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POPSUS can give Iran space to accept atom deal: Official What a bunch of fools. The IAEA is a pawn of the Iranians and the majority of UN 'diplomats' are Muslim sympathizers. It's all about stalling and doing nothing while Iran steadily moves on with it's nuclear programs. Why not just give them the dang bomb, shut down the IAEA and the UN, eliminate all diplomatic positions and end the charade. Everyone knows that Iran is NOT going to stop its nuclear weapons development.
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POPSObama would allow Russians to visit U.S. nuclear sites How is it this cursed administration would allow Russians access when they do not allow us full access? Are these people loony? Like I said, Obama is an enemy of the U.S. He is indeed a Trojan Horse whose mission is to destroy America financially, socially, and militarily.
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POPSTentative Inspection Program Would Allow Russia to Visit U.S. Nuclear Sites
"We want to ensure that every question that the Russian military or Russian government asks is answered," she said, calling missile defense "another area for deep cooperation between ourcountries." On another critical issue, Lavrov declared that it would be counterproductive to threaten Iran with more sanctions over its nuclear program -- as he resisted efforts by Clinton to win agreement for tougher measures should Iran fail to prove its program is peaceful. Clinton visited Moscow on her first trip since becoming America's top diplomat, in an effort to gauge Moscow's willingness to join the U.S. in imposing sanctions. Clinton said the U.S. agreed it was important to pursue diplomacy with Iran. "At the same time that we are very vigorously pursuing this track, we are aware that we might not be as successful as we need to be, so we have always looked at the potential of sanctions in the event we are not successful and cannot assure ourselves . . .
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POPSStraight From the Horse's Mouth This is what the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has to say regarding the POTUS's Award. Since this has been going on now for over 100 years and these people are not compelled to answer to anyone concerning their choices, I don't feel particularly moved to question the Committee's judgement. Congratulations! President Barack Hussein Obama.
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POPS'Extraordinary' President Barack Hussein Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize "Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conf "Thanks to Obama's initiative, the US is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic changes the world is confronting," it said, adding: "Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened." more @ clipsource
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POPSBreakthrough for Smartough Diplomacy! More talking! Iran has agreed to allow inspections of its uranium enrichment factory! But... this is already covered under its treaty obligations. So why would it be such a breakthrough for them to agree to something they already signed, sealed, and delivered? The answer's obvious: it's a breakthrough because we want to believe that Obama's smartough diplomacy is the answer for all our foreign policy ills. There's really nothing new here. Like Stratfor says: Bottom line: If the Iranians indicate that they will not cooperate and the Russians do not budge on their opposition to imposing sanctions, then war could come suddenly " and from the United States. All the pieces for that war are already in place. It is just a question of nerve " for all parties.
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POPSSeptember ‘Surprise’ "The United States was aware of Iran’s unfinished uranium enrichment site for several years, senior U.S. officials told CNN on Friday. U.S. officials have known about the facility since President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the officials who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations." Yes, the Bushies knew about it, too, and said nothing – but why not? After all, George W. was not exactly known as an apologist for the Iranian regime, and he was no less eager than his successor to tag Tehran as a serial deceiver. The CIA knew about it when they issued that now inconvenient National Intelligence Estimate averring that Iran had abandoned all efforts to militarize its nuclear research in 2003. Were they trying to protect the Iranians, too?
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POPSTOO MANY SECRETS Obama first learned of the plant as president-elect, before his inauguration Jan. 20, the officials said. Eight months...........and silence. And what else are they NOT telling us about?
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POPSEU makes new appeal to Iran over nuclear program If this weren't so deadly serious it could be a real joke. Iran has already given it's answer. They don't give a whit about any "sanctions" or whatever else the West might propose. Are they not laughing their behinds off at the statement: "We have a very generous offer on the table..."? Iran has already become a very prominent force around the world. They have nothing to gain by spending 2 seconds in negotiations other than buying more time. Someone needs to say to Israel (since the US is now a toothless tiger and a servant to Russia) "go"!!!
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POPSThe Blind Leading the Stupid-U.S. must demand accountability for due process and torture in Iran But The Washington Post thinks the U.S. should vigorously object to Iran's "obvious lack of due process" as a central part of these negotiations. What would be the purpose of doing that? Creating a jovial mood for the negotiations at the outset by provoking a massive group laughing fit? But due process denials aren't the only Iranian "human rights" violations The Post wants the Obama administration to raise in these negotiations. No, there's more Iranian evil for us to protest: The cases of torture and rape of prisoners courageously documented by opposition presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi should be as worthy of discussion as the non-nuclear subjects that Iran wants to bring up.
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POPSJohn Bolton Expects Israel To Take Iranian Matters Into It’s Own Hands He vaguely promises to offer the country the carrot of diplomacy"followed by an empty threat of sanctions down the road if Iran does not comply with the U.S.’s requests. This is precisely the European Union’s approach, which has failed for over six years. There’s no reason Iran would suddenly now bow to Mr. Obama’s diplomatic efforts, especially after its embarrassing election in June. Under the worst-case scenario, Iran will continue improving its nuclear facilities and Mr. Obama will become the first U.S. president to tie the issue of Israel’s nuclear capabilities into negotiations about Iran’s. Israel understands that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent commitment to extend the U.S. “defense umbrella” to Israel is not a guarantee of nuclear retaliation, and that it is wholly insufficient to deter Iran from obliterating Israel if it so decides. In fact, Mrs. Clinton’s comment tacitly concedes that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons, exactly the wrong message.
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POPSSo much for Smartough Diplomacy... According to Stratfor: Iran gets nukes... Russia is allowed to drive a wedge between us and Germany... Obama is in over his head, like they say: The U.S. strategy in Iran may simply be in flux for a long time to come >
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POPSVictorious President Ahmadinejad Showers Obama with Insults Though going forward the Iranians undoubtedly can expect to find themselves on the receiving end of some stern, carefully parsed lip pro-democracy service. Indeed, the trick will be maintaining clear moral support for Iran’s democrats " plus any other aid that’s useful, including keeping Iranians’ lines of communication open, from Western broadcasts to cellphones to Twitter " in the face of Iranian negotiators’ inevitable complaints. But in skillful hands, negotiations need not strengthen a dying regime. Instead, if the mullahs can be talked into abandoning some of the ideological pillars that have sustained their revolution for three decades, negotiations could undermine their rule in the long run. And that’s not a new challenge for American diplomacy. Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan sought nuclear arms deals with Moscow even as he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire.” Reagan aimed to undermine Soviet communism, but he also negotiated with its leaders " ----- and he
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POPSCapping Our Economy & Trading Our Jobs To China&Co. 219-212 HOUSE PASSES 'GLOBAL WARMING' LEGISLATION... 'BILL OF THE CENTURY' VOTED ON UNREAD... Boehner Tried 'Filibuster'... 300 PAGE DUMP AT 3AM-- REPUBLICANS CRY FOUL... One of the biggest compromises involved the near total elimination of an administration plan to sell pollution permits and raise more than $600 billion over a decade " money to finance continuation of a middle class tax cut. About 85 percent of the permits are to be given away rather than sold in a ceoncession to energy companies and their allies in the House " and even that is uncertain to survive in the Senate. The final bill also contained concessions to satisfy farm-state lawmakers, ethanol producers, hydroelectric advocates, the nuclear industry and others, some of them so late that they were not made public until 3 a.m. on Friday. Supporters and opponents agreed the result would be higher energy costs but disagreed vigorously on the impact on consumers.
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POPSWorld Powers May Meet on NK Next Month Amid New Threats And just like with other dictatorial regimes "economic aid & other concession" do NOT work. I hear it's missile is said to be aimed towards Hawaii. Aloha you all...still like the 'hope & change" you voted for? Ya'll can "hope" that NK "changes" it's mind or these threats are stopped dead in their tracks.
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POPSPeople Power! SILENCE is complicity. Our president’s refusal to take a forthright moral stand on the side of the Iranian freedom marchers is read in Tehran as a blank check for the current regime. The fundamentalist junta has begun arresting opposition figures, with regime mouthpieces raising the prospect of the death penalty. Inevitably, there are claims that dissidents have been “hoarding weapons and explosives.” Foreign media reps are under house arrest. Cellphone frequencies are jammed. Students are killed and the killings disavowed. And our president is “troubled,” but doesn’t believe we should “meddle” in Iran’s internal affairs. (Meddling in Israel’s domestic affairs is just fine, though.) We just turned our backs on freedom. Again. … For decades, Washington policymakers from both parties have prodded Iranians to throw off their shackles. Last Friday, millions of Iranians stood up. And we’re standing down. That isn’t diplomacy. It’s treachery
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POPS Happy Day! thoughts: “Ahmadinejad remains the lunatic face of Iran to the world … Ahmadinejad symbolizes the rejection of Barack Obama’s overtures … a slap in the face of the American president’s pro-Islamist policies … Ahmadinejad remains in charge of the Iranian economy, which he is progressively wrecking, thereby reducing the country’s capabilities to make mischief abroad … I dunno about that last one. Nukes vs butter debate in Iran? And terrorism is cheap, that’s why it’s so popular. But Pipes makes the point that, despite Obama’s lack of leadership, it could be a turning point. He wonders though, what kind of game Khamenei might be playing in handing A’jad the win in this “selection.” MORE at site: politico, jpost, bloomberg, nyt, phillyinquirer, memorandum, realclearpolitics, legalinsurrection, malkin, gateway, powerline, theothermccain, In other business, North Korea warns of nuclear war! http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090614/D98QDSOO0.html
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POPS12 Years Jail Sentences For 2 US Journalists Imprisoned in NKorea U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she was "incredibly concerned" about the plight of the two women. In working for their release, Clinton said she has spoken with foreign officials with influence in North Korea and explored the possibility of sending an envoy to the North, but suggested that no one would be sent during the trial. Another American who was tried in North Korea in 1996 was treated more leniently. Evan C. Hunziker, apparently acting on a drunken dare, swam across the Yalu River - which marks the North's border with China - and was arrested after farmers found the man, then 26, naked. He was accused of spying and detained for three months before being freed after negotiations with a special U.S. envoy. The North Koreans wanted Hunziker to pay a $100,000 criminal fine but eventually agreed on a $5,000 payment to settle a bill for a hotel where he was detained.
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POPSN. Korea Conducts 'Successful' Underground Nuclear Test I hope all those who wanted a "more level playing field", no one-superpower Country are feeling better and safer these days. Both N. Korea and Iran have blatantly stated that they are continuing their nuclear programs...and it ain't for defense purposes! Either those in Washington are so naive or things are so serious that they don't dare let on or they lack the will to deal with the inevitable. Dear President Grave Concern...please whip out your brilliant speaking abilities and convince these countries of the seriousness of our 'grave concerns'. Or perhaps, check in your index file from your community organizer days and find the answer to these ominous threats to global stability and security.
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POPSStupid Iranians Keep taunting.......Don't be surprised to wake up some day your country turned into a sheet of glass. Remember Hitler ?
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POPS Obama: 6 Months For Talks On Iran hold off for months, not years, the use of force. Obama requires time to see whether his olive branch toward Iran bears, well, olives. Yet Obama's recognition that diplomatic progress must occur this year was tantamount to recognition of Israel's concern, that the threat of a nuclear Iran requires immediate resolution. Any military strike on Iran is complex, to understate the point. Israel would have to know where to hit and strike hard enough to make the hit count. Netanyahu believes that, absent diplomatic progress by the United States, he may have to risk the repercussions of a military strike. Those repercussions could include a regional war. And Netanyahu, having lost power once by losing the favor of an American president, harldy wants to make the same mistake and break with Obama to take so risky a step. But Netanyahu views Iran in dire terms. At some point, Netanyahu indicates, time for talk runs out.
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POPSLaying down the law! Look here Obama, you better do as I say or you will not get any more financial support from my friends. Got it? OK, you can leave now. BTW, we'll sort out Iran. Just behave yourself
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POPSDurban ll Turns Into Circus, Ahmadinejad's Rant Against US & Europe Mr Ahmadinejad’s address — his first on the global stage since President Obama’s inauguration — deals a serious blow to hopes of American rapprochement with Iran, a key plank of the new President’s foreign policy. The US was one of eight Western nations that joined Israel in boycotting the conference. However, the latest tirade will do nothing to help Mr Obama to persuade Israel or his domestic critics that he knows how to deal with Mr Ahmadinejad, who is seeking re-election in June with the support of the hardline ruling clergy. Some had hoped that Mr Ahmadinejad might show restraint amid signs of a thawing of relations with Washington that is already at risk after the jailing of the American journalist Roxana Saberi. But his performance suggested that he felt confident he had the upper hand in any future negotiations over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. (1:33) video available at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6136165.ece
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