President Obama, Iran and the Oval Lies - Iran Crisis

Bloomberg View: Reports " The Barack Obama administration has estimated for years that Iran was at most three months away from enriching enough nuclear fuel for an atomic bomb. But the administration only declassified this estimate at the beginning of the month,..."

Lets Get Real:

Thus the Oval Office down played the threat from Iran, while it knew that Tehran was only a few months away from the bomb.  This is typical of low level Chicago politics, and there is no cost to the Oval Office.   The US Congress should set up a select committee of Congress to investigate the relationship between Iran and the US, and what the Oval Office has agreed to in the talks in Europe.   It is clear that the Oval has been economic with the truth when it comes to Iran, it stated that Iran would take the year to to get the bomb, now they say a few months as they try to make the US Congress swallow the deal set up by President Obama.   It has been shown that when it comes to Iran that President Obama is a modern appeaser, the result will be a disaster, but by then Obama will be out of Office, the next President will have to deal with Iran. 

The THREAT of the SNP to the UK, Part 2 - Election 2015

Guardian: Reports on the Conservatives attack on the match up of the Labour and the SNP, " They have managed to combine their warnings of economic chaos after 8 May – the threat of excessive borrowing, leftwing influence and instability – with the threat posed by Scottish nationalism.  "

Lets Get Real:

As a ploy the placing the political target on Labour and SNP has worked, a good attack, never mind the merits, works if there is a sense of truth to the charge, thus the double talk out of Ed Miliband every time the issue of SNP and Scotland comes up, the Labour leadership understands that it only gets back in to power with the support of the SNP.   This would be an ironic development as Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary and the leader of the Scottish Labour Party could lose their seats to the SNP.   How could Ed Miliband appoint Douglas Alexander to the FCO if he has lost his seat, of course if PM, Miliband could place Alexander in the House of Lords, thus he would get his Shadow Foreign Secretary back but it would not look good to the Scottish voters.   The last couple days has ALL been about the vote by vote deal between Labour and the SNP, the Labour Party should take the risk and state it will not govern as a Minority Government under the SNP supoppport.  Also if Labour is the second Party it would mean that it won less English and Welsh seats than the Conservative Party, it would be seen as a losers Government.   This again would not be good, as Sir John Major said this morning, the Labour Party would be at the beck and call of the SNP.   This would be a political disaster for the UK and the Labour Party in the long term, English voters would not be happy that they are being ruled from Scotland. 

What is the US up to in the waters of Yemen - Yemen Crisis

BBC News:  Reports on the US presence in the waters of Yemen, the article notes the following, " The US has warned Iran against arming the rebels - but a US spokesman said the ships would not stop the convoy. "

Lets Get Real:

Is this the Oval Office doing its usual, of creating new policy then cutting the feet off the Secretary, in this case the Defence Secretary, as it has been noted before in this blog the Oval Office allowed Secretary Kerry to set the stage for war with Syria and then backed down, thus the growth of IS in Syria and Iraq and the present US attacks on IS in Iraq.   If the US sends out an aircraft carrier it sends a strong message that the opposition needs to back off, but now the Oval has made the mission pointless, the Tehran Regime will take this move as a greenlight to supply the houthis of Yemen with more weapons, thus creating more problems for Saudi Arabia, a Western ally in the region.  Whenever the Obama Administration says something about the Middle East  it causes even more problems, some people never learn.