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Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:00 PM Nov 2012

November Surprise – Obama Sanctions Force Shutdown of Iranian Nuclear Program

November Surprise – Obama Sanctions Force Shutdown of Iranian Nuclear Program

By Nathaniel Downes at Addicting Info

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/05/november-surprise-obama-sanctions-force-shutdown-of-iranian-nuclear-program/

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The right-wing’s largest bogeyman against the President over the past years have been regular calls to take a harsher, war-like line with Iran. They claim that Obama has been too soft on the Iranians.

They prepared for a speech at the UN where the President of Iran came out to verbally attack the US, and found themselves dumbfounded when he came bearing an olive branch. They claimed the Iranians would stop at nothing to world domination, only to have rumors of talks between our nations leak out.

To the right-wing, Iran was the devil itself, something to bring up in order to pound the war drum. It did not matter that they could not find the nation on map, it was the enemy and they were marching to war.

To Mitt Romney’s rhetoric, the sanctions were meaningless, that Iran was “spinning its centrifuges” to making a bomb. It was only a matter of time. Vote for Romney or else Iran would have a nuclear device virtually overnight.

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