Iran derides Obama's "cowboy" nuclear stance

The Associated Press (hosted on Google) ^ | April 7, 2010 | Ali Akbar Dareini and George Jahn

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TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. allies on Wednesday lined up behind President Barack Obama's new policy aimed at reducing the likelihood of nuclear conflict. But Iran — classified as a possible target under the guideliness — dismissed it as a "cowboy" policy by a political newcomer doomed to fail.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in the Slovak capital Bratislava for an official visit, did not address the issue before leaving for Prague to sign a landmark treaty Thursday with Obama aimed at paring U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear weapons by 30 percent. But Washington's supporters in Asia and Europe welcomed Obama's pledge Tuesday to reduce America's nuclear arsenal, refrain from nuclear tests and not use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have them.

North Korea and Iran were not included in that pledge because they do not cooperate with other countries on nonproliferation standards.

The U.S. considers them nuclear rogues — Pyongyang for developing and testing nuclear weapons and Tehran because it is suspected of trying to do the same under the cover of a peaceful program, something Iran denies. Outlining the policy Tuesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the focus would now be on terror groups such as al-Qaida as well as North Korea's nuclear buildup and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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Next to a portrait of the late Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech in a public gathering at the city of Oroumiyeh 540 miles (900 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Iran's hard-line president on Wednesday ridiculed President Barack Obama's new nuclear strategy, which turns the U.S. focus away from the Cold War threats and instead aims to stop the spread of atomic weapons to rogue states or terrorists.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brief reporters about the Nuclear Posture Review Report at the Pentagon, Tuesday, April 6, 2010.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, looks on as he visits a museum with items from the former Semipalatinsk nuclear bomb testing center in Kurchatov, around 90 miles (144 kilometers) from the test site, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Ban arrived in Kazakhstan Tuesday, where he praised U.S. President Barack Obama's nuclear posture review.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, foreground, gestures during an interview with the Euronews Television Channel at the former Semipalatinsk nuclear bomb testing center, 90 miles (144 kilometers) from Kurchatov, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Ban arrived in Kazakhstan Tuesday, where he praised U.S. President Barack Obama's new nuclear weapons policy.

Even Ahmadinenutcase is criticizing Obama's foolish new nukes policy, instead targeting the supply of nuclear material to terrorist groups instead of Cold War foes (even though Ahmadinejad is a globalist elite frontman himself).

Let's call Obama a 'cowboy'.

[cripplecreek]

Brokeback Obama.

[ModelBreaker]

LOL. Curl up in a fetal position and quiver. I suppose that’s how post-modern cowboys do it.

[lbryce]

U.S. allies on Wednesday lined up behind President Barack Obama's new policy aimed at reducing the likelihood of nuclear conflict.

Lining up behind is a great photo op for leaders to applaud. If they think it's so great, why haven't they emulated the 0's great gesture? The President has unraveled the one strategy that has in fact prevented nuclear war, MAD.

[littleharbour]

Let’s see, in 14 months Obama has . . .

- apologized to islam
- removed the prospect of a missle defence in Europe
- agreed to grant islamist combatants full Constitutional rights and a civilian trial on US soil
- whitewashed islamic terror attacks on US soil (see Ft. Hood)
- undermined the US military by wavering on “gay” rights and removing the “luxuries” of fast food outlets in Afghanistan
- did nothing to assist protestors in Iran who were brutalized by the islamist regime
- did nothing to slow the advance of Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.
- forcibly threatened Israel not to take any steps to defend itself against the Iranian nuclear threat
- threatened Israel over its settlement policy
- attempted to undermine the democratically elected Prime Minister of Israel
- took a major step toward unilateral nuclear disarmament
- signalled to the enemy that “first strike” was no longer an option for the US military
- ordered his Administration not to refer to the islamist terrorist threat as the “islamist terrorist threat

Barrack Hussein Obama is truly a Great American and any suggestion that he is a muslim or muslim sympathizer is clearly an unfounded slur. :P

[HiTech RedNeck]

MAD is still possible; it does not depend on land based weapons.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Obambie is no cowboy.....dumbass!....unless you are refering to a Broke Butt Mountain style of cowboy!

[choctaw man]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s advisers plan to remove terms such as “Islamic radicalism” from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the U.S. does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terrorism, counterterrorism officials say.

[SnakeDoctor]

If Barack Obama is a cowboy, then everyone this side of the atlantic is a cowboy. This just goes to show you that they would’ve called George W. Bush a cavalier “cowboy” even if he had literally surrendered on their doorstep.

The problem was never American foreign policy ... it was middle eastern belligerence.

SnakeDoc

[Tarpon]

Just couldn't help myself.

[greatplains]

Refering to obama as a cowboy is an absolute insult to real cowboys. BTW, all obama's groveling and placating is really making them like us a lot more. Good job.

[MissEdie]

obama doesn’t have the character, integrity, or manliness to be a cowboy. He’s too much of an arrogant wussie boy.

[jagusafr]

Funny how Bush was a cowboy for “attacking Islam” and Obama is a cowboy for saying “we won’t use our biggest guns”. [scratches head].

Colonel, USAFR

[texmexis best]

Cowboys don’t wear mommy jeans.

Metros do, but not cowboys.

[myknowledge]

Well, a faux cowboy.

[myknowledge]

And Obama’s globalist elite handlers cannot get any more happy. He’s doing a damn fine job of dismantling America by design.

[lbryce]

I very much appreciate the clarification, results of which had me re-visit details of the revamped strategy as reported in the New York Slimes.
Free Republic-Apri 5, 2010:Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms

For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.

Thanks again very much.

[ScottinVA]

"Mr. Obama, you are a newcomer (to politics). Wait until your sweat dries and get some experience. Be careful not to read just any paper put in front of you or repeat any statement recommended," Ahmadinejad said in the speech, aired live on state TV.

Boy Zer0... schooled again.

[texmexis best]

Sarah should simply state that after the end of the Obama regime the next administration will be squaring accounts with any who had used nuke, bio, chemical or conventional weapons to attack America.

The response would be graded with two categories:

Medieval
Biblical

This would ensure the safety of America over the next three years without the participation of Barack. I don’t think that even “Mr. Ronery” is crazy enough to mess with her.

Would be an interesting development.

[ScottinVA]

Headin' out for a rootin' tootin' time at the ol' Castro District Corral!