Posted on 07/23/2008 9:44:39 AM PDT by tflabo
SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday a nuclear Iran would pose a "grave threat" and that the world must stop Tehran from obtaining an atomic weapon.
Obama told reporters during a visit to Israel that if elected, he would take "no options off the table" in dealing with the Iran issue and said tougher sanctions could be imposed.
"A nuclear Iran would pose a grave threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," Obama told reporters after visiting the Israeli town of Sderot, which lies close to the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
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"I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us…You know, Iran, they spend one one-hundredth of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance."
A day later, Mr Obama felt obliged to offer the following clarification in Montana:
"Iran is a grave threat. It has an illicit nuclear program. It supports terrorism across the region and militias in Iraq. It threatens Israel's existence. It denies the Holocaust..."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alex_spillius/blog/2008/05/22/barack_obamas_iran_muddle
“....a nuclear Iran would pose a “grave threat”
Obama:
Grave threats are not as easily charmed, as talentless LeftJournalists and sheltered, idealistic college students, by your empty rhetoric and measured pauses when reading from the teleprompter.
Admit it, your policy for dealing with “grave” nuclear threats is simply appeasement accompanied by the old:
“Stop, or I’ll say “Stop” again”
He has already ruled out using Nucs,,under any circumstance. They may be necessary to tame Iran’s program or retailiate against a WMD attack on Israel.
“He has already ruled out using Nucs,,under any circumstance.”
Let’s play poker. I promise, before we start, not to use any face cards.
Code:--- let the U.N. handle it!
Gee, where'd he get that idea! That boy is a fast thinker!
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!!
Who knew a nuclear Iran would be a grave threat.
The tough guy speaketh...
Obama, not too long ago you called the Iranian threat tiny.
Let me be clear about this: Obama’s policy on Inran (a small country) is to maintain a difference between the policies of the Bush adminstration and those of a nearly similar McCain leaning that will lead to a certain language of diplomacy and hope in an effort to postpone any terror effort than might bleed over from Afghanistan.
where is “Grave” on the threat meter.....
No not stop anything but stop.
So it’s a tiny grave threat.
He's arrogant, flip flops, doesn't want to reveal his "plans" until he's elected and most of all he's faking it. He is in way over his head. Just like Kerry he is hoping no one will notice he has faked his way through his political career.
:-)
Most appropriate
Flip flop, flip flop, flip flop!
LLS
Notice that he’s in Israel. On top of his habit of speaking words that the people he’s with want to hear (and, in this case, the relatives of those he’s speaking with), I’m sure that some Israeli officials let him know in no uncertain terms that they’d wipe Iran and every other Arab nation off the face of the Earth and bomb the Saudi, Kuwaiti, etc. oil fields if Israel is nuked - which will result in $20.00 per gallon gasoline. Even the Obamessiah understands that this would hamper his ability to spend money on a myriad of social programs, so that means that Iran is a “grave threat.”
The Obamule has spoken.
He is a college grad with an average IQ for that group. Don’t expect genius.
But Barry didn’t you already say you would meet with Ahmadinejad if you were elected President and work things out by appeasing and declaring peace in our time?
WELL....than.....it must be so! (s)
its not nice to unduly criticize the next man
but
he wavers like grASS in the wind
he has no idea, no personal commitment, desiring to be pres without any respect for the role in the future
all smoke and mirrors for now
ZERO REAL COMMITMENT to the magnitude of the job at hand
how can america acept such mindless leadership?????
hmnnnnnnnn
BLACKman speaks with forked tongue
Well we just better talk sternly to them huh omama?
Sounds like he's channeling President Bush:
In a stern warning to Iran, President Bush said "all options are on the table" if the Iranians refuse to comply with international demands to halt their nuclear program, pointedly noting he has already used force to protect U.S. security."
....All 150 days of it
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