I Am Trying Real Hard to be Respectful

Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate
By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
The Associated PressTuesday, June 2, 2009 3:40 PM
Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060200947_pf.html

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LONDON -- President Barack Obama reiterated that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations are peaceful.
Now a quote from the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Israel must be wiped off the map … The establishment of a Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world ."
In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, Obama also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it to set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor. "Without going into specifics, what I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations," Obama Said. Now Ahmadinejad: "Israel is destined for destruction and will soon disappear"Israel is "a contradiction to nature, we foresee its rapid disappearance and destruction."
"Although I don't want to put artificial time tables on that process, we do want to make sure that, by the end of this year, we've actually seen a serious process move forward. And I think that we can measure whether or not the Iranians are serious," Obama said. Oh I would say they are serious you... (be respectful, he is the President). It would be my guess that we will see a move this year; We will see a move forward by Israel and a move back to the 1800's for Iran when Prime Minister Netanyahu tells Obama to go play with his hotwheels (you know GM and Chrysler) and leave running a country to him.
Ahmadinejad: "With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine . . . By God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future." Ya President Obama lets sit down and negotiate with these kind of people. How will this negotiation start, I imagine something like this:
President Ahmadinejad: We want to kill all of the Zionist and all of you dumb Americans also.
President Obama: Well, uh, what if we, uh let you take off one of our, uh fingers.
President Ahmadinejad: We want to kill all Zionist and Americans
President Obama: What about, uh the whole arm.
President Ahmadinejad: The Zionist and American Empire must be destroyed

I mean how do you negotiate with that kind of thought process President Obama? Answer is that you can't.

Obama added that there is a danger "when the United States, or any country, thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture."
In my opinion the world could use some of the values and principles that once made this country great. I think most true Americans would agree.

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