knapplc Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 And then make your enemies your friends. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 And then make your enemies your friends. That's always possible and would be a nice ending. But, if they remain your enemies, at least you have an open dialogue with them and know more of what they are doing and can resolve issues. Link to comment
Mavric Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 ABC News Politico US News & World Report Just the first few that Google came up with. OK...just looking at the ABC story, all it is is a very small paragraph talking about "this is the reaction to the report" and then a bunch of quotes from Republican politicians all up in arms and alarmed about the report. Shocking..... I would like to see where the "report" came from and the facts behind it. Yeah, I didn't really look at the content of those, just the first ones that came up in Google that were talking about it. The ABC story isn't much of a story. And it's definitely unsubstantiated for now. But it's not exactly the type of thing that anyone would hold a big announcement for either, is it. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Obama didn't come out and announce that the ACA had death panels either. It will be interesting to see if this story actually generates any fact finding or just politics as usual. Link to comment
Husker_x Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 And then make your enemies your friends. It worked for Caesar . . . for awhile. Link to comment
zoogs Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 This time, though, it was in the Associated Press. This is certainly not the first time that someone has placed a strategic leak in order to achieve a political objective. But it is disturbing that the AP allowed itself to be used in this way, that it exaggerated the story in a way that have likely misled large numbers of people, and that, having now scrubbed many of the details, it has appended no note or correction explaining the changes. It is not a proud moment for journalism. Hooray. Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Saudi Arabia and Israel are strange bedfellows. But both stand to lose quite a bit if the U.S. and Iran stop open hostilities. Israel stands to lose tons of military funding, while Saudi Arabia stands to lose their preeminent status in the region. Both are funding massive ad campaigns to sway Americans. Saudi Arabia is spending millions of dollars to fund television commercials against the Iran nuclear agreement, a new report has revealed. A newly established group, called the “American Security Initiative”, has flooded television stations across the US with $6 million of advertisements requesting Americans to call their senators and oppose the Vienna nuclear accord, The Intercept, an online news magazine, reported on Friday. The Intercept report said the “American Security Initiative” is owned by former Republican Senator Norm Coleman, who is a registered lobbyist for Riyadh. Last month, AIPAC launched a group, called “Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran,” to convince members of Congress to reject the conclusion of nuclear talks reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in Vienna on July 14. LINK Remember those two names: the American Security Initiative and Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran. Neither are American groups. 1 Link to comment
ZRod Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Saudi Arabia and Israel are strange bedfellows. But both stand to lose quite a bit if the U.S. and Iran stop open hostilities. Israel stands to lose tons of military funding, while Saudi Arabia stands to lose their preeminent status in the region. Both are funding massive ad campaigns to sway Americans. Saudi Arabia is spending millions of dollars to fund television commercials against the Iran nuclear agreement, a new report has revealed. A newly established group, called the “American Security Initiative”, has flooded television stations across the US with $6 million of advertisements requesting Americans to call their senators and oppose the Vienna nuclear accord, The Intercept, an online news magazine, reported on Friday. The Intercept report said the “American Security Initiative” is owned by former Republican Senator Norm Coleman, who is a registered lobbyist for Riyadh. Last month, AIPAC launched a group, called “Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran,” to convince members of Congress to reject the conclusion of nuclear talks reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in Vienna on July 14. LINK Remember those two names: the American Security Initiative and Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran. Neither are American groups. Are they people too though? Link to comment
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