{"id":1614,"date":"2008-05-05T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2008-05-05T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T17:36:00","slug":"obama-clinton-is-like-bush-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Obama; Clinton is like Bush on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barak Obama made the assertion yesterday in Indiana that when it comes to dealing with Iran, Hillary Clinton is no different than George Bush (Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Earlier, Obama likened Clinton to President Bush for threatening to \u201ctotally obliterate\u201d Iran if it attacks Israel as he tried to fend off her challenge ahead of two pivotal Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n

Clinton, in turn, stood by both her comment on Iran and her tax proposal as she gave chase in Indiana and North Carolina to the front-runner for the nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if Obama had a tiny bit of common sense, he’d be like Bush on Iraq, too. Clinton said that she’d totally obliterate Iran if they attacked Israel. For Iran to attack Israel they’d have to violate the airspace of at least two other nations – both of which are currently US allies. So Obama is saying that he’d not attack Iran if they violated the sovereignty of at least three nations? That’s how we got to where we are today – allowing Iran to get away with bad behavior over the last thirty years.<\/p>\n

Fouad Ajami writes in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> this morning that someone should have started talking tough with Iran a long time ago;<\/p>\n

In Iraq, the Iranians have been able to dial up the violence and dial it down, to make promises of cooperation to the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki while supplying Shiite extremists with weapons and logistical support. “Lebanonization” may be an exaggerated fear, because Iraq is much larger and wealthier than Lebanon, and more jealous of its own sovereignty. But the low-level warfare against American soldiers by Shiite groups \u2013 aided and abetted by Iran \u2013 may be responsible for hundreds of American deaths.<\/p>\n

The hope entertained a year or so ago, that Iran would refrain from playing with fire in Iraq, has shown to be wishful thinking. Iran’s nuclear ambitions are of a wholly different magnitude. But before we tackle that Persian menace, the Iranian theocrats will have to be shown that there is a price for their transgressions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iran continues to lend support to anyone who fights against the US or Israel. The Iraqis announced yesterday, after returning from Tehran that they have concrete evidence of Iran’s interference in the rebuilding of Iraq after Hussein (Washington Post<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

“There is an interference and evidence that they have interfered in Iraqi affairs,” Dabbagh said in an interview arranged by a U.S. official. When asked how he would characterize the proof that Iranian weapons are flowing into Iraq, he said: “It is a concrete evidence.”<\/p>\n

The U.S. government has long accused Iran of providing the powerful roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators to Shiite militiamen who attack American troops. Iran has denied any such role.<\/p>\n

Dabbagh said that after Maliki launched an offensive last month in the southern city of Basra, weapons were found that were clearly produced in Iran.<\/p>\n

“The truth came out; there is evidence of Iranian weapons in Iraq,” he said. “Now we need to document who sent them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Obama to totally disregard the evidence and Tehran’s history with the West and think that there’s some way to talk them out of being a rogue nation is just juvenile.
\nJust like his talk about Iraq – of course he’s hoping that President Bush does something about those two countries before he has to next January, if he’s elected. And that might just happen – as goes Iran, so goes Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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