Peace out, fools! Obama plays the clown

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[h=1]Peace out, fools! Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit 'team photo'... and gets a very unimpressed look from David Cameron and bemused world leaders[/h]

• President Barack Obama is meeting dozens of world leaders for a nuclear summit in Washington, DC, today
• He gave the peace sign as the group stood together for a 'team photo' - bemusing dozens of the world's politicians
• Prime Minister David Cameron looked less than impressed by Obama's behavior amid a strained special relationship
• Obama recently slammed Cameron for being 'distracted' during the crisis in Libya and turning it into a 's**t show'
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• World leaders discussed nuclear terrorist threats as well as the controversial Iran deal at the summit

 

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Surrounded by world leaders, President Barack Obama gave the peace sign as they gathered for a 'team photo' during a two-day nuclear summit.
All eyes were on Obama as 54 other presidents and prime ministers joined him in Washington, DC, for crunch talks on Iran and terrorist threats involving nuclear weapons.
There was one set of eyes, however, that was particularly focused on the President - those of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Relations between Cameron and Obama have been strained since the President criticized the Prime Minister for getting 'distracted' during the crisis in Libya and turning it into a 's**t show'.
There was more than metaphorical distance between the pair at today's summit, with Cameron only able to glare at Obama from across the podium as he was elbowed out to the edge of the stage.

 

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Peace, man: Surrounded by world leaders, President Barack Obama gave the peace sign at the end of a nuclear security summit today

 

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Special relationship in tatters? All eyes were on Obama (left) as 54 other presidents and prime ministers joined him in Washington - including those of David Cameron (right)

 

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Give us a wave, Dave! While the rest of the gathered leaders waved for the cameras, Cameron failed to lift his hand up

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New best friend: Cameron was left out again as Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chatted during the summit

 

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While Obama fooled around for the cameras, some world leaders - such as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (right) - did not look happy

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Arms folded: Cameron - fresh from his vacation in Lanzarote - did not appear to be playing ball with an energetic President Obama

 

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Isolated: While Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) hit it off during the talks, Cameron (right) cut a lonely figure

After a day of tense, sensitive discussions on ISIS and the Middle East, Obama played up for the cameras as he grinned and held up the peace sign.
The President has come under fire for his relaxed attitude in recent weeks.
On a state visit to Argentina, he was seen dancing the tango with an attractive female dancer. On a historic visit to Cuba, he went to a baseball game instead of returning to the United States to respond to the horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Before that, Obama chose not to attend the funeral of former First Lady Nancy Reagan, electing to go to a music festival and eat tacos instead.
While the President was surrounded by power players Chinese President Xi Jinping, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Jordanian King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein at the summit, Cameron was left languishing at the end of a row alongside Algeria's prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal.
Earlier today, Obama spoke of the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands, such as those of ISIS terrorists.
The President said no terrorist group had succeeded in getting hold of making a dirty bomb, but said al-Qaeda wanted to and ISIS had already used chemical weapons in the Middle East.

 

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He said there was no doubt that if ISIS 'mad men' got a nuclear bomb, they would use it to kill as many people as possible. Obama gave a chilling warning that such a catastrophic disaster would 'change our world'.
'We have measurably reduced the risk,' Obama said. But he added: 'The threat of nuclear terrorism persists and continues to evolve.'
Despite Obama's warnings - and his hi-jinks during the photograph with other world leaders - Donald Trump's earlier comments on nuclear weapons cast a shadow over the summit.
The Republican presidential candidate said this week that allowing Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan to develop their own nuclear programs would ease strains on U.S. budgets, given the spiraling costs of maintaining America's nuclear umbrella and foreign troop deployments.
'Japan is better if it protects itself against this maniac of North Korea,' Trump said on Tuesday.
'We are better off frankly if South Korea is going to start protecting itself ... they have to protect themselves or they have to pay us.'

 

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Planning something? Obama had a cheeky grin on his face as he walked up to the podium before the photograph on Friday

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Obama chatted with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, with most world leaders looking relaxed after the day's nuclear talks

 

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Handsome: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau maintained his trademark good looks despite a long day of high-level talks

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Cool customer: Despite facing criticism for appearing too relaxed in his final year as president, Obama looked chilled as he posed for the photograph while pulling out the peace sign

Today's summit in Washington began with Obama hailing the much-criticized nuclear deal with Iran a 'substantial success'.
He said the world has seen 'real progress' as a result of the deal and that Iran was already seeing benefits from the deal.
However, he said it would take some time still before Iran could truly reintegrate with the world economy.
Obama branded the controversial agreement a reminder that when the global community stands together, it can promote common security.
U.S. and Japanese officials also met on Friday to pledge to remove highly enriched uranium from a Japanese research reactor to reduce the risk of theft and nuclear terrorism.
Very few details were released about the agreement or when it will take place.
The two governments also confirmed they have completed removal of materials from another Japanese research reactor that could have been used to make nuclear weapons if they had fallen into the wrong hands. That was part of a separate deal struck in 2014.
More than 700 pounds of plutonium is being shipped from Japan to a U.S. facility in South Carolina, according to Japanese media.
But the state's governor, Nikki Haley, has opposed bringing more plutonium to the site, where tons of it is already stored.

 

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Thumbs up: Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko certainly looked please to have taken his place behind President Barack Obama

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... Meanwhile, in the shadows: Cameron was isolated from the power players and looked dejected as he shook hands with UAE foreign affairs minister Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

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Allies: Obama sat next to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Japan and the U.S. struck a deal to remove highly enriched uranium from a Japanese research reactor

On a busy day for Obama, the President - on the coat tails of an historic trip to Cuba - said Latin America and the Caribbean were now 'free' of highly enriched uranium.
Argentina - another country recently visited by Obama, who was seen doing the tango with an attractive female dancer there last week - aborted a nuclear weapons program in the 1980s and has cooperated with the U.S. on uranium stockpiles.
With the project finally completed, the White House said no country in Latin America or the Caribbean now has more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of highly enriched uranium.
The United States, in newly declassified statistics, said its own national inventory of highly enriched uranium has dropped from 817 tons two decades ago to 646 tons as of 2013.
On the global front, a strengthened nuclear security agreement was finally poised to take force, extending protections for nuclear materials being used, stored and transported while enacting new criminal penalties for nuclear smuggling. Those tweaks were approved in 2005, but have sat dormant awaiting ratification from a critical mass of nations, reached only in the past few days.
Still, frustration over the slow pace of reducing nuclear stockpiles shadowed the summit, which is Obama's last major push on denuclearization.
The absence of key players - especially Russia - further underscored the lack of unanimity confronting global efforts to deter nuclear attacks.
After six years of prodding by Obama and others before him, the global stockpile of fissile material remains in the thousands of tons. Meanwhile, security officials warn that the radioactive ingredients for a dirty bomb are alarmingly insecure in many parts of the globe.
Ahead of the summit, fewer than half of the countries participating had agreed to secure their sources of radiological material like cesium and cobalt, which are widely present in hospital, industrial and academic settings but could be diverted to make a dirty bomb.
In the wake of terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris, security officials have raised concerns that the next attack could spread cancer-causing substances across a wide swath of a Western city, wreaking havoc and triggering evacuations.


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Tommy V, Washington DC, United States, 2 hours ago
What a childish fool he is.




anonymous, usa, United States, 2 hours ago
Such an embarrassment to us



Melissa, Right Here, United States, 2 hours ago
PLAYS the clown? Uh.....not really....he IS the clown.




ac-dc-guy, Minnesota, United States, 2 hours ago
I'm embarrassed for our once great country......not that my words mean much but I'm sorry......




RGB, Savannah, United States, 2 hours ago
0bama is such an embarrassing clown.

 

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Surrounded by world leaders (main picture), President Barack Obama (center and inset top right) gave the peace sign as he brought a nuclear security summit to a close in bizarre fashion today. All eyes were on Obama as 54 other presidents and prime ministers joined him in Washington, DC, for crunch talks on Iran and terrorist threats involving nuclear weapons. There was one set of eyes, however, that was particularly focused on the President - those of Prime Minister David Cameron (inset top right). Relations between Cameron and Obama have been strained since the President criticized the Prime Minister for getting 'distracted' during the crisis in Libya and turning it into a 's**t show'.

 

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President Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the “spirit” of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the “letter” of the pact.


So let me get this straight, they’re sticking to the “letter” of the pact but not the “spirit”. WTF is that supposed to mean?


Did you sign an agreement with loop holes out the wazoo?


Did you “hope” they would “change” their MO because you asked them to?


Are you that naïve or just stupid?


And last but not least, the agreement is non binding, so what did you expect?


No wonder the world is laughing at you. You deserve it.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Swishy

 

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President Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the “spirit” of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the “letter” of the pact.


So let me get this straight, they’re sticking to the “letter” of the pact but not the “spirit”. WTF is that supposed to mean?


Did you sign an agreement with loop holes out the wazoo?


Did you “hope” they would “change” their MO because you asked them to?


Are you that naïve or just stupid?


And last but not least, the agreement is non binding, so what did you expect?


No wonder the world is laughing at you. You deserve it.

What he meant was he thought by making a large concession to the devil regarding one of his bad behaviors, bomb-building with malevolent intent, the devil would then turn around and stop with his other bad behaviors, such as overtaking other countries, establishing terror bases, and murdering people all over the globe. Obama is genuinely shocked that when you bargain with the devil it all goes to hell.

 

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What he meant was he thought by making a large concession to the devil regarding one of his bad behaviors, bomb-building with malevolent intent, the devil would then turn around and stop with his other bad behaviors, such as overtaking other countries, establishing terror bases, and murdering people all over the globe. Obama is genuinely shocked that when you bargain with the devil it all goes to hell.

Hey man, that's how it plays out in the classroom, it should work in the real world.....right? A bunch of real smart people who will never be impacted by the decisions they make, sitting around, pushing their theories and will on the little people who are too stupid to understand.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

What he meant was he thought by making a large concession to the devil regarding one of his bad behaviors, bomb-building with malevolent intent, the devil would then turn around and stop with his other bad behaviors, such as overtaking other countries, establishing terror bases, and murdering people all over the globe. Obama is genuinely shocked that when you bargain with the devil it all goes to hell.

So both naïve and stupid?

 

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Stop the presses, I was wrong, it isn’t Iran who is violating the agreement, it’s the U.S.


Iranian officials on Monday accused the United States of violating the recent comprehensive nuclear agreement by working behind the scenes to stop American companies from conducting business with Iran, according to regional media reports.


Iran has been complaining for months that it is not being granted enough sanctions relief under the agreement. These complaints have reportedly pushed the Obama administration to consider offering Iran greater concessions, including access to the U.S. dollar and American financial markets.


However, Iranian officials continue to insist that the Obama administration is violating the deal.


Sadeq Amoli Larijani, Iran’s judiciary chief, “warned” the United States in remarks on Monday, claiming that the administration’s current actions violate the agreement.


More…


http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-u-s-violating-nuke-deal/


Score another one for Jane.