Lucianne pulls a "Drudge" - Granite Grok

Lucianne pulls a “Drudge”

The Drudge Report is great at the juxtaposition of headlines – especially those that portray those the High and Mighty saying one thing.  And then putting another one showing what reality is like.  In this case were these two back to back at Lucianne:

Shot:  Obama: Iran builds on diplomacy that won the Cold War

Chaser: Iranian Warship points weapon at US Helicopter, official says

 As to the actual stories:

Iranian Warship points weapon at US Helicopter, official says

An Iranian warship briefly pointed weapons on its deck at a U.S. military helicopter and coalition warship two weeks ago in the Gulf of Aden, a Defense official told CNN on Wednesday.

The two ships were just a few hundred yards apart on July 25 when Iranian crewmembers pointed what are believed to be on-deck machine guns at the warship and the U.S. military helicopter that had just landed on that coalition ship’s deck, the Defense official said.

No one should be surprised at this – this is the Iranians taking the kooky North Korean saber rattling at the drop of a bug to a taunting level.  They simply know that Obama will not retaliate.  Period.  So why not?

Obama: Iran builds on diplomacy that won the Cold War

President Barack Obama assailed critics of his Iran nuclear deal Wednesday as “selling a fantasy” to the American people, warning Congress that blocking the accord would damage the nation’s credibility and increase the likelihood of more war in the Middle East.

…The stakes are high, Obama said, contending that it isn’t just Iran’s ability to build a bomb that is on the line but also “America’s credibility as the anchor of the international system.”  “The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy and some form of war,” Obama said. “Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not three months from now, but soon.”

“But soon” – oh, no doubt, there will be war with Iraq or with one of its proxies soon enough.  As Rush points out, even if a leopard changes its spots, it is still a leopard.  It is what it is – that is its nature.  Ever since Iran took our fellow Americans back in ’79, we have seen both their spots and their nature.  They can no sooner change that nature than a leopard can actually change its spots.

But for Obama to say that to NOT do this deal would “damage the nation’s credibility“?  Nay, in this case, the credibility is all his – yet in his Collectivist fashion, he conflates and distributes his credibility to the rest of us as a nation.  Yes, he is the President and speaks for the nation but for ANY observer of American politics, it is clear that this is a nation divided and by no small amount, that has been accomplished by Obama himself.  This is his attempt to save his own bacon (can I say that when dealing with Muslims?) by covering himself with the flag (and is THAT something that in his nature that he is wont to do – or is yet another covering?).

And once again, the Obama strawman / false choice arrives – yet again the Community Organizer in Chief using illogical logic for LIVs but “piffle” from most of the rest of us.  With Obama, there are ONLY the choices that he allows and any other is ridiculed with that old Alinsky charm (otherwise known as ridicule, which at this point has become a dull blade even as Obama has no sense of its dullness at all).

No, we will see war because the terms that the Iranians have imposed upon that non-treaty treaty demands it.  Release of sanctions, hundreds of billions of new revenue, lifting of all sanctions, no inspections without a 24 day advance notice, the Iranians themselves faking gathering important test samples.

And, oh yeah, side agreements with the IAEA (which is not exactly the most sterlings of international organizations) that will remain unknown.

And worst, from my standpoint as an American, Obama’s completely showing himself to be the internationalist first and being an American…somewhere down his list.  Running straight away to the UN and by doing so, completely shredding the Constitutional constraint (that no treaty be passed without Senatorial approval) laid upon him.  It shows that he has NO limiting philosophy – just an ordinary Socialist.

And that alone will mean a war because if he cannot limit himself, he will not limit those to whom he has already pledged allegiance:

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” – Barack Hussein Obama, P 261 -“Audacity of Hope.”

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