The BBC's Washington correspondent Nick Bryant says it is a scandal which threatens to embroil the White House.

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That controversy led to a wave of lawsuits that threatened to embroil Obama's health care law, already under fire for a requirement that individuals buy insurance, in even more legal action.

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As a result most especially of President Obama's ill-advised decision on August 13th to embroil himself in the debate over the mosque, millions of Americans are now opposing its construction in proximity to some of our most hallowed ground.

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To complicate matters further, this conflict could embroil other East African nations, including Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda.

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Instead, it will embroil this country in talks whose sole purpose is to hamstring those who are threatened by the Iranian Islamofascists' support for international terror and pursuit of nuclear weapons - if President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to be believed, for apocalyptic purposes.

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Worse, Mr. Obama is actively encouraging trends that threaten to unleash the next, horrific regional war in the Mideast -a war that may well embroil nations far beyond, including ours.

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