Bush adopts Obama idea

[LuckyTheDog]

Good for him! He should spend more time listening to Obama.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/us-and-iran-holding-secret-talks-on-nuclear-programme-808647.html

Iran and the United States have been engaged in secret "back channel" discussions for the past five years on Iran's nuclear programme and the broader relationship between the two sworn enemies, The Independent can reveal.

One of the participants, former senior US diplomat Thomas Pickering, explained that a group of former American diplomats and experts had been meeting with Iranian academics and policy advisers "in a lot of different places, although not in the US or Iran".

"Some of the Iranians were connected to official institutions inside Iran," he said in a telephone interview from Washington. The group was organised by the UN Association of the USA, a pro-UN organisation. Its work was facilitated by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a government-funded think-tank chaired by the former chief UN weapons inspector for Iraq, Rolf Ekeus.

[Dhalgren]

1. I didn't see anything in the article

that indicates Bush has anything at all to do with this initiative. In fact, the real "breakthrough" proposals regarding the development of nuclear energy in Iran have received no support, at all, from the Bush regime. These "back-channel" talks began five years ago, without any Bush regime support or guidance. Not only did Bush not adopt any Obama ideas, these back-channel talks began before Mr. Obama's suggestion that talks would be good...