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Clinton promises 'defense umbrella' against Iran
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Published: 22.07.09, 09:19
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1. what allies? the main ally was stabed
ghostq   (07.22.09)
in the back by Nobama that enable this situation in the first place, gee thanks, it's like saying we r going to kill you but here have a cupcake you will feel better, stupid american, need babysiters that is the most unprofetional gov ever, stike to your comic books and reality shows cause you r on leadership bankruppecy.
2. Who Would Trust The US For Defense?
MK ,   Philadelphia USA   (07.22.09)
Anyone who would trust the US for defense, now, is a total moron. With this traitor in the White House and these absolute lunatics in Congress, we have turned our backs on our allies and cozied up to every crazy dictator and hater of Western culture in the world. Our own government is busy trying to prosecute those who have protected us, while now Mirandizing foreign terrorists! The US has broken centuries' long traditions and cannot be trusted until the mass insanity is cleansed from our nation. It is, sadly, uncertain that the US will be able to recover from this. Israel is on its own.
3. When? after they nuke us?
Meir ,   Beit Shemesh   (07.22.09)
4. Several problems with Clinton's plan
Steve   (07.22.09)
1) The US Government cannot be trusted until the current occupant of the White House moves out. Barack Obama has already declared that America will not honor agreements that Israel reached with the previous administration. Barack Obama stated that "Jerusalem is Israel's capital and it must remain undivided", and then changed his mind the very next day. Barack Obama is trying to force Israel to make concessions which would damage its security, which is something that real allies don't do. Obama cannot be trusted and I believe that most Israelis would agree that Israel has to be responsible for its own defense. We saw just how much an alliance with America is worth when the USA made statements but took no action while Georgia was being invaded by Russia. 2) The threat of American and/or Israeli retaliation against Iran in the event of a nuclear strike will not deter the Iranians. Iran is controlled by a 'Supreme Leader' who answers only to a council of religious fanatic clerics. They couldn't care less because if they die, they believe they'll be martyrs. 3) How exactly does America plan to 'protect' anyone right now? America's military is already very stretched with Iraq and Afghanistan, and Iran knows it. Even if America did decide to invade Iran, they don't have enough available ground troops to do it. Lets face it - America can't protect anyone from Iran. The only solution is to take military action against Iran and stop their nuclear program by force. We cannot allow the Iranians to succeed where Hitler failed.
5. The US have finally shown their true colors - yellow
Ivor Dwatt ,   Johannesburg   (07.22.09)
6. Is Bill going to Phuket too?
Mendy ,   Brooklyn   (07.22.09)
Bill loves to Phuket , Monica, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Gennifer Flowers etc BTW as for Hillary's promises to protect Israel? In The New York Times, conservative columnist William Safire accused the First Lady of being a "congenital liar." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-508015/Hillarys-humiliation-How-swept-Bill-Clintons-affairs-carpet.html#ixzz0Ly7mxsPA
7. OBAMA HUSSEIN is on the side of ISLAM!
troble ahead   (07.22.09)
8. it's funny really, seeing as condoleeza
gmail ,   israel, holon   (07.22.09)
once appointed herself as a personal fund raiser for arafat, and how obamba is a keen supporter of his iranion ancestors. it just makes me laugh at the american govn. decisions to overly support the enemy and then to be stabbed in the back by them and then blame us for the worlds problems. i feel like i'm experiencing dejavo.
9. Unreal!
Ram ,   London   (07.22.09)
So Clinton is suggesting that rather than prevent Iran from acquiring the bomb the US will provide the bomb to all the other countries that may be under threat?
10. Under Obama, US promises are worthless
Randi ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.22.09)
Obama proved how worthless American promises are by going after construction in large settlement blocks, againstg agreements witgh bush admin.
11. CLINTON AND OBAMA IS IDIOTS AND FOOLS !!!.
ORAO STRANKA. ,   TSARIGRAD U SRBIA.   (07.22.09)
CLINTON, She said crossing the nuclear threshold would not make Iran, which Washington believes is pursuing nuclear weapons, safer or more secure. OH YES IT WOULD, AGAINST NUCLEAR STRIKES, FROM ISRAEL OR THE WEST OR THE FUTURE ARAB WORLD. FURTHER - "We want Iran to calculate what I think is a fair assessment ... that if the US extends a defense umbrella over the region, if we do even more to support the military capacity of those in the Gulf, it's unlikely that Iran will be any stronger or safer because they won't be able to intimidate and dominate as they apparently believe they can once they have a nuclear weapon." IRAN HAS THE BIGGEST MILITARY POTENTIAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST. ONCE FULLY ARMED, NONE CAN STOP IRAN WITH CONVENTIONAL MEANS, FROM GOING TO ITS GOAL. THIS US ADMINISTATION DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE AIMS OF IRAN, THAT IS, BY CONVENTIONAL MILITARY MEANS, GO TO JERUSALEM AND LIBERATE PALESTINA, AND WHIPE ISRAEL FROM THE MAP. WITHOUT DETERENT NUCLEAR CAPABILITY, IRAN WOULD BE NUCED TO DEFEAT, TRYING TO ACHIEVE THAT GOAL. Orao.
12. NOTICE HOW THE US IS SUPPOSEDLY CHANGING
Thistlemouth ,   ca canada   (07.22.09)
Notice, as though we didn't know this was the course that would be taken, how the US is now saying "well, ok then, since we will not do anything about Iran going Nuclear, everything will be ok. Yes, that's it, we'll arm our neighbours and we know definitely that Russia is not and will not arm Iran & Syria etc. Israel, you are definitely on your own. You are going to pay a price one way or the other. The US is not your friend. They're giving millions to terrorist and talking about putting sanctions on you if you do not give in to terrorist. But don't give an inch to these that hate you. Spite them and hang in there Israel!!!
13. Its a hint to Israel....
Marco ,   Spain   (07.22.09)
That Iran's nuclear program is ok!
14. to #11 you right I doubt if they really thought
ghostq   (07.22.09)
on that implication they so easily forget that the best friend of Iran r Chaves witch means bring the middle east to much closer location, Clington is want to please her idiot boss.
15. The World Cares NOTHING for Jews
dan ,   Titusville, FL   (07.22.09)
Ms Clinton now hints that Iran will be allowed to go nuclear BETRAYING Israel. She demands that we divide our undivided Capitol of Jerusalem and dictates how we should die. To hell with "World "Opinion". The world has never come to our aid. If Hitler never invaded France would the Allies ever stopped him and the extermination of the Jews? Of course not. We crawled out of the ovens and built ourselves a country. The Arabs then tried to complete Hitler's plan and we defeated them 5 times and in the process liberated Jerusalem, our ancestral, undivided and eternal Capitol. As a housewife Ms. Clinton could not tell her Husband what to do now she certainly cannot tell Israel what to do especially after hinting at allowing a nuclear Iran.
16. Trust Hillary Clinton ? I would rather Putin
DT ,   TA Israel   (07.22.09)
Only the dumbest of the dumb would trust Hillary Clinton and for that matter the U.S as is now. We should look after our own security and cut dependancy on the US immediately.
17. MEANING Israel you give up your nukes & US will protect you
zionist forever   (07.22.09)
What she is talking about is a nuclear free Israel promising to put Israel under the so called nuclear umbrella something thats more theory than fact. Can anybody seriously believe that the US would get into a nuclear war its just an excuse to get countries not to develop their own nukes. Even if this is just conventional protection Israel must not sign any treaties accepting some kind iof US umbrella. Already we have become so dependent on the US thanks to military aid that we are in a position where if they withhold engines, spare parts etc then our tanks clouldn't drive and planes couldn't fly. Do we want to become a US protectorate. Just watch the next step will be well the saudis say on behalf of the arabs we feel uncofortable with the idea of a heavily armed Israel so we have been promised American protection and in return we are going to give up a huge chunk of our own conventional military abilities backed all the way by Israels misguided left who think treaties will solve all our problems. Obama has been a wake up call that we cannoyt assume the US will always support us. Since the end if the cold war Israel ? US relations have steadily been getting worse as the arabs and their oil became more useful than a stron ally against a Soviet dominated region. Before now its been a steady trickle of thawing relations but in the past 6 months its become a gusher and its only going to get worse over the next 3 years at least. NO TO TREATIES AND PROMISES YES TO SELF DEFENSE THE ONLY WAY TO GARUNTEE THERE WILL BE A PLACE WHERE JEWS WILL ALWAYS BE SAFE AND NOT AT THE MERCY OF FOREIGN POLITICIANS.
18. Clinton's Defense
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (07.22.09)
I won't even bother to read the entire article, because the headline says it all. We will literally ship umbrellas to its by then no-longer-existing allies with best, personal regards and a "good luck.". And if one person who even thought of owning an umbrella survives a nuclear attack, the US will aution off its entire nuclear arsenal, buy more umbrellas from China and use the money from the nukes to bail out heaven only knows whom. Y'all just don't understand the method behind this forward-thinking madness. -- Lord, please let us make it through the next three and a half more years of this BS!!!
19. Hey Jews...
(07.22.09)
Cant you read between the lines?
20. OBAMA'S DANGEROUS AND FUTILE GAME
ABARAHAM ben JACOB ,   CANADA   (07.22.09)
THE DEMONIZING OF ISRAEL IS STARTING TO REVEAL ITSELF AS A VILE ATTEMPT TO PRESSURE ISRAEL INTO ACCEPTING "OBAMA'S GRAND PLANS ". THE LEAKS THAT "NO SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL NOW " IS VERY DISTURBING. IT IMPLIES OR RATHER THREATENS QUITE CLEARLY THE ROUGH STUFF THE U.S. IS USING AGAINST ISRAEL........ NO SANCTIONS NEEDED NOW ON ISRAEL, SO OBAMA IS THREATENING THAT THERE MAY BE PUNISHMENT IN THE FORM OF "PSSIBLE SANCTIONS". THE MERE WORDS OF POSSIBLILITY OF SANCTIONS IS OBAMA PAYING REALLY DIRTY AND UNDERHANDED POLITICS AND THREATS AGAINST AN CLOSE AND PRECIOUS DEMOCRATIC ALLY TO THE U.S. INSTEAD OF PRESSURING ALL THE " BAD COUNTRIES ", LIKE THE DICTATORSHIPS, THE MONARCHIES, THE COUNTRIES WITH LOW AMOUNT OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, ... OBAMA..PRESSURE FREINDS, CUDDLE SUP TO DICTATORS OBAMA THREATENS ISRAEL, THE MOST POWERFUL NATURAL FREIND OF THE U.S. IN THE REGION, AND THE MOST RELIABLE ALLY OF THE U.S. ISRAEL IS THE COUNTRY THAT LOGICALLY THE U.S. SHOULD BE NATURALLY STRIVING TO AID AND IDENTIFY WITH. WHERE ARE THE VOICES OF SANITY IN THE U.S. ? ISRAEL, AND THE U.S ARE ALLIES, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT, MOTIVATED BY SELF INTERESTS AND SHARED DEMOCRATIC INTERESTS. OBAMA IS ACTUALLY THREATINING THE VERY COUNTRY WHOM HE SHOULD BE FREINDLY TOWARDS AND IS SHAMEFULLY SOFT ON THE DICATORSHIPS THAT HE SHOULD BE CRITICAL OF FOR THEIR LACK OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS. THIS NEGATIVE AND SHABBY OBAMA POLICY IS PATENTLY FLAWED TO FAILURE, AND IT WILL BACKFIRE AND THE U.S. WILL SUFFER DRAMATICALLY UNDER OBAMA'S MIS-BEGOTEN. ULTIMATELY THE U.S WILL BE THE END LOSER BECAUSE OF OBAMA'S STRANGE AND CURIOUS AND AMATEURISH POLICIES. OBAMA'S POLICY IN SHORT IS TO PRESSURE THE TRUE FREINDS OF THE U.S. NAMELY ISRAEL, AND TO SUCK UP TO OBAMA'S NEWLY FOUND GROUP OF DICTATORSHIPS "FREINDS". WHO KNOWS WHAT MOTIVATES OBAMA'S DANGEROUS GAME !
21. SEVERAL UMBRELLAS
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (07.22.09)
Why for Iran? Why not for N.Korea?
22. EXACTLY RIGHT,MR RAM...........#9
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (07.22.09)
What else have you in mind since 2006 when we read your talk-back?:)
23. I have a better idea than a 'defense umbrella'
Steve   (07.25.09)
How about we just prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, by force if necessary? If Iran doesn't get nuclear weapons, we won't need Clinton's 'nuclear defense umbrella.' A confrontation with Iran is inevitable. Either we can initiate it by taking out their nuclear facilities, or we can wait for Iran to initiate it by launching a nuclear missile towards Tel-Aviv. I don't know about you, but having a bunch of religious fanatics firing off nuclear weapons doesn't sound too good.
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