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Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« on: March 20, 2009, 12:27:56 PM »

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President Obama issued an unprecedented video appeal to Iran today, offering a "new beginning" of diplomatic engagement to reverse decades of distrust and animosity between the two nations.

In an extraordinary tape, which was aired early on selected networks in the Middle East, the President said that he wanted to "speak directly to the people and leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran" to tell them that he was committed to establishing "constructive ties".

Hours after he made the first-ever appearance by a sitting President on an evening chat show to try to defend his economic policies, the US leader used his message to Iran to urge Tehran to take its "rightful place" in the world if it renounced terror and embraced peace.

But the hardline Middle East government was quick to respond with a barely tepid response that listed what Iran perceives to be US failures over the previous decade ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5942525.ece
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 12:52:21 PM »
I received a Security Threat on page 2 of that link.   :o
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2009, 12:55:17 PM »
Quote from: Black Swan on March 20, 2009, 12:52:21 PM
I received a Security Threat on page 2 of that link.   :o
Don't know why. I didn't and the Times is a pretty major site I haven't come across pop ups or anything there.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2009, 01:02:31 PM »
Well, that is interesting.  I did NOT get the threat the second time I tried it.  Only thing I can think is there was some pop up of some sort that did not appear the second time. 

Totus is gonna get us all killed thinking he can merely talk to these people. 
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2009, 02:08:09 PM »
Quote from: Black Swan on March 20, 2009, 01:02:31 PM
Well, that is interesting.  I did NOT get the threat the second time I tried it.  Only thing I can think is there was some pop up of some sort that did not appear the second time. 

Totus is gonna get us all killed thinking he can merely talk to these people.  


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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2009, 02:32:22 PM »
The teleprompter's pet is trying to make peace with his god. 
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2009, 02:55:24 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on March 20, 2009, 02:08:09 PM

He will.
Why we bother with a turd-world Nation is beyond me.

Hussein is his middle name.  Islam and sharia banking are growing in the USA.   
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2009, 04:47:27 PM »
The only thing appeasement is going to do is get a lot of Americans killed :thatsright:
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2009, 04:49:48 PM »
Quote from: Attero Dominatus on March 20, 2009, 04:47:27 PM
The only thing appeasement is going to do is get a lot of Americans killed :thatsright:

I agree.   :(
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2009, 04:52:09 PM »
Quote from: Attero Dominatus on March 20, 2009, 04:47:27 PM
The only thing appeasement is going to do is get a lot of Americans killed :thatsright:
I don't imagine that B-Ho is bothered by that in the slightest.  It's a sacrifice he's willing to make.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2009, 05:01:23 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on March 20, 2009, 04:52:09 PM
I don't imagine that B-Ho is bothered by that in the slightest.  It's a sacrifice he's willing to make.

If his actions on the economy (deliberately spending us into oblivion) and defense (axing vital weapons and equipment and large budget cuts) are any indication, I would have to agree on that.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2009, 07:05:44 AM »
The man is one giant embarrasment to all Americans. A little piss-ant nation like Iran laughing in our face.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2009, 07:35:59 AM »
Obama has thin skin.....our only hope is that they will someday insult him and not the USA.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2009, 09:09:02 AM »
The Iranians should have acted all grateful and concilliatory. L'il 'O would get so wrapped-up in his ego as a great peacemaker the sand-rats could play him like a fiddle.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2009, 09:21:45 AM »
Quote from: ironhorsedriver on March 21, 2009, 07:05:44 AM
The man is one giant embarrasment to all Americans. A little piss-ant nation like Iran laughing in our face.

We'll get over it.  The world laughed at Carter too.  Clinton was a HUGE embarrassment.  We made it out.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2009, 07:21:47 PM »
He got the response that I expected.  Iran doesn't care who's president.  They hate "the Great Satan" no matter who sits in the White House.

Shameless self-plug: Obama reaches out a hand to people who want to bite it off
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2009, 08:18:43 PM »
President Obama has made TWO major blunders in the mid-east. With Iran, his cute little vid that will make the libs gush, but it is a DECLARATION OF SURRENDER to the Shi'a "Twelvers" that run Iran. Yes, the Mahdi's faithful are pleased, qand will treat The President with contempt. Then there is the $900,000,000 that the President wants to send to THE Gaza strip. This will be "sold" to the people there as Jizya, a special tax paid by defeated unbelievers to their Muslim lords.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=111966&version=1&template_id=47&parent_id=27

http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2006/09/symposium-ahmadinejads-armageddon.html


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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2009, 06:56:05 AM »
The only thing the "president of Iran" Amadingynutjob is useful for is target practice....
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2009, 07:49:12 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on March 21, 2009, 09:21:45 AM
We'll get over it.  The world laughed at Carter too.  Clinton was a HUGE embarrassment.  We made it out.

And we're STILL paying for Carter's mistakes.
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Re: Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'
« Reply #19 on: March 22, 2009, 12:04:03 PM »
Sparky, I defy you to find a Dem. who'll confess that Carter's "handling" of Iran was a blunder of collosal proportions. In public where he/she can be quoted.
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