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Friday, October 03, 2008
For the Record: Sarah Palin On Israel
And an issue like that taken up by a Presidential candidate goes beyond naivete and goes beyond poor judgment. A statement that he made like that is downright dangerous because leaders like Ahmadinejad who would seek to acquire nuclear weapons and wipe off the face of the earth an ally like we have in Israel should not be met without preconditions and diplomatic efforts being undertaken first....
Israel is our strongest and best ally in the Middle East. We have got to assure them that we will never allow a second Holocaust, despite, again, warnings from Iran and any other country that would seek to destroy Israel, that that is what they would like to see.
We will support Israel. A two-state solution, building our embassy, also, in Jerusalem--those things that we look forward to being able to accomplish, with this peace-seeking nation, and they have a track record of being able to forge these peace agreements.
They [Israel] succeeded with Jordan. They succeeded with Egypt. I'm sure that we're going to see more success there, also.
It's got to be a commitment of the United States of America, though. And I can promise you, in a McCain-Palin administration, that commitment is there to work with our friends in Israel.
-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Oct. 2, 2008
Recalling BHO's Praise for the Muslim Call to Prayer
Drill, Baby, Drill: Palin is Right on Energy
It's a nonsensical position that we are in when we have domestic supplies of energy all over this great land. And East Coast politicians who don't allow energy-producing states like Alaska to produce these, to tap into them, and instead we're relying on foreign countries to produce for us.
We're circulating about $700 billion a year into foreign countries, some who do not like America -- they certainly don't have our best interests at heart -- instead of those dollars circulating here, creating tens of thousands of jobs and allowing domestic supplies of energy to be tapped into and start flowing into these very, very hungry markets.
Energy independence is the key to this nation's future, to our economic future, and to our national security. So when we talk about energy plans, it's not just about who got a tax break and who didn't. And we're not giving oil companies tax breaks, but it's about a heck of a lot more than that.
Energy independence is the key to America's future.
-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice PresidentBiden Got Iran's Internal Situation All Wrong
-Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden
The surprise is that the US Senator from Delaware, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, either does not know or deliberately pretends not to know that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does control the country's security apparatus. A silent coup of sorts has taken place in Islamist Iran, as we reported earlier this week. The Revolutionary Guards have become more powerful than the mullahs.Iranian Official Signals Possible Shift on Uranium
Foreign Confidential....
A senior Iranian diplomat said Thursday that Tehran might consider stopping its controversial uranium enrichment program if it gets a guaranteed supply of fuel from abroad.
Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, said Iran might reconsider its stance in exchange for a legally binding agreement on a secure fuel supply for its nuclear power plants.
But he also indicated that Iran might want to retain some enrichment capacity as what he called "a contingency," in case the outside supplies of nuclear fuel would be cut off.
Is Iran blinking--signaling a sincere interest in avoiding a war over its nuclear program that would end the Islamist regime? Or is Iran merely playing for time, feeding the notion that the regime is divided between moderates and hawks? It's too early to tell, although we would guess the comments by Soltanieh are aimed at Western public opinion, particularly in the United States, where Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama is advocating "aggressive diplomacy" towards Tehran.
On the one hand, Iran was offered a legally binding fuel supply in a multinational proposal put forward in 2006, and renewed in June. On the other hand, Soltanieh's comments mark a break from Tehran's customary insistence that it would not negotiate its right to enrich uranium.Thursday, October 02, 2008
Flu Pandemic Would Devastate America
UPI reports the US healthcare system would be completely overwhelmed In the case of an influenza pandemic, according to a report released this week by federal auditors.
The report, published by the Government Accountability Office, criticizes the Department of Health and Human Services' current influenza pandemic preparedness, noting concerns about ineffective treatment dispensation techniques and a lack of organization related to mobilization efforts.
Click here to read the article.
Friday, 3 October 2008
An armed--nuclear armed, especially--Iran is so extremely dangerous to consider. They cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons period. Israel is in jeopardy, of course, when we're dealing with Ahmadinejad as a leader of Iran. Iran claiming that Israel as he termed it, a stinking corpse, a country that should be wiped off the face of the earth. Now a leader like Ahmadinejad, who is not sane or stable when he says things like that, is not one whom we can allow to acquire nuclear energy, nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, the Castro brothers, others who are dangerous dictators are ones that Barack Obama has said he would be willing to meet with without preconditions being met first.
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When we talk about energy, we have to consider the need to do all that we can to allow this nation to become energy independent.
"The fact of the matter is, it surprises me that Sen. McCain doesn't realize that Ahmadinejad does not control the security apparatus in Iran. The theocracy controls the security apparatus, number one."
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