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Ahmadinejad: "I double dog dare you!"              click here to subscribe to the eddobloggo RSS feed Subscribe via RSS


What's next now that Ahmadinejad has said "I double dog dare you to attack our nuclear facilities!"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday at a joint press conference with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil that the threat of a US or Israeli military strike against Iran was no longer an issue because "they don't have the courage" to attack Iran. "The age of military attacks is over, now we've reached the time for dialogue and understanding. Weapons and threats are a thing of the past," he added. 

 

You can take this kind of rhetoric two ways:

The liberal progressive way:

"See, we told you that Obama would change the bellicose paradigm of the Bush/Cheney era and that he would return meaningful dialogue and diplomacy to our international relationships -- even with our so-called enemies."

The realistic way:

"That Holocaust-denying thug just thumbed his nose at Obama again.  He skipped over the 'I dare you' protocol and went right to 'I double dog dare you to attack our nuclear facilities!'  The administration and most of the media never even mentioned it, so it is doubtful that Obama will respond even when Ahmadinejad says 'I triple dog dare you!'"

The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said in Vienna Thursday that his probe of Iran's nuclear program is at "a dead end" and that trust in Tehran's credibility is shrinking after its belated revelation that it was secretly building a nuclear facility. 

ElBaradei has, hither-to-fore, approached the Iran nukes issue the liberal progressive way apparently in order to keep his cushy job.  But his blunt criticism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, just four days prior to leaving his office, suddenly validates what the Bush administration had always said -- that the IAEA was soft on Iran.

The interesting part of the story as it relates to Barack Hussein Obama -- aside from ElBaradei being a fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipient -- is that he has actually

"[sat] down with dictators with no pre-conditions", not merely as a representative of the world's official diplomatic organization but as a citizen of Egypt, a major Islamic nation. Do you think that Egyptians want a nuclear attack on their nearby neighbor Israel any more than Israelis do?  

 

Back to Vienna. 

 

Subsequent to ElBaradei's "dead end" statement the IAEA has actually censured Iran with 25 nations backing a resolution that demands Tehran immediately freeze construction of its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed Security Council resolutions calling on it to stop uranium enrichment. The USA, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany have all signed onto the censure, reflecting a rare unity in the UN's Iran nukes stance.

 

Apparently, world powers -- and even the softies at the IAEA -- have been forced to adopt the realistic way of taking Ahmadinejad's threats.  However, our own representative's statement does not give us confidence that the president will feel empowered by the resolution to continue handling this situation in anything but a liberal progressive manner.

 

"The United States remains firmly committed to a peaceful resolution to international concerns over Iran's nuclear program," said chief US IAEA delegate, Glyn Davis.  "We also remain willing to engage Iran to work toward a diplomatic solution to the nuclear dilemma it has created itself, if Iran would only choose such a course."

 

It may take the Chinese, the Russians and ultimately the Israelis to punch the world out of the dead end in Iran.  Regardless of their diverse political philosophies, not one of those nations can be accused of being anything but realistic about world affairs. 

 

In that respect, Ahmadinejad is only half-right in his recent assessment of US and Israeli military courage. Only the US is trapped in the dead end of liberal progressive-ism.

 

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I will agree with you one hundred percent just after we wipe out the missiles in Israel as well! Wipe 'em BOTH off the face of the earth, and the world would be a better place. Why should one be allowed nukes and the other not?

 

RedneckHippie

Great Falls, MT Tribune

[For starters, Israel has had 'em for decades, never made bones about it, never threatened any other nations or dared them to knock the nuke chip off their shoulder. Furthermore, their nukes preceded the UN's current protocols. OTOH, A-jad keeps telling us that he's just building an electric-generating nuke program but continues to say that Israel needs to be obliterated, giving the world the notion that if he ever had nukes he'd use 'em to make good on his threats against Israel -- if for no other reason. I won't go into the anti-Israel (I'm being generous) aspect of your post if you quit while you're ahead. -ED]


You hit the nail on the head!!! I thought the Pres. was bragging about setting down with that idiot in Iran. I'm guessing the Pres. will do another apology tour at some point and go apologize to the idiot.

We need a leader that can make a decision!!!!

 

duprace24

Des Moines, IA Register


Is anyone else not surprised by the actions of this dirty little Jew-hating POS? Hate to say it, but we told you so.

 

MypalBalok

Montgomery, AL Advertiser


You are right - it will be probably up to the Israeli's to do something. I just hope that when it happens this president will have the backbone to support their actions.

 

TOK101

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[Are your lungs in shape to hold your breath that long? -ED]


Excellent post. Keep up the good work. You hit the nail right on the head.

 

noleft_turn

Lansing, MI State Journal


Maybe we should attack a random third-party country that has nothing to do with this. That's what Bush/Cheney would do, right? How 'bout Belgium? Yeah, what did Belgium ever do for us. Let's send 200,000 troops into Belgium. That will make us feel better, and we can slip several more hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of Halliburton execs and other Republican crony-capitalism corporate-welfare princes. Is that what we should do, Eddo? And then while we're doing that, we can throw the obligatory teabag hissy fit about some impoverished American children receiving a few dollars of assistance a week for food, shelter, medicine, and schooling. Right-wingers sure do have their principles in order!

Oh, if only the Republicans were in charge again, everything would be perfect again like it was back in 2008!

 

PeterFisk

Fort Collins, CO

[You're so off base on this one because you're blinded by Bush hate. The UN official -- an Egyptian who has always given Iran the benefit of the doubt -- says we're at a dead end with A-jad the moolahs. The Chinese and Russians have agreed with us and the UN. What part of world opinion and multi-lateralism are you having trouble wrapping your head around?  Do you enjoy having a president that makes us look stupid, weak and indecisive to the rest of the world? Even Obamacare will be just watered-down pablum for real kommies. -ED]


By you even writing this senseless blog about him is giving this crazy individual the attention he wants. He is a nut and is just like a little kid looking for attention. Just don't waste your brain cells worrying about something that is just feeding into his fantasy world.

 

No_way_man

Tallahassee, FL Democrat

[You're right. Obama's head is way too big as it is. -ED]


Can someone explain what "stability" in the middle east is supposed to be? I keep hearing that if there is conflict between Israel and Iran that it will "destabilize" the middle east. Haven't we already "destabilized" the middle east by invading two or three countries, killing a million or so, and displacing 6 million people from their homes? Calling that stability sounds like government doublespeak. Oh - I almost forgot we follow the doctrine of supreme specialness. It's ok when we do it.

 

patrioticblogger

Lansing, MI State Journal

[And allowing Iran to have nukes will stabilize the Middle East and wipe away your perceived iniquities of the Bush Era how? When China, Russia and 20-something other nations agree that this has gone too far for once -- and maybe only for a minute -- there is no doublespeak (except yours). -ED]


If you want to take a historical perspective, why doesn't the area still belong to the Canaanites? Israel wants peace, Iran wants to wipe them off the face of the Earth. Of course in the upside down world of liberal moral relativism, it's always our fault no matter the problem. I suppose if you're willing to sacrifice the Jews, you're also willing to bow to Mecca and outfit your wife in a Burka, sell you daughter and have your son strap some explosives on and blow up a few of us infidels. Just give 'em what they want and everything will be wonderful.

 

mightyright

Great Falls, MT Tribune


Ahmadinejad said; “the threat of a US or Israeli military strike against Iran was no longer an issue because "they don't have the courage" to attack Iran”.

Well that’s certainly true about the current US administration; however I wouldn’t count out the Israelis.  And I think the Israelis have been wise to hold back their attack. It’s almost pointless to go after the widely dispersed uranium enrichment facilities.  It’s much better to wait for Ahmadinejad to transfer the “fruit of his loins” to the final warhead assembly plant. Then with one strike, take it all out.

The question here is; “Will Obama scramble our fighters to shoot down the Israeli strike force when they cross over the US controlled airspace in Iraq?”

 

Uncle Larry

Austin, TX American-Statesman .


Will the Egyptians, et al become allies of Israel for its nuclear umbrella? The U S is out of the equation.

 

GreyCaravel

Montgomery, AL Advertiser

[Perhaps not allies in the true sense, but at least co-censurers and co-sanctioners. -ED]


And in the reality based world, so foreign to you eddo, the Obama administration just got Russia and China to sign on to specific demands that Iran stop its playing around with nukes.

But hey, that doesn't fit the memo of a weak Obama, so I'm not surprised you forgot to bring it up.

 

Craig51

Des Moines, IA Register

[Mr. ElBaradei finally agreeing with the Bush administration and other REALISTS of the world is what persuaded the Chinese and Russians to finally sign off on this censure along with the USA and 22 other nations. -ED]


I feel we should just give Israel ALL THEY NEED and just get out of the way...When the smoke clears I KNOW who will be standing....and the Iranian problem will be over. As for stabilization in the middle east ...THERE AIN'T ANY there are just lies and manipulations. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS...the only thing these Arabs understand is force...That is the ONLY THING THEY RESPECT...They talk peace but if you negotiate peace they see it as a weakness. Clinton Is more responsible (as far as I am concerned) than Bush for our current lack of respect in the east as he did NOTHING in retaliation for things done to the US by its adversaries (remember Somalia). In fact we became so disrespected that Bin Laden advised an attack on the US and advised the rest of the world TO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE US AS THEY DON'T HAVE THE STOMACH FOR A SUSTAINED FIGHT.

 

He was right.


There is talk of the concentration camps in Germany,t here were the ovens at Buchenwald there were the medical experiments and so on. There were the Japanese tortures like yanking off fingernails, internment for years (duration of the war) peeling off skin with knives, the Batan Death March, there was Sadam killing 300,000 of his own countrymen (women and CHILDREN)
Yet top ALL OF THESE TORTURES WITH OUR USE OF WATER-BOARDING AND PUTTING UNDERPANTS ON A KILLERS HEAD. I ask you, IS THAT ONE OF THE REASONS WE HAVE LOST SO MUCH RESPECT of these animals? If so then I say to you WHO CARES? When you convince the rest of the world that THEY DESERVE our respect THEN PERHAPS AND ONLY PERHAPS THEN WILL I think about respecting them...By the way the Germans EXECUTED 10 million people, NOT JUST JEWS. Do you think I care about their respect...GROW UP AND GET REAL...

 

rocco0607

Great Falls, MT Tribune


We can't really expect b. hussein obama to move against another Muslim.

 

ZRRifle

Salinas, CA The Californian


It's funny how little coverage there is of Iran continuing to make a nuke, and saying the US is too scared to stop them.  If Bush was in office, I'd be hearing about it at least once a day, and on every channel.

 

RespectObamalikeBush

Phoenix, AZ Arizona Republic

[The media are tired of being critical.  Hey, it was a tough 8 years for them.  They're resting up until at least after the 2010 elections. -ED]


 

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