Obama: Iran is Just a Tiny Country

This article underscores the naiveté that Obama personifies

Obama: Iran is Just a Tiny Country

"Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain issued a strong retort to Obama's assessment at a stop in Chicago on Monday. "The biggest national security challenge the United States currently faces is keeping nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists," McCain said. "Should Iran acquire nuclear weapons, that danger would become very dire, indeed. They might not be a superpower, but the threat the Government of Iran poses is anything but "'tiny.'"

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way to give no context
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Submitted by travisstrickland1 on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 12:47pm.

This statement, in context, didn't mean what the beav, or McCain, would have you think. The statement was made in reference to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Obama was making the point that despite the fact that the Soviet Union posed a threat to us much more serious than Iran (he also mentioned Cuba and Venezuela) does now, we still met and talked with them regularly. This comment was meant to address his proposed policy of actually talking to enemies. However, the beav, and McCain, would have you believe it's just Obama being dumb about foreign policy and minimizing the threat of Iran to America. Obama also said, just seconds later in the same speech, that if Iran posed a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance against our military and that we should use our position of strength to work towards progress.

Really, beav, using out of context quotes to try to make Obama seem a certain way just makes you look...well, you choose the adjective.


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