Obama: Iran Not a Threat

[Brainster]

I would prefer they didn't go nuclear, but then, I wish ALL countries would destroy their nuclear capability. What we have now is several countries that have nukes,including some marginally stable ones, like Pakistan.

As it stands now, only one country has ever used nukes against a populated target. This same country, on the flimsiest of pretenses, invaded another country within the last decade. Yet it is this country that is trying to dictate who is "trustworthy". The hypocrisy of this stance is astounding.

Let us remember that the UN doesn't think Iran is trustworthy.

The U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment but Iran defiantly vowed to continue its nuclear program, calling the council's action illegal and politically motivated.

 

[chipmunk stew]

This same country, on the flimsiest of pretenses, invaded another country within the last decade.

Well that's a matter of opinion.

Which part is opinion?

 

[varwoche]

NATO is failing miserably in Afghanistan

Damn forum software! It appears that posts are bleeding over from unrelated threads.

 

[Tricky]

Damn forum software! It appears that posts are bleeding over from unrelated threads.

Sorry. Ya git them fingers typin' an' they jes caint stop!

Besides, the dishonestly edited quote that serves as the thread title was long ago shown to a part of an accurate statement by Obama, that Iran is not as much of a threat as the Soviet Union was. Few here dispute that. Neither does anyone dispute that Iran is a threat.

So we gotta find sumthin else to fight about.

 

[ronpaulisright]

Let's see the soviets had 40,000 nukes and iran has......... wait, how many nukes does iran have? Don't worry I'll wait.

 

[Dr Adequate]

Let's see the soviets had 40,000 nukes and iran has......... wait, how many nukes does iran have? Don't worry I'll wait.

Hey, shouldn't you be attacking Obama for being a stooge of the sinister CFR or whatever it was?

Ah, so difficult, what to do, what to do.

 

[ronpaulisright]

The CFR is the think tank that is more powerful than you think. The Concil On Foreign Relations. Look it up.

every country should have nukes.

**** the house of saud.

 

[boloboffin]

I've found a closer example to what I find objectionable about the title of this thread. This is from DU.

Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton: "Give It Up"

Going to the source, Carter actually declines to declare himself. He does say that at the end of the primary process that it looks like Clinton will have to give it up, though. So some Obama supporter clipped off all the inconvenient words that qualify those words and posted a lie. Jimmy Carter didn't tell Hillary to give it up. He said it looks like it will be the likely thing. Carter's words are completely understandable, as are Obama's. But for the sake of partisanship, both the title of this thread and the DU thread were constructed from a select portion of the quotee's words to produce an overall lie.

Now it's not precisely the same because Carter may soon be telling Clinton to give it up. But Jimmy Carter didn't tell Hillary Clinton to give it up, and Barack Obama did not say that Iran wasn't a threat. Period.