That relationship has been almost totally one sided.

There is no other country where we spend as much time and money and get nothing in return but grief

TheBigOldDog on June 21, 2009 at 6:55 PM

as a group they are more powerful and wealthy than any other per memeber.

TheBigOldDog on June 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM

What is the number one cause of tension in the ME? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.

The above comments (all from the same individual) are very representative of an age old antisemitic canard and lies. All can easily be refuted – if the idiot who is spreading them have bothered to read anything of value in his life. These exclamations are the type “reverend” Wright and Louis Farrakhan would be proud of, and the ignoramus and backward hick who has been repeating them from thread to thread belongs with the likes of those two. This judo-phobic crap has been said before, tried before and held against the Jews many, many times before. You have not invented it , but you are pretty good at parroting it , like any idiot would. You have to face that antisemitism that is sitting deep inside you first, before trying to comment on Israel and the Jews.

Obama is Carter redux
…left our hostages until they could be used in an October surprise and dismantled our intelligence community, thinking he could oust any domestic opposition. He was so wrong. I hope it ends as badly for Oneterma.
alliebobbitt on June 22, 2009 at 11:34 AM

Redux indeed. The hostages were so screwed having Jimmie Carter in the WH. Carter was the last great apologist for America’s sins, and look how far it got him. The Iranians sucked up his self hating, and then gave him the punishment he implied he deserved. The longer they held the hostages, the greater triumph for the ayatollahs

When Carter asked everyone to ring church bells and honk horns for the hostages it pretty much guaranteed the hostages were going to be staying longer

Carter has made himself an international election certifier, but the one place he would never get an invite is Iran. They ought to give him a medal as a Founder of the republic

Obama is the newest America despiser but he is no Carter. Obama wants America replaced, not refaced. His problem is credibility.

He tells these dictators he is the face of a new America, but everyone knows he is outnumbered by the original America. That is why he gets a lot of talk and kisses but few deals with his revolutionary soul mates

He is weak and they know it

How do you say acorn in Persian?

profitsbeard on June 21, 2009 at 10:34 PM

I thought they spoke Austrian?

That last observation also applies to the Obama administration. Want to take a noninterventionist position? All right, then, take a noninterventionist position. This would mean not referring to Khamenei in fawning tones as the supreme leader and not calling Iran itself by the tyrannical title of “the Islamic republic.” But be aware that nothing will stop the theocrats from slandering you for interfering anyway. Also try to bear in mind that one day you will have to face the young Iranian democrats who risked their all in the battle and explain to them just what you were doing when they were being beaten and gassed. (Hint: Don’t make your sole reference to Iranian dictatorship an allusion to a British-organized coup in 1953; the mullahs think that it proves their main point, and this generation has more immediate enemies to confront.)

Becuase it really does not matter what you say if the other side is not acting in good faith. So why not say what you mean.

Iran’s Guardian Council The FEC has suggested that the number of votes collected in 50 cities Philadelphia precincts surpass the number of people eligible to cast ballot in those areas.

Also true.

Republican Dick Lugar predicts a “very brutal outcome” to the uprising — and says the U.S. should negotiate with the regime anyway.

Lugar’s a Republican? Why doesn’t he act like one?

“Statistics provided by Mohsen Rezaei in which he claims more than 100% of those eligible have cast their ballot in 170 cities are not accurate — the incident has happened in only 50 cities,” Kadkhodaei said.

Oh, that’s all, it was only 50 cities. Or was it 57 states?

Does anyone know what’s really happening in Iran?

Members of the assembly are reportedly considering forming a collective ruling body and scrapping the model of Ayatollah Khomeini as a way out of the civil crisis that has engulfed Tehran in a series of protests,

Scrapping the Khomeini model would be great, but in favor of what? Is this paying lip-service to the protestors, while giving them a “new boss, same as the old boss”?

How about calling a REAL election, where candidates are selected by the people, not the mullahs? But that might be too good to be true in Iran right now. The situation is all so confusing, and Obama is asleep at the switch.

The Iranian public are fed up with Ahmedinejad, and have taken to the streets to protest his rigging the election, even though, had his rival been elected it would surely have made little difference…

Iran’s Guardian Council has suggested that the number of votes collected in 50 cities surpass the number of people eligible to cast ballot in those areas.

The Iranian version of Acorn?

The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, Ben Roome, a spokesman for the joint venture, confirmed.

European scum.

TheBigOldDog on June 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM

Really – you are blaming the Euros? ALL telecommunication companies help with spying – just see the American companies that work with China.

Stop being such a moralist when you cannot even look at your own backyard.

European scum.

TheBigOldDog on June 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM

They made deals with Saddam for oil. They are just as lax with the Iranian mullahs and Russia.

How do you say acorn in Persian?

profitsbeard on June 21, 2009 at 10:34 PM

If that is true, then the iranians are much braver than us Americans who have evidently become a nation of fat zombie cowards glued to American Idol..

He lost another chance to succeed and the world was watching him fail as they tested his resolve. Many in the US do not comprehend the scope of his inexperience. It’s astounding!

AnthonyK on June 21, 2009 at 11:22 PM

Remember this?

Iran’s Guardian Council has suggested that the number of votes collected in 50 cities surpass the number of people eligible to cast ballot in those areas.

In 2000, Pat Cadell, a Democrat pollster on MS-NBC pointed out that in certain Florida counties that Democrats were wanting to have recounted, the number of votes counted + undercounts (no presidential vote recorded) + overcounts (2 or more presidential votes recorded & thus the votes thrown out) was larger than the number of ballots cast. Seems like the Democrats have given pointers to the Iranian regime. No wonder Dear Leader doesn’t want to criticize them.