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A Cowardly, un-American Deal With Iran
Townhall.com ^ | September 2, 2015 | Star Parker

Posted on 09/02/2015 9:45:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

Many Americans rightly watch in disbelief as leaders of our country push to conclude a dangerous and ill-conceived nuclear agreement with an incorrigible and evil nation, a leading sponsor of terrorism.

Since when does the United States negotiate out of fear, out of weakness? But this is what is happening. How else to explain moving forward with a deal this complicated and dangerous with people no rational person would trust?

Abrogation of American leadership, meaning America acting in an unprincipled and cowardly way, leads inevitably to a world more dangerous and less free. We should be ashamed.

Many have already written about the technical problems of this so-called deal. Huge time lags in follow-up inspections, allowing Iran to re-build its conventional arms arsenal, and that this will accelerate rather than decelerate the nuclear arms race in the Middle East and lead inevitably to a nuclear-armed Iran.

Administration officials don't even try to deny that the hundreds of billions that will be released to Iran as result of lifting sanctions will provide funding for terror.

According to President Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, "We should expect that some portion of that money would go to the Iranian military and could potentially be used for the kinds of bad behavior that we have seen in the region up until now."

Per testimony of Adam Szubin, acting undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence: "I expect we'll continue to see that..." regarding Iranian terrorism support.

And Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, said, "As for Iran's behavior, the United States is under no illusions."

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement saying they will continue to support rogue activities. "Whether or not this drafted (nuclear agreement) text is approved through legal process in the country, the Iranian nation will not stop supporting the oppressed nation of Palestine, Yemen, Bahrain as well as the nations and governments of Syria, Iraq and the honest combatants in Lebanon and Palestine."

The Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady has written extensively about Iranian activities in Latin America.

"Iran has targeted Latin America since the mid-1980s," O'Grady reports, "by establishing mosques and cultural centers to spread the revolution. An arm of Hezbollah, Iran's Islamic fundamentalist proxy, took responsibility for the 1992 terrorist attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. Argentine prosecutors named Iran as the mastermind behind the 1994 terrorist attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in the same city."

O'Grady continues, "In 2013 Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was investigating the AMIA case, released a 500-page report about the extensive Iranian terrorism network in the hemisphere. One of his more chilling findings was that the foiled 2007 plot to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was an Iranian operation, run by a Guyanese recruit. In January Nisman was found in his Buenos Aires apartment with a bullet through his head."

Iran is already violating sanctions. Senator Ted Cruz noted in the recent Republican debate that Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is "head of the al Quds forces ... responsible for the murder of over 500 American servicemen in Iraq" and recently travelled to Russia against travel restrictions.

Freedom House, based in Washington, D.C, rates Iran, on a scale of 1-7 (1 being "most free") a 6 on political rights and 6 on civil liberties.

It's not just the American people and the Israeli people that need American leadership now. It is the Iranian people and the vast populations of people living in un-free Muslim nations.

Who will be the voice for freedom and civility in the world if not America?

No sane, responsible person does business with rogues that cannot be trusted. Not even a simple deal.

Our national anthem says that America is the "land of the free and the home of the brave."

Free and brave people don't do deals like this.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 114th; irandeal; iraniannukes

1 posted on 09/02/2015 9:45:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why do you think the Dhimmicraps support it?


2 posted on 09/02/2015 9:48:39 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Kaslin

OUr prior leaders are rolling in their graves. The democrats who voted for this, and republicans should be run out of office.


3 posted on 09/02/2015 9:49:38 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: Kaslin

It is not just cowardly. It is treasonous. How about we let all the serial killers out of our jails, make them zillionaires and provide them with a road map to gain not just lethal weapons, but massive lethal weapons? That way they will be happy with us and stop desiring our death and the death of our allies.

Makes that much sense.


4 posted on 09/02/2015 9:53:14 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Kaslin
Here's the interesting dynamic which must play itself out.

How will the public respond to a president passing a nuclear arms agreement against a sworn enemy of the west, America and Israel, against our wishes by four to one?

Obama may have gotten what the traitors in his regime and Tehran wanted, but now he has to live with it. He has to live with acting in bad faith, lying, hiding secret side agreements, intimidating congress, bribes, etc.......All to benefit our enemies.

Last I looked, that was an act of treason and had some very specific remedies.

5 posted on 09/02/2015 9:54:13 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Kaslin

Everyone needs to remember that it was the Corker bill that guaranteed that this “deal” was a done deal before it was done.

The Uniparty stood the Constitution on its head.


6 posted on 09/02/2015 9:56:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin
Kick all females OUT of government, including the one raised by a whitey-hating communist feminist named Stanley (Odungo). Has Susan Rice started her transgender surgeries yet? That lying b*tch looks more like a man every time I see her.

Why are we negotiating with a terrorist state? Only TERRORISTS would do that!

7 posted on 09/02/2015 10:01:41 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Kaslin

I would add the word “unconstitutional” to the other adjectives.

Just because the administration (and traitors Cardin and Corker) call it a “deal” or a “framework”, any formal agreement with another nation is a treaty and requires 2/3 Senate approval. Period.


8 posted on 09/02/2015 10:06:52 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Kaslin

The Iran deal? We might as well trade 5 Taliban commanders for 1 American DEFECTOR TO THE TALIBAN. Oh wait, 0dungheap already did that. WHAT DID THE U.S. GET OUT OF THAT OTHER THAN NOTHING? Perhaps that was his litmus test for the Iran deal. Getting away with treason, 101. F’ing AHOLE 0dingo.


9 posted on 09/02/2015 10:23:48 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Kaslin
How did the Senate approved, 99-1, Corker Bill help facilitate this Obama victory?

Tom Cotton the lone No Vote.

10 posted on 09/02/2015 10:31:50 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: blackdog; All
It wasn't just Obama and Mconnnel. All of the U.S. senators pulled a fast one on the American people. They passed a bill called the Corker bill that made the Iran deal unstoppable. All Senators except Cotton voted for the Corker Bill 99-1.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/forget_obamarepublicans_made_the_iran_nukes_deal_possible.html

So the corker bill = the Iran deal. they just renamed it. Normally a treaty like this requires approval of 2/3rds of the Senate but the Corker bill reduced to 1/3 . so Obama only needed 34 out of 100 votes not the required 66 out of a 100 that the Constitution requires. ‘

So now many of the Senators will vote against the Iran deal but they voted for the Corker bill so that the Iran deal will pass. typical. and no one knows what they did.

So they all voted for the Iran deal (except Cotton).

This is what they did with TPA = Obama trade.

So then they will say they are against it but really voted for it. this is typically what they've done and why Obama has gotten everything and never been stopped

11 posted on 09/02/2015 11:24:42 AM PDT by Democrat_media (obamatrade is a Trojan horse for unlimited immigration to the USA)
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To: TexasCajun

Yes all the senators voted for the Corker bill 99-1 but now say they are against the Iran deal but the Corker bill = the Iran deal.(cotton was the only sane no vote)

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/forget_obamarepublicans_made_the_iran_nukes_deal_possible.html

Corruptocrats


12 posted on 09/02/2015 11:27:01 AM PDT by Democrat_media (obamatrade is a Trojan horse for unlimited immigration to the USA)
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