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Europe Fears Obama Might Undercut Progress With Iran(Obama too soft)
WP ^ | 06/22/08 | Glenn Kessler

Posted on 06/21/2008 7:30:09 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Europe Fears Obama Might Undercut Progress With Iran

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 22, 2008; A14

European officials are increasingly concerned that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign pledge to begin direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program without preconditions could potentially rupture U.S. relations with key European allies early in a potential Obama administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: appeasement; electionpresident; europe; foreignpolicy; geopolitics; hussein; iran; muslim; obama; proliferation; sleeper; worldopinion
LOL

Obama is reaching a new low if Euros perceive him as too soft on Iran.

1 posted on 06/21/2008 7:30:09 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I second your LOL!


2 posted on 06/21/2008 7:31:25 PM PDT by saganite
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Obama makes Gordon Brown look like Patton.
3 posted on 06/21/2008 7:35:22 PM PDT by mojito
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Goodness Gracious -- this is the WASHINGTON POST reporting this!
4 posted on 06/21/2008 7:35:59 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: mojito

Mojito — Just want to let you know that I drank Rum with Mojito tonight, with a spalsh of Sprite.


5 posted on 06/21/2008 7:37:15 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: txflake; nuconvert

Ping!


6 posted on 06/21/2008 7:37:36 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Might? How about absolutely, guarun-damn-well-t-you he will!

THE GREAT SEAL OF OBAMANATION



THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


7 posted on 06/21/2008 7:38:13 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I suspect that Europeans are happiest when the U.S. goes to war with the enemies of civilization.

Then they can simultaneously despise and curse us as imperialist warmongers yet enjoy our protection at no cost to themselves.

But if a new president comes along and America suddenly becomes more pacifist and defeatist than the EU, what are they going to do? No one to blame for imperialism, no one to protect them. And it’s much too late for them to rebuild their effete and shrunken military and defend themselves.


8 posted on 06/21/2008 7:43:57 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
My spelling suffers after a few mojitos too;)!
9 posted on 06/21/2008 7:44:39 PM PDT by mojito
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To: Army Air Corps

Obubble popped!


10 posted on 06/21/2008 7:44:40 PM PDT by txflake (Obama is 50% Caucasian, ***43.75% Arab***, and only 6.25% Negro-African.)
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To: mojito

Heehee!!! Yup, my spelling BAAADDDD!

I also had a glass of Bugalu Rum, the newest sensation from Puerto Rico, which is spiced with coconut and pineapple....

I BE GETTIN DRUNKK TONNIGHT....


11 posted on 06/21/2008 7:47:59 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Obama is reaching a new low if Euros perceive him as too soft on Iran.

Yup, you really have to be a VIP citizen of Wimpville to thought soft by euros.

12 posted on 06/21/2008 7:48:41 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Drill drill drill for oil offshore and on land merrily merrily merrily merrily environuts be damned)
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To: Cicero
Europe serves as an example of how egotistic intellectuals would poison the society.
13 posted on 06/21/2008 7:50:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
spiced with coconut and pineapple

Sounds like a good barf drink. ;-)

14 posted on 06/21/2008 7:51:59 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

One of the truly serious dangers facing the US if Obama wins is the fact that our enemies are likely to perceive of him as a pushover, and take dangerous risks they might otherwise think twice about.


15 posted on 06/21/2008 7:54:28 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: doc1019

Tastes like a piña colada, actually....

I’m beyond ‘barf’ at this point.... ;-)

Nothin’ like being tipsy and enjoying FR at the same time....


16 posted on 06/21/2008 7:57:35 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: txflake

So much for Obamabi “Restoring our tarnished image abroad.” This poltroon is a danger to more than just the US.


17 posted on 06/21/2008 8:05:30 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This can’t possibly be right! We’ve been hearing for weeks now about how the whole world wants to vote for him by something like 10 to 1 margins.


18 posted on 06/21/2008 8:05:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Cicero

You are exactly correct.


19 posted on 06/21/2008 8:10:21 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

LOL! Enjoy, my friend. ;-)


20 posted on 06/21/2008 8:18:24 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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21 posted on 06/21/2008 8:25:40 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: Cicero

I agree with that.


22 posted on 06/21/2008 8:28:57 PM PDT by united1000
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To: TigerLikesRooster

**(Obama too soft)**

LOL!


23 posted on 06/21/2008 8:31:32 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: potlatch

Nice touch with the sword on the seal.


24 posted on 06/21/2008 8:34:30 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

[Nice touch with the sword on the seal.]

Thanks a lot Cobra. Someone else didn’t seem to like that and I spent a lot of time on it, but that’s what I think those ‘curves’ stand for!!


25 posted on 06/21/2008 8:38:00 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: Army Air Corps

thanx


26 posted on 06/21/2008 8:39:19 PM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists)
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To: Cicero
They may have to use some of their Euros to retool their military. They will rue the day they worked so hard with the left in this country to destroy George Bush and gave us a Barack Obama.
27 posted on 06/21/2008 8:52:57 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: Cicero

“I suspect that Europeans are happiest when the U.S. goes to war with the enemies of civilization.
Then they can simultaneously despise and curse us as imperialist warmongers yet enjoy our protection at no cost to themselves.”

Yep..you got it.... if America goes soft..then Euros have NO protection.


28 posted on 06/21/2008 8:55:20 PM PDT by Thinkin
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Suddenly they’re worried about softness?


29 posted on 06/21/2008 9:10:10 PM PDT by NordP (Barry HUSSEIN Obama says he's for change...well AMERICANS LIKE DOLLAR BILLS!)
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To: potlatch
It would be great to have a pic of Hussein Obama with one of those islamic throat slitters in his belt.

I just did searches on "sword of islam," "islamic sword," and... there are no photos. Either I don't know what I'm doing, or the search engines have been sanitized.

30 posted on 06/21/2008 9:26:52 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

Scimitar is what that one is called that I used. Probably listed under Arabian sword.

I have seen it used on his graphics before in the way I did it.


31 posted on 06/21/2008 9:32:26 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: Cobra64

Ps, I animated mine!! Lol


32 posted on 06/21/2008 9:33:44 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: potlatch
Found one for ya.


33 posted on 06/21/2008 9:51:18 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

You found one for YOU, lol, I already found a lot of them!!


34 posted on 06/21/2008 9:54:03 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wait a minute?? I thought Europe was getting Chris Matthews “thrills up my leg” over Obama-Maud’Dib?? What gives?? Are they actually listening to the words coming out of his mouth?? Does “Winnie the Pooh” foreign policy make the Euros a little skittish??

Go figure.


35 posted on 06/21/2008 10:55:17 PM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I wanna try some of that.

Is it good on the rocks?


36 posted on 06/21/2008 11:27:50 PM PDT by wastedyears (Obama is a Texas Post Turtle.)
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To: potlatch

The picture of that young man kills me every time I see it.


37 posted on 06/21/2008 11:36:38 PM PDT by wastedyears (Obama is a Texas Post Turtle.)
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To: jveritas; FARS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; knighthawk; Marine_Uncle; SandRat; Steel Wolf; CAP; ...
Europe troubled by Obama’s naive promises and rewards for the mad mullahs in Tehran ping.
38 posted on 06/22/2008 12:26:11 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Isolationism and pacifism: the soft underbelly of American freedom.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I BE GETTIN DRUNKK TONNIGHT....

Rum? It had to go down a lot easier than what me and my buddy were pitching back yesterday...YEEHAW!

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My favorite rum is "Pussar's Navy (full strength)" and "Cruzan Black Strap Rum"

Can't say I'm all too enthusiastic about any of them right now... %\

39 posted on 06/22/2008 3:00:09 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

WOW! CRUZAN RUM! Brings back memories.... I grew up in Puerto Rico, but spent a lot of time in St. Thomas, so I used to bring some of these liqueurs back home. Believe it or not, Bacardi Rums were cheaper in the USVI than in Puerto Rico, where it’s manufactured. St. Thomas is where all the cruise ships would stock up on their spirits & alcohol.

About Whiskey.... I was never interested.... never liked the flavor.... my Puerto Rican grandmother, however, at 97 years young still drinks two or three daily tall glasses of whiskey with a bit of water on the rocks. Her mind is still all there and she loves to read newspapers and watch Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

Don’t know how she does it....


40 posted on 06/22/2008 6:03:53 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: wastedyears

Hey W!

It’s delicious on the rocks — that’s how I drank it last night. No blenders were utilized.


41 posted on 06/22/2008 6:05:41 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: elhombrelibre
WITH REASON!!!

free dixie,sw

42 posted on 06/22/2008 11:18:05 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: wastedyears

Yes. There are two others that are very moving and I’ve lost them in my files.

One is a Young Soldier who lost his hand, being hugged by an elderly Veteran.

The other one is a young Soldier who lost his leg, standing up to salute the passing Veterans in a parade, while others around him remain sitting [as I recall].


43 posted on 06/22/2008 12:54:09 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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