Obama: Neda video 'heartbreaking'
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President Barack Obama told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that he found the video of a murdered Iranian woman to be "heartbreaking." A video showing the death of Neda Agha-Soltan has been widely circulated on the internet as a symbol of Iran's crackdown on protesters.
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once I saw her eyes rolling back, I couldn't take anymore.
It was too horrible.
I just broke down and cried
A little blood and guts and and we get all woozy and touchy feely. I'm impressed. Another U.S. unmanned air strike, drone style, today killing many more innocent civilians. Betcha didn't cry for them. It's all show business.
...it only shows that most on the left and the right don't live my moral principles but rather from group think.
You can both go cheney yourselves.
As someone told me just yesterday, you can't know what's in my head.
...If we weren't regularly killing civilians in airstrikes.
and get rid of the Mullahs and install a Pro Western Government Guy.
because we all know how well that's gone, having done it in Iran once before.
experience we've had with nation building in not one, but TWO nations....this time oughtta be a cakewalk!!!
Fool me once...fool me twice...you can't get fooled again.
Yeah, and the two nations would be right next to each other, so maybe we can make it one nation! And maybe we could change their collective name to something that we couldn't get confused over...you know, it's confusing to have two countries in the middle east right next to each other that have very similar names!
Kinda like Exxon-Mobil
OR
We can name one "Halli" and the other "Burton".
Wefuckedthisup-istan?
Eurasia. We're at war with them. No wait, that was last week. We're at war with Eastasia this week.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength.
Evet, was that a snark?
Surely, you're joking!
call her Shirley!
Her name is Patricia!
And her snark-dar has been on the fritz lately. :)
is going in my dictionary!
PoP!
If the Iranian people truly want a revolution, then by all means, they should go out and protest and try to overthrow the government.
as we type.
...just to be clear, you are saying their destiny is in their own hands and we, the USA, don't need to be attacking anybody.
Reza Pahlavi is waiting in the wings for a comeback:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090622/wl_midea...
Here's a picture of the "Royal Family of Iran"...Now THESE are my kind of leaders!!!!:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_81MnOiooOXc/R8j0EfO...
Blake and Alexis et al.
Evet you meant:
A pro Israel And US and BIG OIL "friendly" Goverment.
How much more tax payers dollars we have to spend for Overtrowing Goverments who refuse to sell us cheap their OWN resourses. How much HAVE BEEN payed for this IRANIAN Ellections show.
I still remember the Images of the "IRAQUIS" turning down SADDAN'S Statue. Don't you?
Why we are still funding CIA covert operations overseas with all the CRISIS we have here at home.
Iraq, Pakistan and Afganistan Isn't good enought for you?
Do you have health care, A job an a House?
Thats the American way. Get in there and start butchering the bastards. Maybe a nuke or two. Israel will love ya, and they don't have to lift a finger or spend a dime. Everybody is a winner, except the Iranians who are just scum. Thats the spirit. Keep the old military complex just humming along. Gong ho.
I still can't bring myself to watch the video. The still photo was enough The President's right, her fate is heartbreaking.
He also called on a blogger from Huff Post too. I'm sure the usual cut and dry reporters had a burr under their saddle after he did that. Major what's-his-face from Fox news asked a smart ass question about why it took the President so long to come out with a strong statement about Iran. Fox just can't play well with others.
If you watched the whole news conference, you were reassured that this is not a guy who messes around or who is to be messed with.
CBS & Politico whining about Huffington getting a question; Politico has a lot of Nerve consiering they barely covered Holocaust Museum Shooting
The jealousy and patheticness of Politico is amazingly non-shocking; the fact they are making a story out of Huffington Post getting called on for a question shows why President Obama has to continue to smack the Press Core around; Politico didn’t think it was important to report on the Holocaust Museum Shooting but they questioning Huffington Post, one of rare internet sites that actually reported what was going on in Iran along Andrew Sullivan’s, the Daily Dish, while everyone else was playing catch and piggy backing off of the information that these two site were providing.
If you weren’t so lazy and didn’t spend your time asking to stupid questions then maybe President Obama would not only call on you but would actually answer a follow-up question. But this is what happens when you have had the last eight years of dealing with a Kindergarten President that you have a hard time adjusting when a real gown-up has arrived.
One reporter actually asked the President how often he smokes and who is around when he smokes. I mean they went for the hard core stuff today. And they wonder why some of them never get called on. This was a chance to ask the President questions about our country and his world view yet this is the tabloid stuff they ask about.
He still smokes? THAT'S IT! I've had it. I'm switching parties. Thank God for the Washington Press Corp.
With everything going on she actually thought this was an important question; I liked how he called her out on it too.
This group is really pathetic
Plus they didn't know what the fu*k to do when he was honest with them. How can you write a tabloid headline when a man is telling you the truth? Where's the fun in that?
Hopefully next press conference they will ask if Bo has ever had an accident in the house.
LOL!!!!
They'll write 1000 word fucking editorials if Bo has an accident.
The Obamas are neglecting thier dog to the point of forcing him to relieve himself within the white house. The ASPCA may investigate the matter. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham were appalled when they heard the news. Gov. Sarah Palin said she would shoot a dog before making him live in such conditions. In fact, she said, she probably would have already shot him since he was almost large enough to eat.
Can we get a Federal Prosecutor on this? Full investigation, possibly impeachment proceedings.
Some things are just totally unacceptable, like blow jobs and Bo abuse.
I shall write to my congress people immediately.
Impeachment is so back on the table now. First he smokes and then animal abuse. If he has only started a war based on lies, well that would be something else. I guess we could live with that since he is a Muslim.
With no birth certificate.
Sadly, I was listening to hate radio this morning and my Congresscritter, Randy Neugabauer brought up the fucking birth certificate AGAIN. Jesus Christo.
Where the Frak was MSNBC over the weekend on this issue? Sorry to go off-topic, but I can't believe the way MSNBC was just plain AWOL.
But today they are all over Ed McMahon's death
Here's the clip of Kung Fu "Grasshopper" Obama getting the fly:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/1...
They were in jail apparently
What was heart-breaking to me was the blood of the four dead students on the ground of Kent State.
Nobody did shit about that, and a couple of weeks later there were another several dead in Mississippi.
...but why change the subject? Who should we slap for not mentioning Kent St while talking about Neda?
Well we could blame Clinton. He hasn't been blamed for too much lately. He may miss it.
Everything is Clinton's fault. Trust me. Go to Human Events or any other right wing site. Did you ever have big hair? Clinton. MC Hammer's pants? Clinton. Communism? Clinton. There is nothing in the history of the world that cannot be blamed on Clinton. Either Clinton for that matter. No telling what evil Chelsea is planning.
Tiananmen Square
oops, I did.
Obama is upset about those things too. He's just had a little time to get over it and hide his pain beneath a thin veneer of quiet dignity.
Obama: "world appalled and outraged" over Iran violence.
If we took to the streets when our presidential election was stolen the way the Iranians are doing the police would be cracking down on us the same way all in the name of "law and order".
And had that happened here, I'm guessing the world would have been appalled and outraged too.
The world was appalled for the past 8 years. Did that stop those in power from continuing their assaults both constitutionally and otherwise on those at home and abroad?
Yet another way the Republicans have undermined America's moral authority in the world.
Bottom line, he was asked about the video and death of Neda, he wasn't asked about every tragedy that has ever happened.
does this man not speak his reactions to the sinking of the Titanic!
The media wants to know!
They totally forgot to ask him about the tragedy of Sarah Palin almost becoming the vice president of the United States too.
...why didn't that bastard, Obama, mention my ingrown toenail? He is totally out of touch with what the Bonkers demographic cares about.
I have had enough. I am quitting the DemocRAT Party!
President Obama has called a special news conference to announce how "heart-breaking" this ingrown toe-nail is, and that the world is appalled at the quality of the foot care that allowed this to happen to this particular toe.
Satisfied? Can he have your vote now?
;)
Every time I think I am out, they pullll me back in.
Yay! 4 more years!
They didn't ask the President about Governor "Waldo" Sanford going incommunicado and possilby commando either. That story has disaster written all over it as far as politics is concerned. Oh those entertaining republicans.
a host of other things but it is a video of only one person in how many that were killed by the government. Its their business and I'd prefer to let them deal with it and we keep our mouths shut. It was horrible what they did and are doing to their own people and ultimately, that's how they'll be judged. One thing I will say though, how is it a Muslum theocracy can order the killing of muslims in the streets of a muslim country? Where's the outrage from the Muslim leaders and the faithful?
Its their business and I'd prefer to let them deal with it and we keep our mouths shut.
Ding! +1
It was horrible what they did and are doing to their own people and ultimately, that's how they'll be judged.
Indeed.
Where's the outrage from the Muslim leaders and the faithful?
Good question. Maybe it is still in the offing?
Jesus Christo.
I just keep asking myself what the hell the Republicans want him to do. Don a cowboy hat and go over there and start poking the "Supreme Leader" in the chest? I think everyone is pretty clear that "Cowboy Diplomacy" does not work.
He is doing the right thing.
AND Neda's death is horrible to watch and horrible to think about. I sincerely hope the Iranian people keep fighting the good fight.
that is all
They want him to stir up something with Iran so they can criticize him for doing it. That's just the way they work.
Every real expert I have heard speak says he is doing exactly the right thing right now.
..yup, yup, yup. We have a smart leader. Now.
[shudders at the thought of the last 8 years]
[FAINTS at the thought of Palin as Veep. Altso. Too....there]
His illegal "drone war",in Afghanistan, has lead to many Nedas.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/swa...
in Pakistan at a FUNERAL...I hate those damn drones...
Absolutely chickenshit and cowardly weapons system.
..the drones are not loaded with a couple hundred frightened people when they slam into a target.
War is cruel and brutal and innocents will be killed. Its a sad reality and the reason we should loath war. But when we engage, it has to be all or nothing and that's how the other guy is playing it. I want these wars done and I don't blame Obama who can't just up and quit, can't happen. W totally screwed up the GWOT and ultimately should pay a price for his and his administrations' stupidity and desire to make KBR/Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil wealthier.
Believe me when I say, I hope the day comes when we never have to use those systems again. I'm not expecting it in my lifetime.
except for the all or nothin part...
if these drones can not distinguish between friend and foe, then we must stop using them.
now.
did Helen Thomas say or ask? I couldn't hear what she said. Does anyone know?
The still photo was awful. I'm afraid I won't be able to un-see it. Maybe I should just know that it was awful.
You aren't alone. I can't watch it either and I truly wish I hadn't seen the still photo. There is something so haunting about it.
Man's inhumanity to man is just shameful. This movement by the Iranian people reminds me of Civil Rights Movement here in America. When will God intervene?
Don't hold your breath.
Neda video is heartbreaking and beside the point, just like the msm and the rightwing needing to hear obama's feelings about the video.
i do think obama has been handling the iranian election problems very well so far. he didn't take the right's bait, smart move.
Does Obama think there deaths are 'heartbreaking'?
Obama gave the go ahead to attack locations within the Pakistani border that has killed dozens of innocent people including women and children. The United States of America has not declared war on Pakistan last I heard.
Not a word from Obama supporters regarding these innocent people. Why isn't there an uproar from the supposed anti-war progressives? Is a war crime OK because Obama does it? What is the moral justification for silence.
He is no different than Bush. Obama is a war criminal.
..we are fighting a brutal and cowardly enemy. We can't not make mistakes when the enemy hides behind women and children in schools and public areas. They have no morals. One reason to admire the people of Tehran is they are defying the theocracy en masse. Wouldn't it be great if the people of the Swat Valley, Tora Bora in Afghanistan and other parts in the Middle East, it the People stood up to the Taliban and al-Qaeda and said, "ENOUGH!".
...buying into the what the "War on Terror" really is all about. Do you still believe 17 Saudi's along with Osama Bin Ladin are really behind 9/11. That's astonishing to me. Why doesn't the FBI charge Bin Laden with the crimes of 9/11? I'll leave that one be for now.
You are propagating what the government and the main stream media is feeding you and I suggest you do more intensive research and with an open mind before you makes such illegitimate arguments. You will probably be shocked and incredibly upset about what you find. Anyone with a conscience and a certain moral compass regardless of political affiliation should not have problem calling it what this is. It's a war crime on it's face and international law and our Constitution have been violated.
What is a war crime?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1420133.stm
US CODE: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_...
(F) Intentionally causing serious bodily injury.— The act of a person who intentionally causes, or conspires or attempts to cause, serious bodily injury to one or more persons, including lawful combatants, in violation of the law of war.
That said....
This "color" revolution is being manipulated buy the our government and some are saying George Soros and his clan are involved. As recently as 2007 the United States and it's agents have been engaged in funding terror groups in Iran. This is just a little bit of evidence of what we are being told is just another psychological operation of propaganda againts the people of our country.
US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/154...
Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran
http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/2009062...
A brutal and cowardly enemy? Hmmm... what do you think they are saying about us? We are bombing them from thousands of miles away and killing innocent women and children.
And last but not least, again I find that you and most progressives don't consider the Constitution what so ever and blatantly disregard the law just as your counterparts of the Neo-Con persuasion.
It's time to mind our own business and I say it's time for THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO SAY "ENOUGH!"
I just listened again over and over and I think, right after he talks about freedom of speech, she asks: So, why don't you allow the photos?
Meaning, I guess, the photos of US armed forces actions in Iraq.
She looks peeved at him, and he is very dismissive of her, he didn't like the comment.
She's been around the block, she's seen PsOTUS come and go, and whatever her feelings about him, she isn't giving her a free pass.
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