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NYT: Secret Gates memo-U.S. has no strategy for Iran
Topic Started: Apr 17 2010, 10:01 PM (305 Views)
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We seem to have a real experts running the WH ! :SarC:

Via Hot Air.

NYT: Secret Gates memo warns that U.S. has no strategy for dealing with a nuclear Iran

A Saturday night bombshell to scramble the scheduled Sunday morning chat show salutes to Obama’s dopey nuclear summit. Read it now so that you’ll have the proper frame of mind when Paul Krugman or whoever starts prattling on about what a big accomplishment it was to get Ukraine to give up their uranium.
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From The Australian via Real Clear World..

Obama Accepts a Nuclear Iran
By Greg Sheridan


US President Barack Obama has decided to abandon any serious effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He is determined instead to live with a nuclear Iran, by containment and, if possible, negotiation.

This is the shifting tectonic plate in the Middle East.

This is the giant story of the past few weeks which the world has largely missed, distracted by the theatre of the absurd of Obama's contrived and mock confrontation with Israel over 1600 apartments to be built in three years' time in a Jewish suburb in East Jerusalem.

Iran is the only semi-intelligible explanation for Obama's bizarre over-reaction against the Israelis.

In the Middle East, today, Iran is the story. It is the consideration behind all other considerations.

Obama has not explicitly announced his new position and he and his cabinet secretaries still make speeches saying they will try to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. But if you look at the statements closely you see a steady weakening of resolve, a steady removal of any threat of any consequence for Iran. Similarly, if you look at the actions of the administration, the sombre conclusion is inescapable.

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Full article Links: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/17/nyt-secret-gates-memo-warns-that-u-s-has-no-strategy-for-dealing-with-a-nuclear-iran/

NYT Link : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/middleeast/18iran.html

Real Clear World /The Australian link : http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/04/03/obama_accepts_a_nuclear_iran_98899.html
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Kerri P.
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Now we know for sure that Israel's on its own.
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LTC8K6
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
This is also the NYT undermining our country again...
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Mason
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I think Owebama would primarily like to see the U.S. disarmed. If that cannot happen, I suspect he thinks Iran is only doing the prudent thing in arming itself.


You have to think like the Radicals. It explains a lot too.

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Edited by Mason, Apr 18 2010, 12:27 AM.
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Kerri P.
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http://www.wral.com/news/political/story/7438297/
Report: Gates sent White House memo on Iran policy
Posted: 10:56 p.m. yesterday
Updated: 12:24 a.m. today

WASHINGTON — A memo from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to the White House warned that the United States lacks a nimble long-term plan for dealing with Iran's nuclear program, according to a published report.

Gates wrote the three-page memo in January and it set off efforts in the Pentagon, White House and intelligence agencies to come up with new options, including the use of the military, The New York Times said in its Sunday editions, quoting unnamed government officials.

White House officials Saturday night strongly disagreed with the comments that the memo caused a reconsideration of the administration's approach to Iran.

"It is absolutely false that any memo touched off a reassessment of our options," National Security Council spokesman Benjamin Rhodes told The Associated Press. "This administration has been planning for all contingencies regarding Iran for many months."

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Baldo
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As I said back in Dec

It's a complex situation but Obama has boxed himself in, I doubt we will do anything.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Liestoppers_meeting/single/?p=274344&t=2349145

In fact he has made it worse by not allowing bunker buster bombs approved by the Bush Administration in 2008 to be shipped to Israel nor any weapons programs. I would bet he has warned Israel he would not help in an air strike or even worse try to stop Israel Miliarty from carrying out a strike

It is clear Obama has chosen to appease Iran.




Edited by Baldo, Apr 18 2010, 01:41 AM.
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Joan Foster

Explosions at Iran nuclear plant.

Bachmann to Obama: cancel Letterman and JayZ...meet Netanyahu.

I might add...DO YOUR JOB!!!
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US, allies launch Gulf naval drill amid Iran tension

By REUTERS09/17/2012 16:44

Exercise keys on clearing mines that Tehran, or guerrilla groups, might deploy to disrupt tanker traffic, notably in Strait of Hormuz.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=285350
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