Posted on 02/09/2012 7:33:37 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday accused President Barack Obama of actively seeking ways to allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon and suggested that the administration had betrayed Israel by publicly disclosing what may be a plan to attack the Muslim nation.
Santorum drew connections between the administration's opposition to the Keystone pipeline project, which would bring oil from Canada to U.S. refineries, and American dependency on foreign oil and U.S.-Israel relations.
"We're throwing Israel under the bus because we know we're going to be dependent upon OPEC," Santorum said during a speech in Oklahoma City. "We're going to say, 'Oh, Iran, we don't want you to get a nuclear weapon — wink, wink, nod, nod — go ahead, just give us your oil.' Folks, the president of the United States is selling the economic security of the United States down the river right now."
The U.S. doesn't purchase oil from Iran but its allies do. Pulling Iranian oil from the world market would wreak havoc on oil prices in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Santorum later told CNN that Obama's actions support the view that the president was choosing Iran over Israel. He accused Defense Secretary Leon Panetta of divulging sensitive information about Israel's plans to strike Iran and then invited scorn upon the Jewish state from the rest of the world. ....
Santorum told CNN: "The president fought tooth and nail against putting sanctions on Iran and only capitulated at the end. This is a president who is not standing by our allies, is trying to appease, trying to find a way to allow — clearly to allow Iran to get this nuclear weapon. He's doing absolutely nothing in a consequential way to make sure that they do not get this weapon."
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
Are you serious?
Jarrett was raised in Iran?
Obama may well welcome nuclear “parity” with Iran. It’s in line with the “America as arrogant bully” apology tour he took shortly after his coronation.
Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz, as part of a program where American doctors and agricultural experts sought to help jump-start developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five, the family moved to London for one year, returning to Chicago in 1963.
In 1966 her mother, Barbara T. Bowman, was one of four child advocates that created the Erikson Institute. The Institute was established to provide advanced knowledge in child development for teachers and other professionals working with young children.
As a child she spoke Persian and French.
You'd do well to take a closer look at folks history before you fly off the handle and look silly.
Well now, least he has the ....to speak up for the truth! We here on this forum have known for some time that there is a trojan horse in the White House...
Call me loopy, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to draw a parallel between the tactics of fast and furious and what the administration is actively enabling Iran to accomplish. He’s deliberately seeking an excuse to pursue a nuclear weapons ban in the ME because he hates the fact that Israel has this on her enemies.
Blinders come in all sizes I guess.
“A lot of people I know, not politically astute or even knowledgeable, believe this way. Regular people, not inclined to be politically active. They view Obama as an enemy of liberty and prosperity. They have an instinctive American attitude that he is not our friend, nor Israel’s.......”
Completely agree.
Obama IS NOT “one of us”.
He is one of “the other”.
I can’t exactly say what that “other” is, I can only sense it.
But he is not “for America”.
He is as close to a “Manchurian Candidate” as anyone in a high position of power in this country has ever come.
He is not one of us...
Rick has been taking it from the unhinged Liberals for years, unlike some who sit on the couch and get all cozy with liberals.
I’m glad he had the cojones to say so!
Just to add a bit to my reasoning, if Iran gets a bomb, I think it’s reasonable to expect obama pushing hard on moral equivalency between Iran and Israel, and knowing Europe will be right behind him, demand for international pressure with threat of sanctions on BOTH countries to give up their nukes. I don’t think this is too far fetched and would provide a strong motive for the administrations current actions.
The media calls her "close adviser" to Obama. Funny, after Emanual quits as his Chief of Staff. She has no title except one of the "Czars" and I would wager she is actually running the country with Zippy under "stupid is as stupid does". Ask Robert Gibbs about the nice lady.
She is from Iran And her parents are communists !
So what is your point ?
Your the one making clueless attacks here on Rick S !
So Obama believes that children should play with matches and gasoline as well? Now, that’s moral equivalency!
It might be a argument if, IF islam ever developed one improvement for modern man, one invention..... but it hasn’t.
These muslim guys are still on par with their 7th century barbarian brethren. Nothing has changed excepting they had a good strike of luck in their oil resources which have allowed them to buy their way into the 21st century with goods from the west. Have they developed anything? Have they improved their lot through brain power? Nope.
They are still a bunch of backwards savages.... excepting with oil wealth.
February 27, 2009 The “Iran Lobby” Moves Into The White House http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275490.html
Actually I disagree with you. I do not thing he is a Muslim nor do I think he is Christian or Buddhist etc. I think he is an atheist that hates his country. If he is an atheist that hates his country, all of his actions are perfectly logical and consistent with an atheist that hates his country.
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