Obama blames U.S. for stronger Iran

Foreign policy expert Barack Obama, drawing from his extensive first-hand experience, offers criticism of the Bush administration's handling of Iraq and Iran.

Obama is so far off the chart that he does not even qualify as a Monday Morning Quarterback in my viewpoint. I think he has to lose his political virginity as a presidential candidate and actually engage a few confrontational audiences and press gatherings before he is taken seriously for anything he says.

He is flush with potential but has to start fleshing out his bones to graduate from curiosity to candidate.

Obama blames U.S. for stronger Iran
By DEANNA BELLANDI, Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO - Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday blamed the Bush Administration failings in Iraq for strengthening the strategic position of Iran, which he says must be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The Illinois senator said that means "direct engagement" with Iran similar to the meetings with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_el_pr/obama_mideast

Thomas Friedman: Semi - A Honest Blame Game

Thomas Friedman today writes about the inaction of the Muslim world and it's effect on the Middle East. Of course he first manages to throw stones at George Bush and Tony Blair, the only Western leaders with the balls to have taken career defining stands to try and do something or Putin for allowing murderous business to continue as usual but then again, that would put accountability on the section of the world he has championed for two decades.

Tom offers interesting insight but his blame of the administration for trying to do it on the cheap is old and thin. Maybe if he once added that the administration did what they thought was best as they were being fought tooth and nail every step of the way by a media out to destroy them by influencing public support, I'd have a little more respect for him. Instead he remains a very knowledgeable writer whom we can all read for profit once we filter through his naive, childish rants. Too many years with a New York Times charge account.

The Silence That Kills
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 2, 2007

On Feb. 20, The A.P. reported from Afghanistan that a suicide attacker disguised as a health worker blew himself up near “a crowd of about 150 people who had gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open an emergency ward at the main government hospital in the city of Khost.” A few days later, at a Baghdad college, a female Sunni suicide bomber blew herself up amid students who were ready to sit for exams, killing 40 people.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/opinion/02friedman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The New York Times Makes You Want to Vomit (Part IV)

Here they go again, the far left loonies from West 43rd Street are once more on the loose. Only a group of limousine liberals with an unrealistic grasp on the fragility of humanity could actually make a case for a brutal dictatorship that has allowed millions of its own people to starve to death while the ruling party feasts. Praise Dear Leader.

I really have no idea how The New York Times would choose to architect any foreign policy let alone a military confrontation. Their view is so childish, their perspective so privileged and unrealistic that I'm certain other countries count on them as part of their strategies when confronting America.

Here's another article severely criticising the Bush Administration for fabricating lies to proceed with their grand strategy of taking over the world for the christian right. Today's target is that honest, peace loving, counterfeiting free, kingdom by the sea called North Korea or Dearleaderville.

(Lunch conversation overheard at a Times luncheon at the Russian Tea Room). Bad Bush, Bad...Bad ! Oh, pass the caviar. Don't worry, it's on the company lunch charge. Oh shit, what if he manages to make peace with them?

Editorial
A Suddenly Convenient Truth

Published: March 2, 2007
We would like to believe that the Bush administration has finally figured out how dangerous and counterproductive it is to hype intelligence — and that that’s why officials are admitting they’re not sure North Korea ever got very far with a secret uranium-based nuclear program. But we doubt it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/opinion/02fri1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin