Posted on 06/24/2009 1:50:11 PM PDT by jmcenanly
Even as Ayatollah Khamenei blasted the United States for fomenting unrest in a defiant Friday prayer address in Tehran, President Obama has kept silent, focusing instead on domestic policy.
Obama spent more time with TV personality Stephen Colbert, taping a segment for a comedy show, than he did addressing the turmoil in Iran this week.
Newsmax has learned that the Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up.
Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for “educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran.”
The funding ramped up dramatically two years later, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested $75 million for pro-democracy programs. More than half of the $66.1 million Congress finally appropriated went to expand U.S. government-funded Persian language broadcasting services at Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
You read my mind. Reagan would have used the unrest in Iran to bring about a truly democrat government and unseat the tyrant Ayatollah what ever his name happens to be.
You read my mind. Reagan would have used the unrest in Iran to bring about a truly democrat government and unseat the tyrant Ayatollah what ever his name happens to be.
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Reagan was a UNITED STATES PRESIDENT. The last one we ever had.
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/1254226.html
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From CBS-News, July 29, 2006:
Chavez Vows To 'Stand By Iran'
After Oil Talks In Tehran, Venezuelan Leader Called 'Brother' By Ahmedinejad
"Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/29/world/main1847331.shtml
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President Obama and Venezuela dictator Hugo
Chavez at the 2009 Summit of the Americas in Trinidad
Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97KK2T00&show_article=1
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From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764
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Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama
Associated Foreign Press (AFP) ^ | April 2, 2009 | Anna Smolchenko
"Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks"
http://www.france24.com/en/20090402-russias-medvedev-hails-comrade-obama
April 1, 2009:
"Obama, Medvedev pledge new era of relations":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/wl_afp/usrussiadiplomacynuclear_20090401152002
Well, I guess this confirms what his true feelings are.
He’s nodding to the mullahs and warning US.
“Newsmax has learned that the Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up.”
Zeroed out funding? Freudian slip?
Ahmadinejad is quite possibly a Russian plant.
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Khamenei is an idiot. He doesn’t realize that Obama is on HIS side.
Ahmadinejad is quite possibly a Russian plant.
Just as Khomenei was a Soviet proxy, until he decided to be a theocratic dictator instead of a Marxist dictator - mostly because it seemed to work better for him.
I interpret 0bama’s silence to be complicity with the current regime in Iran. He is only speaking out now because that is what the focus group seems to suggest best for public consumption. Ignore what he says, it is mere finger in the wind posturing. Watch what he does - taking us down the road to serfdom and hell.
The Iranian people have been betrayed by the United States government, if you can call it that. They just finished the job started by Jimmy Carter. They’ve done more to destroy Persia than Alexander The Great did.
God help us, but I don’t see the next UNITED STATES President anywhere on the horizon.
There is a lot of work for us to do. This guy is moving so fast we can’t keep up w/him. Right out of the Alinsky play book.
Ping.
God, please expose this guy to the real fraud he is. The American people don’t have a clue! Open their eyes!!!!
Why would Hussein want to help democracy in Iran?
He is destroying it here.
What do you expect from the mid east leaders personal bitc*?
Tell Obama it’s funding for Iranian abortion clinics - he’ll triple existing funding levels overnight!
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