Comments on: Obama: Can't Let U.S. Be "Foil" For Tehran

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[jxknowles]

Thankfully there are intelligent people like yourself who can see why the White House is holding back. The tin-foil hat crowd whines and cries about how the evil Muslims are taking over the world.

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by cbsantispin June 22, 2009 9:13 AM PDT
Obama: Can't Let U.S. Be "Foil" For Tehran

I agree with President Obama, but the problem is Iran is going to lie and make the U.S. the foil anyway, Iran is already doing just that, so the U.S. might as well help those seeking basic freedoms where it can.
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You're absolutely right, the U.S. SHOULD help those seeking basic freedoms. Of course, that would be more tilted toward the citizenry than the government. That would at least be a conservative/libertarian standpoint -- don't RELY on the government to solve EVERY problem.

[Obamanos]

"And when asked about concerns voiced by Senate Baking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd..."

I had no idea the Senate was so interested in cakes and pastries.

[TheMasses0004]

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
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Let's throw some patriotic tunes in there for backgroung essence.

[cbsantispin]

Obama: Can't Let U.S. Be "Foil" For Tehran

I agree with President Obama, but the problem is Iran is going to lie and make the U.S. the foil anyway, Iran is already doing just that, so the U.S. might as well help those seeking basic freedoms where it can.

[cbsantispin]

Obama: Can't Let U.S. Be "Foil" For Tehran

I agree with President Obama, but the problem is Iran is going to lie and make the U.S. the foil anyway, Iran is already doing just that, so the U.S. might as well help those seeking basic freedoms where it can.

[rearley1980]

I agree with Obama for the first time. We need to stay out- not matter how bad it looks. No matter how unjust the Iranian govt is. In the final analysis its the Iranians fight to win or lose.

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I agree totally. One of the few real statements on this blog. The rest is drivel...

[thusspokezara]

Sell off. Iran, Iraq, North Korea, health care reform. DOW at 5,000 by Labor Day.

[maistir]

Iran's regime calls us the Great Adversary (Satan means "Enemy"). Iran's regime sends weapons to Iraq and finances and supplies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran's regime calls for the annihilation of our strongest ally in the ME. Iran's regime seeks nuclear weapons (not my opinion, but that of the head of the IAEA) in order to dominate the region from the Persian Gulf to Suez. And you, carlyt1, say that our chief worry, or the President's chief worry, ought to be avoiding blame for the uprising in Iran? Pres. Obama's ****-footing around the Iranian crisis is a disgrace.

[bobbyduck1]

It is absolutely the correct position. Several decades of bluster and right-wing threats have gotten us where we are. Continuing the same failed policies won't work. Of course you can't tell the neo-wacks that - all they can think of is how can we get back to failing in everything again, you know, the "Good Old Days" like when those idiots Bush and Cheney were in charge....