Speaking today in South Korea, President Obama warned that there was little time left to resolve the ongoing dispute with Iran through diplomacy, insisting that the “window is closing” for the Iranians.
While the US and Israeli intelligence community have both agreed repeatedly that there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program, both President Obama and Israeli leaders have repeatedly threatened to attack Iran to “stop” that program, and Obama reiterated again that a military strike remains an “option.”
“Time is short. Iran must act with the seriousness and sense of urgency that this moment demands,” Obama insisted. Though the exact timetable for an attack on Iran is a matter of much speculation, US officials have mostly recently termed the period right before the US election in November the “sweet spot” for such a war.
Obama made the statement following a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. Erdogan is planning to visit Iran before the end of the month, and has been seen as one of the more vocal opponents of a war on the international scene.
"Not much time left…" yeah and, bullsh*t! President Preposterous shakes, rattles, and bakes utter banality. Not much time left for? What in hell does Barack the Beneficent expect from the Iranians? Oh right and I forgot sorry. The Iranians are supposed to bow in humble obesiance to the dictates and demands of our world's foremost and patently insane terrorist, one Binyamin Netanyahu.
Is this lunatic for real? Time and time again we've even had admissions by the "crazies" that Iran has no bomb but that doesn't seem to mean a damn thing to this fool.
The insanity of the mass murderer in chief, is only matched by his preposterous deadly ego !
It is not about the nukes, nuclear power, building a bomb and this is highlight in media to scare the sheep – Iran has existed for 3,000 years and they are hardly likely to commit national suicide so they can drop a bomb on Israel.
No, it is all about maintaining the hegemony of the US dollar which allows the US to live of the backs of all other nations, secure cheap commodities, etc. This only remains in place along with US 'power' and 'influence' if the world's commodities are traded in dollars. Iraq was attacked as it wanted to trade its oil resources in the Euro and other currencies and Libya was cutting deals with the Chinese and others outside the dollar…this is what is driving the US.
The consequences for the US if the dollar collapses, which is a fiat currency, are staggering for instance all imports suddenly cost 50%, 60% or more and hyperinflation takes off, a black market starts, people hoard other currencies and gold, etc.
O-Bomb-a, the Peace Laureate-in-Chief, says that there isn't much time left for a diplomatic solution to a problem that doesn't exist–namely, Iran's nonexistent nuclear weapons program. An attack on Iran by the U.S. and/or Israel would be a criminal act of aggression, and I hope the world would regard it as such.
Of course, O-Bomb-a is a hapless puppet of NuttyYahoo. . . .
Aircraft carriers can tread water only for so long.
Is this man looking into “intelligent” reports and actually read it, or just calls AIPAC or one of his “intelligent” adviser wanting to know if the "intelligent community" is correct about Iranian nuclear program. That they don't have and not about making any bomb, in the other hand Israel have the bomb, is he for real or just playing politics with Iranians but paying Israel saying what AIPAC tell him to say.
In the other hand I think his warning N. Korea to stop cooperating with Iranian, Syria and every other country in this world, yet look into opportunities that US vulture capitalism can bring them, if they stopped their space and other scientific technology no matter what kind. That is what US and EU is after, take a country back in time by all means making sure that the country become dependent on west and all that west is making, from medicine to food and….. Militarism hardware. Thats democracy, thats a modernized version in slavery and colonialism.
Like Iraq in 2003, the "diplomacy" is nothing but a smokescreen. While Angelina Jolie and George Clooney and other Hollywood lesser lights might believe the president is "doing his best," readers at antiwar.com know that he's simply going through the motions so he can claim "we tried" after the bombs fall on Iran. As Skulz pointed out, what exactly does the west expect them to do since they KNOW Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program? Turkey & Brazil came up with the most realistic solution in 2010, and the White house shot it down. they are not looking for a way out of this mess, but searching for a way to get the ball rolling for "regime change."
"…they are not looking for a way out of this mess, but searching for a way to get the ball rolling for "regime change.""
Bingo! Mostly.
Obama is trying, with uncertain success, to gain some degree of control over the affair. Because he's in full campaign mode now, with re-election his overriding priority, he doesn't want the Israelis jumping the gun.
So dispense with any notion of truthfullness in what he says. Don't mislead yourself by thinking that way. All Obama's words are calibrated for maximum positive effect re his re-election. It's all manipulation. Truth factors in not at all.
So I'm thinking, this is aimed at the Israelis, the American Jewish community, and the hawkish Americans, particularly the hawkish independents.
Diplomacy? Iran has offered to talk many times but the US has refused or ignored those offers, usually saying "Iran doesn't want to talk"!
"Might makes right" is the operative principle of US Foreign Policy, not diplomacy.
Congratulations Obamination – Mr. Nobel PEACE prize
There goes the price of oil again. What kind of crap is the president spewing. Going to war is no longer popular.
the US gov and the likes are just plain evil….
all at the demands of the tribe
I still beleive that the US congress and media are nothing but pure evil…
of course they are bribed to the bone by the aipac bunch…
saying that I do think Obama may say these things just to shut some neocons up..
This means only one thing, we are going to war. As an above poster pointed this is a carbon copy of Iraq. Israel never cared about nuclear weapons, nor did we. We only wanted REGIME CHANGE. In any other country on earth this would sound insane. But not here, that is because in the history of civilized man this peculiar situation where a tiny country controls a whole empire of another country simply is unprecedented. I can only surmise for Isael it satisfies some kind of psychological need. For the U.S I guess trying to go off the dollar is a no, no. Just ask Quadaffi etc….
It hs nothing whatsoever to do with anything Iran may be doing or may do in the future, and absolutely everything with reasserting US "full-spectrum dominance" and the "American exceptionalism" not to be bound by the rules governing wars of aggression that we are the first to apply to anyone else who might violate them. US "full-spectrum dominance" and "exceptionalism" put us above all such things, when our bombs tear children to shreds it is the work of heaven's own angels, or at the very worst, just something to be laughed off as good 'ol collateral damage.
He really has got into the swing of this killing thing, hasn't he?
America casually threatens country after country, as routinely as people getting up in the morning drinking their coffee. I would love to see the USA get a taste of its own medicine someday.
If we had a real media presence in this country instead of a bunch of propaganda-reading traitors, a reporter would ask the common sense question, "how is Iran supposed to stop a program that intelligence agencies the world over state do not exist?"
Another question that might be asked is, "considering that the intelligence agencies of the United States, Israel, and indeed the whole world claim that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, what justification do you have to continue threatening them with a military attack?"
Here's another common sense question, "Considering intelligence agencies here and abroad state that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, what proof do you have that these agencies are wrong?"
There are so many questions that could be asked but will not be.
Here's another question: If Israel and (subsequently the US) attack Iran from the air, knowing that the attack cannot terminate — only delay — Iran's nuclear program, doesn't this virtually guarantee that the current regime will be strengthened, the country united against the attackers, that Iran will then withdraw from the NPT, and construct the very nukes they aren't building now?
Isn't that the exact opposite of what the US/Israel want?
Now bear in mind that the Israelis are under no illusion that they can do the job by themselves. Their entire strategy is premised on drawing the US in to do the heavy lifting. But I still can't figure out any "end game" to attacking Iran that doesn't result in a greater threat of destruction for Israel. As well as a slightly less catastrophic consequence for the US. (Which the Israelis, in their self-absorption, don't concern themselves with.)
I think Israeli extremists believe Israel's nukes guarantee their protection, and this illusion of invulnerability provokes the ruthlessness which, in the end, will result in Israel's destruction. Deterrence only works till it doesn't, then the very nukes you thought would protect you compel your annihilation.
YMMV.
I agree with most of what you said, but maybe in fact we want the Middle East to be radicalized so that it requires military intervention and presence. The US consistently works against democracy in the region (see Mozzadeq in Iran and Hezbollah in Palestine) in order to support compliant strong men. In any case, only Israel will be the source of its demise and from within. It cannot remain a democratic and Jewish state with all the land it wants.
>>>Obama insisted, "Iran must act with the seriousness and sense of urgency that this moment demands"
I read and reread this statement with absolute wonder and amassment. Is Obamas so enamored with himself that he really believes this is a brilliant piece of word smithery? The only serious and urgent action left for Iran, that "this moment demands", is to strengthen their defenses – which they have been diligently doing.
Ron Paul should run as 3rd Party "no war, no kiss Israel's butt" candidate".
If his name is on the ballot, I vote Paul. If not, I vote ***against*** Obama (ie FOR Romney).
Paul's ***seeming*** lukewarm achievement in the Repub primaries belies a greater strength when measured across the political spectrum. No one in the MSM is saying anything regarding his broad non-partisan appeal for the very same reason they have, from day one, so studiously avoided monitoring and commenting on his campaign. They know, but they are all corporate shills, so only the ***approved*** candidates get coverage.
Waiting for November with a vengeful gleam in my eye.
Lots of Iranians would look like your son…
It's a good thing that just last week both Israel and its lapdog, the US, agreed that Iran didn't pose a threat.
It's downright repulsive that US officials would be so callous about the possible extermination of hundreds of thousands by calling the pre-election bombing to be a "sweet spot." The lunatics are running the asylum.
God help us if they turn this sweet spot into a disastrous shooting war. I hope Americans like their newest shock and awe campaign, because they'll be paying $10/gallon at the pump as a reward. That should do wonders for the economy!
Iran and its allies are ready. You go, girl.
I used to think Bush the lesser needed to work on his English, but it seems there are more people who do not know the meaning of the word "diplomacy". All we've seen in the media has been stick, talk of sanctions, further sanction, and all options on the table, and I believe the world has seen and knows that. Who does he think he's fooling?
I read and hear a lot about hawkish Americans. Instead of going to war with other nations on imaginable WMD’s why don’t they divide into two groups and start killing each other?