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so I will take your questions seriously regarding Obama and Iraq. Look, I'm no expert but it seems pretty clear that a) Iran has a very high Islamic-extremist quotient; b) Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons; c) Iran is a regional power, made significantly more powerful by the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iran; d) Iran has some hard feelings toward the U.S., not to mention Israel; and e) Iran has a lot of oil, sits on the primary oil trading route, and the U.S. is (for the immediate future) addicted to foreign oil.
Now, if you disagree with any of those predicates, I promise to give you a snark-free response, should you wish. But if you don't disagree with any of those five premises, then surely you agree that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons is a problem for the president of the United States. If that is so, I simply ask you this:
What is the big deal about what Obama said?
