Iran pt 2...or how the Republicans learned Obama was right!

OK. In my last blog I posited that there would be future headlines about what Iran would get from the US in response to it's show of force. I didn't think it would come so soon.

Today, the Undersecretary of State William Burns sat in on negotiations, sorry not negotiations, MEETINGS. After all negotiating with Iran would be appeasement like what Great Britain did to Hitler before the second world war, or so our President said. So the undersecretary is going to these "meetings" and reiterating our demand that Iran halt it's nuclear program…in exchange for not passing further sanctions against Iran. I know that sounds an awful lot like negotiations: You give me X and I'll give you Y. But it's not, because the President said so.

Of course, the talks did not achieve what the West hoped, but they will speak again in two weeks. (ap wire report)

Also, the US has moved ahead with plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran, something we haven't had since 1979. This is a precursor to reopening an Embassy there. Wow! That was quick. (Guardian UK)


So when Obama suggested that we meet with Iran, it was appeasement. He was an appeaser! Now the Bush Administration has shifted to Obama's position. Of course, this won't keep them from calling Obama an appeaser. Conservatives have never had a problem keeping two conflicting ideas in their heads and thinking both are true.

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But if they decide not to seem all hypocritical, they could just go after him on his plan for troop withdrawal. Oops! No turns out the Administration is planning for a "time horizon" for "aspirational goals". You know, a timeline for troop withdrawal. So once again the administration shifts Obama's way. And like your significant other when they discover you were right in an argument and don't want to give you the satisfaction of admitting it, they've gone to calling it something different. And quibbling over semantics. From wikipedia: A time horizon, also known as a planning horizon, is a fixed point of time in the future at which point certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_horizon). That sounds a lot like what we've been calling a timeline. But you say potato, I say bring our troops home.



This is why it's great to have a candidate who doesn't waver on his talking points, it's easier to show you were right when you keep saying the same thing over and over again. It also helps to be actually BE right.

So the administration is now in moved towards Obama on talking to Iran, and moved towards Obama on setting a timeline in Iraq. So why would you vote for McCain?