Dejavu all over again: Bush says 'all options' on the table re: Iran

[marmar]

from Bloomberg:



Bush, Merkel Say More Iran Sanctions May Be Necessary (Update2)

By Catherine Dodge and Edwin Chen

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said more sanctions will be placed on Iran if the government continues to ignore demands to suspend uranium enrichment.

Bush also reiterated that all options remain open regarding Iran, after talks in Germany with Merkel.

``All options are on the table, and my first choice is to solve this diplomatically,'' Bush said today at a press conference with the chancellor. ``If they choose to continue to be obstinate, there will be additional sanctions.''

Bush, on his farewell trip to Europe, arrived in Germany yesterday and held meetings with Merkel at Schloss Meseberg, a government guesthouse about 70 kilometers (44 miles) north of Berlin. Deterring Iran's nuclear ambitions is the focus of Bush's weeklong trip. He left Germany for Rome after his talks today and will also make stops in Paris and London.

The U.S. president won backing from the European Union for tighter sanctions against Iran's banks, officials announced yesterday. European Commission President Jose Barroso told Bush that the 27-nation EU's executive branch will take ``additional measures'' to keep Iranian banks from funding terrorism.

Merkel agreed that more sanctions should be placed on Iran if the government continues to ignore demands from the international community to suspend its nuclear program that the U.S. and many European countries believe is aimed at producing nuclear weapons. Iran, home to the world's second largest oil and natural gas reserves, says its nuclear research is for peaceful purposes. ....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aILJg4P_AuWk&refer=home

[tridim]

1. Here's a good option..

On the way home drop that fucker from AF1 over Paraguay, without a parachute.

[Wizard777]

5. Noooo. Give him Dick Cheney's parchute made of solid gold.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Three months? Four at the outside

we all have seen this movie before

Why the world doesn't tell him to stop it, or our Congress....

[Hydra]

7. Frankly, America doesn't seem to care

I'm STILL seething about how our nominee seems to claim that Bush hasn't done anything significantly wrong enough to justify impeachment.

I'm seriously considering why I live in American given our lack of concern regarding our actions in the world and at home. Too bad there doesn't seem to be a safe place to run to.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Muricans will only get it when the world has no choice but to

take care of this little problem

And no, that does not involve necessarily a war... many ways to skin this cat.

And I fear that this is the only thing that will force people to wake up

[Hydra]

15. They only have to stop taking our dollars

And freeze all of our offshore holdings for acts of aggression.

That would put us in quite a pickle.

[liberal N proud]

11. October surprise

The one we all knew was coming

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Look at weather too

dark night, no moon... and as clear as can be

[BOSSHOG]

3. Diplomacy? Everything on the table??

bush the appeaser? What a fucking wuss. This is sure to piss off the manly patriotic limbaugh trained chickenhawk motherfuckers amongst us.

[Hydra]

4. "Deja Moo-

The feeling you've heard this Bull before"

[malaise]

6. Merkel disagreed with him at the same Press Conference

she was for Diplomacy and UN backed sanctions.

[Dhalgren]

8. In all honesty,

doesn't Obama say the same thing? Now, granted that when Obama says he'll use diplomacy first, he actually means it, but just as far as the rhetoric goes, isn't it about the same? No flames, just asking...

[marmar]

9. Obama never invaded a country based on lies before....

.... He gets the benefit of the doubt.

[Dhalgren]

12. I understand that - and I agree.

I just wish Obama would stop using the code phrase "nothing off the table" - everyone knows what that means and it is just too Bushian for my tastes...

[Javaman]

14. and yet moron* feels bad that history will remember him* as a war monger.

what a fucking dope*.