Posted on 03/13/2015 2:31:09 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
In hiding behind the UN, Obama and Kerry will freeze Congress out of the process and jeopardize the security of United States and its allies
Secretary of State John Kerry disgraced his office yet again during his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 11th. He sharply criticized an open letter to Iran’s leadership drafted by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and signed by 47 Republicans, which simply made the point that in our democratic republic the president does not get to bind our country irreversibly to an executive agreement he signs unilaterally with another country.
“My reaction to the letter was utter disbelief,” Kerry lamented. He declared that “this letter ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of American foreign policy. It purports to tell the world that if you want to have any confidence in your dealings with America they have to negotiate with 535 members of Congress.” He called such an idea “both untrue and profoundly a bad suggestion.”
In any event, added Kerry, Congress would not be able to change the terms of any nuclear deal entered into by President Obama and the other five negotiating partners with Iran. His explanation was pure Orwellian doubletalk. Kerry asserted that what he was negotiating would not be considered a “legally binding plan,” but would have “a capacity for enforcement.” At one fell swoop, Kerry displayed contempt, hypocrisy and evasiveness to members of a co-equal branch of our government and to the American people.
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Where is the post about everything that Obama has done has weakened the U.S. and strengthened its enemies? I think that that would be appropriate about now.
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Obama will make a Global Warming Deal with the UN to get it done
polishing his credentials to be Obama’s successor...
Kerry is a fool, I can think of one treaty that was rejected before the president signed it (Kyoto). This treaty could easily end up in the same place as the Treaty of Versailles from 1919.
Kerry-Heinz has been a disgrace since he was performing secret missions for the CIA in Cambodia....nothing has changed.
"He supports a volunteer Army, 'if and only if we can create the controls for it. You're going to have to prepare for the possibility of a national emergency, however.' Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. 'I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.'"On other issues, Kerry wants 'to almost eliminate CIA activity. The CIA is fighting its own war in Laos and nobody seems to care.'"
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