‘Bear Witness’: Obama Defends ‘Don’t Meddle’ Strategy in Iran

"There should be no distractions from the fact that the -- Iranian people are seeking to -- let their voices be heard."

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June 22, 2009 at 10:48 am - CBS News
Dateline: Washington, DC
Sundowner   June 22nd, 2009 - 11:07 am

lol Just one more interview with zero credibility. Harry Smith. lol

“ok Mister President, here’s the next question. Are you ready? ok. What’s….your….favorite color?

No wonder the left is nothing but meandering, drooling stooges of the DNC. Even Juan Wlliams knows enough to call a spade a spade.

Now Harry go wipe off that nose!

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Magyarfrau   June 22nd, 2009 - 11:11 am

The world is bearing witness all right to Obama’s weak and lukewarm responses. What else can you expect from a Community Organizer lacking in diplomatic and world leadership experience and skills. He must be afraid he will lose his moment in the sun to sit down and make a pacifist out of Ahmedinijahd. My heart breaks for the Iranian protesters who cannot even get the ” Leader ” of the Free World to do more than utter a so-called statement of support a week after the protests started. This man does everything for political expediency. I hope we can survive his Presidency– please contact your Congressmen and urge them to continue to pressure the White House for stronger support of the Iranian protesters. This man was ill prepared to lead our country — I hope we can salvage our nation when his presidency is over.

Barack in the Saddle Again   June 22nd, 2009 - 11:12 am

Time will tell, Barry.

Dave, Tn   June 22nd, 2009 - 11:36 am

Well I’ll give credit where credit is due and thank the President for not letting this New York piece of liberal garbage get away with using the word treacherous to describe President Bush’s words.

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duncan   June 22nd, 2009 - 12:08 pm

Mr Prez SHOW SOME TESTICLE FORTITUDE!

Jon McCane   June 22nd, 2009 - 12:37 pm

I believe in Cowboy Diplomacy and the Bush Doctrine.
The USA should dip in this and make it seem like the protesters are being back back the USA.
That would make it harder for the protesters but what the heck.
Henry Kissinger said on Fox News and I quote.” Well, you know, I was a McCain supporter and — but I think the president has handled this well. Anything that the United States says that puts us totally behind one of the contenders, behind Mousavi, would be a handicap for that person. And I think it’s the proper position to take that the people of Iran have to make that decision.

Of course, we have to state our fundamental convictions of freedom of speech, free elections, and I don’t see how President Obama could say less than he has, and even that is considered intolerable meddling. He has, after all, carefully stayed away from saying things that seem to support one side or the other. And I think it was the right thing to do because public support for the opposition would only be used by Ahmadinejad”
Who cares what Kissinger has to say.I say Bomb bomb, bomb,bomb bomb Iran.

Whatwhatwhat   June 22nd, 2009 - 1:08 pm

Of course Kissinger agrees with the President on our stance. No one with a brain could conclude otherwise. Rethugs just want to play games and the adults in charge don’t have that luxury. Mr. President, you are absolutely correct. The reich-wing “let’s show our a$$ and act like we run everything” Rethugs are imbeciles and should be ignored…as usual.

Dave   June 22nd, 2009 - 1:34 pm

Although I’m libertarian and could never vote for Obama,one must give him credit for not meddling in the Iranian’s elections.
How soon we Americans wish to forget that we overthrew their democratic elections in 1953 and installed our controllable Shah(whom the Iranian’s despised).
All Iranians know about this history,few Americans know of it thanks to our ass kissing, Israeli controlled media.

MYOB for a change!   June 22nd, 2009 - 1:43 pm

Too bad we weren’t concerned when the Shah (our guy) was shooting down people! Maybe it’s time to shut up and let them figure it out.

father_moray   June 22nd, 2009 - 2:28 pm

Like Clinton attacking Microsoft, the al Qaeda in the Whitehouse b;asts Bush and Cheny far worse than his friends ruling Iran…faux Presidents in both nations…Acorned by both…impeach Obama and ImaJihadji!

KJW   June 22nd, 2009 - 2:34 pm

isn’t it interesting….for a guy who says, “I never watch the news or read the papers” Obama sure knows a lot about what folks are saying… apparently he knows exactly what Bush said about him….and he obviously worries a lot about what others say.
His skin is so thin it is transparent. He said last week that “you’d be hard pressed to find anything positive said about me on a certain (Fox News) cable news channel (confirmed by interviewer).” So I am assuming he sits around or has someone sitting around all day watching all the nasty things Fox says about him….what an Ego!!!!
this guy is scary.

ChrisD   June 22nd, 2009 - 2:36 pm

I miss Ronald Reagan!

Other   June 22nd, 2009 - 2:52 pm

“MYOB for a change! June 22nd, 2009 – 1:43 pm

Too bad we weren’t concerned when the Shah (our guy) was shooting down people! Maybe it’s time to shut up and let them figure it out.”

The Ayatollahs proved to be much, much worse than the Shah.

POOPING ON THE GOP   June 22nd, 2009 - 2:58 pm

@ChrisD,

“I miss Ronald Reagan!”

Well hell, if you miss him so much, then put a bullet in your skull along with the rest of you far right wing Rethug nut bags and go spend eternity with him in your fairytale land. Trust me, NO ONE ELSE WILL MISS YOU!

Other   June 22nd, 2009 - 2:58 pm

“POOPING ON THE GOP June 22nd, 2009 – 2:58 pm”

Got tired of the other name WHATWHATWHAT?

That depends upon your point of view!   June 22nd, 2009 - 3:07 pm

“The Ayatollahs proved to be much, much worse than the Shah”. Somehow, I don’t think so. Does it matter who is torturing you?

john   June 22nd, 2009 - 3:09 pm

Too bad they don’t teach you how to be a MAN at Harvard…
Decisions are hell…
Be a man and make one obama…you f’n pussy.
Be a MAN obama….Your pimp Rham Emmanual’s slap will only sting for a minute…
Pussy.

Other   June 22nd, 2009 - 3:12 pm

“That depends upon your point of view! June 22nd, 2009 – 3:07 pm

“The Ayatollahs proved to be much, much worse than the Shah”. Somehow, I don’t think so. Does it matter who is torturing you?”

I thought we were talking historical fact and not personal opinion :)

What would you do?   June 22nd, 2009 - 3:14 pm

Oh…that’s right. Nuke ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out! Right?

That depends   June 22nd, 2009 - 3:18 pm

OK. How historically are the Ayatollahs worse than the Shah? And don’t say that they started a war with Iraq. We ginned that one up with Rummy’s buddy, Sadam, after the hostage crisis.

Other   June 22nd, 2009 - 3:25 pm

“That depends June 22nd, 2009 – 3:18 pm

OK. How historically are the Ayatollahs worse than the Shah?”

Simple numbers. The Ayatollahs executed more people in one year than the Shah did in 25.

Ace Goodman   June 22nd, 2009 - 3:55 pm

@Other

Yeah it’s wahttwaht, mark, larse, merry phat jerkon, reich wing blah blah blah.

This particular LEFT-WING WACKJOB OBAMA FREAK has so many stage names he can’t remember them unless he gets back on the same drugs he was taking the last time he used one of them. I however am keeping a record.

This WACKO is off in some bizarre dreamland and keeps one leg shaved so he can pretend he’s sleeping with a woman.

Post American   June 22nd, 2009 - 4:08 pm

The cognitive dissonance of the small minority of Americans who listen to Boss Limbaugh, click on The Drudge Report, and watch Sean Vanity, Glenn Beck, and Bill Oreally on the Fox Nothing Channel is intense. They just whine and bitch, and moan. These NEO fake Conservatives would have been wise to tone it down a notch, but oh well. Most Americans don’t know much about Iran and 1953. 1979 was blowback. 911 was blowback. USA! USA!

So what happened to the hunt for Osama B Laden?

john   June 22nd, 2009 - 4:09 pm

BHO wants all the muslim leaders to love him, he wants them to be his daddy, he could care less about any “people”, commoners

Z06   June 22nd, 2009 - 4:11 pm

Ace Goodman…
+1000 !!!

Post of the day!

CrisD, MD   June 22nd, 2009 - 4:25 pm

Ah, the mention of RR (like JC) brings the filth out of the wound!

And with the usual scatological references…

TruthTeller   June 22nd, 2009 - 5:16 pm

BEAR WITNESS??????

Massive, blatant voter fraud…
Hundreds of thousand crying out for freedom…
Vicious crackdowns with guns, clubs and gas…
Young men and woman shot down in cold blood…

Meanwhile- our self-loving, narcissist “president” who has no heart, no real morals, no conscience, has to check and see which way the polls swing.

THEN he can have a “position” on the bloodshed. Meanwhile, spout empty high-sounding platitudes.
He is a coward and a national disgrace.

But then- his “presidency” was produced by the same kind of voter fraud, lies, deceit and intimidation he now refuses to condemn in Iran. To his dark and twisted soul, it’s “politics as usual”.

racerx   June 22nd, 2009 - 5:21 pm

Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Chris Hedges
Truthdig
Monday, June 22, 2009

http://www.prisonplanet.com/iran-had-a-democracy-before-we-took-it-away.html

Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught. It was Washington that orchestrated the 1953 coup to topple Iran’s democratically elected government, the first in the Middle East, and install the compliant shah in power. It was Washington that forced Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh,

Spiderman   June 22nd, 2009 - 6:12 pm

Don’t worry Truth Teller he has got this sh*t handled.Chill out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFdAJRVm94

SuperSarge229   June 22nd, 2009 - 6:21 pm

The only real pressure here is what the Ayatollah’s sphincter is putting on Obama’s tongue!

ps
racerx, shut up about things you are completely clueless and sold out about! Your right there with the left’s bought up the stupid American education system’s prostitution ring of elementary school teachers! You and your ilk sell out this nation on a daily basis, because you have been brain washed by the puke that is the left in this nation!
Hang your heads!
Better yet, hang yourself, you treacherous bunch of scumbags!!!

SuperSarge229   June 22nd, 2009 - 6:23 pm

Your comment is awaiting moderation.
(didn’t figure that would get through!)

The only real pressure here is what the Ayatollah’s sphin-cter is putting on Obama’s tongue!

ps
racerx, shut up about things you are completely clueless and sold out about! Your right there with the left’s bought up the stu-pid Americ-an edu-cation system’s pr-osti-tutio-n ring of ele-ment-ary scho-ol te-achers! You and your ilk sell out this nation on a daily basis, because you have been bra-in was-hed by the p-uke that is the lef-t in this na-tion!
Hang your heads!
Better yet, hang you-rself, you trea-cherous bu-nch of scumb-ags!!!

SuperSarge229   June 22nd, 2009 - 6:26 pm

racerx,
Do us all a favor.
Splatter your brains on your bedroom wall.

racerx   June 22nd, 2009 - 6:41 pm

SuperSarge229-

Relax!
You don’t have to
go through the rest
of your life so angry
and ignorant.

After you’ve finished the last article
that I provided a link to, check this one out, too!

You’ll be glad you did.

Iran Falling to US PSYOPS?

http://www.infowars.com/iran-falling-to-us-psyops/

And don’t forget to have a song in your heart
and a smile on your face.

Whatwhatwhat   June 22nd, 2009 - 7:06 pm

@Other-

Sorry to disappoint you all but I am not “Pooping on the GOP” BUT I like his/her style!!!!!

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   June 22nd, 2009 - 7:15 pm

Freedom fighters everywhere…keep speaking up and speaking up!

When they have removed all your liberties and your freedoms, they cannot squash your thoughts, your opinions, your beliefs!

Never, ever give up or give in!

It is the right of every man and woman to be free from the oppression and tyranny from another no matter what country you live in!

SuperSarge229   June 22nd, 2009 - 9:07 pm

Dear racerx and whutwhutwhut,

Let me make this perfectly clear.
(and please, don’t think I’m holding back about what I want you to do to yourselves, or whatever you might imagine I’d love to do to you, your kind, and most of all, the piece of crap you call commander in chief)
The next time you are sitting alone in your crappy little world, holding a gun in your mouth, thinking about how very crappy your life, and everything you’ve every done in life has turned out to be,
do us all a favor,
pull the trigger,
the rest of us would be so very better off without s h i t like you in it!
now,
go
kill yourselves~
the world will love you for it

Visualize a combat boot with it’s heel smashing in your adam’s apple and an M16’s barrel being pushed through your eye socket, stopping only because the back of your skull and the ground will give up nothing, then a burst of light and sound, a nano-second before your life ends and you now have to explain everything you’ve ever done, said, or thought about, to the rest of the universe.

Well,… “ I support a mother’s right to kill her baby if it is inconvenient to her.”
“Murderer’s have a right to kill anyone who doesn’t support their right to govern the poor and stupid, however Kim Jung Il tells them to.”
“Marriage is just as moral between a man’s behind cheeks as it is anyone’s!”
“A baby thrown in a dumpster is better off than one born to someone too stupid to love it.”

Larse   June 22nd, 2009 - 10:06 pm

I like SuperSarge229!!

He/she lives in the real world with me…

But I am a big Obama supporter and his is not. so Boo Hoo…. I bet we still get along fine :D

Far more than a “nano-second”… Make them suffer for awhile here on Earth :D :D :D

But at least you have an actual brain left :)

It is very lonely down here in the world of Bart… Anyone that can add to the four of us is welcome :)

racerx   June 22nd, 2009 - 10:15 pm

Wow, I really thought you were going to like that last article. Maybe we’ll grab that beer another time, when you’re not so grumpy.

Say, Sarge, has anyone ever suggested that you talk to a counselor? or that you check yourself into a mental health facility for a while?

It might do you a world of good. You never know.
They might also have some medication that could possibly help you.

Anyway, I’m petty confident you’re going to love this next article. Check it out!

Neocons Are Clueless About Iran

http://www.alternet.org/world/140805/neocons_are_clueless_about_iran/

Larse   June 22nd, 2009 - 10:23 pm

@racerx
“Wow, I really thought you were going to like that last article. Maybe we’ll grab that beer another time, when you’re not so grumpy.”

Sorry racerx…

You sort of did a big dump on your credibility here with your 911 inside job posts…

Go try and drown yourself in your toilet… I bet even SuperSarge229 could do that if required….

racerx   June 22nd, 2009 - 11:02 pm

L,

Well it sounds like you really understand exactly how everything happened on 9/11. This is very exciting! You’ve certainly got your audience paying attention now!

Listen, I’ve had so many unanswered questions, and it seems I’m not alone. Apparently 36 percent of the U.S. population does not buy the “official” version of what happened on 9/11. Thank goodness you’re here to explain it to all of us!

Let’s start off with one or two basic questions, and we’ll go from there. OK?! Let’s get started!

First, please explain to us all how two jetliners brought down three separate skyscrapers in Manhattan(WTC1, WTC2, Building 7) on September 11, 2001?

Sundowner   June 22nd, 2009 - 11:23 pm

Do they actually let you roam around unsupervised whatwhatwhattrentracerxanexioimaretardedliberal? You libs need to get a job and occupy your time with something constructive rather than hanging out on message boards all day looking like retards. Not that I’m not in any mood to help Larse out, who is probably just another one of your alts you keep going so it can appear someone actually pays attention to you, but a quick search on the internet would reveal tons of evidence to the contrary concerning your little tinfoil hat theories. Here’s one link to start you off….see if you can form the next thought on your own now and figure out yet another link to try. *mumbles something about libs being too stupid to breathe successfully without whispering to themselves breathe in….breathe out…..breathe in…..*

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=1

racerx   June 23rd, 2009 - 1:55 am

Sundowner-

Yes, I think everyone on the planet has seen that article. Try this one for a few rebuttals to the P.M article.

http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pm/

IMHO, the debate has moved beyond the vast scope of the original P.M. article; please see this linked article – definitely never reported in the MSM – liberal or conservative – that came out after that P.M. article.

�BOMBS INSIDE WTC�

FIRE OFFICER SAYS FIREMEN, COPS KNOW TRUTH

It�s amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs,� said Isaac, regarding the FBI gag order placed on law enforcement and fire department officials, preventing them from openly talking about any inside knowledge of 9-11.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/bombs_inside_wtc.html

Also see this, too, the original article came out in Italy’s largest newspaper and was reported in English here.

Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job

Man who set up Operation Gladio tells Italy’s largest newspaper attacks were run by CIA, Mossad

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/120407_common_knowledge.htm

Sundowner   June 23rd, 2009 - 8:28 am

OMG you need to get some help, whichevernameyouwannauseonthispost. The reason the debate has moved past anything is because in your tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter seeing little minds you just refuse to believe anything as truth. I myself looked into all these conspiracy sites after 9/11 for the laughter they provided and the people like you that just insist something had to be done by our very government.

Hindsight is always 20/20. I can come up with alot of reasons for a person using multiple names on a message board such as them being lonely in real life so they make up message board “friends” to help them argue their case. Possibly needing quite a bit of therapy. The need to believe anything anti-establishment coming from years of indoctrination into fringe liberal ideology.

Now if you like I can go look up websites and list examples that fit you to a T, right down to you being the 45 year old man living in your mom’s basement yet. You are stuck on stupid as General Tommy Franks used to say, at least I believe it was him. Try looking outside that little glass bubble you live in.

racerx   June 23rd, 2009 - 10:33 am

Bush talks about EXPLOSIVES in building (on 9/11?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USnxe7hxP4I&NR=1

9/11 NYPD FOUND EXPLOSIVE DEVICES – MSNBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkbLaFevyg&feature=related

Laffing at Morons   June 23rd, 2009 - 8:11 pm

Got tired of the other name WHATWHATWHAT? That’s WIMPWIMPWIMP THE new democrat brain dead and twice as gay as P. Hilton.. LOL!!!!

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