Do you suppose Obama is nervous about these happenings? Revolutions trigger others and there are many in our country itching for for one. Fortunately, we tend to use a more “civil disobedience”. With that having been said, John F. Kennedy once said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” So don’t forget what Thomas Jefferson pointed out, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

I always thought our colors (flag) never runs…however obama proved me wrong!!!

Maybe that’s why Barack Obama has so little apparent interest in finishing the job in Iran… no matter how much it benefits the US and free world.

Anyone who expected him to act in the interests of the United States -rather than for his own political security- hasn’t taken a serious look at how Obama got this far in the first place.

Perhaps we should not revisit the Iraq War; it’s been hashed over but still rears it head in court cases. But any attempt on our part to inject ourselves into the present trouble in Iran will give A’jad and the Ayatollahs an excuse to justify their actions against the protesters. If we have learned anything, it is that our sense of self-righteousness brands us as hypocrites because we are selective about the issues and countries we criticise in the Middle and Near East.

Whereas the attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001,
underscored the gravity of the threat posed by the acquisition
of weapons of mass destruction by international terrorist
organizations;
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Whereas Iraq’s demonstrated capability and willingness to use
weapons of mass destruction, the risk that the current Iraqi
regime will either employ those weapons to launch a surprise
attack against the United States or its Armed Forces or provide
them to international terrorists who would do so, and the extreme
magnitude of harm that would result to the United States and
its citizens from such an attack, combine to justify action by
the United States to defend itself;
http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf
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BTW – MOST of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi. NONE were Iraqi.
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The two major reasons given in the AUMF were based on the false assumption that Iraq was linked to 9/11, and that Iraq was about to be able to turn an American city into “a mushroom cloud” with the WMD that Rummy said he knew for a fact, existed and where they were in Iraq.
http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/priraqclaimfact1029.htm
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These two excuses for invading Iraq were known to be false at the time, and time (and the Duelfer Report) has since proven the already dubious claims of the AUMF false.

Excuse me? Bush’s view? How about Jefferson and Madison? Remember them? Attributing this basic American perspective to George W. Bush is a bit more than just foolish. As is the implication that Obama ONLY NOW embraces this view that goes back to Jefferson’s penning of the Declaration of Independence.

Jefferson’s view, as that of other Democrats as well as Obama I suspect, is that America’s liberty is to be as a beacon to the world lighting the way to freedom. Liberty is not something that can be merely foisted upon a people in the Bush/Rummy/Cheney style, as those who have read Jefferson’s writings (particularly on the French Revolution) would know.

“Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.” –Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1815. ME 14:245

“In these countries [of Europe],… ignorance, superstition, poverty, and oppression of body and mind, in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped. If the Almighty had begotten a thousand sons, instead of one, they would not have sufficed for this task. If all the sovereigns of Europe were to set themselves to work, to emancipate the minds of their subjects from their present ignorance and prejudices, and that, as zealously as they now endeavor the contrary, a thousand years would not place them on that high ground, on which our common people are now setting out.” –Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 1786. ME 5:396
Otherwise, the “If Iraq, why not invade Saudi Arabia” argument is valid. And why not Uzbekistan? Or why not any other dictatorship that would require decades of US involvement, trillions of dollars, and thousands of American lives?

Obama may be able to salvage something of Bush’s failed foreign policies, but it’s a long shot at best. That doesn’t mean Bush’s policies weren’t a disaster to begin with. Just because the tow-truck operator is able to pull the bus out of the ditch doesn’t mean the bus driver was a great driver.