Santorum: Obama trying to allow Iran to have nuke

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."

Accusing a POTUS of deliberately aiding and abetting an enemy of the US and it's allies...one that has sworn to eliminate us as well as Israel ...with acquiring the most powerful weapon on earth.
I hate Obama, but I don't think he is assisting Iran in becoming a nuclear armed state, and I'm about as hard-core a national security hawk as exists. Most folks think I'm crazy in that regard.

I think Obama is naive and is trying to woo the Muslims with a "new tone". I also think he is trying to turn our foreign policy from being centered on Western Civilization to a more "global" view.

I don't even want to give that RAT bastard socialist commie pig 0dumb0shit the respect of calling him POTUS. He has never been, nor will he ever be my POTUS. This POS 0dumb0 is evil to the very core (or corpse as 0dumb0 might say). Personally I think the sonofabitch is the Anti-Christ or at least certainly the forerunner to the Anti-Christ. I think that you are very naive if you can't see from every action that 0dumb0 does is designed to weaken & destory the moral values of our country, our economic values, our Constitution, our currency, our country's borders, and the list goes on. 0dumb0 is evil incarnate, and I believe he is demon-possessed. Whatever any GOP candidate says against 0dumb0 needs to echoed by other GOP politicians instead of playing footsie or golf with 0dumb0 like Boner does.

“I think Obama is naive and is trying to woo the Muslims with a “new tone”. I also think he is trying to turn our foreign policy from being centered on Western Civilization to a more “global” view.”

I guess he was naive when he was palling around with Van Jones, Bill Ayres and Rev Wright. Or maybe you are naive.

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