Speaking today on ABC News, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set the stage for the predicted failure of the mid-April P5+1 talks in Turkey. She issued a series of demands that were the condition for avoiding war with Iran.
Among those demands were a series of unspecified “concrete commitments from Iran,” including an explicit demand that they “come clean on its nuclear program.” This is in spite of the repeated reports from the US and Israeli intelligence communities that Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
Iran cannot even theoretically produce publicly the evidence of a program it doesn’t have in the first place, and this is just the latest reason that the anticipated talks will be another high profile
opportunity for dissembling, and not diplomacy.
The talks have been presented by US officials as the “last chance” for Iran to avoid an attack by either the US, Israel, or some combination thereof, and since the talks were initially agreed to by Iran have been presented as doomed to failure. It doesn’t seem likely that there will even be a meaningful topic of discussion for the two sides, with the US expected to simply shake its fists angrily for two days, and both sides to come home insisting they made some key rhetorical point.
One might imagine this makes the talks a colossal waste of everyone’s time, but the US at least has proudly touted the last few rounds of “designed to fail” talks as a whopping success, integral in getting international support (or in the case of China and Russia acquiescence) on imposing new sanctions and making more threats against Iran.
Tell her they'll 'come clean' when she 'fesses up' about her sex change. …or would that be sinking to her level?
Persnipoles,
Thank you for providing a wonderful new aspect to the situation.
“come clean on its nuclear program.” —Like the way she's come clean about nuking the ME with DU(depleted uranium)?
Well, from 1993 to 2001, she was the Dual Being–President Billary.
The queen of we-came-we-saw-he-died is wrong again. The venue for the P5+1 talks has not been deiced upon yet, and Iran will reject for having it in Turkey for it being a puppet of the U.S.
Alao, she is in a much weaker position than to make demands.
I believe Baghdad was asked by the Iranians to host
"Demands Iran 'Come Clean' on Non-Existent Weapons Program” the cleaning part is a religious matter in Iran, they are very clean, people actually wash themselves 7 times a day, that is clean.
Skeptical again, ultimatum after another, Lie after another, when this women is going to be truthful to herself and resign by tomorrow.
I put that in there with "are you still beating your wife"?
Most of the deliberate sabotaging of any negotiations with Iran is done at the behest of the Isrealis and we even follow their guidelines; make impossible pre-conditions and if Iran agrees to them, then move the goal posts, and make wild accusations. The Turkey-Brazil deal to trade Iran's 20% enriched U-235 for completed fuel rods for a medical reactor was deliberately sabotaged by State and is a classic example of the weasel activity from the Zionist zealots at State.
They say cattle produce a hell of a lot of methane. This is one cow that repeatedly talks out of her ass and stinks up everything.
Yep, the Clinton War Cow is thundering again……..
And there are already people hyping her for a run at the Presidency in 2016. Insanity!!
It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Just like Iraq proved to the US it had no WMD, but they were next on the hit list anyway.
Iran and Syria are on the hit list, they will be attacked eventually. This is certain.
Hmmm, having to prove a negative…sounds like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. You'd think that the American people would at least be aware…well…never mind.
Hilary Clinton: the voice of undiplomacy.
Whose payroll is Hillary on? She must be getting thousands under the table for doing Israel's bidding. How does someone with such a bias get to lead America in diplomacy? We can surely do better than that.
She actually has outgrovelled Obama at AIPAC.
Hillary 'the Mouth' Clinton strikes again.
I think the problem is in non personal stakes of "democratic" leaders and deciders with regard to wars. When some king in old times wanted to go to the war he was usually in the melee and could die. These idiots just make other people to do dying for their decisions. UN should set the limits for this mad game – you want to go to the war you will be in the front line. No excuses!
The good news is everyone left and right despises Hitlery, the bad news is, is that we can't stop her unless the activist left and Libertarian right stop sniping at each and unite in the streets to physically stop empire though direct action.
Not many brave soils around to demonstrate anymore… The young and old alike, men women, even children marched and came out to protest the run up to the Iraq war….. When the war want off as planed, the young lost hope……. and also interest in corrupt institutions and leaders I.E. our government. They turned their attention to more productive and rewarding stuff…. like hooking up and working
How about the U.S. lead by example and give up all of its existing nuclear weapons first? Followed by Israel. No? Well then maybe the rest of the world nations should put sanctions on us and until we do. Oh wait, I forgot, this is 'do as I say, not as I do' U.S.A. Ahhhh!! In some ways, I hope for our imminent bankruptcy.
There is a real danger here that this statement, together with an unreasonable position by the US at the talks, will be taken by Iran as a declaration of war. This is no different than the Japanese statement intercepted just before Pearl Harbor, which was correctly understood to be a declaration of war.
This may well cause Iran to strike without waiting.
This is game playing with war and peace. And with the world economy.
So the cankeled cow wants Iran to "come clean" about their nukes?
OK, right after the only country in the ME which actually DOES possess nukes now, comes clean…..
It seems the Secretary of State now is obligated to come across as a piece of warmongering, subhuman scum whose only job is to announce veiled threats and make phony attempts at "diplomacy".
Is it possible that this laughable windbag warpig from the ass-end of Arkansas is worse than the reptilian Condi Rice? Is this position in the 21st century now doomed to be held by a woman who comes off as if she has a terminal case of PMS??
Could be.
Can the US 'prove' it destroyed all the chemical weapons stockpiled at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama? How do we know those death-filled artillery shells and rockets were destroyed instead of being moved to another location- because they told us so? I can crank up Microsoft Word and produce a slick-looking document full of dates and times and stock numbers and have proper-looking signatures and initials perfectly placed- but does that in any way 'prove' I've done anything other than produce a document? I can take an inspector to Anniston and show him a patch of ground and tell him the chemical warehouse was here but it's been dismantled and the land restored to a natural state… but does that really 'prove' anything?
When Hillary puts on a uniform and is embarked for the first wave to hit the beach she'll have any credibility. Until then, she's just like Charlie Brown's teacher: whaa wha whaaaa wha wha whaaa
Nazi Germany was in the habit of strong-arming countries that it planned to invade and/or annex by demanding concessions that undermined the targeted nation’s autonomy.
And once acquiescence had been attained, there would then emerge new demands, more onerous, more humiliating, than the old ones. But no concession long served to satiate — how could it when the Nazi’s objective had been, ab initio, the complete and total subjugation of the nation affixed in its crosshairs.
Now enter the Hildebeeste — the Fourth Reich’s Ribbentrop (with the MSM bluster-cluster in tow) to bully anew the defiant Mullahs. It will not work. Iran is not Czechoslovakia. Iran is not Austria. And, of course, the old hag knows it, but the time isn’t yet quite ripe for the war we all know is on the way. Perhaps the Warlords of E-Ring prefer to first give Assad the full Ghadaffi, and then let loose their Israeli stooges; perhaps they wish to wait until their Muppet Barack is renewed.
But one way or another, there there’s a brand new war in the works. And I’ll be rooting for Iran.
So, why is Iran buying wheat from us????