"A Dangerous And Failed Foreign Policy"
Barack Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan released this statement responding to John McCain's morning remarks to AIPAC in Washington:
“John McCain stubbornly insists on continuing a dangerous and failed foreign policy that has clearly made the United States and Israel less secure. Here are the results of the policies that John McCain has supported, and would continue. During the Bush Administration, Iran has dramatically expanded its nuclear program, going from zero centrifuges to more than 3000 centrifuges. During the Bush Administration, Iran has expanded its influence throughout a vitally important region, plying Hamas and Hezbollah with money and arms. During the Bush Administration, Hamas took over Gaza. Most importantly, the war in Iraq that John McCain supported and promises to continue indefinitely has done more to dramatically strengthen and embolden Iran than anything in a generation.
“Confronted with that reality, John McCain promises four more years of the same policies that have strengthened Iran, making the United States and Israel less safe. He promises to continue a war in Iraq that has emboldened Iran and strengthened its hand. He promises sanctions that the Bush Administration has been unable to persuade the Security Council to deliver. He promises a divestment campaign, even though he refused to sign on to Barack Obama's bipartisan divestment bill, refused to get his colleagues to lift an anonymous hold on the bill, and willfully ignores the fact that trade and investment between Iran and Iraq continue to expand. He stubbornly refuses to engage in aggressive diplomacy, ruling it out unconditionally as a tool of American power.
“Instead of recognizing reality, John McCain continues to run on a platform of doubling down on George Bush's failed policies, while carrying on his divisive brand of politics. The United States and Israel cannot afford four more years of an unwillingness to change course."
Exactly.
...as Joe Lieberman looks on and applauds from the front row seated with Natan Sharansky, a Zionist, member of the extreme Right Wing Likud Party in Israel, one of the architects of the neoconservative movement, proponent of the Iraq War, and major influence on the horrendously failed Bush foreign policy.
Please, Republicans, WAKE UP.
For the good of the USA (and Israel), please wake up.
McCain's unwillingness or inability to change course once caused him to fly his aircraft into some power lines, thus destroying the multi-million dollar craft. Luckily, he escaped unharmed.
"John McCain's pre-combat duty began when he was commissioned an ensign, and started two and a half years of training as a naval aviator at Pensacola. There he also earned a reputation as a party man. Graduating from flight school in 1960, he became a naval pilot of attack aircraft. McCain was then stationed in A-1 Skyraider squadrons on the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise, in the Caribbean Sea and in the Mediterranean Sea. He survived two airplane crashes and a collision with power lines."
-- wikipedia
[b]What is it about [i]the Iranian leadership[/i] that you dems love so much[/b]? Is it their promise to elimnate Israel, or their sponsoring the killing of numerous American soldiers?
[b]Or are you more entralled with ole' Saddam's[/b] attempt to produce nuclear bombs and his use of poison gas? Or was it his flooding the ocean with 10 million barrels of oil, starting three wars and killing millions, looting and raping Kuwait, blowing up wells and creating a world wide air pollution problem? Which of these things do you dems like the most?
The Iran whose terrorism Obama blames on W...is this the same Iran that Obama is planning to do a "Jimmy Carter" and beg them in public, hat in hand and scarf on his head, to just leave the US alone? And he somehow expects to emerge with a tamed Iran who quits killing Americans? Do you people believe that? Are you stupid?
[b]What is it about [i]the Iranian leadership[/i] that you dems love so much[/b]? Is it their promise to elimnate Israel, or their sponsoring the killing of numerous American soldiers?
[b]Or are you more entralled with ole' Saddam's[/b] attempt to produce nuclear bombs and his use of poison gas? Or was it his flooding the ocean with 10 million barrels of oil, starting three wars and killing millions, looting and raping Kuwait, blowing up wells and creating a world wide air pollution problem? Which of these things do you dems like the most?
The Iran whose terrorism Obama blames on W...is this the same Iran that Obama is planning to do a "Jimmy Carter" and beg them in public, hat in hand and scarf on his head, to just leave the US alone? And he somehow expects to emerge with a tamed Iran who quits killing Americans? Do you people believe that? Are you stupid?
Hey Jack... you'd best get your facts straight.
The Bush administration has been talking with Iran.
Obama has never suggested that we beg for anything...
in fact he said "As commander-in-chief, all of us would have a responsibility to keep the American people safe. That's our first responsibility. I would not hesitate to strike against anybody who would do Americans or American interests' harm. What I do believe is that we have to describe a new foreign policy that says, for example, I will meet not just with our friends, but with our enemies, because I remember what Kennedy said, that we should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate. Having that kind of posture is the way we effectively debate the Republicans on this issue. Because if we just play into the same fear-mongering that they have been engaged in since 9/11, then we are playing on their battlefield, but, more importantly, we are not doing what's right in order to rebuild our alliances, repair our relationships around the world, and actually make us more safe in the long term."
McCain is suggesting divesting in Iran after opposing it last year... when Obama suggested it.
McCain top strategist owns a firm which has been working for companies with investments in Iran.
McCain does not know what the pre-surge the troop levels were in Iraq.
Iran is more relevant now than they have ever been.
it's no secret... Saddam had no nuke program.
the poison gas he used on his own people... he got that from us (when he was our "friend")
You ask if we're stupid?
have a nice day.
Bruce, not every one in the U.S. can be fooled all the time.
Did Obama say he would crawl without conditions to meet with Amadinejine? Yes or no? Please... I know the subsequent crawfishing, wiggling clarifications...but was the ogininal thought expressed (it is on film you know)? Re: JFK - does Obama believe that "We will go any place, bear any burden...etc.?"
Iraq did not have a nuclear program? Hummm I wonder what it was that the Israelis bombed a few years ago? I wonder what the inspectors found after Gulf-War I? And I guess I don't need to mention the almost complete, fully developed nuclear program that Lybia surrendered immediately after the start of Iraq Freedom ... perhaps you may think the two events were unconnected ... some diplomat talked them into it.
Then you say..."we" provided chemical weapons to Saddam? Just where do you get that "fact?" That is simply a left-wing talking point with no basis nor proof. It is an urban myth at best ... and what does that have to do with anything? Did Saddam use chemical weapons against the Kurds and Iran or not? Did our troops go into Iraq during Iragi Freedom wearing chemical suits or not?
Did he flood the Persian-Arabian Gulf with oil, rape murder, start 3 wars, use every terrible scorched-earth weapon he could to hang onto Kuwait? And you people think it would have been fine to just leave him and his sons running Iraq? Hummn... Given his past actions, I wonder what your favorite, Saddam and his sons, would be doing right now with the riches from $100-bbl oil?
You think John McCain does not understand the Military and how it works, but Obama, Mr. Harvard slick, does? You think MaCain doesn't understand the success of the surge in defeating Al Quaida, but Obama does? Do you think scarf-covered Farah Pelosi is right that Iran is responsible for the sucess of the "surge?" Do you really think Obama has a better take on the true character of the regime in Teheran than McCain? I'm sure you probably agree with Reid that "our side has irrevocale lost in Iraq"... I just wonder who he was refering to when he said "our side...", Al Quieda or the United States?
Do you think that little disgusting nerd-operative "Ernie from New York," taking incredibly inane pot-shots at John McCains military record, will gain any traction with the public? Or do you just think you can fool all the people all the time?