Raytheon marketing sent the flowers.
Posted on 10/15/2011 9:24:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
So, let me get this straight:
The Iranian government decided it would be a good idea to launch a plot to kill the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S.
To do this they sent two geniuses to contact a guy they thought was a Mexican drug bandito but was actually an undercover agent pretending to be a drug bandito to do the deed.
They offered the undercover agent pretending to be a Mexican drug bandito $1.5 million to blow up the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. while he was dining at a restaurant in downtown Washington, DC.
Oh, yeah. This was going to go down like clockwork.
One-point-five-mil for a member of a Mexican drug gang? The Iranians could have gotten some Russian Mafia thug from Brighton Beach in Brooklyn to do it for bus fare and an all-expenses paid night at the Elliot Spitzer suite at the Mayflower Hotel in DC.
This is known as "Goyishe Kupf" - non-Jewish thinking.
The Education of Barack Obama continued yesterday when, according to the NY Times, the President,
"vowed on Thursday to push for what he called the 'toughest sanctions' against Iran, saying that the United States had strong evidence that Iranian officials were complicit in an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States."
Join me and Sherman in the WayBack machine and return exactly four years ago when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been invited to speak at Columbia University. According to Beth Fouhy's piece in USA Today, Senator Obama said he,
"would be willing as president to meet with the Iranian leader as a way to protect U.S. interests."
How 'bout next week, Mr. President?
The Iranian government has been showing off its international big boy pants for a long time. Under the administration of George W. Bush it knew Iraq and Afghanistan was drawing so much attention and so many resources that there was no bandwidth available for Tehran.
Obama, even with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and (dare we say it) Vice President Joe Biden trying to help control the foreign affairs division of his Presidency, has not presented a threat to the expansion of Iranian influence.
The mistake the Iranian government has made in this instance is having targeted a major diplomat (Adel Al-Jubeir of Saudi Arabia) to a major country (the United States of America).
Even minor officials in Embassies are afforded exceptional protection in the countries to which they are assigned. Accredited officials are immune from prosecution - even for crimes they have actually committed. They get sent home, but they aren't sent to jail in their host country.
Why would Iran take out after Saudi Arabia? Among other things, Saudi Arabia is a majority Sunni nation; Iran is the modern home of the Shi'ite branch of Islam.
One of the nations which will benefit from this whole episode is little Bahrain sitting in the Persian Gulf.
The majority of the Bahraini population is Shi'ite, but the royal family and much of the industrial class is Sunni.
This incident gives credence to Bahrain's claim that, during the "Arab Spring" uprisings, the unrest was being orchestrated, and paid for, by Iran.
This is an extremely dangerous time for the Obama Administration and for the Western world in general. Israel and the Palestinians are warily watching each other to see if each is serious about re-opening peace talks even while the military junta in Egypt appears to be losing control over the traditional secular nature of that country.
If Ahmadinejad feels that he is being boxed in, he will double-down on his influence in Syria and Lebanon and try to deflect attention to this plot by urging his client states to cause new trouble in Israel.
As to domestic politics, if it begins to sink in that Iran is so dismissive of Obama that they would hatch a plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador by blowing him up in a restaurant in the middle of Washington, DC this does not help the President's re-election campaign.
Those pesky Persians.
It is what you get when you mix madmen, morons, dictators, communists and fools.
Actually, it is quite believable to me. The assassin cult that has Iran enslaved, has a long history of using proxies to do their killing.
If the President can justify a war with Iran, prior to the election, it could get some people back on his side. Many Presidents have done this to get re-elected. Watch this guy because he just may do it.
I think Rich Galen needs to read up a bit more on this plot & how Iran works.
Raytheon marketing sent the flowers.
ridiculously infantile and synthetic story about Iranian attempts to “blow up the Saudi Scammbasador”?
I ain’t no expert but the timing is just so propitious for something, supposedly, known about since June 2011.
The whole thing is preposterously short on details, unlike the offing of Osama bin Laden.
The story just isn’t growing any legs as most adults are not long entranced by fairytales.
I tried to use as many superalatives to express my dismissiveness of this pathetically lame and manufactured short story of fiction.
I find it a lot easier to believe that this could be a wag the dog operation, or that it was half-baked and blown up by informants and revealed at a politically useful moment, than to be a Truther. It is always possible to oppose government revelations with conspiracy explanations, but for this one it seems particularly easy.
totally agree!
this plot, and the lame 56 year old with a criminal record, are pathetic.
we shouldn’t underestimate our enemies. (which Iran is!).
they are developing nucs, a space program, and they reassembled millions of top secret docs we shredded.
they are smart, and tenacious.
so, i simply don’t believe this. Iran has been helping Venezuela. They certainly could have used those contants, to find real cartel assassins. or the Russian mafia.
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Iran even under Bush was proved to have supplied IEDs etc, against our troops, and we did nothing.
(Obama ignored it also, and instead destroyed Libya.)
and now, just because they “maybe” planned something on our turf, against the Saudis, we should go to war?
Why aren’t the Saudis screaming about this ?
Wag the dog
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