U.S. lawmaker: Obama should deal with Iran nukes, not criticize Israel

1) Personally, I could not care less whether Israel signs the NPT or not...the document while wildly idealistic is not enforceable...(a nuclear state can simply withdraw from the treaty like N. Korea did in 2003, or like India Israel, and Pakistan, just never sign). 2) Ros-Lehtinen's complaint about "the nuclear dam giving way" is misleading...there never was a nuclear dam...speed bump would be more accurate. 3) Ros-Lehtinen states, "Iran's leaders are getting away with this stunning assault on US and global security"...Iran's leaders are getting away with it because the US, USSR/Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel have had that same capability for years...now Iran is tired of looking down the barrel of a gun- with no gun of their own...truth be told, if I were Iranian...I'd do much the same.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was simply a member of the defeated minority party in the US. She is an Israel-firsters and what she says is carries no weight whatsoever.

She needs to get her head around the issues. She's another lite-weight Republican like Sarah Palin with a weak grasp of foreign policy issues and history. What about the 80 to 200 nuclear warheads at Dimona, Israel? What about that threat to the ME conveniently omitted from her diatribe? Did she read her Likud speech verbatim into the mike?

"a demand which has been at the centerpiece of the long-standing strategy by Arab states to distract attention from their own nuclear plans", then sign it. Take away the distraction. The only reason you won't sign the NPT is because you're in violation of it. You don't make peace because you don't want to. And yes, American soldiers' lives in Iraq and Afghanistan are imperiled by that fact, whether you want to admit it or not. As for Israel's support for "the convention on the physical protection of nuclear materials..." etc, it merely serves to highlight the fact that you avoid signing the NPT at all costs, despite active engagement in other nuclear-related treaties. It's not an oversight. You're hiding something and everyone knows it. Seems to me that Ileana Ros-Lehtinen may be in need of the same kind of wiretapping scrutiny that Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman received so we can see just who's paying for her services.

ignore a nuclear proliferator who's nuclear program is basically free from scrutiny and focus on a country who's nuclear program is the most scrutanised in the world. But one has to wonder exactly how balanced those minds are.

Bill, you do not deny the truth of the facts Ilana stated about Israel signing various nuclear protocols. Ilana is correct about those.

This woman is a hard-core right-wing fanatic. She takes her "talking points" from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the lunatics within FOX "news". She speaks for the 10% of Americans who believe that President Obama was not born in the US, that President Obama is "the anti-christ", and that "Americans" should arm themselves, like the terroist Tim McVeigh, and go to war aginst the US government. She is the modern Ku Klux Klan...they don't wear hoods anymore. Her party, once a conservative party, now belongs, as David Frumm wrote, to the extreme, and paranoid psychotic, far-right.

B. H. Obama says he is a Christian, but he calls the Koran holy. He needs to come to terms with the fact that before Muhammad and his Allah came to existence, YHWH the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was, is, and will be. Unlike the Koran (Sura 16 verse 93) Allah who misleads (deceives) whom he will, but then calls to account those he misleads, the Bible says it is Satan who misleads. You cannot have two masters.

There is no relevance in a GOP senator/governor whatever lashing out at Obama. It' s all they do. It will become news when these tea nutcases seem to get political cloud again tp block Obama which they have not now. Spielerei! It' s like telling people that things are getting very good for the opposition because they can lash out. It' s like telling beach and sun lovers it is great it is raining because it will always stop some time so rain is good because it guarantees the coming of the sun,It is in short not propaganda (because a fact it happened) but manipulation of a banal fact into an illusionary special and significant event. Tsk, tsk.

If there were no Israel in the middle east I'm wondering just how much would change. If there were no U.S. backing for Israel would thing have wroked out the same as they are now. Maybe big brother won't be around forever

'Another person who thinks like obama that you can hide until the boogy man runs away.Wake up dude if trouble did break out in the region who do you think would come to our aid?' I don't suppose history cuts much ice with you, but in fact Israel has proven useless or worse than useless in every crisis that has arisen since her creation. 'Desert Storm' was the ultimate illustration of that. This isn't Israel's fault -- there's no reason to think she wouldn't be happy to help. However, it's absurd to insist Israel is a valuable ally when in fact she's completely unemployable.

'The greatest enemies of the USA are like those individuals who attack from within the Trojan horse, while people are asleep...' My. I wonder if we can get you a slot on Saturday Night Live or something?

Hey Bill, we are in two wars already in the Middle East mostly on the behest of Israel at least the one war in Iraq. Do you see the IDF coming to our aid in those wars?. You said that Israel will come to our aid should there be any trouble in the Middle East, you mean like for example the overthrow the Saudi or the Jordanian regimes by their peoples and here Israel will send its troops to Amman and Riyadh to protect those regimes?. I'm just asking.

This is just pre-midterm partisan hackery. Not even if McCain were President would she be happy unless the US were in a hot war with Iran, North Korea and had re-invaded Cuba. Of course, she'd then criticize the President for not balancing the budget while she and her tea-bagger friends complain about high taxes. Since China wouldn't loan out any money for another war.

Appearing to be More Zionist than the Religious Settlers. Tens and tens of Pro Israel House Bill have been initiated by her.

1) When US interests indicate that military action must be taken against Iran...the US will strike...and who the POTUS is at the time will not matter. 2) If trouble broke out in the ME, the liklihood is that our opponent will be an Arab country...Israeli involvement would be negligible...in fact Israeli involvement would discouraged. It was for that reason the US asked Israel not to retaliate against Iraqi Scud attacks during the Gulf War...3) when it comes to self-defense...the US does not need Israel...4) I typed this very slowly, so you texans could read and understand it.

I am surprised you did not go further and educate us that her grandparents were sephardic Jews from Turkey. Though her mother converted to Catholcism in Cuba and she herself is listed as being Episcopalian.

Not sure about this, by ignoring do they mean not carrying out an immediate military strike on Iranian Nucleur facilities...or maybe an invasion of Iran that sound's like a good idea..:-) if you wsnt to see conflict stretching right across the Middle East from Israel to Afghanistsn (Then Pakistan and Kashmir) and from Chechnya to Egypt please feel free to suggest thos options.

Another person who thinks like obama that you can hide until the boogy man runs away.Wake up dude if trouble did break out in the region who do you think would come to our aid?That's right Israel,not the mullahs who want nothing more than to see us destroyed.Do you not see the people of Iran calling for our destruction?????You can't be that simple minded even for someone in Oklahoma

I didn't vote for her because I'm a dem but I think this time around I will vote for her. Way to go, Ileana!

PRIORITIES ! Problem: NO-ONE wants to make the first move .. so NOT to be to blame for WW III. To criticize Israel is to deflect the real hidden insecurity & fear .. the issue of dealing with Iran. Compromise with satan is futile .. he is a liar & his people lie like him. This lady hit the nail on the head .. IRONIC .. it takes a lady to bring TRUTH to a male dominated world ! If God will use Baalim's donkey .. HE WILL USE A LADY !

Republican Congresswoman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen a Cuban American takes aim at the President for his anti-Israel bipolar perspectives towards our greatest ally in the middle east rather than the maniacal rantings of the Iranian leadership and its current path towards nuclear development. Hoorah and Kudos to you Ileana. You make me proud as a current Floridian. harden yourself to Obama's self-agrandisement of his notable experience and accomplishments. When gullible minions become new cronies that is when you must not waiver in speaking out for Americans all over. The greatest enemies of the USA are like those individuals who attack from within the Trojan horse, while people are asleep. Stay focused on our blessings that will come out of this tiny little nation for our true friendship because it is like the gift that keeps on giving with everyday of its existence. Shalom ! Ileana

Any U.S. Law Maker criticizes the president and the U.S. interest over Israel, should move to Israel and apply for a citizenship there. I for one support the president and the administration 100% even if they go and blow the whole middle east up as long as its the American interest.

Each passing day brings us closer to 2012.

Coming from Florida, she knows what side her bread is buttered on. I think she represents Irving Moskowitz and he probably fills her coffers for campaigning.

If I remember correctly it was George Bush (the father) that put the most pressure on Israel in 1990-91 to start the ME peace talks. So now that the Obama adminstration in putting minimum pressure, he is WAY WRONG. The republicans would say and do anything to regain power. dirty politics... It is a power struggle nothing more, nothing else.

Same person who advocated the assassination of Fidel Castro...then claimed that she was being misquoted...only to have the media supply the unedited tapes which proved that she lied...TWICE. Consider the source people!

Mrs Lehtinen: With all due respect, I believe you are missing the mark. I know your stand on Cuba and you efforts on stopping any diplomatic relations with this country. That is counterproductive. I also know that your distorted or naive views ,of what is going on in the Middle East, should preclude you from proping up the present Israeli "NO AT ANY PRICE" government at the expense of criticising and lambasting other countries. IN SHORT Nethanyhu and his government must go. They are "destroying" Israel. Its enemies just have to be patient. Shame...Shame on you and the Israeli Government. Ibis.

Talk talk talk talk talk....sanctions...are they working? Really are the sanctions working? Is Iran still working towards nuclear weapons capability while we all talk and try sanctions? The answer is..Iran will be nuclear possibly within a year to five years unless there is less talk and more action. But like Chamberlain, Obama just wants to appease Iran and the world with more ineffective sanctions. Missing deadlines is supposed to bring consequences not just a new deadline and an "it's okay we'll try this date." The time for sanctions and talk is drawing to a close...the time for action is approaching. Will Obama be a man of action? Let's talk about it

Israel has provoked the entire Middle East community with her rapacious land kleptomania, proven insatiable and criminal, breaking all norms of civilized behaviour from international law to her own Torah, and the 10 Commandments, breaking "thou shalt not covet, steal, murder, nor bear false witness against thy neighbour". Ross-Lehtinen serves neither her country, the US, nor her ostensible commitment to benefit Israel by her mindless support for the insupportable, immoral OCCUPATION. It's not Iran, it's the Occupation, Lehtinen.

One with a strong convictions and high moral values and beliefs supporting Judeo/Christianmoral base... that esteem human life above death and destruction...