing economy, President-elect Barack Obama stepped into some of the hottest foreign policy issues this weekend, confirming a clear policy of engagement with Iran, vowing to press immediately for Middle East peace and saying flatly that “we are going to close Guantanamo.”
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Mr. Obama reiterated his intention to work directly with Iran — a country whose president has called for Israel’s destruction — to improve relations and halt a nuclear program that Tehran describes as peaceful but which the West believes is not.
But he added that Iran would be “one of our biggest challenges,” and one that required fresh thinking.
“We are going to have to take a new approach,” he said to the program host, George Stephanopoulos. “My belief is that engagement is the place to start.”
Mr. Obama said he wanted to adopt “a new emphasis on respect and a new willingness on being willing to talk” to the Iranians, while making it clear “that we also have certain expectations.”
The talk of a message of respect suggested a clear departure from the often pointed and deprecatory rhetoric that has prevailed between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President Bush, even though he has consistently differentiated between his feelings about Iran’s leader and that country’s people.
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Barry the rookie is going to work magic with Iran?
I am stunned at the ignorance the President-Select and his supporters. What is the significance and benefit to the US and its protection by closing Guantanomo?
ah..he gets to pick and choose when there is one president..
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Barry the rookie is going to get played like a fiddle by the snakes in IRAN. ALL of will suffer because of “The One’s” stupidity!
We better get our underground bunkers ready, once Obama is done making buddy buddy with all the terrorists we might be attacked everyday
Maybe Odummer will give Iran one of our nukes to use, that way they won't have to waste all that time and money on building their own. Hey don't laugh, he is dumb enough to do that.
Iran last week set preconditions to talk with Obama, they want all USA troops out of the Middle East before talking.
He wants people to love us again. As if...
He’s not grown beyond the point where you realize some folks will never like you, no matter what you do.
This “magic negro”, is inviting the war on terror to come to U.S. shores.
This dumb ass punk hoodlum from Chicago is going to get a whole lot of us killed here on our own soil.
These enemies will see him as weak and attack.
1. No American troops in the Middle East.
2. No more American support for Israel.
Nice going, Barry!
I think that should be “Prefident-Select!” From Online Dictionary:
“Prefident
Pref”i*dent\, a. [Cf. L. praefidens overconfident. “
“Barry the rookie is going to work magic with Iran?”
He obviously doesn’t know that Iran quit talking in 1979.
Yep, this putz is SO naive that he thinks a 60’s style “love in” will fix everything.
Obama is setting himself up to be a one-term President...obviously clueless on dealing with Islamic Terrorist States.
I would chide him more on closing Guantanamo....but Juan McAmnesty wanted to close it, too....so we were going to get a terrorist-sympathsizer regardless
Within 6 months, obama will declare “Peace in Our Time.” WWIII will break out within 6 months of that.
Obama is a moron.
“This “magic negro”, is inviting the war on terror to come to U.S. shores.
This dumb ass punk hoodlum from Chicago is going to get a whole lot of us killed here on our own soil.
These enemies will see him as weak and attack.”
If he had even been in the military, he would have been fragged.
“We better get our underground bunkers ready, once Obama is done making buddy buddy with all the terrorists we might be attacked everyday”
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Nope. Once 0bambi is done, the terrorists will not attack their new country.
Q: How do you keep terrorists from attacking your interests?
A: Don’t have any interests.
Q: How do you keep terrorists from attacking your country?
A: Change “my” to “the”: all the world, ONE big happy country. Call it PIELAND.
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