Posted on 01/06/2020 4:37:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Right Wing media usually portray Obama’s actions with Iran as being a diplomatic failure, initiated because he wanted a Nuclear Deal as part of his legacy; but if we ascribe his intentions towards Iran differently, then we are left with an entirely different perspective from which to view the current situation.
If we couple a description of Obama’s actions to the results of his actions we could say that what he did was helpful to Iran’s military objectives.
One might even be able to conjecture that the recent Iranian attacks against US assets are being spurred on by the likes of John Kerry and Barack Obama as a way to create a war scenario, which would be detrimental to Trump’s re-election.
We already know that Obama appointees from the highest levels of government are involved in undermining the Trump presidency, and there’s no reason not to believe that the sabotage that started in the Obama White House is now being continued from outside the White House.
While an all-out war would be detrimental to Trump’s re-election, I believe the President’s prime concern is that it would be detrimental to the U.S. That having been said, I don’t believe Trump will allow a ground war.
I can foresee an escalation leading to a destruction of Iran’s military infrastructure, its missile development and deployment sites, its nuclear program development sites, and its petroleum manufacturing infrastructure.
With Russia and China giving even limited military assistance to Iran, our air groups, if manned aircraft are used, may suffer losses; but as war goes, that would be far less hurtful than losing thousands on the ground.
The Bush Iraq War removed Saddam Hussein, the only true obstacle to Shiite Iranian hegemony over Shiite Iraq. Whether or not Iraq will allow itself to become a Shiite controlled religious state, is for the Iraqis to decide. But, with the removal of U.S. forces, Iran will have almost unfettered ability to terrorize Iraqis just as they terrorize their own people.
Regardless of our limited military presence, the loss of Iraq to Iran was becoming more inevitable each day because of the growing Iranian support inside Iran. This continuing growth of Iranian supported Militias within Iraq should make us ask if Obama’s policies are responsible for this in one way or another – either with past specific help or current long term assurances?
If we look at recent past events in the Middle East, and don’t look at Obama’s financial largesse towards Iran as a way to bring them to the table and halt nuclear proliferation, but instead look at it exactly as it appears, then his policy was a way of supporting and emboldening a better funded and more militarily expansive Iran.
The entire basis for giving Iran $1.3 billion cash on the tarmac in the middle of the night was based on a lie. The additional $150 billion return of confiscated assets was simply a gift.
The reflexive unified Democratic Party and corporate media rebuke of the president’s actions against Soleimani, adds to the already existing world wide concern for a continuing Trump presence in the White House past 2020. Coupling the domestic difficulties the president is having with certain world leaders because of the impeachment to any “promises” given by Kerry, could lead Iran to actions that it may not have taken were there no possibility of a reversion to Obama’s policies within the next several years. The Democrats are now looking to curb the president's power as commander in chief.
No time in our history has the existence of a fifth column, populated by government officials from inside and outside the government, posed a greater threat to our national security than it does now.
As Haaretz reported in January 2018, Israel was prepared to take out Soleimani in 2015 but the Obama administration alerted Iranian officials. This was not the first time a radical Muslim leader was spared final judgment. Susan Rice, then President Clinton’s National Security Council senior director for African affairs, vetoed a Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden over to the US.
It hasn’t always appeared that Obama had the best interests of the US at heart. The US is in the way of the very people who gave him his rise, people like George Soros. Without getting too deep in the weeds about globalism, it was Obama’s team that brought down Viktor Yanukovych in the Ukraine, bringing in a more pro - EU government there – the very globalist oriented organization from which the UK has just extricated itself.
The policies of the Trump administration are antithetical to the policies of the Obama administration.
Obama and his administration people are still actively involved in organizing groups on many issues, from gun control to redistricting. Not only has Obama remained in Washington, but several of his offshoot organizations send out organizing and fundraising emails by the hundreds each month. The most numerous come from AOTL – “all on the line” / redistrictingaction.org, with messages from Obama, from Eric Holder and many former members of Obama’s administration. Obama is not through with fundamentally changing the US.
I have no reason to believe that Kerry went to Iran to merely visit. I can only conjecture that what he discussed was something that he didn’t want to share on a telephone call or via an email.
Just how many current and former officials are working in every level of government to destroy Trump’s agenda remains unknown. But, as we clearly see, our national security is being jeopardized not only at the Southern border but throughout many areas of our entire republican structure of government. The former president being involved in hamstringing the current president’s ability to act as an effective commander in chief is not beyond the realm of possibility.
Iran was B.O.’s friend. And vice versa.
Obama disgusts me.
Forgive me, but why is the author using the term “Right Wing Media”? Does it have to be termed “Right Wing” when someone discusses issues such as that there may have been those unfortunate things that took place during the last Shah’s rule (such as abuses by SAVAK) that led to civil unrest and revolution in 1979, but things have been not terribly better, and in some cases worse, under the Islamic theocracy in that country.
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Kerry seems to go back and forth to Iran all the time.
Iran has now put an $80,000,000 bounty on President Trump’s head. Comedian George Lopez says he’d do it for half as much.
And Barack Hussein Obama gave Iran billions in cash under the cloak of night to fund international terrorism.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was simply another money laundering scheme to bring taxpayer dollars back into the pockets of crooked pols, like uncle Joe's Ukraine deal.
Who, with relations to Obama, has received personal money from the middle east?
Kerry needs to be picked up by PDJT loyalists and taken to a secluded area where water boarding and fingernail removal.
This will get to the bottom of his visits.
BINGO and I ain’t talking about the dog.......
Isn’t usury condemned in islamic law?
Burisima was a foreign based tank into which money flowed and then flowed out via lots of valves and pipes.
Burisima received the kickbacks from Iran and then flowed that money to various corporate entities controlled by Democrats, especially Barak Obama.
When the drawings of the complex tank and system of manifolds, pipes and valves connecting an untold number of off shore corporations and banks, the Democrat party is over
I’ve been saying for years: people are presumed to intend the necessary consequences of their actions. Obama’s actions helped Iran. He gave them $150 billion in cash - it’s hard to argue that giving people piles of money doesn’t help them. He authorized a policy under the JCPOA that gave Iran a clear legal right to build nukes in 15 years, and in the period before that, when they were pretending not to develop nukes, Obama’s policy explicitly allowed Iran to choose which buildings and situses would not be eligible for inspection by the people pretending to enforce Iran’s pretend commitment not to develop nukes.
The necessary consequences of these actions were to fund Iranian terror around the world and authorize them to become a nuclear power. That’s exactly what Obama intended.
These were not mistakes. Obama is a lot of bad things, but he is not stupid. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Kerry’s daughter is married to an Iranian.
https://truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerrys-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/
Moreover, Obama's returning to Iran of the $150 billion in so-called "confiscated assets" was most assuredly
not an expression of Obama's generosity..........far from it. This was a quid pro quo to end all quid pro quos.
How do we know? B/c Obama WILL NOT DIVULGE donors to his Clintonesque Foundation
......the foundation that's building his "final resting place" in Chicago.
Obama has another foundation dedicated to his Nigerian dad run by his brother........yes, it's as crooked as you think.
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Where did Obama get billions of tax dollars he gave to Iran?
Obama's $1.3B giveaway to Iran was paid in cash Jan 22 and Feb 5 from a little-known fund administered by the US Treasury.
The so-called Judgment Fund is made up of tax dollars Congress has permanently approved in the event it's needed....(cue laugh machine here)
SOURCE: fiscaltreasury.gov. -----The Judgment Fund was established to pay court judgments and Justice Department compromise settlements of actual or imminent lawsuits against the government. It is administered by the Judgment Fund Section, which is a part of the United States Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The Judgment Fund Internet Claims System (JFICS) is the application used to process all Judgment Fund claims.
The Judgment Fund is a permanent, indefinite appropriation available to pay judicially and administratively ordered monetary awards against the United States. The Judgment Fund is also available to pay amounts owed under compromise agreements negotiated by the U.S. Department of Justice in settlement of claims arising under actual or imminent litigation, if a judgment on the merits would be payable from the Judgment Fund. The statutory authority for the Judgment Fund is 31 U.S.C. 1304.
If funds for paying an award are otherwise provided for in the appropriations of the defendant agency, the Judgment Fund may not pay an award. A federal agency may request that payment of an award be made on its behalf from the Judgment Fund only in those instances where funds are not legally available to pay the award from the agency's own appropriations.
Amounts paid vary significantly from year-to-year. Federal agencies are not required to reimburse the Judgment Fund except when cases are filed under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) or the No FEAR Act (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act).
Contact judgment.fund@fiscal.treasury.gov or 202-874-6664.
Obama’s actions with Iran as being a diplomatic failure = planed.
Try Ex Lax Watson!
Yet another example of why the founders were correct to exclude the children of foreigners from being President.
None of the popular children of foreign nationals are NATURALLY citizens because they were also born something else.
Divided citizenship was PRECISELY the condition the founders were excluding.
Why do we describe them as Barkie’s failures? He accomplished everything he set out to do. It never entered any progressive dim’s mind that PIAPS would lose!
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