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	<title>Obama&#039;s Enemies List: A Growing List of Obama&#039;s Enemies &#187; Ahmadinejad</title>
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		<title>Fidel to Ahmadinejad: ‘Stop Slandering the Jews’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pathetic Pipsqueak Ahmadinejad Warns Israeli Attack Against Iran ‘Means Annihilation of the Zionist Entity’…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This goat fucker needs killing&#8230; DOHA, Qatar (AP) &#8212; Iran&#8217;s president said Sunday that any Israeli attack against his nation would mean the destruction of the Jewish state. The two nations have exchanged numerous threats and warnings in the confrontation over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, which Israel, the United States and other countries believe is aimed at developing weapons, despite Tehran&#8217;s denials. &#8220;Any offensive against Iran means the annihilation of the Zionist entity,&#8221; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a visit to the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. &#8220;Iran does not care much about this entity because it is on its way to decay.&#8221; He said he doubted Israel or the U.S. would dare to stage such an attack because &#8220;they know that Iran is ready and has the potential for a decisive and wide-scale response.&#8221; ]]></description>
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		<title>Violating His Oath of Office?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." That is the oath of office taken by President Barack Obama, and every other President of the United States, as provided in Article II, Section I of the Constitution. The question I want to ask is can you "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," without "preserving, protecting, and defending" the United States? President Obama's Iran Disgrace President Obama was so self-satisfied during the 2008 election with the avowed brilliance of his innovative Iran policy of "talking" to Iran about their nuclear weapons program. He accused President Bush of stupidly thinking he was punishing the Iranian government by refusing to talk to its leaders. President Obama was going to deliver peace in our time by talking to Iran "without preconditions," even going so far as to engage in "tough diplomacy" if necessary to convince Iran to terminate its nuclear weapons program. Michael Ledeen pointed out in the Wall Street Journal at the time that every Administration all the way back to Jimmy Carter had "talked to Iran," with no good ever coming from it. President Carter had engaged in "tough diplomacy" for over a year to free the American diplomats seized as hostages by the pirates running Iran. The Iranians finally did release them, at the precise moment of the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan, who seemed to be willing to do more than "tough diplomacy." At the very time that candidate Obama was preening all over the country regarding his hot new idea of "talking to Iran," the newspapers were filled with reports of what "carrots" then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was going to offer Iran in the next round of talks on its nuclear program. That never amounted to anything either. Yet lots of yuppie voters were nevertheless fooled into thinking that the fresh, young Obama had indeed come up with a promising new approach, overlooked by the stodgy Bush/McCain curmudgeons. It was obvious to thinking people at the time that "talking to Iran without preconditions," and "tough diplomacy," were never going to amount to anything. What would the American negotiating response be when told that the nuclear program was necessary to "wipe Israel off the face of the earth," and kill all the Jews, as Iran's fascist dictatorship had in fact already stated publicly? All those brilliant yuppies voting for Obama apparently did not know that the name of the country was changed from the historic "Persia" to "Iran" to claim that it was, in fact, the original source of Hitler's Aryan race. So, now, almost two years later, what has come of President Obama's brilliant strategy of "talking to Iran without preconditions"? When the Iranian people rose up in protest against the stealing of a sham election by the country's fascist dictatorship, President Obama sagaciously withheld even rhetorical support, to curry favor with the ruling Islamic theocracy in the vain hope of a nuclear deal. As the mullahs' Brown Shirt henchmen began murdering protesters in the streets, President Obama stood idly by, offering nothing of significance in their support. Even Jimmy Carter supported human rights. That is why President Obama's foreign policies are the worst, most unprincipled, most un-American in our nation's history. Not to worry, though. President Obama had another trick up his sleeve. He yielded to the Russian demand to cancel the deployment of missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, after America's newly liberated allies in those countries had suffered the political costs of agreeing to them. Those missile defenses would have been strategically located as advance defenses for America, as well as for Europe, from the threat of Islamofascist nukes. But President Obama's apologists assured us that this ploy would win Russian pressure on Iran to end its nuclear program, and Russian support for serious sanctions if that pressure failed. But just last weekend, there were the Russians in Iran, loading the nuclear fuel rods into the Bushehr nuclear reactor. This provides the Iranians with a second route to nuclear weapons, based on the plutonium produced by the Bushehr plant, in addition to the uranium enrichment now produced by hundreds of Iranian centrifuges. Papa Joe Ahmadinejad announced that this was just the first of 10 such nuclear plants. Even Amy Carter Knew Better During the 1980 Presidential debates, President Carter explained that he had asked his daughter Amy what was the most important issue of our time, and even she understood that nuclear proliferation was the top concern. The spectacle of the President of the United States seeking international strategic advice from his 12 year old daughter drew nationwide peals of laughter. But even the 12-year-old Amy Carter would be a strategic giant in this Administration. That includes the miserable failure of our esteemed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who Washington insiders are already advancing as the future savior of the Democrat party. As Arthur Herman reports in the August 19 New York Post , nuclear proliferation is now spreading to Syria. Herman writes: Last week, the Obama Administration woke up to the fact that Syria has been steadily working on a nuke-weapons program. It is considering asking the United Nations to investigate -- even though Syrian dictator Bashir Assad has been blocking the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency from investigating suspected nuclear sites for years. Sorry: It's not the United Nations that holds the key to keeping Syria from becoming the next Iran. It's the United States -- and it's time to realize American decline has consequences. This represents another disastrous Obama Administration foreign policy failure. As Herman further explains:]]></description>
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		<title>Quiz Time!…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Who&#8217;s wife is the babe dressed like a penguin? Answer under the fold&#8230; Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni (L) walks with the First Lady of Iran Parvin Ahmadinejad (R) while visiting a local hospital in Entebbe during the second day of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s official visit to Uganda on April 24, 2010   (Getty Images) If you guessed Mrs. Mahmoud Ahmadinnerjacket then you are correct!&#8230; Certainly explains Mini-Hitler&#8217;s fondness for &#8220;beer goggles&#8221;&#8230; ]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmadinejad Says Iranians are More Intelligent Than the Rest of the World…</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/08/23/ahmadinejad-says-iranians-are-more-intelligent-than-the-rest-of-the-world%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Master Race!&#8230; (MEMRI) &#8212; The following are excerpts from statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on Press TV (Iran) on July 28, 2010: &#8220;In Their Estimation of Their Own Capabilities, [the West is] Making a Mistake&#8221; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: &#8220;Let me start with felicitations on the anniversary of the birth of the Mahdi. I congratulate all of humanity, all the people in the world, because it is the climax of mankind&#8217;s inspiration – the fulfillment of the rule of the Promised One. Mankind sees all its goals and aspirations and their fulfillment at a time when justice will prevail all over the world, kindness will prevail, antagonism will go away. Therefore, the Promised One tomorrow is the Promised One of all nations. He is the one that is being awaited by all world nations. They are all waiting for that sweet incident to happen, to see mankind reach the peak of its perfection. &#8220;They [the West] expect us to say that the sanctions will be effective? Maybe that is what they expect. Maybe they think that as soon as they say &#8217;sanctions&#8217;, the Iranians will go and die. In their estimation of their own capabilities they are making a mistake. They think that all the world nations are in need of them and that world nations cannot live without them and as soon as they cut off their ties with them, their breathing apparatus will stop functioning. That is the mistake they are making. Maybe 60 years ago some would accept this. Maybe 30 years some would accept this as well. But it is not like that now. Especially when it comes to Iran, about a … it&#8217;s not a small [country] of two million people. They can&#8217;t do this even to a small country, let alone Iran. They know nothing about geography, about history, about politics. Iran with its 1,700,000 square meters. We have 14 or 15 neighboring countries. With 180 countries we have very good relations. All the transit routes between East and West pass through Iran. Iran is an economic power, it is a cultural power, and it is also a big political power. It is a great nation, 75 million people – that is the population of Iran. And the people are … Their IQ is much higher than that of the world. Iran is a place … Iran has always carried the flag of culture and civilization. They are actually sanctioning themselves! ]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmahomo Introduces the “Ambassador of Death”…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Isn&#8217;t that the &#8220;prophet&#8221; Mohammed&#8217;s role?&#8230; TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday inaugurated the country&#8217;s first domestically built long-range unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an &#8220;ambassador of death&#8221; to Iran&#8217;s enemies. Speaking to a group of officials, Ahmadinejad said, &#8220;The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship.&#8221; The goal of the aircraft is to &#8220;keep the enemy paralyzed in its bases,&#8221; he said, adding that the jet is for deterrence and defensive purposes. The president championed the country&#8217;s military self-sufficiency program and said it will continue &#8220;until the enemies of humanity lose hope of ever attacking the Iranian nation.&#8221; ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Regime to Israel: Chill Out, the Mullahs Won’t Have a Nuclear Weapon for 12 Months…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Obama will still be saying &#8216;don&#8217;t worry&#8217; as the warhead&#8217;s on its descent&#8230; (Telegraph) - The US sought to reassure Israel that Iran is still a year away from building a nuclear weapon, as Iran&#8217;s leadership hailed the fuelling of its first nuclear power plant on Saturday. Iranian television showed live pictures of Iran&#8217;s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi and his Russian counterpart watching a fuel rod assembly being prepared for insertion into the reactor at Bushehr. &#8220;Despite all the pressures, sanctions and hardships imposed by Western nations, we are now witnessing the start-up of the largest symbol of Iran&#8217;s peaceful nuclear activities,&#8221; Mr Salehi told a news conference afterwards. He described the plant as &#8220;a symbol of Iranian resistance and patience&#8221;. Gary Samore, President Obama&#8217;s adviser on nuclear issues, tried to ease tensions among Israeli officials by telling the  New York Times that the process of converting nuclear material into a weapon that worked would take at least 12 months. Rest here> > > ]]></description>
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		<title>Barry&#8217;s Big Apple A-jad Adventure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- the Izod Ayatollah who, clad in a cool golf shirt, tan slacks and blue blazer, charms the media -- has offered to meet with President Obama when the two are in New York next month at the annual convening of the United Nations General Assembly. Ahmadinejad said that the two should meet for a face-to-face televised debate. And why not? This is the Iranian "madman" who should be one of the characters in the "Mad Men" television series. He's so good at manipulating American liberals he clearly relishes the chance at doing it again, this time with Barry as his foil. In 2006, A-jad had CBS's old Mike Wallace eating out of his hand and was mau-maued around New York a year later culminating in a televised speech hosted by Columbia University. Now, he wants to chum for another media frenzy that could raise himself to the Simon Cowell level of celebrity and further diminish the U.S. president, if that is even possible. Barry has shrunk so quickly, his feet may no longer touch the floor when he sits behind the big desk in the Oval Office. And, sigh, Barry is indicating that he may meet with A-jad in September. Obama's National Security Advisor, Gen. James Jones, said that Obama may be willing to meet with A-jad if the Iranian kakistocracy indicates it is willing to negotiate with the UN's purblind nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, on Tehran's nuclear program. Negotiate, not stop, redirect or even agree in advance to international inspection of its disclosed nuclear sites far less those of which -- as was the uranium enrichment plant near Qom -- we don't know of. If the meeting comes off, our Incredible Shrinking President will have surpassed Jimmy Carter in reducing America's ability to influence world events. Consider how he's being set up -- not only by his own missteps -- but by Iran and its closest allies. Last week, KGB (er, Russian) President Vlad Putin's regime announced that the Iranian nuclear plant the Russians are building in Iran will go online by the end of this month. The Russian Lukoil firm discharged about 250,000 barrels of much-needed gasoline in Iran last week, and it will continue to ship gasoline to Iran, ensuring its economy will not be affected by the newest round of UN sanctions. China's Zhuhai Zhenrong state-run oil company is also continuing gasoline sales to Iran. By pushing the Iranian project to completion and providing the gasoline Iran's economy must have, Putin is cornering Obama. What little leverage Obama might have had in a meeting with A-jad has evaporated. In any meeting with A-jad, Obama would be reduced to a supplicant. Obama, like his predecessor, has utterly failed to stop Iran's interference in Iraq and Afghanistan. A year ago this month, Gen. Stanley McChrystal reported that unless the trend in Afghanistan were reversed within a year, we could face a situation in which defeating the Taliban was no longer possible. And, in his last quarterly report to Congress submitted in April, McChrystal wrote that Iran's "lethal assistance" to the Taliban was "most concerning," and that "Iran's historical, cultural and economic ties with much of western Afghanistan, its religious affinity with Afghan minority groups, and its extensive border with Afghanistan will ensure that Tehran continues to attempt to influence events in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future." Like any supplicant, Obama would have to have some face-saving result from such a meeting. What might A-jad offer that Obama's media could spin as a positive result? Lots. Such as a "promise" from Ahmadinejad to "negotiate" with the IAEA on some future disclosures of Iran's nuclear work. Iran would buy more time for its development of nuclear weapons without having to actually disclose anything. Or perhaps a "promise" from the Iranian to "help" stabilize Afghanistan. Iran has for years, in Afghanistan and Iraq, directly and indirectly taken the lives of American soldiers. Will Obama the supplicant even raise this issue with Ahmadinejad? If he does, the "concession" will be designed to help Obama spin his failed strategy in Afghanistan. Those facts are more than enough to prevent any positive result from an Obama/A-jad meeting, but Obama's own actions further weaken his position going in. Obama is apparently willing to swallow any bit of Islamic agitprop that appears on his plate. His endorsement of the Ground Zero mosque is just the latest example. At a White House "iftar" dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Obama jumped into the Ground Zero mosque controversy, strongly endorsing the construction of an Islamic "community center" and mosque on the site where a big chunk of the landing gear from one of the airliners that struck the Twin Towers on 9-11 hit the ground. Obama said, "I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground," adding: "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are." But who we are is different from who Obama is. The Ground Zero zone is hallowed ground, and the public outcry at Obama's endorsement of the mosque there has him back pedaling fast. This is an argument we can win. There are at least 100 mosques already in New York City. There can be another, but not in the Ground Zero zone. Americans are justifiably outraged, and we can -- and should -- block this monument to the Islamist ideology just as we would block a memorial to the Japanese Shinto religion at Pearl Harbor. Ahmadinejad -- and Putin, Hu Jintao and every other enemy we have -- see Obama's vulnerability to any claim made in the name of Islam and take advantage of it at every opportunity. There is nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in an Obama-Ahmadinejad meeting. Iran is the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world. It must be defeated, not embraced by our Incredible Shrinking President. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fish or Cut Bait</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ About eight months ago in Ankara, the assistant U.S. Secretary of State, Philip Gordon, said, "We are neither surprised nor disturbed by an activist Turkish agenda in the Middle East." At the time, his comment was seen as a convenient diplomatic reaction to what was clearly developing as a sea shift in Turkey's foreign policy. The question today, however, is whether Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government is in the process of sacrificing its long-standing working relationship with Israel for an enhanced political role in the region. Important in this shift of orientation is the perception that there has been a steady movement by Ankara away from the secular West toward a greater alignment with the religiously aligned Islamic nations and movements. The Turkish charity IHH had a lead role in the Hamas-backed flotilla seeking to break the Israeli embargo of Gaza. This participation was not a surprise to Israeli intelligence, which had for years cooperated with its Turkish counterparts. Nonetheless, the IHH action was a seriously negative development in the Israel/Turkey relationship. Prime Minister Erdogan's support of Hamas certainly is not new. Considered, though, in the context of the Turkish leader's meeting in Damascus with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Assad , this revised alignment cannot be ignored. There had been more than enough warning over a shift in Turkish political relations with the United States. The refusal of the Turkish parliament to allow the American 4th Infantry Division to pass through its territory to launch a northern attack on Iraq back in 2003 was a major blow to U.S. war plans by a trusted NATO partner. The subsequent recognition of a de facto state in Iraqi Kurdistan was taken by Ankara as a direct challenge by the United States that encourages secession by Kurds in southeast Turkey. On top of these events has been Ankara's outrage at Washington as a result of Congressional action declaring as genocide the early WWI massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. A nearly 100-year-old historical event is still contemporary news in Turkey where the Financial Times reports the large mass of the population is increasingly antagonistic toward the United States. This attitude is suggested as an aid to the growth of Islamic nationalism in the country. Such analysis may be an exaggeration, but the result in any case is the same. One thing appears sure: the Army no longer appears to be the effective protector of secular dominance in Turkey. Chad Nagle, a leading commentator on Turkey, has written on the current situation: "The government has subjected the army to a public rhetorical flogging, accusations of conspiracy, and even allegations of complicity in the 2003 Istanbul bombings, hitherto branded -- and internationally accepted -- as the work of al-Qaeda." There are some analysts who point to Erdogan's effort at strategic reorientation as part of his plan to reinstate Turkey's role in the Muslim world and leverage that into a stronger place in international diplomacy. Albeit a double-edged sword, this new eastward leaning is seen as a warning to the European Union that has scrupulously avoided affirmative consideration of Turkey's application for membership. Prime Minister Erdogan explained his and his country's position quite succinctly when he said, "We have one face to the west and one to the east." This statement was made when he signed trade accords in Tehran. Typically, Erdogan was his usual blunt self in this direct challenge to those who want to freeze Ankara into a strictly pro-Western mold. His principal priority now in foreign policy is to keep Turkey an active player in the Middle East. The American military withdrawal from security responsibility in Iraq creates an obvious vacuum. As far as any future Iraq is concerned, Turkey is the only serious counterweight -- militarily and geographically -- to Iran. Ankara's regional and religious credentials are now being bolstered, and its role in the Middle East once again has gained strength. The problem now facing Erdogan and his party, the AKP, as well as Turkey overall, is to balance the desire to be a regional power with an effort to maintain its Islamic outreach without antagonizing its European interests. Playing clever Middle Eastern games while sitting on the fence of Iranian nuclear weapon development may seem to be an option in Turkish eyes, but it soon will be far less so as the reality of Iran's ambition is confronted by either Israel or the United States -- or both. The time is soon coming when Ankara will have to -- as the old American expression goes -- fish or cut bait! That decision will affect Turkey for many years to come. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama May Be Prepared to Meet With Ahmadinejad…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Peace in our time&#8230; (The Telegraph) &#8212; Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Gen James Jones, has indicated the President may be prepared to meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if the regime resumed negotiations over its nuclear programme. The retired general also indicated that the return of three American hikers held in Iran for the past year would be an “important gesture”. Earlier this month, Mr Ahmadinejad requested face-to-face talks with Mr Obama during the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. The White House had appeared to rule out any meeting. However, in an interview with CNN, Gen Jones said “the door’s open” if the Iranians agree to resume talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency. When asked whether Mr Obama may meet the Iranian leader, Gen Jones said: “Ultimately if we find a convergence of paths all things are possible. ]]></description>
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