Letter Obama team hope will heal Iran rift
The US state department has been working on drafts of the letter since Obama was elected on 4 November last year. It is in reply to a lengthy letter of congratulations sent by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on 6 November.
Ahmadinejad, who confirmed that he would stand for election again in June, said it was unclear whether the Obama administration was intent on just a shift in tactics or was seeking fundamental change. He called on Washington to apologise for its actions against Iran over the past 60 years, including US support for a 1953 coup that ousted the democratically elected government, and the US shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988. Read More
Tell me Obama does not sound like a Jimmy Carter the worst president ever!
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(1) Obama celebrates spending binge with cocktails and wagyu steak by Michelle Malkin
“New era of responsibility?”
“Tell me Obama does not sound like a Jimmy Carter the worst president ever!”
Have you been asleep for eight years?
Obama sounds like a progressive Politician, who isn’t confined by his own imaginary four walls of America, like George Bush had been. You cannot criticise a man for trying a different approach than the hate filled policy of the last eight years that instead of helping secure the Western World, has made us an even greater target.
goodtimepolitics: You Brits has been talking to Iran for how many years without any results, may I ask you futiledemocracy?
How can Obama (Carter 2nd) talk with Iran when they demand without given? Can’t talk with NUTS like Ahmadinejad! Leaders of Europe has been trying to talk with Iran for how many years? Useless!
List of Bush administration contacts with Iran, direct and indirect.
http://www.meforum.org/article/2011
Gotta bomb ‘em.
Why, here’s a nation that appears not to have gotten futile’s memo.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/01/022683.php