Comments on: Top Obama Adviser Signs on to Roadmap to War with Iran http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/ Personality Blogs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rubin wants to “Forget the ‘peace process’” and Bomb Iran Already « LobeLog.com http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-130516 Rubin wants to “Forget the ‘peace process’” and Bomb Iran Already « LobeLog.com Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:00:22 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-130516 [...] for the U.S. strategic response. This neoconservative “roadmap to war,” as Jim Lobe referred to the report authored by numerous neocons and (troublesomely) Barack Obama’s National Security Council Mid [...] [...] for the U.S. strategic response. This neoconservative “roadmap to war,” as Jim Lobe referred to the report authored by numerous neocons and (troublesomely) Barack Obama’s National Security Council Mid [...]

]]> By: Henry Pelifian http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-35102 Henry Pelifian Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:17:43 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-35102 Unfortuately, we have agenda driven advocates who not want diplomatic discussions. In foreign policy our country has blundered on Vietnam, Iraq and the Middle East. How many major foreign policy blunders can the country sustain? The government of the United States claims to promote democracy but it actively overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953 and installed a dictator. Many of our former and current elected leaders have provided the United States with failed domestic and foreign policies that are unsustainable, yet they continually utter the same misjudgments. Self-censorship by the mainstream press and television news coupled with a general resentment of criticism appears to becoming society's norm creating a foundation of national rot. Criticism and facts and information are the keys to solving problems. Unfortuately, we have agenda driven advocates who not want diplomatic discussions. In foreign policy our country has blundered on Vietnam, Iraq and the Middle East. How many major foreign policy blunders can the country sustain?

The government of the United States claims to promote democracy but it actively overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953 and installed a dictator. Many of our former and current elected leaders have provided the United States with failed domestic and foreign policies that are unsustainable, yet they continually utter the same misjudgments.

Self-censorship by the mainstream press and television news coupled with a general resentment of criticism appears to becoming society’s norm creating a foundation of national rot. Criticism and facts and information are the keys to solving problems.

]]> By: Thomas Pain http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34565 Thomas Pain Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:29:19 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34565 ...forgot to add in my previous comment that Iran's Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment program is actually far more technically advanced that that of the U.S. Actually the U.S. is stuck using the inefficient and virtually obsolete 1950s technology for enrichment, called the gaseous diffusion method. And that only produces half of what the U.S. requires for it's 103 reactors at 65 different plant sites. The Russians supply the U.S. with the other half of our annual enriched uranium needs. Which, I surmise, is yet another reason for America's timid reactions over the past several years to increasing Russian belligerence. T.Pain …forgot to add in my previous comment that Iran’s Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment program is actually far more technically advanced that that of the U.S.
Actually the U.S. is stuck using the inefficient and virtually obsolete 1950s technology for enrichment, called the gaseous diffusion method. And that only produces half of what the U.S. requires for it’s 103 reactors at 65 different plant sites.
The Russians supply the U.S. with the other half of our annual enriched uranium needs. Which, I surmise, is yet another reason for America’s timid reactions over the past several years to increasing Russian belligerence.
T.Pain

]]> By: Thomas Pain http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34564 Thomas Pain Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:52:04 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34564 I can say as a former International Atomic Energy Agency Inspector, that Iran has not violated any international obligations. Iran, in fact, legally has the right to enrich uranium as well as build nuclear power plant, per the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran also was one of the early countries to sign and ratify the IAEA 'Additional Protocol,' which gives a virtual carte blanche for IAEA inspectors to literally leave no stone unturned. Where the real hypocrisy lies (no pun intended) is the U.S. double standard with respect to Israel's openly secret nuclear arsenal. And there's the added hypocrisy of Israel, which has not even signed a 'full-scope' IAEA safeguards agreement, criticizing Iran for being a nuclear outlaw. Israel strictly limits inspectors' access at only a FEW of it's nuclear sites, to only a FEW striclty delineated points in those sights. Adding to the hypocrisy is America's blatant disregard of the NPT, in that the 5 original declared nuclear weapons states are obligated to seek nuclear disarmament. Yet since the Cold War ended ca. 1991, America has not only refused to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but also continued R&D on nuclear weapons! In particular, the US nuclear labs, like Los Alamos and Sandia, have been working diligently to develop nuclear 'bunker busters', among other things. And in summary, nobody in the UN or for that matter the informed world community had any respect for American 'double-speak' and hypocritical foreign policy, and I'm speaking of before the neo-Conned sham pretext for the mess we've made in Mesopotamia. T.Pain p.s. does anyone remember Mossadegh? I can say as a former International Atomic Energy Agency Inspector, that Iran has not violated any international obligations. Iran, in fact, legally has the right to enrich uranium as well as build nuclear power plant, per the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran also was one of the early countries to sign and ratify the IAEA ‘Additional Protocol,’ which gives a virtual carte blanche for IAEA inspectors to literally leave no stone unturned.
Where the real hypocrisy lies (no pun intended) is the U.S. double standard with respect to Israel’s openly secret nuclear arsenal. And there’s the added hypocrisy of Israel, which has not even signed a ‘full-scope’ IAEA safeguards agreement, criticizing Iran for being a nuclear outlaw. Israel strictly limits inspectors’ access at only a FEW of it’s nuclear sites, to only a FEW striclty delineated points in those sights.
Adding to the hypocrisy is America’s blatant disregard of the NPT, in that the 5 original declared nuclear weapons states are obligated to seek nuclear disarmament. Yet since the Cold War ended ca. 1991, America has not only refused to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but also continued R&D on nuclear weapons! In particular, the US nuclear labs, like Los Alamos and Sandia, have been working diligently to develop nuclear ‘bunker busters’, among other things.
And in summary, nobody in the UN or for that matter the informed world community had any respect for American ‘double-speak’ and hypocritical foreign policy, and I’m speaking of before the neo-Conned sham pretext for the mess we’ve made in Mesopotamia.

T.Pain
p.s. does anyone remember Mossadegh?

]]> By: Making Excuses for Obama | New World Order Truth http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34406 Making Excuses for Obama | New World Order Truth Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:29:47 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34406 [...] that’s the best case scenario. In the worst case, the Dennis Ross faction of Obama’s emerging foreign policy movers and shakers will maneuver us into a confrontation [...] [...] that’s the best case scenario. In the worst case, the Dennis Ross faction of Obama’s emerging foreign policy movers and shakers will maneuver us into a confrontation [...]

]]> By: TutuG http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34375 TutuG Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:48:21 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34375 But Obama is a politician is.nt he? So why did you lot expect anything different? The perception in the US poitics is that the Jews will not vote for you and/or will finance your campaign always gurantee that electoral candidates of all shaps, sizes and colours will have to talk tough aginst Iran and other such countries. The main question is, give the American trade and budget deficit in trillions for how long the US can afford to play sugger daddy to Israel. But Obama is a politician is.nt he? So why did you lot expect anything different? The perception in the US poitics is that the Jews will not vote for you and/or will finance your campaign always gurantee that electoral candidates of all shaps, sizes and colours will have to talk tough aginst Iran and other such countries. The main question is, give the American trade and budget deficit in trillions for how long the US can afford to play sugger daddy to Israel.

]]> By: Iran Citizen http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34196 Iran Citizen Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:37:53 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34196 If this "iranian America" person is actually a native Iranians and not a guy in kahoots with the regime, or a far-left loon Anglo-saxon of the Mother jones type pretending to be an Iranian, he would use a more persuasive line of reasoning. If this “iranian America” person is actually a native Iranians and not a guy in kahoots with the regime, or a far-left loon Anglo-saxon of the Mother jones type pretending to be an Iranian, he would use a more persuasive line of reasoning.

]]> By: iranian American http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34190 iranian American Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:40:46 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34190 I am another "Iranian Citizen" living in America but I have friends and family in my native land and a vested interested in seeking a non-violent end to the rule of theocracy in Iran. However, the comments by the other self-proclaimed "Iran Citizen" smells more of Zionist posturing that an objective view; it postulates the grand claim that most Iranians favor a military actions against their own country just to get rid of Mullahs. Well, this person may be referring to a few upper-class Tehraians but certainly that is not the case with most Iranians that I talk to. If this person is actually a native Iranians and not a guy in Tel-aviv pretending to be an Iranian, he would use a more persuasive line of reasoning. I am another “Iranian Citizen” living in America but I have friends and family in my native land and a vested interested in seeking a non-violent end to the rule of theocracy in Iran. However, the comments by the other self-proclaimed “Iran Citizen” smells more of Zionist posturing that an objective view; it postulates the grand claim that most Iranians favor a military actions against their own country just to get rid of Mullahs. Well, this person may be referring to a few upper-class Tehraians but certainly that is not the case with most Iranians that I talk to. If this person is actually a native Iranians and not a guy in Tel-aviv pretending to be an Iranian, he would use a more persuasive line of reasoning.

]]> By: Iran Citizen http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34185 Iran Citizen Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:43:31 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34185 Meditation is for derelicts and new age hippies who are scared of a fight with evil since they don't want their pot sessions be distrubed by conflict. Peace man! yeah! You can't negotiate with evil Man, Far out, right! Chill out yourself Baby, and go back to your opium and meaningless poems and day dreams, and let men who are men shape the world while you snozze after smoking... Meditation is for derelicts and new age hippies who are scared of a fight with evil since they don’t want their pot sessions be distrubed by conflict.
Peace man! yeah!
You can’t negotiate with evil Man, Far out, right!
Chill out yourself Baby, and go back to your opium and meaningless poems and day dreams, and let men who are men shape the world while you snozze after smoking…

]]> By: Rumi http://www.lobelog.com/top-obama-adviser-signs-on-to-roadmap-to-war-with-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-34157 Rumi Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:34:18 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=198#comment-34157 Iranian citizen: you are out of your mind. A bomb in the hand of mullahs are more dangerous than a born again Christian or a jewish fundamentlaist? You are probably one the people who has no idea what war is. Encauraging a war even short and not so intnese will result in massive death and destruction. If you want to overthrew the mullahs why don't you go and do it. Hello, have you seen Iraq and Afghanistana in the last 8 years? probably not. What is wrong with trying a new road that has never traveld before. Have you heard of negotiation, mediaiton, conflict resolution and crises managment? probably not. I should not even be talking to you. Do some meditation man and chill out. Iranian citizen:
you are out of your mind. A bomb in the hand of mullahs are more dangerous than a born again Christian or a jewish fundamentlaist? You are probably one the people who has no idea what war is. Encauraging a war even short and not so intnese will result in massive death and destruction. If you want to overthrew the mullahs why don’t you go and do it. Hello, have you seen Iraq and Afghanistana in the last 8 years? probably not. What is wrong with trying a new road that has never traveld before. Have you heard of negotiation, mediaiton, conflict resolution and crises managment? probably not. I should not even be talking to you. Do some meditation man and chill out.

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