I can tell by the poll results from another diary, posted earlier on friday, that half of you should not read further....
From what I have been able to find out, Iran is hemmed in by bordering states of Pakistan, and US militarized Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran has been continually "effed over" by the UK and the US, and by US client, Saddam, for more than a century.
Iran was not a combatant country in any war against Israel, and does not seem to have conducted offensive activity against any of it's neighbors. The most recently released CIA Intel Estimate on Iran was that it had suspended it's nuclear weapons development program, yet at the friday press conference, Obama sounded too similar to Bush or Cheney, concerning what Iran is perceived to be doing and what the US reaction will be.
If there was an intent on actual change, would today not have been a good day for Obama to hint that it was coming? Especially since his comments come...
....in the background of Obama's appointment of Rahm Emanuel:
http://www.haaretz.com/...
Nov 6, 2008 ... Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff -News and commentary relating to events in Israel, the occupied territories, ...
If you are a newly elected US president committed to a new approach to relations between the US and the muslim world, especially with Palestinians and Iranians, why would your first appointment critical to your new executive organization, be someone who Haaretz describes above, as "Israeli", and why would you respond to a question about how you will relate to the Iranian president, with references to Iranian nuclear weapons intentions, and an Iranian offensive "threat", that make you sound like Cheney or John Bolton?
http://icga.blogspot.com/...
....American voters, fed up with the old Washington politics, suffering and anxious for absolution and release after eight years of heartache and disappointment, elected the ultimate anti-Bush only to get an anti-Obama appointed into the most strategic White House office slot, second to the President.
Haven't we all had it up to here, with "right leaning" failed policies?
Rahm Emanuel Declares Candidacy for House GOP Whip
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I've written about the Bush era neocon/US Military relationships with right wing Israelis and supporters of Israel, here:
http://www.tfproject.org/...
The Hidden Influence of JINSA and CSP on Conservative Opinion
....and here:
http://www.tfproject.org/...
....No, I point to the policy of constant threat of pre-emptive attack of countries in the ME as the counter productive US policy. I think that policy is much more in what likud thinks is in it's interest, than it could possibly be, in ours.
The "crisis" is in the deterioration of the relationships between the US and much of the rest of the world, and it's effects on the purchasing power of the US dollar. As disturbingly, the deeds of the US government stand in direct contradiction to the words...words that claim a strong embrace and promotion of democratic principles.
How did the US political attitude about zionism evolve from here:
Quote:
http://www.newsweek.com/...
A Case of Courage
Exclusive Book Excerpt: Truman and the birth of Israel.
By Michael Beschloss | Newsweek Web Exclusive
http://www.newsweek.com/...
I see a vital need for American progressives to demand a break in the link between candidates and elected officials we support, with old neocon alliances...the defense industry and AIPAC....only to be informed in the following articles that Obama's Illinois campaign finance director was James Crown, and that he and his father, multi-billionaire Lester Crown, serve on the board of defense contractor, General Dynamics, and that Lester is former president and CEO of that corporation, with a large family ownnership stake of more than 45 years. Lester was an early Obama political financial backer, along with fellow Chicago billionaire and strong supporter of Israel, Hyatt Hotels heiress, Penny Pritzker.
Mr. Obama's neighborhood | Features | Jerusalem Post
One day back in Chicago, Crown's good friend Newton Minow received a phone call from his daughter .... 1995 - 2007 The Jerusalem Post. All rights reserved. ...
http://www.jpost.com/...
Obama and The Crown Dynasty(General Dynamics) by Patti W ...
Mar 14, 2008 ... The Jerusalem Post also noted in its February 27, ... Lester and James Crown have both had seats on the company's board in recent years. ...
www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977284169