Obama Plans for U.S./Iran Independence Day Picnics Still On!

Speaking about Iran yesterday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "If you watch the images that are on television screens ... I think that's clear, that justice has not been achieved."

With young people and even children dying in the streets of Iran, and injured people being hauled out of hospitals by police/thugs, could we call that an understatement?

But he insisted that Mr Obama's offer for diplomatic talks remained on the table.

He said: "Our long-term security interests, as it relates to the support of terrorism and their pursuit of a nuclear weapon, haven't changed. But our focus right now is not on that."

The State Department said invitations still stood for Iranian diplomats to visit US embassy barbecues on the July 4 national holiday for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Beyond belief.

July 4th is only 11 days from now.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said: "We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran.

"We tried many years of isolation, and we're pursuing a different path now."

Like partying together as Iranian seekers of political freedom are ruthlessly murdered and are buried.

Hope and change. Do champions of Obama really want to take moral responsibility for this?
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