Why Obama was Measured on Iran

It seems as though it has become par for the course for U.S. intelligence agencies to be "off the mark" in their assessments. I am not sure why the president or congress even take them seriously anymore.

I don't understand the people who wanted Obama to get all tough on Iran. We cannot afford another conflict in the middle east, and our track record in that area is pretty spotty.

Oh, and is everyone using caps lock in honor of Billy Mays? If not, stop it please.

Media people going into Iran, giving ENGLISH placards to "protestors" who demonstrate for the TV cameras, is brazen interference in Irans internal affairs. The Iranian police have every right to ensure public safety by controlling rock throwing violent "demonstrators"

One of the problems of CIA is that President Carter removed virtually all of the ability of the organization to gain valuable information from Human Sources (HUMINT).

We want our CIA to be infallible. It can never be. It COULD be better, if they would take the handcuffs off.

Faulty intelligence or not, I think Obama made the right call. Iran is desperately trying to blame the unrest on the west and has been grasping at straws. If this had been Bush, they'd just have to put him on loop to reunify the country. Nothing would have played into their hands more than having the US strongly support the opposition during the height of the protests. I mean, look, they've had to resort to blaming it on the BBC because Obama wouldn't give them a soundbite that Republicans wanted. Conservatives hate other countries; why do they keep insisting that they understand them?

The one thing about the CIA that has been established beyond a reasonable doubt is that they have no clue about the political leanings of foreign countries. Iraqi populace turned out to be dumb about liberty. The Iranian populace is smart about liberty. We should err on the side of supporting liberty.

This is the same Hosenball. who with his fellow neo-con Isikoff, flogged the fake US intelligence on Iraq and got us into the Iraq war. Now these blood-fanged cons are out to get us into another trillion dollar war with Iran in the service of Israel. We have enough problems of our own. Obama is right not to get us involved in another Mid-East quagmire.

Another cover story for Obama to push more blame on Bush. We have gone from the ridiculous to the absurd in this country. False flag all the way to the bank. Ooops, they have already destroyed the banks. Can't take anything to the bank these days, the dismantling and preparation for a world currency is in play.

It's interesting that Obama seems to be less advised than myself. All I had to go on were the many stories filtering from different sources and a friend who's from Iran. I knew almost the second the election victory was announced that something was up and only a day or two before I became certain that the election was a fraud. I know I'm not quite the mathmetician that some of these analysts are. I've got similar experience and education but it's not my profession. However, I have to wonder if this is a way Newsweek can save their idol or if intelligence truly did fail. For that latter, I find it hard to believe that I could arrive at the correct assessment and they didn't. I would have thought they'd be smarter than that. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time that either scenario occurred in this country. I guess it's true, anything CAN happen.

Obama is measured because he does not lead. Obama waits to see how the political wind is blowing and then jumps on. Just look at his senate record with 95 present votes. It's disheartening to watch this very naive approach to politics. Remember Arthur Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement of Hitler. A tyrannical government will not be changed by gentle discussion.

Only the Neocons think that Obama did things wrong. I think it was done brilliantly. He managed to do more to change Iranian politics with one speech than W. and Cheney did in 8 years. And Obama weakened them, while W. & C. only made them stronger. But we haven't wasted $3T on it as W. did in Iraq, so the Neocons aren't satisfied yet.

Obama was measured ib Iran because of poor intelligence? Come on. What value would there have been in being more pointed or even bellicose? Would it have helped the protesters? Would it have made Iran's leader's more willing to compromise or to do an honest investogation of fraud? I don't think that anyone beleives that? Obama could have certainly made the situation worse, but there is little he could or can do to improve the situation, especially when we have no appreciable commerce and no diplomatic relations with Iran.

"U.S. intelligence" << the ultimate oxymoron

Who cares about Iran, I am more concerned with what's happening in very own backyard with the ouster of the democratically elected president of Honduras by the Honduran military. They should have a color revolution in Honduras. I am curious to see if the mass media pursues what's happening in Honduras with the same vigor that they have with what's happening in Iran. Such a double standard, some of us know exactly what is going on.

Come on; did anybody here think this election would be fair and above the table from the beginning? NO. Did we really think a somewhat moderate would be allowed in office in the middle of building Nukes? With the pressure coming from the UN do we think a moderate would be put in office. We must come to the realization that these elections are only a ruse to show that they do allow voting. Now weather the votes are tallied is another issue. Let's stop pretending to be nieve. The news out of Iran before the election was the young people were fed up with the Prez, so why would our Prez think he won handly?

Oh geez, you idiots.
Can anyone point to any good US intelleigence post wwII?

Duh!

The way to fix our Intelligence agency is to improve our nations intelligence (il.e. knowledge of the world taught correctly to our children).

WE ARE NOT THE WORLD [POLICE] PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD STAY CLEAR OF THIS IRAN NONSENSE
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1. President Obama, has 2 Ongoing Wars in the Middle East, Financed by [Communist-Socialist China] to the Price tag of 20 Billion Per Month with Interest and Climbing.

2. President Obama has a Maniac in North Korea Threatening to [Nuke] Hawaii,Alaska Or Japan !!

3. An Economy on [Life Support]

4. Dealing With Pakistan, Walking a Tight Rope.

5. National Health Insurance.

6. Getting 2 American Auto Industries back on Track.

7.This Week, Receiving 70 Billion Dollars [TARP $$] back from Recovering Banks and Waiting on More TARP $$

8.High Unemployment

9.China & Russia have More Interest and Investments in Iran, Let them [Police Iran] Let them Handle Iran, for a Damn Change.

Every Time We get Involved with those Damn People,it Goes Dreadfully Wrong,for Us.

We Need to Keep Focus on Our Nation and Ending these 2 Occupations, in the Middle East, Not Perpetuate or Escalate this Iranian Issue.

Iranian People Need to take Care of this Problem. its Their Civil war, Not Ours.

All People Concerned with Taking Up Arms to Defend Iranians, Go Build a Militia & Flight Squadron and Drop Bombs On Iran, Bombs Don't Don't Disriminate, as to Mousavi or Ahmadinejad's Followers.
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GAIN: WE ARE NOT THE WORLD [POLICE] !!STAY OUT OF THIS AFFAIR...PERIOD !!