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Barack Obama’s massive Middle East mea culpa
The Telegraph ^ | 6/4/2009 | Nile Gardiner

Posted on 06/04/2009 11:19:46 AM PDT by markomalley

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- Obama attacked the decision to go to war in Iraq - "a war of choice" - it "reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible" etc, without even mentioning the fact Saddam Hussein was failing to comply with several Security Council resolutions. This was completely gratuitous, wrong and unnecessary. There are still over 100,000 American troops fighting in Iraq, and this kind of message will only serve to undermine morale. As President, Obama should have paid tribute to his own soldiers who are putting their lives on the line everyday in a war against Al-Qaeda-backed insurgents. The United States does not need to apologise for removing a brutal dictator from power and liberating over 20 million Muslims from tyranny.

-Obama did not address the scale of the Iranian threat, or Iran's support for terrorism, or UN sanctions against Iran. Obama made no mention of the fact Iran is arming, funding and training some of the terrorist groups in southern Iraq responsible for killing American and British troops.

- The president drew a hugely controversial parallel between Jewish suffering in the Holocaust with the current plight of the Palestinians.

- Obama used the word "occupation" to describe the Palestinian refugee camps, a term more commonly used by Israel-hating UN or EU officials when attacking Israel.

- Once again the president brought up the Guantanamo/torture issue in front of an international audience, part of a ritual exercise in self-loathing that has become a hallmark of the Obama administration.

- Obama did not once use the words "terrorist", "terrorism" or "Islamist". When you are waging a global war, you have to identify who you are fighting against - in this case the free world is fighting against...

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(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: apologytour; bho44; bhoegypt; bhovisit; islamicimperialism; islamicsupremacists; muslimworld; obama; obamaapologytour; waronterror
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To: markomalley
When is a representative of Islam going to apologize for the rape, murder and conquest of Christians and their lands? When do we get Constantinople back?

That is the objective. Obama wants to make sure that the war in Iraq is a complete failure. He will destroy morale as part of his plan to weaken the US military. Of course, this will send orgasms of surrender throughout the multicultural left. It doesn't matter what they are surrendering to, as long as it has nothing to do with the traditions of the West. Surrendering to Islam as good as surrendering to anything else. But when are the woman on the left going to start wearing burkas?

21 posted on 06/04/2009 11:45:24 AM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: markomalley

Obamination! (abomination)


22 posted on 06/04/2009 11:50:24 AM PDT by boatbums
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To: VicVega
What scares me is all the people in the US who will convert to islam because President Tut was one, and still is.

Kind of like accepting the mark of the beast.
23 posted on 06/04/2009 11:50:28 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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To: markomalley; marron; swarthyguy

I missed the speech...did he say he was going to lead Islam to modernity?

“Once again the president brought up the Guantanamo/torture issue in front of an international audience, part of a ritual exercise in self-loathing that has become a hallmark of the Obama administration.”

It’s a hallmark of American liberalism.


24 posted on 06/04/2009 11:51:06 AM PDT by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: markomalley

Obama is...

A) A delusional megalomaniac absolutely convinced that he has been “chosen” to solve all of the world’s problems.

B) A radical America-hating Marxist intent on destroying the United States as we know it.

C) The biggest idiot to ever hold the office of President of the United States.

D) All of the above.


25 posted on 06/04/2009 11:56:55 AM PDT by Mark319 ("Whenever a president is gonna get us into serious trouble they always use Lincoln" From film "2010")
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To: Mark319

I can go with A and B. I think Brother Jimmuh still has him beat on C.


26 posted on 06/04/2009 11:57:50 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: MrB

2 muslims arrested for having explosives in their car
4 newly converted muslims in NYC plot to blow up post offices, military planes...

LR incident with newly converted muslim.

Not really isolated is it? We can expect more to come.


27 posted on 06/04/2009 12:00:37 PM PDT by VicVega (Just call him President Tut for short.)
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To: VicVega

Oh, I was just giving the “official Obama” line on those issues...


28 posted on 06/04/2009 12:02:00 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: boatbums

Yes, from the Obamunist himself.


29 posted on 06/04/2009 12:04:44 PM PDT by billygoatgruff
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To: hulagirl

It is holy only that it is suitable for use in many of the one person occupancy wooden mosques that are found in rural areas. They are easily recognized by the crescents on them. Probably, they are Shi’ite..”Please don’t squeeze the Charmin’!”


30 posted on 06/04/2009 12:05:30 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: markomalley

The Telegraph is becoming one of my favorite media sources.


31 posted on 06/04/2009 12:08:56 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: MrB

LOL. I misread the response.


32 posted on 06/04/2009 12:10:23 PM PDT by VicVega (Just call him President Tut for short.)
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To: markomalley
Broken clock effect - we have to get out of this tar pit and let them burn according to their desires.

It is also important get out in order to give these morons a chance nuke each other before their nukes are advanced enough to cause a nuclear winter.

33 posted on 06/04/2009 12:15:31 PM PDT by alex
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To: markomalley

No one in the MSM will dissect this speech in Cairo. 1. He is fullout using the Muslim roots as a prop . Jake Tapper now has proved that just yesterday. 2. He still has not mentioned the Black Muslim who murdered the Army recruiter. 3. He never mentions the fact that over the last 20 years the USA has aided Somalia, Afghans, Iraq, Kuwait, Georgia and Indonesia plus aiding natural disasters. 4. He invites Sunni terrorists from Egypt to his speech. 5. He disses Israel with moral equivalence to the Holocaust and the Pals. 6. He lies or has historical idiocy when he says Muslims have contributed many things that he mentioned that were NOT historically true. 7. He panders to tyrants like Hamas, Hez et cet. He thinks the Pals are are just fine. 8. He never mentions the fact that Islamofascists hate females and do not give them rights. 9. Lies that the USA is one of the largest Muslim nations in the world.10. Never asks the Muslim world to change their ways which might modernize them.


34 posted on 06/04/2009 12:43:23 PM PDT by phillyfanatic ( iT)
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To: markomalley

This is right on target. Excellent observations/points.


35 posted on 06/04/2009 12:59:37 PM PDT by mtntop3
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

“Rush is calling them the state controlled media.

(SCM) I supposed that’s pronounced scam or scum”

skim works, too. I am sure they are both 1) paid and have 2) skin in the game in more ways than 1


36 posted on 06/04/2009 1:07:32 PM PDT by combat_boots (The 5 Stages of Collapse: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/47157)
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To: VicVega

“President Tut”

Wait, wait. Now it’s Tut’s TOTUS?


37 posted on 06/04/2009 1:08:46 PM PDT by combat_boots (The 5 Stages of Collapse: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/47157)
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To: VicVega

Also:

March 20, 2009 = Chicago: Muslim arrested for threatening Jewish school

July 2, 2007 = Florida Muslim arrested after shouting “Allahu akbar” and “I am going to blow this place up”

Plus 100’s more....


38 posted on 06/04/2009 1:14:25 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: Ben Mugged

I think W will go down as the last President of the United States


39 posted on 06/04/2009 4:52:34 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: VicVega
Should we expect more shootings like we did in Little Rock?

What happens when we start shooting Back ?not advocating anything, for discussion only

40 posted on 06/04/2009 5:57:59 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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