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Obama: Iran aims to acquire nukes
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 02.04.10, 15:55
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1. Given that he's starting from less than zero pressure
Zvi   (04.02.10)
he'd better ratchet quickly.
2. What a clever man !!
Michel ,   Jerusalem   (04.02.10)
It took him more than a year to "discover" what everybody knows for a long time !
3. Did we not learn anything from history..??
Iyad ,   Dundee, Scotland, UK   (04.02.10)
1) Nuclear war is awful: everyone is a looser... 2) The USA fired nuclear weapons in anger ..the only country to do so so far (hopefully the last) and murdered 160,000 civilians (thats ok: its war and they are collateral damage, disposable, dispensable, cannon fodder, you name it..) .. Its ok to kill civillans in the name of a USA cause 3) Many countries have these awful weapons including my own: to what aim? to frighten off who? 4) The Middle East nuclear arms race was started by Israel: not by Iran...There are fanataics in Iran, but so is the case in Israel. The fanatics believe in that their supreme God/G-d/Allah will give them devine victory because some ancient text said so.. If war has to be..keep it conventional..not nuclear...that goes to Iran, Israel, USA, UK and all... Let our arguments be intellectual ones... Two states, Two Jerusalems, Palestine (west bank, Gaza, E east Jerusalem with no 1948 lands) and Israel (West Jerusalem with no Golan heights) side by side Everyone will be happy
4. "IRAN AIMS TO ACQUIRE NUKES"
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (04.02.10)
No ... you don't say?
5. FRAUD. muslum president play acting.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (04.02.10)
6. Neville Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter
Kobi ,   Hertzelia   (04.02.10)
wrapped into one package. Sleep tight America, you wanted Change and you got it. Despite Neville Chamberlain's social reforms he is only remembered for appeasing Hitler. Obama is a loser who started off on losing, his fake Nobel Prize was a joke, his loss of Chicago for the Olympics, and come November when Americans wake up and vote for Republicans in the House and Senate and they become the majority, they will defund his Obamacare and it will be stillborn. While Obama and company worry about who builds on a porch in Yerushalayim, Ahmadinejahd will have a nuke and missiles capable of reaching Washington DC.
7. Will Obama be remembered for his social programs?
Moe ,   Brooklyn, NY   (04.02.10)
or for letting Ahmadinejahd get away with building Nuclear Bombs? A young man moves to a village in Wales and gets talking to an old man from the village. He asks the old man what his name is; the old man gets very irate at this point and says: "See that line of houses over there? I built them all, but do they call me Jones the house builder? Do they hell! See those railway lines over there? I laid them all, but do they call me Jones the engineer? Do they hell! See those bridges over that river? I built them all, but do they call me Jones the bridge builder? Do they hell! But, a long long time ago, I had sex with *one* sheep..."
8. Too little, too late !
Barbara ,   Israel   (04.02.10)
9. to #3
Barney ,   USA   (04.02.10)
your solution sounds all so nice a cozy. Only a few problems such as cutting Israel down to indefensible borders while being surrounded by people whose charter calls for the elimination of Israel and providing a great launching pad for syria AGAIN. Sad fact is the arabs don't want the Jews in the Middle East. If they were accepting of that your plan might work. As for Israel's nuclear arms, never threatened to use them and never used them but faced with annihilation-watch out brother-everyone in the region is going down. This is the mentality that you develop when the whole world sat around and watched 6 million of yours burn without a peep.
10. Duh!
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.02.10)
Good morning Mr. President.
11. #9 Nice reply Barney...
Scott, Sunshine ,   Coast , Australia   (04.02.10)
the fact is that even during the halycon days of "Oslo"...no arab country really embraced and recognised Israel, except for Jordan to a degree. 60 years on and these idiots still dont get it .
12. Mubarak Hussein Obama
felix ,   Jlem   (04.02.10)
WHAT A GENIUS YOU ARE !!!
13. well said no.9
andy ,   uk   (04.02.10)
wel said Barney. I sometimes wander what planet people like poster no. 3 come from.
14. Obama acquiesces to non-existent 'world opinion'.
Daniel ,   Los Angeles, USA   (04.02.10)
15. Oh yes, he sure sounds like the anti-Christ. Full of
Harry Wright ,   UK   (04.02.10)
deception. He says what EVERYBODY knows as if he's just been illumined and pretends he is going to do something about it to lull the fears and hypnotize people when in truth and in fact he will give Iran the time to make the bomb. He is the most divisive US president ever, whose actions empower the Islamic world; who will try everything to destroy Jerusalem, the "seat" of the one, true, living God and his own city; who will cause chaos in the world because the mahdi is supposed to come in chaos and violence; who revels in insulting and bullying the Jewish people, the biological ancestors of Christ to ensure they disappear; who joins with Islam to ensure that Jewish ancestral and holy sites are controlled by Islam or pass into oblivion.
16. Yeah, and sanctions also helped with Hitler
Yaniv ,   Israel   (04.02.10)
The ignorance of world politicians is amazing. Ahmadinejad doesn't care about money or diplomatic pressure. He's an IDEOLOGIST and will endure the sanctions and do anything to acquire the nukes. Once he has them, he can restore Iran's economy by bribing the world and sharing nuke technology to other rogue nations. Hillary Clinton recently said that if Iran would nuke Israel, the U.S. would nuke Iran. How comforting to know that our deaths will be avenged, i.e. if the U.S. would stand by her word.
17. FINALLY THE LOBBY HAS OBAMA WITH THEM
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (04.02.10)
18. what evidence?
dre ,   USA   (04.02.10)
The IAEA inspections have come back clean? what evidence ? this sounds just like Iraq, even with all international talk. fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!!! Citizens can say it correctly, cause we the ones who end up paying in blood and money. jeezz are we that lame.
19. #10 Nice to see you angry SarahB
Peter ,   Vienna-Austria   (04.02.10)
Keep it up. I enjoy every second of it. After your December deadline on iran,this is the funniest post I've seen from you and your people so far. iran will get a nuke regardless of what you say. If I were you, I would just get used to it. Your politicians have got used to it,and in time so will you. LOL.
20. #3: Iyad!! U R A MISERABLE DUNCE!!
Israeli 2   (04.02.10)
1. What 2 States solution? Israel is 1 State 2. What east /west Jerusalem? The entire Jerusalem including much more east of it belongs to Israel. 3. What Golan Heights? Golan Heights and all north and east of it is Israel's. 4. What number nutcase of the UK R U????
21. #18 dre, how dare you ask for evidence after the Qom
Harry Wright ,   UK   (04.02.10)
revelation, when Iran had to admit its existence? Have you forgotten the defection to the US of one of their nuclear scientists to the US????? What about the reliable intelligence that Israel has provided - none of it bogus so far?
22. To: No. 3
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.02.10)
I am only going to address two of your points, because the rest of your post is foolish and misinformed. Israel did not "start" a nuclear arms race. Keep in mind that Israel has been a nuclear power since the mid-1960s, and despite having fought several wars since achieving nuclear status, despite having incurred a potentially devastating attack on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar in 1973, Israel has never introduced the nuclear option into play. Israel has always been a responsible nuclear power. Iran is a state sponsor of terror. Do you REALLY think it is a good idea to allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon in the name of "balance?" Do you really think that such fragile and unstable countries such as Iran and Iraq should be allowed to have a nuclear option? In its devastating ten-year war with Iraq, Iran started sacrificing teenage boys by throwing them in the way of oncoming Iraqi tanks. As we have seen on any number of occasions, fanatical Moslems have no problem with death, johad and the concept of the shaheed and glorification of violence and death. These are NOT normal people, Iyad. They do not have stable governments. They are fanatical jihadists who are sufficiently dangerous without a nuclear solution. You cannot compare Israeli nuclear capability with Iran having a nuclear capability. Iran has stated often enough that the goal of the Islamic regime is to wipe Israel from the map. Something tells me that that is more than stupid rhetoric. You are talking about a "religion" that decrees death to the infidel (by which they mean anyone that isn't exactly like them); you are talking about a "religion" that thinks that women should not be educated (remember the now-resurgent Taliban and the horrific ordeal endured by women under their rule in Afghanistan?); you are talking about a "religion" that is nothing more than a cult of death proclaiming jihad. They are culturally incapable of presenting an intellectual argument. Their arguments are colored with death, devastation and sacrifice. Do you remember the vast celebrations throughout the Arab and Islamic world following the events of September 11, 2001? The bombing in the London tube? The bombing of the passenger train in Spain? As to the other point, have you forgotten (or were you perhaps not aware) that the Palestinians have on three occasions been proferred a two-state solution? Which they have rejected on all three occasions, including one which would have given them over 90% of the West Bank and East Jerusalem as a capital. They are not interested in peaceful co-existence with a State of Israel. They want the whole ball of wax. Keep in mind, too, that the Arabs have on six occasions attacked Israel. Israel has won all six wars. Israel has endured over sixty years of unrelenting and devastating terror. What would you have Israel do? Forget the 1948 borders; forget the 1967 borders. Israel will not give up Jerusalem; will not return the Golan Heights; will probably have to retake Gaza and will retain Judea and Samaria. Enough has been far too much. Six wars, Iyad, have to count for something. The Arabs have to learn their lesson. There must be consequences to foolish and bad acts, otherwise there is no incentive not to keep making them. So, in sum, your arguments are absolutely ridiculous on their face. Perhaps you should take a course or two in Middle Eastern history. You have thus far demonstrated an abysmal lack of knowledge on the subject.
23. To: No. 19
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.02.10)
Clearly you do not appreciate the difference between sarcasm and anger. With such a complete lack of comprehension, Peter, you really do not want to be challenging me. I will chew you up and spit you up, and then kick what is left of your sorry carcass to the curb. Really I will. Trust me.
24. Obama: Remarks about Iran and nukes
jollyrogers ,   seattle, wa usa   (04.02.10)
Ya think!! What turnip truck did Obama fall off of when it comes to what Iran has been up to for years? If he didn't already know then we are in alot worse trouble in our intelligence field than we realize. Of course Iran is going to build a nuke then trigger WWIII (according to Imwannawakjob)
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