Posted on 11/10/2009 12:43:26 PM PST by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross, who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard from publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert is not a neutral arbiter; he serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).
What is the National Iranian American Council?
The Council is widely considered the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime in America. It opposes sanctions on Iran, soft-pedals any controversial events in Iran, and counsels "patience" regarding Iran's stance towards its nuclear program. The NIAC has been at the forefront of lobbying against continued congressional funding of the Voice of America Persia service, Radio Farad, and grants for Iranian civil society. To top it off, the NIAC has reportedly received funding from anti-Israel advocate George Soros, who at the very least was an honored guest and speaker at one of its symposiums. (He called for a more equitable Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and advocated for America to renounce regime-change as a goal).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Figures.
Obama strikes again. Most certainly one can tell much about someone by the company the one keeps.
Conflict of interest much?
"Today, I am proud to make two key personnel announcements for the U.S.. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) President Obama’s intent to nominate David Heyman as Assistant Secretary for Policy and my appointment of Arif Alikhan as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.
'nuff saeed?
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
0 welcomes them, eagerly.
Everything 0bama has done has:
A. weakened America
B. strengthened islam
C. attacked Israel
or some combination of the above.
Can anyone cite something he’s done that doesn’t fit A, B, or C?
SJackson has dibs on: “He bought a Portuguese water dog.”
Anyone else have something, anything?
“He bought a Portuguese water dog.”
Didn’t the swimmer pick the breed, or is that just a rumor?
How ironic.
The NIAC is a regime front group plain and simple.
I .,.. am... IranMan....(cue guitar riffs)
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaIslam.htm (links at the site)
Obama is protective of civil rights for Muslims in the U.S., saying, “In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging,” he laments. “I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:
“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet... “
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim’s complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.
Obama knows this from his Quranic studies — and he knows the New York Times will publish this fact and it will be seen throughout the Islamic world.
Regardless of Obama’s religion, what message is he sending the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims?
I suppose it’s easy for Obama to remember the Shahada for the 35 years since he left Indonesia — and in ‘first-class’ Arabic — especially since he believes the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
The fact that Obama can recall the Shahada after 35 years and the fact that he believes that the daily call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth” say that those Muslim prayers run through his head often — what does that make him?
Original New York Times source — has been deleted by Obama’s water-carriers at the New York Times — HERE is the Kristof article on another site.
Ho, ho, ho — and here’s a copy I forgot I cached from Obama’s own website.
The replaced the wrong boob.
Obama’s dog is a descendant of one of Swimmer’s dogs. It was a bonding, symbolic experience for both./s
0bama will easily set our intelligence back decades while assuring future administrations are targeted instead.
Expect to find our few remaining spies in the area dead.
No surprise. I’m just surprised it took zero this long to put this guy in. I’m sure the new guy will get as many State Department and Defense Department secrets to ahmanutjob.
How much more of this are we going to take?
“Representative Kirk (R-IL), spoke last week before the US Institute of Peace, and issued his allegation against NIAC saying: “Regime-sympathizers like the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) came to Capitol Hill urging members of Congress to cut off U.S. funding for democracy programs in Iran. Democracy funding ‘taints’ Iranian dissidents, they claimed, and only invites harsher crackdowns on the Iranian people.” He provided no explanation backing up his statement, nor did he acknowledge that the foremost leaders of Iran’s pro-democracy movement have denounced the very same Congressional “regime change fund” that Kirk has championed.
NIAC communicated with Representative Kirk’s office immediately after his statement, requesting a retraction. His office refused to respond. “
Pong
By a Commentator at American Thinker website:
http://comments.americanthinker.com/read/42323/471260.html
Posted by: Jack Bauer
Nov 10, 10:59 AM
“John Limbert is simply the best possible pick for that position.” -— the official neo-commie position.
No he’s the worst possible choice.
Limbert is a notorious sympathizer and promoter of Iran. Amazingly he was one of the US Embassy hostages held for 444 days in 1979/80. He went native very early in the 1960s; and his wife is Iranian.
Instead of representing the US to Iran he took it upon himself to represent Iran to the US.
After first escaping the fire in the US Embassy stairwell, he joined the crowd outside chanting Allah Aquba... and other such crazed Kohemeni (the evil swine) inspired nonsense.
The thing to remember here is almost unthinkable, but on the evidence, it’s inescapable.
Within the Obama administration, probably up to the Preisdent himself, there are many leftists who WANT Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
I suspect Limbert is of that (publicly unspoken) school.
Though he is, apparently, a decent guy on a personal level, by written accounts of the Hostage crisis. He is a bonafide Iran cultist. And clearly a longtime appeaser of a wicked regime.
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If true it is very interesting & disturbing about John Limbert.
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Also this comment on the same website:
Posted by: Parvin Irandoost
Nov 09, 08:14 PM
In the Iranian-American society, NIAC and Trita Parsi are know to represent the government of Iran. Though they claim otherwise, as mentioned in this article, NIAC’s position on many issues are aligned with those of Islamic Republic of Iran. NIAC is known in Iran as a lobbyist group for the Iranian government. Of course to save their face, after the world witnessed the brutal crackdown on the Iranian citizens by IRI, NIAC has come to speak out against the human rights violations by IRI.
Mr. Obama has decided NOT to be on the side of humanity by responding to the Iranian youth asking him to either choose the terrorist government of Iran or choose them. Obviously he showed he has chosen the terrorist government of Iran by hiring a NIAC’s advisor and ex-hostage John Limber. I believe Mr. President will come to regret this decision. The pro-democracy movement in Iran will NOT stop regardless of what Mr. Obama does but history will not be kind to him for not supporting this movment.
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Regarding Trita Parsi, and NIAC.
“On January 18, 2008, Trita Parsi was asked “why NIAC never takes any meaningful stand against human rights violations in Iran?”
Trita Parsi in the clip below repsonded: “Let me first off tell you that NIAC is not a Human Rights Organization; this is not our expertise”.
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ping
ping
Looks like liberal-proislamic-fascists are in a hurry in order to own deeply for a long time the once FREE USA.
NO WAY!
There should be blood...Already soldiers are dead in Fort Hood
Within the Obama administration, probably up to the Preisdent himself, there are many leftists who WANT Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
Except that I would change it to "leftists and Muslim sympathizers." I don't know if Limbert is actually a Muslim (although if he was actually out there shouting the Allah thing, it sounds pretty likely), but if he isn't, he's certainly a sympathizer, and they're just as bad.
“Let me first off tell you that NIAC is not a Human Rights Organization; this is not our expertise”
Gee, Trita didn’t handle that one very well.
Sometimes you need to trust first impressions when you just see someone - mine was that he’s a slimeball - which he is.
Here’s more on Limbert -
http://www.usna.edu/MiddleEast/limbert.pdf
John Limbert’s Résumé per your link is impressive; almost as much as Trita Paris’s official one, which I viewed on NIAC website almost 2 yrs ago.
In the context of an earlier comment on Limbert, an interesting bit on his CV is: “Award for Valor after captivity in Iran (1981)”
Trita Paris = Trita Parsi
Late at night here.
Not if your goal is the utter destruction of The USA, the end of personal freedoms, and the total elimination of western civilization.
In that case:
“John Limbert is simply the best possible pick for that position.”
I might give him a pass on that. If I managed to escape the Embassy I'd try to blend in while working my way to the edge of the crowd, and ultimately the Canadian Embassy.
I say might, because from the reportage, it's by no means clear that was the case.
(BTW, Canada? Thanks again for your kind assistance in those dark days)
I’d be more inclined to think that without his subsequent track record.
Nully I perceive the day in the not too distant future where many Americans will be fleeing to Canada. I know that I and many of my family are ready to receive them. What a totally disasterous situation America is in. How pathetic it is that you cannot even have a fair election anymore.
And we, in Canada, need to work hard to make sure that we keep Harper and Company as the leaders of this country. I can’t wait to get together with my dear friend Marg to find out if she knows what Harper has been threatened with if he reveals Obama’s biography. I’m going to try my best tho. She is in contact with him and his wife ALL the time. It’s through her that I met him personally. CO
We’d do it again in a New York minute. :-)
Oh Geesh, we are just dead meat. I can’t takes no more.
Thanks.
Canadian Wisdom! ;-)
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