Ratcheting It Up!!

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On the heels of BO's "acted stupidly" remarks directed to the Cambridge Police and his "just short" of an apology and acknowledment of "ratcheting up" the tension, it appears his staff NEED to learn about NOT ratcheting up the tension in the Middle-East.

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*Iran Threatens Strike on Israel's Nuclear Facilities if Attacked*
Iran?s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday the country would strike Israel's nuclear facilities if Tel Aviv attacked the Islamic state, Reuters reported state television as saying. . . .

*Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said this week a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. "defense umbrella," setting off tremors in the Middle East.*

*Since making the remark on a television chat show in Thailand, Clinton has backpedaled, saying she was only restating existing policy and not referring to any sort of formal guarantees of protection under an American "nuclear umbrella."*

*And when Israeli officials raised alarms that she seemed to suggest the U.S. was resigned to a nuclear-armed Iran, Clinton and senior State Department officials hastily insisted such a prospect was still unacceptable and that no policy had changed.*

*The Obama administration is dispatching four of its most senior foreign policy and security figures to Israel this coming week *to urge the country to shelve any plan for a military strike to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities, *arguing that Obama's offer of engagement and talks with Iran deserves time to bear fruit*.
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Maybe BO and his team need to take a break, shut their mouths and go on vacation with Congress till things calm down, both here and abroad!!

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