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How Barack Obama Undercut Bush Administration’s Nuclear Negotiations With Iran
Powerline ^ | 3/12/2015 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 03/12/2015 1:32:03 PM PDT by Nachum

In 2008, the Bush administration, along with the “six powers,” was negotiating with Iran concerning that country’s nuclear arms program. The Bush administration’s objective was to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. On July 20, 2008, the New York Times headlined: “Nuclear Talks With Iran End in a Deadlock.” What caused the talks to founder? The Times explained:

Iran responded with a written document that failed to address the main issue: international demands that it stop enriching uranium. And Iranian diplomats reiterated before the talks that they considered the issue nonnegotiable.

The Iranians held firm to their position, perhaps because they knew that help was on the way, in the form of a new president. Barack Obama had clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3. At some point either before or after that date, but prior to the election, he secretly let the Iranians know that he would be much easier to bargain with than President Bush. Michael Ledeen reported the story last year:

During his first presidential campaign in 2008, Mr. Obama used a secret back channel to Tehran to assure the mullahs that he was a friend of the Islamic Republic, and that they would be very happy with his policies. The secret channel was Ambassador William G. Miller, who served in Iran during the shah’s rule, as chief of staff for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as ambassador to Ukraine. Ambassador Miller has confirmed to me his conversations with Iranian leaders during the 2008 campaign.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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Is it treason yet?
1 posted on 03/12/2015 1:32:03 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 03/12/2015 1:32:24 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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Way past.


3 posted on 03/12/2015 1:43:34 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Nachum
And if Left wing Liberal Democrats who live in New York didn't have absolute and total control over every piece of information that gets broadcast on the airwaves, the public might actually hear about the treasonous behavior of Mr Stupid AKA Barack Obama.

The country could actually be informed if we pried all the microphones and transmitters away from that Democrat Elite who control the information streams.

4 posted on 03/12/2015 2:26:40 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Nachum

Do you think there is any connection between this and the millions of oversees contributions to his election campaign that the MSM helped cover up?


5 posted on 03/12/2015 2:32:14 PM PDT by PTBAA
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This has been going on for at least 150 years. In 1864, Democrats negotiated secretly with the Confederacy to end the war. The South would have won. In 1916 and again in 1940, Democrats ran on campaigns to stay out of foreign wars, all the time knowing that war would come. In Korea and Vietnam, anti-war Democrats worked to defeat our troops. Likewise, both Iraqi wars.

It should then come as no surprise that they continue today in the “fine tradition” of appeasement, fostering war, profiteering and treason.


6 posted on 03/12/2015 3:12:43 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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Democrats are slime. NOT just another perspective, NOT just another way of looking at things with a possibility of negotiating. They are total lock step army of self serving bastards projecting their ugly image upon America, and the World.


7 posted on 03/12/2015 4:26:35 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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Secret back channels are fine. It's open letters that are treasonous.

8 posted on 03/13/2015 3:52:46 PM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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