POTUS Sends Special Video New Years Greeting to Iranians

Hey Folks,

President Obama created a personal message to the president of Iran and shared it with the world. The open dialog has started and Mr. Obama is using the full power of the Internet to help solve some of our world problems. I commend them both for wanting to work toward solving the problems between our two countries.

Both sides have valid issues but the past is the past. Time now to look toward the future. This is a game played on a world level.

President Obama could stun the world by bringing Israel to the stage. He should send another message asking Israel to stop playing the game of letting the world wonder if they possess nuclear weapons. To stop the deception by refusing to confirm or deny. Oh yes, it would upset Israel and some members of our government, but Mr. Obama would show courage and the American people would see this and know the real President Obama. Mr. Obama is working for the greater good of the American people and the people of the world, not for the members of Congress. With the support of the American people he can accomplish great things. That is where his real power lies.

ISRAEL, please tell the world the truth. Your scientists know and the nuclear scientists of the world know. If we want to stop the proliferation of WMD's it needs to include the ENTIRE nuclear club and the countries that wish to become a club member. If Israel disarmed voluntarily, that would give Iran incentives to drop their quest for building a bomb and show the world that the United States is committed to bringing peace to the world. Current members of the club include:

United States
Russia
Ukraine
China
United Kingdom
France
India
Pakistan
Israel

It is known that Syria and Argentina both wish to become members. How many other nations desire this kind of power?
Every nation that builds these weapons increases the risk for catastrophy.

Support President Obama's efforts. His job is difficult and he's trying to do the right thing.

Thanks for reading...

As a true truce, we demand nuclear secrets and the technology from you. Share what you know and prove your faithfulness towards friendship. Otherwise we will reguard you as being weak and a tool.

Iran is our new BFF!

If Obama is going to put his hand out towards Iran, He just might want to make sure there is a gun in it. I don't trust them, never have, never will.

Very satisfying to see the President show respect for an ancient culture regardless of how paranoid their junior leader is about Israel. I so admire and love Mr. Obama and Mrs. Obama and their little sprouts. The garden is a great idea, I'm going to plant a bunch of my seed packets from last year, now that I've heard that they last three years. It was not inspired by the White House garden, but by a plot of ground behind our garage that could be a wonderful place to plant.

Or I could get one of those expensive round contraptions that does all the work for you within your home, for a couple of hundred dollars. Hardly Making Do...

I loved the quotation that the President selected. I only know The Prophet and "Speak to me now of children" and back when I was campaigning for Barack Obama, I made up a poster for him with those words on it. Too long for a poster, but I raised my kids by it and they turned out well.

I enjoy reading your postings. I'm new to this world but I'm learning to scan faster and faster.

At some point I hang it up and go lay down, but unfortunately that point is midnight to 2 a.m. and I wake up at 6, exhausted, to begin again.

I'm on dialysis M-W-F for 4 hrs. each so there's a lot of time hooked up to a machine to watch political tv and read books and magazines. One patient even brings her computer down and I'm going to do that. My computer is a notebook that's about 5 years old, and she just came in with a little thing about 6 " x 8". I'm insanely jealous, but a new little baby computer is not on my want list for right now. I'm busy making Dymo labels for my million file folders (for the stuff I don't want to store in Bookmarks).

Have a great night.

Well, it worked for Carter.

Brilliant!

The Queen send a new year message to the World every year. But I think this Obama new year message to Iran is not the same. Gengis Khan also send his message and ambassador to Iran at the time it was Persia, and they send back his head in a basket.

Iran was a good friend of us. It's about time the Obama Administration and our intelligence agencies stop believing Israel's false "intellince" to ingratiate itself with the USA.

It is best to constructively engage one's real or purported adversaries.

Guy

I completley agree with that last post. The point I was trying to make is that we are playing the same game that has failed. A new opportunity arises now that we as the United States may take a some what diffrent aproach. That we might brake the cycle. I like his approach is diffrent tha what we have tried to do before, so I think the Pres deserves a little credit instead of the harsh critism from our republican leaders.

I still wish him luck. His message, by enlarge, was good. Questionable statements...

Calling them by their proclaimed title, Islamic Republic of Iran. This surely ticked off the Sunni nations. Maybe we'll hear about it, maybe we won't. There is an ongoing fight among the Sunnis and Shia on who has legitimate Iyatolahs (sp? too lazy on a friday to look it up). So might spark a tizzy, maybe won't.

And praising their building and creativity. They are trying to build and create weapons grade uranium. It stepped into a double meaning that might have been best to find different words of priase for their history. Nothing huge, but could have used a different choice of words there.

"Previously, the hard-liners have been able to blame the impasse on Bush, who was widely unpopular in Iran."

Give them time. They'll create an impasse with Obama. They did with Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. I'd be surprised if they choose a different tactic now. They will find something Obama will not budge on and when they do, they'll have their excuse.

At the least, Obama's overtures put pressure on hard-liners to justify their anti-American stance to Iranians, said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Previously, the hard-liners have been able to blame the impasse on Bush, who was widely unpopular in Iran.

"Rather than tip the scales in favor of (hard-line) radicals, as the Bush administration did, I think Obama's efforts at diplomacy will undermine them and puncture their narrative of a hostile U.S. government bent on oppressing Iran," Sadjadpour said.

"But we have done the samething supporting locals of diffrent nations to support our own intrests, Congo, Columbia, Iraq, Afgahnistan. I think the pharse is War by Proxy."

Certainly was a staple of the Cold War diet by both us and the Russians. It is innevitable that our nation will support groups that support us. Those that don't support us, or threaten our allies, we work to undermine.

Certainly Iran is doing the same with Hamas etc. Doesn't mean we go "Oh ok, go ahead, we understand". You counter it, you try to stop it because it affects one of our allies. That's the game of the world bud. There's black, theres white, and theres grey and we're in all of em.

But our nation does stand for liberty and freedom. We lost our way in the Cold War because of necessity to protect interests abroad. We have a chance after the Cold War to finally be principled in that, but we pooh pooh it for the sake of non-existant peace.

This country hasn't done everything right, and hasn't done everything wrong, but we should always stand on liberty and freedom. Just like Hamas was elected, we have to learn to accept what we get. We have to strive to be a principled nation on democracy, freedom and liberty even if we didn't do well at it in the past, we can't use the past to justify stopping that pursuit. It is in the best interest of the world that people experience freedom and liberty if we ever truely want to see peace in the world. Accepting and containing status quo will never achieve the peace in the world we all say we want. We disagree on how to get there.

This is the way I see it: Obama is snubbing Israel, Obama is extending an olive branch to Iran. Iran is preparing to nuke Israel and BO wants to be on the winning side. For Israel to retaliate or defend themselves, they have to pass Iraq air space, which WE control. This is the really scary part....how does he plan on responding to this? Will he order the military to step back? Or will he block any aggression by Israel.
This is a very, very dangerous time. If I were a Jew, I would be marching in the streets about the disrespect America has demonstrated toward Israel, who has been a loyal ally to us in the Mid-East.

Thats my take. Obama has no loyalty or character, no spine, and ANYONE can be thrown under his bus. Look at his history.

"the persumtion of innocence is one of our greastest attributes as Americans. If you see boogiemen in every shadow, innocent people will suffer."

You have no idea how many boogiemen are running around out there. Fortunately you live a nice sheltered life here in the states. When you go outside these borders, and you're job is to understand the threats posed to this nation, its allies, and it's interests, you start to realize that the boogieman is real and he has no love for you. He will tell you what you want to hear to get what he wants, and he'll stab you in the back if you turn your back to him. It's real folks, this is a dangerous, screwed up world. I've spent the last 5 years in strategic studies and there is no peace pipe out there to smoke.

KR
the persumtion of innocence is one of our greastest attributes as Americans. If you see boogiemen in every shadow, innocent people will suffer.

Now I agree that Iran sending money and weapons to Hezbolah and Hammas does not help the intrest of America. But we have done the samething supporting locals of diffrent nations to support our own intrests, Congo, Columbia, Iraq, Afgahnistan. I think the pharse is War by Proxy. So under that definition we would be terrorists, but since we deem our Proxy Wars just in the name of Liberty. Forcing people to adapt or form their beliefs to what we want them to do is just as wrong. Though our enemies claim that they are just defending their homes and way of life from Western influence. Who is right here? Which side is on the side of rightousness? Is it American arrogance that we believe we can change other governments when we don't like. One thing is true, the only time true and lasting change to take place you have to have an uprising from within. Our own country did this. France did not even get involved with our independence until it was clear the colonies were going to win.

And just a little food for thought for all those Ballistic Missile Defense nay sayers out there. North Korea, run by a dillusional self serving lunatic, can reach the West coast of the US with a nuke. Enjoy your dinner.

"So you take the option to go into the garage and find out exactly what he is doing, is he making a gun? Well it turns out he was making a box car for his son. Let's call this man Iraq."

I knew that would come up. Let me turn that around on you.

So you take the option to talk to the guy and he stalls, stringing you along and suddenly, BOOM, theres a shot in the garage. Oh thats North Korea.

kr great story. more choices though.

love this analogy. Let's continue.

So you take the option to go into the garage and find out exactly what he is doing, is he making a gun? Well it turns out he was making a box car for his son. Let's call this man Iraq.