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Obama Caves to Iran
Weekly Standard ^ | 09/28/2009 | Stephen F. Hayes

Posted on 09/22/2009 10:13:43 AM PDT by nuconvert

Perhaps the most discussed passage in Barack Obama's Inaugural Address was his peace offering to dictators and leaders of rogue states.

"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent," he said, "know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."

The man who had campaigned on direct meetings with rogue leaders "without preconditions" appeared to be toughening his approach just a little. The words were conciliatory and intended to signal a shift from the Bush administration, but he added a condition.

The next day Bill Neely of Britain's ITV News reported the response from the leadership in Iran. "Obama's is the hand of Satan in a new sleeve," explained Hossein Shariatmadari, spokesman for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. "The Great Satan now has a black face." Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn't impressed either. "If it's like the past and America is bullying us then there will be no new era between us," he said.

Obama has spent the intervening eight months attempting to convince Ahmadinejad and Iran's clerical leadership that he is not a bully. Despite these efforts--and in some ways because of them--the Iranian leadership remains firmly in power, more radical and more dangerous than ever. The Obama administration's short history of relations with Iran is a picture of weakness.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: citizenoftheworld; foreignpolicy; iran; mhmmdnsm09222009; moleinwhitehouse; obama; sovietmole; traitor

1 posted on 09/22/2009 10:13:44 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
Let's check the scoreboard, shall we:

Friends and allies screwed:

Israel, Honduras, Poland, Chek Rep.

Enemies and adversaries a$$es kissed:

Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, China, Cuba

Did I miss any?

2 posted on 09/22/2009 10:23:33 AM PDT by wny
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To: nuconvert
"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent," he said,

"...Teach me how you do it."

3 posted on 09/22/2009 10:24:32 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Roark, Architect.)
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To: nuconvert
""Obama's is the hand of Satan in a new sleeve," explained Hossein Shariatmadari, spokesman for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. "The Great Satan now has a black face."

I guess that is in keeping with:

Ishaq:243 "I heard the Apostle say: 'Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!' He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks.... Allah sent down concerning him: 'To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom."

Koran 9:61 "Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, 'If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey's.'"

Now that's racist. How come we don't here cries of racism from MSM over this comments of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Tabari II:11 "Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks; Ham was the father of the Black Africans; and Japheth was the father of the Turks and of Gog and Magog who were cousins of the Turks. Noah prayed that the prophets and apostles would be descended from Shem and kings would be from Japheth. He prayed that the African's color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks."

Bukhari:V4B52N137 "The Prophet said, 'Let the negro slave of Dinar perish. And if he is pierced with a thorn, let him not find anyone to take it out for him.... If he [the black slave] asks for anything it shall not be granted, and if he needs intercession [to get into paradise], his intercession will be denied.'"

Somehow, I just don't see Obama getting much respect from the Ayatollahs and Saudi's. And Obama confirmed his standing when he bowed to the Saudi king.

4 posted on 09/22/2009 10:26:51 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: wny

You missed Britain, in the ‘screwed’ column.


5 posted on 09/22/2009 10:28:06 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: nuconvert

Caves?? More like willingly Bowed


6 posted on 09/22/2009 10:32:32 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: wny

Syria.


7 posted on 09/22/2009 10:32:55 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: nuconvert

” ‘To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent,. . .’ “

Lecturing yourself Zer0??? The mark of a psychopath??


8 posted on 09/22/2009 10:35:11 AM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: nuconvert

“but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.” .................................. LOL!!! Yeah, right, they won’t unclench their fist, they put on a spiked glove and stick it up your................Aghrrrrrr. They know who they are dealing with Whimpy.


9 posted on 09/22/2009 10:50:00 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (DON'T BLAME ME I VOTED FOR "PALIN"!)
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To: nuconvert

ZERO CAVES TO THE WORLD! ! ! ! ! !


10 posted on 09/22/2009 10:56:42 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Red is Positive, Black is Negative, Make sure nuts are wet. All we need to know about interrogation)
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