Biden & Clinton cited with others as criticizing Obama’s Iran reaction
When Joe and Hillary start grumbling, you gotta know it’s getting damn uncomfortable to be an Obama apologist these days.
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Differences between President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were reported – and denied – shortly after the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the US and Britain of orchestrating riots designed to annul the presidential elections in his Friday sermon at Tehran University, on June 19.
Biden is quoted by some sources as criticizing Obama for playing down the difference between the Iranian incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the rival opposition leader Mousavi in a comment on Tuesday.
Friday, the White House Friday denied differences between Obama and Biden on how to react to the protests. At the same time, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been cited with others as criticizing the president for not giving enough support to the street protesters in their campaign against a fraudulent election.
DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that the US president is believed by some circles to be backpedaling his encouragement for the protesters so as not to burn bridges to his planned dialogue with the regime in Tehran. This would be an exceptionally serious allegation against the president.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6140
’‘Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.’’ GWB 5/15/08
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Differences between President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were reported – and denied – shortly after the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the US and Britain of orchestrating riots designed to annul the presidential elections in his Friday sermon at Tehran University, on June 19.
Biden is quoted by some sources as criticizing Obama for playing down the difference between the Iranian incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the rival opposition leader Mousavi in a comment on Tuesday.
Friday, the White House Friday denied differences between Obama and Biden on how to react to the protests. At the same time, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been cited with others as criticizing the president for not giving enough support to the street protesters in their campaign against a fraudulent election.
DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that the US president is believed by some circles to be backpedaling his encouragement for the protesters so as not to burn bridges to his planned dialogue with the regime in Tehran. This would be an exceptionally serious allegation against the president.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6140
’‘Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.’’ GWB 5/15/08
