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Obama offers Gulf nations “ironclad” security cooperation
Associated Press ^ | May 14, 2015 8:25 PM EDT | Julie Pace

Posted on 05/14/2015 6:40:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama pledged America’s “ironclad commitment” to anxious Persian Gulf nations Thursday to help protect their security, pointedly mentioning the potential use of military force and offering assurances that a potential nuclear agreement with Iran would not leave them more vulnerable.

At the close of a rare summit at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Obama said the U.S. would join the Gulf Cooperation Council nations “to deter and confront an external threat to any GCC state’s territorial integrity.” The U.S. pledged to bolster its security cooperation with the Gulf on counterterrorism, maritime security, cybersecurity and ballistic missile defense.

“Let me underscore, the United States keeps our commitments,” Obama said at a news conference.

Thursday’s meeting at Obama’s retreat in the Maryland mountains was aimed at quelling the Gulf’s fears of U.S.-led nuclear talks with Iran. Gulf states worry that if Iran wins international sanctions relief, the influx of cash would embolden what they see as Tehran's aggression in the region. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/14/2015 6:40:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Obola the undocumented without a SS# and without a BC
has destroyed America’s commitments, stabbing every
ally in the heart (with more to come).


2 posted on 05/14/2015 6:43:48 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Olog-hai

I wouldn’t trust comrade obama anymore than I’d trust Iran. Comrade dictator obama routinely lies to his own people.


3 posted on 05/14/2015 6:45:23 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Olog-hai

Someone should call Ukraine


4 posted on 05/14/2015 6:45:26 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Olog-hai

Is there anyone left who takes him at his word?


5 posted on 05/14/2015 6:49:32 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Olog-hai

How’s that commitment holding up in Ukraine?


6 posted on 05/14/2015 6:51:13 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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He will draw a red line for them....


7 posted on 05/14/2015 6:52:10 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Olog-hai

Not a word Obama says is worth the teleprompter it’s printed on.


8 posted on 05/14/2015 6:54:27 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: Olog-hai

SOB can’t even keep his commitment to his own country and laws.


9 posted on 05/14/2015 6:55:52 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: Olog-hai
Thursday’s meeting at Obama’s retreat in the Maryland mountains....

Silly me - I thought Camp David belonged to the American people - I must have missed the closing ceremony when we handed the keys over to him.

10 posted on 05/14/2015 6:59:02 PM PDT by capydick ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.")
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To: 2banana
The entire world knows Obama is a spineless poufter.


11 posted on 05/14/2015 7:01:33 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

If you like your US “umbrella of protection”, you can keep your ...


12 posted on 05/14/2015 7:08:27 PM PDT by Optimist
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To: Olog-hai

Julie Pace is a moron. It is not a “summit” when only two heads of state show up. And when Obama says he offers “ironclad” security to the GC States, they laugh with scorn behind their sleeves.


13 posted on 05/14/2015 7:10:12 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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I am sure they will trust him, ya, I am sure....


14 posted on 05/14/2015 7:11:06 PM PDT by GT1945 (islim is a devil worshipping cult)
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To: Olog-hai

obama is a liar, not to be trusted
he stabs allies in the back and aids the enemy
TRAITOR


15 posted on 05/14/2015 7:12:52 PM PDT by zzwhale
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In the 70’s when America abandoned the south Vietnamese people to a horrific fate I was ashamed. This abandonment of allies occurred after Nixon was driven from office... the promises that this nation made to our friends, that we would take strong measures if the North Vietnamese communists broke the peace accords they had agreed to were eagerly dispensed with by a shameless democrat congress.

I had hoped that such a thing would never happen again and that slowly our allies would come to trust our word. America regained much of that trust and then this nation was foolish enough to elect Obama.

Now here we are again, our commitments and promises are the subject of ridicule...and rightly so.

How far are we going to fall? Will it ever be possible to regain the trust this once proud nation had?

Beam me up.. I’m ready to go :-/


16 posted on 05/14/2015 7:20:36 PM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Olog-hai

Just as soon as he restores the Monitor and Merrimac, he’ll send them over.


17 posted on 05/14/2015 7:36:16 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Olog-hai

A security agreement written on cow dung.


18 posted on 05/14/2015 7:44:31 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: Olog-hai
He should have made that ironclad guarantee a couple weeks ago, on the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
19 posted on 05/14/2015 7:48:34 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Let me make this very clear. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”


20 posted on 05/14/2015 7:48:53 PM PDT by Moorings
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