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| 'Obama wants facts on tragic aid raid' |
| 2010-06-01 |
| US President Barack Obama has called on the Israeli premier to launch an investigation to find "all the facts" surrounding the attack on the Freedom Flotilla. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet Obama at the White House on Tuesday. However, he cancelled the visit following Israel's attack on a Gaza-bound convoy of humanitarian aid which resulted in the killing of 20 international activists. In a phone conversation, Obama and Netanyahu "agreed to reschedule their meeting at the first opportunity," the White House said in a statement, on Monday, AFP reported. "The president (Obama) expressed deep regret at the loss of life in today's incident, and concern for the wounded, many of whom are being treated in Israeli hospitals," added the statement. "The president also expressed the importance of learning all the facts and circumstances around this morning's tragic events as soon as possible," it said. Obama, however, refrained from censuring Israel for launching a military attack on the humanitarian ships aboard which were hundreds of politicians, activists and journalists. The Israeli attack on the aid convoy drew international condemnations. Many countries across Europe summoned the Israeli envoys, following the bloody raid. The international organizations, including the United Nations Security Council and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have called for meetings on the brutal attack, which took place in international waters some 150 km (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 I'll give the Obama administration a high mark on this one. Hill-dog has been working the phones hard, telling EU leaders (Sarko, et al.) to calm down and STFU until all the facts are known. They're the only world leaders acting like adults in this scenario so far. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2010-06-01 23:51 |
| #12 When the UN and the Sympathizer in Chief get the facts they are clamoring for, it's going to be good. A few more days . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-01 16:36 |
| #11 I'll always consider Barry as the first (and hopefully only) Affirmative Action President. After all the majority of the people voted for him due to his skin color - either to 'elect the first African-American president' or to avoid being called a 'racist' for questioning his qualifications (or lack of). The media certainly gave him a break due to his skin color. This is just an excuse to avoid making an actual decision. The 'peace activists' own video livestream (before they heavily edited it) showed how 'peaceful' these activists were. Jawa coverage here. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-06-01 16:21 |
| #10 Since when did this administration give a rat about facts? When the "Facts" are able to be twisted to Teh ONE's means. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-06-01 15:02 |
| #9 Before we give up a bipartisan foreign-policy consensus that's held for 63 years, don't you think it would make sense to have one of those, er, national dialogues that Barry used to talk about so much? In Nov. 2008, I didn't vote for America to be no more important in the world than Brazil or Russia or China. I don't think anyone (aside from a few college-town lefties and liber-loonytarian types) else voted for us to junk American leadership and Ameriacn exceptionalism, either. The only reason Barry was elected was the financial meltdown and the perception that McCain had no clue about how to turn things around. The financial economy, stupid. When will people realize that this clown is destroying a position of leadership that took the nation 170 years to acquire and that we've defended and asserted, with tremendous results for US wealth and security, for nearly 70 years? ENOUGH. I want my country back. I didn't vote for us to become another Brazil. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-06-01 14:53 |
| #8 the jerk has done an incalculable amount of damage to US Interests, credibility and political stance in the last year This is why Jimmah was so peeved by the comparison of his to Barry's foreign policy. Barry is worse than inept: he has made America irrelevant. Major crises happen without US views, interests or potential future actions being taken into account. Once fires start, the US dithers, and other nations leap into the breach. In short, the US is no longer the global hegemon. We are neither feared nor loved. We are, increasingly, ignored. Feature, not bug. Obama has always hated the very notion of US leadership. By making us the global bystander, he's achieved what he set out to achieve. He's worse-- far worse-- than Carter, who at least had an engaged and interventionist NSA in Brzezinski. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-06-01 14:46 |
| #7 Since when did this administration give a rat about facts? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-06-01 12:45 |
| #6 "There's people in hell wantin' ice water." |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-06-01 12:18 |
| #5 Interesting listening to the wording; needs an investigation surrounding 'the attack'. Obama is already referring to it as an attack, and killing international activists. Obama is spinning this as well as al Jazeera. |
| Posted by: Jan 2010-06-01 10:33 |
| #4 Obama should start studying the effects of his idiotic world-wide policies. Jewish votes/money put asside, the jerk has done an incalculable amount of damage to US Interests, credibility and political stance in the last year, that the jewish vote would be the least of my worries at this stage. Lesson No. One : Do not trust the US because any POTUS can and will deny any commitments made by a previous POTUS to an ally. Lesson No.2 : The US does not have the will to defang any would be nuclear proliferator even if the entire future of the US will be jeopardized by a Nuclear Iran controlling the Straits of Hormooze and a major portion of the US oil supply be put in jeopardy at the mercy of the Mullahs. Lesson No. three : the POTUS cannot get his act together giving major concessions to the Ruskies and Chinese (Reducing US Arsenal)and getting Zilch from them on the hoped for "Sanctions" against Iran. I could go on and on all night but for what purpose ? There is an old jewish idion which goes like this: Even seven wise men will not be able to pull out a rock cast into the well by a single fool |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2010-06-01 08:57 |
| #3 'Obama wants facts on tragic aid raid' Yes, right after we tell you the facts of your disastrous administration. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2010-06-01 08:32 |
| #2 Is this the same Obama as a few weeks ago? I assume there's an awful lot of money on the line from those already deeply upset Jewish donors, gorb. Either that or Rahm Emmanuel has put his foot down on the subject, being on-site and in the loop, as it were. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-06-01 07:49 |
| #1 Is this the same Obama as a few weeks ago? Let's see if it sticks when the ululation reaches it's peak in a few days. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-01 02:07 |