Obama says 'no options off table' on Iran

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By Peter Nicholas
December 16, 2011, 2:54 p.m.
President Obama can't show enough love for the Jewish vote – er, community.

With his approval rating among Jews down 20 points from his showing in the 2008 election -- and with Republicans eager to exploit Jewish anxieties about Obama's commitment to Israel -- the president isn't passing up many chances these days to proclaim that he's a loyal friend of the Jewish state.

On Friday, he spoke to the Union for Reform Judaism and maintained that his administration has done right by Israel. Under his watch, he said, the U.S. has "secured the most funding for Israel in history." What's more, America has worked with Israel to devise an anti-missile system and is taking "no options off the table" in its effort to deprive Iran of nuclear weapons. "No option off the table" is code for a possible military strike.

Obama got a "rock star reaction," according to a pool report recounting the event.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-jewish-vote-20111216,0,1044028.story

Oh really? Pre-emptve nuclear strike on the table? Full out ground invasion on the table? Maybe he can tell us just how far he is willing to go

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. *sigh* War is peace, doncha know.

[Tanelorn]

2. Hold on to your hats(helmets) . Could be another bumpy ride.

[piratefish08]

3. just takin' care of business.......

sigh.................

[bowens43]

4. he loves playing with his toy soldiers he's the new commander bunny pants nt

[teddy51]

5. WTF do we really have going on here? Is this about wining an election in 2012? What would

it take to strike Iran by this President?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Was he wearing comfortable cowboy boots when he strutted his "tough" stuff?

[unionworks]

7. good policy.

Never tip your hand to the opposition.

[Major Hogwash]

8. It's the right thing to do.

I'm not surprised about those polls either.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. What's the right thing to do?

Leave every option on the table including the threat of war? Maybe even nuclear war?

[Major Hogwash]

16. This is why people don't take you serious.

It's utter poppycock to think that President Obama would threaten war.
Especially nuclear war.

[Cali_Democrat]

18. The war option should be removed from the table from the get go.

That would be the "right thing to do."

[rug]

9. His Nobel Prize must look like the portrait of Dorian Gray by now.

[RC]

10. I wonder how the people that gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize feel about that now?

A little sick, I would imagine.

[Tx4obama]

17. I'd bet that they are still happy about their decision.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

Oslo, October 9, 2009

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html

[theophilus]

11. Let's have the worst war yet and bankrupt our country forever! Yea!!!!! n/t

[JoePhilly]

12. I wish I had a business selling fainting couches!!!

The President says "No options are off the table" ... and so clearly, we're preparing an invasion!!!!!!

Here ... breathe slowly into this ...



And take some of these ...

[Behind the Aegis]

14. It is sad shit likes this is passed off as journalism.

What a POS "article."