This goes in the I am absolutely not making this shit up file:
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.
President Barack Obama’s administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
“There’s no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
“We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran,” Kelly said. “We tried many years of isolation, and we’re pursuing a different path now.”
But he said it was not clear if Iranian diplomats had accepted the invitations.
The State Department has said that the invitations are largely a symbolic gesture of goodwill and that the July 4 barbecues were not intended to take up substantive policy matters.
Obama has walked a tightrope since the violence broke out in Iran, urging the Islamic regime to end its repression of protests but insisting he will not let Tehran’s leaders cast the United States as a bogeyman.
I don’t think this is a good stand for the Weenie-in-Chief to be making. I believe his ass is going to get roasted over this one.
People are standing up to a despotic regime and dying, and he invites the representatives of said regime to a BBQ celebrating freedom. Somebody doesn’t understand what our country is supposed to stand for.
Where was he born and raised again?
bonz said,
June 22, 2009 @ 8:45 pm
When Jimmy Carter told the assembled European leaders that the Shah was going to fall and they shouldn’t interfere, they were stunned. A brutal betrayal. Obama is completely consistent with the left’s policies over the last 30 years. Jimmy Carter’s mullah is Barry’s mullah
swampie said,
June 22, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
I suppose nobody listening at that time knew that Jimmy Carter was bought and paid for by radical Arab interests.
Robert D said,
June 23, 2009 @ 8:47 am
And most don’t know what that bow was all about either.
croc hunter said,
June 22, 2009 @ 8:56 pm
Where do we find these wacko liberals that are bent on ruining America?
swampie said,
June 22, 2009 @ 9:44 pm
From Chicago! Lots of unsavory creepy crawlies living under rocks there.
kc said,
June 23, 2009 @ 7:07 am
Chicago, San Fran…and Plains.
swampie said,
June 23, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Yeah. Plains. Well, he sure as hell turned out to be an embarassment to the state. And he probably expects to get a front row seat in heaven when he dies after a lifetime spent screwing over God’s chosen people.
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