Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings

NYT ^ | 2/16/11 | Mark Landler

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday.

Mr. Obama’s order, known as a Presidential Study Directive, identified likely flashpoints, most notably Egypt, and solicited proposals for how the administration could push for political change in countries with autocratic rulers who are also valuable allies of the United States, these officials said.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re Obama saying “I demand Mubarak must stand down”. SOunds like an updated version of John “I was in Vietnam, you know” Kerry saying “Reporting for Duty”.

What we said in our book about Kerry is just as good for Obama, “UNFIT FOR COMMAND!”

[mrsmith]

Yep, his flunkies looked through every administration file for anything that could be spun to make him look less inane.
Then handed it to the NYTimes.

Took them all this time to find this pathetic, weak claim.

[mylife]

I for one admire Obamas foresight and enabling of peaceful revolution. /s

Lara Logan and the dead agree.

So does Amidinijahd, The Muslim Brotherhood and Ghadaffi...

More /s

And know he is standing up to Israel...
Is there any doubt what is going on?

[manc]

to think Beck was called a loon off the propaganda wing of the left called the media.

Now they report the same crap and I remember a couple of freepers getting caught up in the moment saying the left wing was not around and no one listens to the left for 30 years

[mylife]

Naw!

Thats crazy talk!

[TexasFreeper2009]

yep, this was all orchestrated by Obama to have each and every pro-western country in the mid-easts governments overthrown.

We somehow elected a Islamic spy our president, God help us all now.

[manc]

problem is that American Jews for the most part are too stupid or ignorant when it comes to voting about wo cares about Israel

[BookmanTheJanitor]

A Harvard professor goes on MSNBC and utterly destroys Obama's handling of Egypt (especially his lack of a plan)...

...and now, all of a sudden, a story in the NY Times on how they've been worried/planning about this for some time. I gotta call B.S.

[mylife]

Obama is working up a cacophony.
He is fanning the flames of anarchy.

Plausibility deniability.

[RitaOK]

I think you nailed it. This “report” shows up in the NY Times from anonymous administration officials and just happens to summarize whats already happening. At the end they admit the “report” is still a work in progress. This is one of the most transparent lies Obama’s administration has told lately. It would be funny if they weren’t such dangerous lying fascists.”
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You are so right. Timing is everything for Obama politically, but some report parroting what the world has already seen for itself is hardly “ “identifying potential uprisings”.

Is there anyone left on earth who still buys what this gaggle of nitwits peddle? (I mean, besides Mika and MSNBC).

[peeps36]

What did Obama know and when did he know it? That's what the media would be writing about GW Bush if he was president. They would act like a vague report contained the time and date of the Egyptian uprising.

[sonic109]

I’ve been warning people about this enemy within since he was running for office. He needs to be arrested and dragged from the White House. Don’t people see what he is yet . He’s about to throw Israel under the bus at the UN now . He’s trying to control the media and everyone’s life. He’s a Marxist dictator. I can not believe responsible citizens haven’t rioted in the streets as they did in Egypt to rid of us this enemy within.
HE IS A SUPPORTER OF RADICAL ISLAM-HE PROVED IT ALREADY
HE SUPPORTS OUR ENEMIES AND IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO DESTROY OUR ALLIES
HE IS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING THE USA INTO A MARXIST STATE RUN DICTATORSHIP
DO YOU ALL NOT GET IT YET ? DO YOU ?
CIVIL UNREST IS THE ANSWER NOW . 2012 is way way way too late;
ya know , I’m sick of it already . Maybe we deserve it . The GOP is a bunch of loosers and no one has the balls to take care of business
Bye Bye USA , nice knowing ya !

[mylife]

Funny how when Iran revolted he said “well They are a sovereign nation and we cannot impose our will, It must be the will of the people”

But it was different with Egypt. And now it is different with Israel.

Any word from obama on the riots in Iraq today?
Or was he playing golf? Or trying to swindle the country with a BS budget?

[sonic109]

yep and we’ll wait until 2012 to change it ..
SORRY TOO LATE
He needs to be arrested as a traitor.

[Walkingfeather]

So again, he has totally F*cked foreign policy. Tell me how any ally will believe anything coming out of the whitehouse? This guy gave british nuke secrets to the russians, and paid people to start an uprising in countries run by moderate leaders.

[Anti-Christ is Hillary]

Sure he did. This guy is as clueless as the Pink Panther dude. He knew something was going to happen. Good _od how stupid do they think we are?

[mylife]

Tell me how any ally will believe anything coming out of the whitehouse?

That my FRiend is exactly why he tossed Mubarak under the bus.

To give the allies a message.

[mylife]

I’ll tell you what folks.
This guy is way worse than 911.

[eyedigress]

He really does it on purpose. Little does he know his blind followers are seeing more light. I do not use the idiots at DU as a barometer. They should change their name to WU.

The independents that fell for his moderate tone in 2008 are quite disillusioned. Barry is a socialist failure. He will lose in 2012. Every exec order this bastard has signed will be null and void on day one when the adults resume America’s foundation.

[mylife]

Barry is a trojan horse.