Obama and the Iranian Nuclear Threat

Ehud Barak

. . . "The President smiled, but brought the discussion back down to earth. When he again urged us to consider the American position in any decision, I replied, “Mr. President, I feel compelled to tell you frankly how I see the situation. We highly appreciate, and are grateful, that America supports Israel in so many ways. I believe we’re doing our best to support American interests in the Middle East as well. But when it comes to issues critical for the security and future of Israel, and in a way for the future of the Jewish people, we can’t afford to delegate responsibility even to our best friend and ally. When we face situations, we have to decide on the basis of our own sovereign responsibility, and act on our decisions. I would expect the United States, and you as its president, to respect that position.” He did not seem especially happy with what I’d said. But he showed no anger. Though we differed, it was clear he understood and respected our position. In any case, I believed it was important to convey to him honestly, face-to-face, where Israel stood on Iran. Or at least where I stood.

From My Country, My Life by Ehud Barak. Copyright © 2018 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press.

Picture Hillary making an Oval Office address, or a State of the Union speech

How Much Would You Pay To Hear Hillary Clinton Speak?  . . . "If you can't know what her actual stand is on any issue, you cannot know what she really believes in, if anything. I have no trust in anyone that cannot tell me what they truthfully believe, and I have no trust in what they will do if they are ever in a position of authority since I do not know their mind.

"She is at best, a deceiver and at worst a liar. She is the epitome of the definition of a politician. I would not want her in a position of authority because she has never outwardly stated who or what she really is. She exemplifies deception and dishonesty."

White House Leaker Identified As Trump’s Former Scheduler Caroline Wiles

Climate Change Dispatch  

Big League Politics reported:

"WASHINGTON, D.C. — The so-called “whistleblower” in the now-fading Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) flap is actually a disgruntled employee who was fired for cause — being AWOL from his EPA post without clearance from his agency supervisors, according to multiple sources in and near the Trump administration.
"The EPA media circus over the last weeks have stemmed from allegations made by former Deputy of Chief of Staff for operations, Kevin Chmielewski, a man whose behavior and background portended a short career as a presidential appointee.
The reasons for the media maelstrom seem much clearer given recent revelations about Chmielewski.
"Upon being fired, Kevin Chmielewski threatened to go public with allegations against EPA chief Scott Pruitt, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation."

Apparently California's example of liberal - caused woes are not obvious enough for Seattle

Kill harmful head tax by citizen initiative

"Citizens of Seattle should seek an initiative to overturn the destructive, opportunity-killing head tax the City Council approved Monday. This is needed to reverse the city's hostility to business." . . .

The Seattle city council:

After Democrat Said “F*CK THE NRA”, Tucker Carlson Humiliated Him… Bad

Let this guy take his place in the Democrat Hall of Fame alongside Harry Reid, Maxine Waters, and late night TV hosts. TD

Mad World News  "A U.S. House candidate in New Mexico put out a campaign ad saying, “F*ck the NRA.” The Democrat recently made the mistake of trying to act like a gun expert on Fox News. Watch as Tucker Carlson humiliates him… bad." . . .
. . . 

"Tucker Carlson had quite enough of this liberal idiot and his self-aggrandizing as a gun expert. “So you just said that in fifteen seconds an AR-15 can fire a hundred and fifty rounds. Is that true?” Tucker asked Davis to confirm.

"Pat Davis hadn’t yet figured out that he was about to be humiliated so he continued to spew absolute nonsense. " . . .

Bodycam footage documents NAACP state president lied about racial profiling

I fear the racial division in this nation, a good deal caused by too many we elect to run this nation, but also down to citizens living among us. How can we refute made-up stories of racism when they come from adored celebrity national leaders? TD

Thomas Lifson  "The president of the NAACP  in South Carolina has been exposed as a liar falsely claiming racially-motivated police misbehavior. In a Facebook post, since deleted, Rev. Jerrold Moultire, published this purported dialogue of a traffic stop that occurred on April 13, in Timmonsville, South Carolina. Blue Lives Matter captured the post before deletion:" . . .

And this:

 Body cam video contradicts NAACP president’s racial profiling claims

. . . "According to Harris, the Timmonsville community did not vote to have Moultrie lead the NAACP chapter. He was instead “anointed” by the South Carolina NAACP President Dwight C. James Sr. after the Timmonsville chapter became defunct, Harris said

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“ 'The way they rigged it, they wouldn’t let anybody else vote, closed vote,” Harris said.

"James should take full responsibility for his mistake, according to Harris.“Prior to that (Moultrie becoming president), all of the leadership for the NAACP was from the community, by the community and of the community,” Harris said. “He (Moultrie) is not from the community. He was not recommended by the community. And he is not a part of the community.”

"Harris said he would like to see an open, fair election for a new local NAACP president who is a reputable person."

BREAKING: North Korea suddenly cancels meeting with S. Korea, threatens to cancel US meeting

Dennis Michael Lynch

North Korea announced it has canceled a high-level summit with South Korea and has threatened to cancel its meeting with the United States over American military drills with South Korea, Yonhap News said Tuesday, citing KCNA.KCNA, North Korea’s state media outlet, claimed that the military drills were a rehearsal for a potential invasion of the country.The article goes on to state the following:The meeting between officials from the neighboring countries was expected to be a follow-up to the historic summit held last month between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.The pair in late April discussed the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.“This exercise targeting us, which is being carried out across South Korea, is a flagrant challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and an intentional military provocation running counter to the positive political development on the Korean Peninsula,” KCNA said, according to Yonhap News. “The United States will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-U.S. summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities.” . . .

North Korea Reportedly Threatens To Cancel Summit  "So here comes the pulling of the string to see if they can get the U.S. to back off of something they’ve done many times in the past."  Via NY Post: . . .

This usually works with Democrats. The Norks release the statement and then enjoy watching Obama, Schumer, Harris, Clinton, Waters, et.al. begin the entertainment. TD

North Korea Spooked: Suspends Talks With South Korea, Threatens to Ditch U.S. Summit  . . . "The State Department says they have not been contacted by North Korea:

The U.S. State Department said it had not received any information from North Korea about the threat to cancel the June summit between Trump and Kim, Reuters reported.

“Kim Jong Un had said previously that he understands the need and the utility of the United States and the Republic of Korea continuing in its joint exercises,” said Heather Nauert, a State Department spokeswoman, in a briefing shortly after the North Korean announcement.

The department will continue to plan for the summit, which is currently scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.

The Max Thunder joint military drills kicked off Friday and were to continue for two weeks:" . . .

New York Daily News hits new low with disgusting Jerusalem embassy opening cover

Monica Showalter  "President Trump's favorite daughter, Ivanka Trump Kushner, who is an Orthodox Jewish convert, was sent to Jerusalem for the U.S. embassy opening.  Rather than focus on the historic occasion, which is all about the U.S. and its effort to honor its top ally in the Middle East, it drags in some utterly unrelated issue, way out in a hellhole like Gaza, where a bunch of Islamist maniacs linked to the terror group Hamas apparently threw Molotov cocktails and assorted bombs and got several dozen of their numbers killed, apparently because they were aggressive and because they used their own women and children as human shields.  It was the using and expending of live humans for propaganda purposes to get out some sort of sob story about their desire to destroy Israel and make us all sympathetic.  Maybe they were unhappy about the embassy or something, or trying to upstage the happy occasion of the U.S. embassy opening with more TV images of themselves screaming and contorting themselves and looking unkempt.  One can assume they want something – perhaps the annihilation of the Jewish state – but nobody knows.  And since they do this all the time, nobody except Trump-hating leftists cares(SP), either." . . .

Palestinian protestor with crutches...running!
Yanki Farber captures (literally) the miraculous farce and the lies from Gaza.  

EXCLUSIVE: Read The Note That A Military Mom Handed To President Trump

Daily Caller  "A military mom and spouse handed a special note to President Trump at a Mother’s Day event last week.
"The note was shared with The Daily Caller by a family member, and it is more than heartwarming.
"Air Force mom and wife Lisa Stalford wrote to President Trump

“President and Mrs. Trump,
I wish to express to you my gratitude for the invitation to the Mother’s Day reception at the White House on May 9th. It is such an honor to be invited and recognized as a mother of a military member. I would like to take this opportunity and tell you a little bit about my Air Force Family”

Stalford shared details about her husband who served in the Air Force for 23 years. She also shared details about her four sons who have all either served or are committed to serving in the United States Air Force.

“As you can imagine, the receipt of this invitation to recognize mothers and spouses of military members means a lot to me. I am, without a doubt, a proud military wife and mother!” she also wrote.

The full letter can be read here:
This mother's tragedy was nothing more that a photo-op for the previous President:

Democrats Disgrace Themselves Interrogating Trump's CIA Nominee

Although Michael Hayden did not make this statement about the current Senate Democrats and the confirmation of Gina Haspel, it is applicable today.  "It feels like September 11th never took place, that Americans are living in the bubble of September 10th, 2001.  Americans need to wake up and not forgot the real dangers under which we are living."

Harris

Elise Cooper  . . . Democratic senators on the Intelligence Committee – Heinrich, Feinstein, Warner, Harris, and King – ignored the legality of the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation programs by calling them immoral.  They had the attitude of Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who asked over five times if Haspel "believed the previous interrogation techniques were immoral" and Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), who stated, "It is not enough that you have committed to the rule of law?" and called it "a get out of jail free card."

" . . .This program led to the disruption of terrorist plots that saved American lives.  It contributed to helping us learn more about al-Qaeda, including the best way to attack, thwart, and degrade it." 

"The Democrats seem to be playing right into KSM's hands, since they frame what the CIA did as morally wrong.  Maybe someone should point out to them that KSM considers responses like theirs "one of Allah's gifts."  "The long war for Islamic domination wasn't going to be won in the streets with bombs and bullets and bloodshed, but would be won in the minds of the American people."

"Haspel was pressed by the Democrats to throw her fellow CIA peers under the bus.  Speaking of moral courage, it is so obvious she has it all over the Democrats.  She stuck to her beliefs, refused to play their political game, and should be admired for doing this.  Her response: "It was the CIA who identified and captured the mastermind of 9-11 [KSM] in a brilliant operation.  I am proud of our work during that time, which allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack.' " . . .

How Trump is reshaping American foreign policy in the Middle East

"Managing declines" is what todays Democrats do; they lead our military, our schools, entertainment, and society into mediocrity.

Rick Moran  "An excellent piece by Walter Russell Meade in the Wall Street Journal this morning clarifies recent moves made by the Trump administration in the Middle East.

"Scuttling the Iran deal and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem demonstrate a direct challenge to Iran (and Russia) in the region and allow the U.S. to confront our enemies with a renewed sense of purpose.

"President Obama chose to "manage the decline" of U.S. power in the region.  The Trump administration has changed that policy into one of direct confrontation with Iran and, consequently, strengthening our Arab and Israeli allies in the region.

"The Obama administration reasoning in agreeing to the Iran nuclear deal was that U.S. power was ebbing in the region, and rather than risk a long, ruinous war with Iran over its nuclear program, we should settle for the status quo:

The Iran deal, President Obama and his supporters believe, accomplished all that and more.  By taking the nuclear issue off the table, at least for the time being, the agreement averted the danger of a U.S.-Iranian military confrontation.  Moreover, it weakened hard-liners inside Iran by undermining their core argument that Iran faced an external threat requiring permanent social mobilization even as it strengthened moderates by tying the country ever more closely to the world economy.  If supported by the West, the Obama administration believed, moderates would gradually consign the Islamists to the political fringes.

. . .
So, fearful of a crisis on his watch and like the frightened schoolboy giving up his lunch money to the bully, Obama was content to appease evil regimes, leaving problems to be cleaned up by better presidents than he. Hey, it worked with the Hollywood crowd. TD

Angry Iran threatens to expose Western officials who took bribes to make nuke deal happen

"As noted by Fox News panelist Charles Krauthammer at the time, “The most astonishing thing [about the deal] is that in return, they [Iran] are not closing a single nuclear facility. Their entire nuclear infrastructure is intact.' ”

BPR  "Shortly after President Donald Trump  withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal last Tuesday, an adviser to a top Iranian ofcial retaliated by dropping a bombshell threat. 
"The threat concerned the president’s plan to reimpose sanctions on Iran:

"An adviser to H.J.Ansari Zarif, the deputy for parliamentary and Iranian affairs within Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specically threatened to expose every corrupt ofcial who accepted bribes to make the Iran deal happen three years ago. 

“ 'If Europeans stop trading with Iran and don’t put pressure on US then we will reveal which western politicians and how much money they had received during nuclear negotiations to make #IranDeal happen,” he either said or wrote, according to Hassan Ghashghavi.

"The adviser’s tweet appears to suggest that some Western officials partook in “pay-to-play” schemes by accepting money to support and ultimately sign the deal. The accusation makes perfect sense given that there was no legitimate reason whatsoever to support the horrible one-sided deal pieced together in 2015 by then-President Barack Hussein Obama." . . .

Why Obama's Iran deal got Trumped  . . . "The German weekly Der Spiegel – whose politics echo the Social (i.e., Socialist) Democratic Party (SPD), much as Britain's Guardian and our New York Times act as propaganda auxiliaries of their nation's main leftist parties – declared a day later in an editorial that it is "time for Europe to join the Resistance" to President Trump's America.

" 'The West as we once knew it no longer exists," wrote Der Spiegel.  "Our relationship to the United States cannot currently be called a friendship and can hardly be referred to as a partnership." . . .