Ahmadinejad defends possible nuke deal
This is interesting, and even encouraging:
“TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended a possible compromise with world powers over a nuclear fuel deal Thursday as Iran formally responded to a U.N.-backed proposal aimed at stalling its ability to make nuclear weapons.
In a speech in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Ahmadinejad defied harsh criticism from domestic opponents who accused him of giving away too much in the negotiations. He said the West has been forced to alter its confrontational stance toward Iran, state television reported.
Under the proposed deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran would ship most of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium abroad for processing into medium-enriched uranium, which Iran needs to fuel a research reactor in Tehran that makes isotopes for medical uses. The fuel would come back to Iran in a form that could not be diverted to produce the highly enriched fissile material needed for nuclear weapons.”
The fact that Ahmadinejad feels it necessary to defend the pending deal in public suggests that he is at least serious about pursuing it. Why would he take the heat over a deal that he had no intention of concluding? As the Post reports, “If successful, the deal would likely be interpreted internationally as a goodwill sign by all involved parties and might lead to compromises over Iran’s nuclear program.”
But the situation is extremely complicated. Some of the strongest Iranian opposition to a nuclear deal comes from Ahmadinejad’s opponents in the recent fraudulent election, the heroic people who took to the streets in protest. The dissidents are using the nuclear issue to argue that it is the Ahmadinejad government, not the dissidents, who are betraying Iran to the West.
“The interesting part is that the revolutionary and serving sons of our nation are accused of relations and affiliations with the West, while they [government leaders] repeatedly and openly humiliate themselves in front of the U.S.,” said Hossein Mousavi, who came in second in the June 12 elections.
Like I said, complicated.
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@@
October 29th, 2009
10:28 pm
Taxpayer:
I’m always willing to contribute money to our national defense. If I wasn’t, you might be blown to smithereens…not that I’d miss ‘ya.
On the other hand, I was never big on the the rest you mentioned. Opposed Bush’s TARP (that one woke me from my slumber) and everything that followed.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:28 pm
Dusty,
Our soldiers just need you to prove that you really care about them by paying your taxes so they can have vests and pants and bullets. So, do your duty and pay up and quit being such a whiner just because I’m a Democrat and don’t have to pay like you do. I’m entitled. You’re not. So, get over it.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:30 pm
Taxpayer,
Are you saying that Obama is too helpless to cut taxes? Sorry, but Bush cannot come back and do it for him. I guess you forgot.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:33 pm
I’m always willing to contribute money to our national defense. If I wasn’t, you might be blown to smithereens…not that I’d miss ‘ya.
Ain’t gonna happen. I make love, not wars, like Republicans. I make lots of welfare babies. I don’t really believe in abortion. I just stir the pot to make sure that folks like you make sure that all those kids get born so the welfare state can continue to prosper with your voting support and tax dollars. Now, with the Democrats in power,we’re even going to get all sorts of extra handouts that we have always been entitled to but you and your kind just kept saying no to. Free insurance for everyone! Yahoo! And, there’s nothing you can do to stop it. The Democrats are in power and the losers have to pay. All 19 percent of you.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:35 pm
Taxpayer,
I never forget the sacrifices our troops are making for US. Most Americans remember. Did they not tell you about appreciation at the Cut-n-Run Meeting?
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:38 pm
Taxpayer:
You’re kinda making democrats look bad. If, perchance, some unsuspecting soul were to drop by, it’s likely they’d take you for the real thing.
Come to think of it, you’re here all day everyday so…..
you could be telling the truth.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:39 pm
Dusty,
Obama cannot write the legislation that would be needed to stop the Bush tax hikes that Bush signed into law to defer payment of all those Republican expenditures. Surely you understand what has been happening all those years. Did you think that our troops just lived off the land and gathered spoils of war or did you think that all that money that the Republicans borrowed from China was going to someone other than the wealthy here in the USA, etc. You really need to read more. Remember, it was even Bush that pushed through TARP to bail out all those banks. The same banks that are now cashing in on your tax dollars in order to pay themselves those huge bonuses that you cannot possibly object to for to do so would be so un-GOP. So, get used to paying taxes. I see it well into you and your children’s futures.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:45 pm
I make love, not wars
I’ve always wanted to mention this. I frequently visit a friend in SE Atlanta. On the way there’s this house…overgrown yard…lots of weird yard art…stained glass trinkets everywhere. Right smack dab in the front yard is this sign that reads “WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER”.
I keep saying I’m gonna knock on their door and ask them what is. It’s more likely than not they won’t have an answer. Heck! the smell of weed or incense would probably knock me out before I could ask.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:45 pm
@@,
I am here every day and I just make Democrats look just like what Republicans like you claim that they look like. I have no problem with living up to your expectations. Maybe you should start expecting more if you want more. On second thought, nah. I’m entitled to everything that you 19 percenters have because you 19 percenters have already said so. Like I said, I can live it. So, pay your Bash tax hikes when they hit you and be grateful that you’re safe. It’s the very least you should get for your investment. Oh, and don’t forget to have your kids buy a new home while they can cash in on that Isakson addition to the stimulus. Eight thousand dollars in tax credits per house for you to pay for on top of that cash for clunker program. Isn’t life great.
RW-(the original)
October 29th, 2009
10:48 pm
@@,
Another fun thing to do is ask someone with a “Free Tibet” bumper sticker what they’d be willing to do to free Tibet.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:49 pm
Heck! the smell of weed or incense would probably knock me out before I could ask.
You sound like you could use some mellowing out anyway before those Bush tax hikes hit. So, I would suggest twice weekly visits. In no time, you’ll be a peace-loving and content tax payer. Who knows, one day you might even be entitled to a little of it back.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:50 pm
Congress could extend Bush’s tax cuts. They won’t though. They’ll let ‘em lapse so Taxpayer can get my money. That’ll insure that Taxpayer keeps voting for ‘em.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:53 pm
RW:
I know the answer to that one.
Pay some street vendor $1.50 for that bumper sticker.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:57 pm
@@,
The CBO would have to approve any extension of the Bush deferred tax payment program and I just don’t see that in your future. Bush and the Republicans were only able to borrow enough money to push out paying for all their exorbitance until 2011. That was as far as the CBO would let them go. You’re stuck with it now unless Obama can work some Messiah-like magic and really get the economy churning and get millions of people employed and paying some amount of taxes and I just see too many no’s in the way of something like that happening. It’s a shame but one must sleep in the bed that one has made. Reap what one sows and that sort of stuff. That much, you’re entitled to.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:58 pm
Poor Taxpayer,
Still stuck on Bush. Yes, I know what has been happening all these years. We are safe and sound in the USA and I am thankful for that. Maybe you did not notice while protesting with your white flag.flying.
Also, you are pretty dense if you think my family has not been paying taxes. We don’t expect our country to stay free while we sit around complaining. and not giving. But we never planned to pay 50% which will soon be the position which Obama will place us.
Bush did spend money but his billions are not trillions. Obama is the trillions man and don’t run around the block trying to blame that on Bush. Bush was doing his best to keep terrorists busy in their own countries. He was not playing national Santa Claus.
Your sarcasm is too close to the truth. You are a taker. Not a giver.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:59 pm
If only Obama would push through a law that would let him be King, or Messiah. Then, us Democrats could fulfill that one remaining Republican prophesy. Help us to make it happen, 19 percenters. Together, we can do it.
md
October 29th, 2009
11:05 pm
I don’t know where some on here went to school, but we were taught that Presidents don’t write bills. So not too sure how Bush was able to write that TARP bill. Unless that Democrat controlled Congress wrote it for him. Maybe thats what happened.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:07 pm
Dusty,
Your safeness and soundness under those covers comes at a price. It’s a price that you will just have to get used to because your savior, Bush, has made it so. If you have a problem with his and the Republican’s legislation, you need to take it up with them. I’m perfectly happy with those Bush tax hikes kicking in right on schedule because,as you Republicans have also told us until it finally stuck, we love tax hikes. Don’t worry though. We’re gonna get you some guaranteed health insurance to help keep you healthy and working for many more years of tax paying bliss. I promise, the last thing on our minds is death panels. Nope. Wellness panels pay off through increased 19 percenter productivity via fewer missed days at work. That’s just the beginning though. Obesity and new fitness programs are in the next round of legislation. Don’t be scared though. They’re for your own good. hehehe
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:08 pm
I haven’t been paying attention, Taxpayer. How’s consumer spending?
Our devalued dollar is doing wonders for our exports. Exports make up…what 11% — 12% of our GDP? Consumer spending, 70%?
It’s a shame but one must sleep in the bed that one has made. Reap what one sows and that sort of stuff.
I’m feelin’ bad for you now, Taxpayer. I’ll contribute more thru my paycheck. Oh wait…..I’m not getting a paycheck this year. I’m donating my entire salary to those I consider special.
Sorry!
DoggoneGA
October 29th, 2009
11:09 pm
“I don’t salute the flag and I don’t pledge allegience.”
You forgot to add that I don’t bow my head in prayer either. Gotta be sure to get ALL those “sins against “patriotism” in, or else someone might think you’re slacking…you know?
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:13 pm
Don’t worry about missing a year of tax payments, @@. Whatever you don’t pay, you can just pass it off to your children to cover for you. It’s the Republican way.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:15 pm
And, @@, not paying any taxes in addition to feeding at the public trough makes you a Democrat too. No. You are still a war monger. That’s right. You’re a war mongering liberal. hehehe.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
11:17 pm
Oh, Taxpayer, you are so cute.
No, we won’t help you keep a king. We are going to elect a nice Republican president in the next big election. Americans will be begging for one by then. They are now wondering: WHAT HAPPENED???? They have already found out that CHANGE means those little coins in their pockets and not one thing FREE. Boohoo!!
Well, goodnight. I’m watching the World Series. Great players!!
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:17 pm
Venezuela said Oct. 29 that a water conservation program for Caracas will begin Nov. 2 and will last six months, El Nacional reported. The program may include rotating water shutoffs of up to 48 hours at a time. Government officials have stated that the current water shortage was due to a lack of rainfall caused by El Nino and wasteful use by Caracas residents.
Global warming and wasteful consumers.
So what? They’ll either hoard water on the days they have it or they’ll go get it from a friend whose water hasn’t been cut off.
md
October 29th, 2009
11:17 pm
“”I don’t salute the flag and I don’t pledge allegience.”
You forgot to add that I don’t bow my head in prayer either.”
Do you by chance throw the ball back to the poor neighborhood kids when they hit it in your yard, or do you have a collection?
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:20 pm
What’s consumer spending got to do with me, @@. That’s for rich people to do in order to stimulate the economy and get the trickle flowing down to the masses and make jobs as sales clerks. Ewww. That’s a job. I’m a Democrat. I’m entitled to pay without the job stuff. That is what you Republicans have been preaching all these years, right. Am I getting it wrong. Tell me if I have misunderestimated your words.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:22 pm
We’re in power now, Dusty. There will be no Republican president to mess that up. No more deferred tax payments for you.
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:22 pm
Whatever you don’t pay, you can just pass it off to your children to cover for you.
Surely you’ve heard of life insurance? Savings?
I’ll bet the only one you know about is the death tax. Well maybe your democrats will give you a little when I die. Maybe not. I might dole it out to my daughter in increments.
md
October 29th, 2009
11:24 pm
Thats OK Tp, there’s gonna be plenty of ticked of dems soon too when the younger ones that don’t want to purchase insurance are going to get fined for not having it and then taxed to pay for the subsidy for the druggie down the street that spends all his money on his fix. Thats gonna go over real well with them young yuppie dems.
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:27 pm
Alright, it’s been interesting.
I’m off to bed. Gotta work to help out Taxpayer.
DANG! I keep forgetting.
No can do. Those who overcome their challenges are counting on me.
Sorry again!
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
11:41 pm
A good place to start would be to tie off the major arteries in Iraq and Afghanistan that are hemorrhaging so much effing money.
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 30th, 2009
6:25 am
Aflac third-quarter profit soars- Exchange rate in Japan helps fuel 263 percent increase over 2008Columbus-based supplemental insurer Aflac Inc. said thirdquarter profit rose 263 percent, largely on favorable currency exchange rates in Japan, where the company does most of its business. -Urinsl
So their dollars are worthless but they have more of them, yay!
mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
jt
October 30th, 2009
6:58 am
Gorden is dead to me now. Why do these people have to open their mouths?
Sting isn’t a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world’s problems.
“In many ways, he’s sent from God,” he joked in an interview, “because the world’s a mess.”
But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world’s problems. In an interview on Wednesday, the former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and “found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world.”
Joey
October 30th, 2009
7:08 am
Sting is serious.
Ahmadinejad is serious.
Bono is serious.
Three people that I would follow ………
nowhere.
Taxpayer
October 30th, 2009
7:09 am
You 19 percenters are so easy. The GOP thanks you for your support. Really, they do.
Normal
October 30th, 2009
7:15 am
MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
7:27 am
But the situation is extremely complicated.
No it’s not. It’s easy.
1. Hottie gets shot.
2. Online conservatives pretend to care.
3. Look! shiny baubles!
/winger
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
7:36 am
I could draw a line from the religious intolerance that drives the political stupidity throughout much of the Middle East to jt @ 6.58’s business about how Sting isn’t qualified to mention God on account of Sting not belonging to the right God-fearin’ club.
but like Jay says: the situation is extremely complicated.
USinUK
October 30th, 2009
7:37 am
g’morning dB! g’morning Normal!!
It’s FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!! (not that I have anything exciting planned for the weekend other than life maintenance … I’m just looking forward to a bit of a lie-in)
AmVet
October 30th, 2009
7:38 am
It’s OK guys, you still have:
Neil Young, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Ian Anderson, John Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Loggins, Eddy Vetter, Green Day, the Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Dave Matthews, David Byrne, Lenny Kravitz, Rosanne Cash, Moby, Tori Amos, Michael Stipe, Eddy Vedder, Nine Inch Nails, The White Stripes, Cold Play and Jack Black. Among many, many others.
And of course, The Dixie Chicks.
So keep on supporting/contributing to all those LIBERAL artists who are adamantly opposed to your ideology, dogma and heroes…
Maybe a new conned band called PNAC will start making some kicka__ music! Maybe a bunch of conned bands will appear on the scene. Maybe global cooling is in effect now.
Face it, we have all the talent…
A confidence man, but why so beleagued?
He’s not a leader, he’s a Texas leaguer
Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike
Drilling for fear, makes the job simple
Born on third, thinks he got a triple
– Bushleaguer, Pearl Jam
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
7:43 am
It’s FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!!
Mornin’, Youze.
Sorry to lead with some nasty, weight stuff, but…
did you ever happen to see what’s turning out to be a rather seminal New Yorker piece about our nation’s use of drones?
I read the dead tree edition a few days ago, got thoroughly depressed.
Heard a UN liason’s take on this over at Democracy Now this morning. Got more depressed.
But some difficult questions are being raised about the policies this Administration are pursuing, and I really can’t ignore them. Are we going to permit our government to carry out what amounts to an under-the-radar political assassination campaign without so much as calling them to legal account for it?
Normal
October 30th, 2009
7:48 am
UsinUK, Good Morning! I went to my Granddaughter’s last futbol game yesterday evening and while her team suffered their first loss, it was announced that she made the All-Stars!
She is listed as first team
goalie and second team, I believe it’s called foreward (?) Offfense side.
We had a big port bar-b-cue blow out as a celebration. Needless to say, I was one proud Grandpapa!
Normal
October 30th, 2009
7:52 am
I forgot to mention that Miss Destiny Wirtz is just seven years old!
USinUK
October 30th, 2009
7:56 am
Normal –
“I went to my Granddaughter’s last futbol game yesterday evening and while her team suffered their first loss, it was announced that she made the All-Stars”
heyHEY!! great news – and, yes, you deserve to crow about it and say that talent obviously runs in the family … she just couldn’t help herself!!
dB –
thanks for the link – I’ll give that a read over lunch – my pre-read opinion is that I’m happy for their use for intel-gathering, but for offense? I think that we’ve ruined enough weddings to last a lifetime.
AmVet –
I have no problem with artists of either stripe stating their opinions about current events – that’s their right as much as it is ours. in most cases, it makes me like them that much more (especially when they stand up and say, “no, thank you, I’d rather you didn’t play MY music at YOUR campaign event”)
USinUK
October 30th, 2009
7:57 am
seven years old!
well, it sounds like that 7-year-old is one lucky tyke to have such a proud and loving grandpa!!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 30th, 2009
7:59 am
Well, good morning everybody. I see the libruls on here are laughing because we get a tax hike at the end of next year. It’s the librul Democrats fault. They wouldn’t give us the votes to make the tax hikes last and we had to use this Reconciliation. My buddy Jim Earl says you can’t use Reconciliation for anything that lasts longer than 10 years. So My President’s tax cuts will expire at the end of next year and we’ll get a Tax Increase! They’ll be taking more money out of our paycheck and giving it to Those People! This is what you get when you elect librul Democrats that won’t extent the tax cuts.
So people like @@ and Sister Dusty and the Whiner and other godly Conservatives will be working for the guvmint longer starting in 2011. I don’t see why we can’t borrow some more money from China and make the tax cuts stay. It’s free money.
I’m good and mad and I think I’ll hit some potholes this a.m. and break a few bottles of beer. Thanks alot, libruls. You done made my day.
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
8:11 am
I don’t see why we can’t borrow some more money from China and make the tax cuts stay. It’s free money.
Sometimes I simply must tip my cap to the eloquence, and thank the good Lord for giving us this national treasure, Redneck Convert.
AmVet
October 30th, 2009
8:12 am
USinUK, well said.
I still laugh though at how the conned are so oblivious about the message.
Remember when Saint Ronnie decided to purloin Springsteen’s Born in the USA?
The Big Government RepubliPuritans and the Fraud Morality crowd had no freaking clue what the song was even about.
And had they been the type with any shame, they would have been sorely embarrassed when somebody finally told them.
For me personally, I could never be a conned.
I could never listen to, much less put money in the pockets of musicians who excoriated my most important beliefs and heroes. But somehow these right-wing squares are able to “separate the artist from the music”.
Sound so Islamic or third world.
I guess they’re just that desperate that they’ll dance to something musically decent as opposed to the trash music that extols Georgie, etc…
Normal
October 30th, 2009
8:15 am
USinUk, all of my grandkids make it real easy to do the lovin’ part.
Saturday, I get to herd them through trick or treat time. That is always a kick. I have two Great Grandkids just now walking and the older Grandkids are fighting to see who gets to “escort” them. The camera will get a workout Saturday night!
Taxpayer
October 30th, 2009
8:25 am
Redneck is coming down too hard on @@. She openly acknowledged that she feeds from the public trough and pays no taxes and she just loves wars to boot. What more could one want in a Republican. As for Dusty, she’s still in denial.
Bubba
October 30th, 2009
9:04 am
Nothing’s really complicated in dealing with Iran. You just count on them to do the opposite of what they say they’ll do:
BRUSSELS — European leaders pressed Iran Friday to stick by a deal that would limit its uranium enrichment, voicing “grave concern” over the country’s nuclear program.
Western diplomats said this week that Tehran had rejected a plan proposed by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei at talks involving Iran, the U.S., Russia and France.
(enlarge photo)
U.N. nuclear inspectors, headed by Herman Nackaerts, left, arrive at Vienna’s Schwechat airport, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, from a visit to a previously secret Iranian uranium enrichment site. What the inspectors saw, and how freely they were allowed to work, will be key in deciding whether six world powers engaging Iran in efforts to reduce fears that it seeks to make nuclear weapons seek a new round of talks with Tehran. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
The plan calls for Iran to export most of its enriched uranium, offering instead to enrich it to a higher level inside the country under U.N. supervision. Iran missed an initial deadline of last Friday to respond, and instead this week offered to enrich its uranium to a higher level inside the country under U.N. supervision.
EU leaders expressed “grave concern over the development of Iran’s nuclear program, and Iran’s persistent failure to meet its international obligations,” according to a draft statement circulating on the second day of a two-day EU summit in Brussels.
Bubba
October 30th, 2009
9:07 am
Did you read that correctly? Iran REJECTED the plan that Jay is so encouraged by. LOL