Moo?
Posted on 03/11/2015 9:11:23 AM PDT by Dave346
Secretary of State John Kerry says he’s in “utter disbelief” over the letter to Iranian leaders led by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and signed by 46 other Republican senators, warning any Iranian nuclear deal reached with the U.S. could be revoked by the next president or modified by Congress.
“This letter ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy,” Kerry said Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “This risks undermining the confidence that foreign governments in thousands of important agreements commit to with the United States.”
In his 29 years as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, Kerry said, he “never heard of or even heard of being proposed anything comparable to this.” He said senators have the right to voice dissent but doing so in a letter to foreign leaders was “quite stunning.”
Kerry, who once chaired the Foreign Relations Committee, also said the letter was factually incorrect.
“It’s incorrect when it says that Congress could actually modify the terms of the agreement at any time,” he said. “They don’t have the right to modify an agreement reached, executive to executive, between the leaders of two countries.”
During the hearing, Sen. Marco Rubio also tangled with Kerry over the issue of Iran’s influence in the U.S. fight against the Islamic State.
The Florida senator, who is weighing a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, said he believes much of the U.S. strategy in Iraq and Syria is “being driven” by a desire not to upset Iran amid sensitive nuclear negotiations.
“All the facts contradict that,” Kerry shot back.
Kerry said many of the details about the negotiations were classified but noted the talks were designed to curtail Iran’s nuclear program — and the administration wasn’t trying to reach a “grand bargain” that would normalize relations with the Islamic Republic.
“This is about a nuclear weapon — that’s it,” Kerry said.
Rubio, whose experience on the Foreign Relations panel could bolster his stature in a 2016 GOP presidential field that lacks a lot of foreign policy experience, also pressed Kerry on whether the negotiations with Iran were hurting U.S. ties to its Arab allies in the Middle East.
Kerry responded that he was keeping U.S. allies in the region updated on the status of the talks.
I remember Ron Dellums trip where he went to Grenada and already had a report drafted saying there was nothing to the airstrip and Cuban troops there. And captured intel proved it was all a prefabricated lie.
Moo?
ditto that
Ditto.
Funny, CNN hasn’t questioned Secy Lurch about that :-/
Put tour money where your mouth is Kerry, and take the after to the supreme Court. You will not win on Sectoion 2 (2) of the Constitution.
Kerry is in a state of utter disbelief 24 hours a day.
The man who lied while under oath about our soldiers in Vietnam is commenting on this matter??????????????
Jock the traitor is in utter disbelief because he is a functioning moron. He’s too stupid to remember his own acts of treason when he gave aid and comfort to our communist enemies. He’s is on the wrong side of history once again. He has a perfect record of 0 and 20 on major world events. What a douche.
“Secretary of State John Kerry says he’s in “utter disbelief” over the letter to Iranian leaders”
Only because someone told him to pretend to be in “utter disbelief”.
Regarding Carter, the stunts he pulled under Bill Clinton were actually MUCH worse than what he did under Bush.
At one point Warren Christopher allegdly wondered whether Jimmeh though he was Secretary of State.
Fight fire with fire. It’s good to see signs of toughening and resistance from the Republicans in the face of these obnoxious liberal progressive prima donnas. Progressives are always shocked when anyone dares use their own tactics against them.
Why the long face, John?
Let’s see. The self-aggrandizing, left a man behind in VN, Purple Heart fraud, Sandinista supporting Marxist sympathizer is in “utter disbelief” over a letter that tells the truth about his Neville Chamberlain efforts in Iran.
If the Obama-Kerry sellout to the Mad Mullahs of Qom is signed, the next thing Kerry will have is, like a cow running into barbed wire, “utter destruction”.
In summation, Kerry is an “utter fool and sellout”.
Obama and Kerry, in the collective, are “utterly disgraceful”.
“This letter ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy,” Kerry said Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.”
Oh bullsh** Johnnie. Ask Pelosi (Bush) and Biden (Reagan) about their so-called “meddling” in foreign affairs to name a few.
you reap what you sow...chickens coming home to roost!
“This letter ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy,” Kerry said Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.”
Um, Johnny? Didn’t Ted Kennedy ever tell you about his hijinks with the Soviet Union?
Maybe Daniel Ortega will give him a call and console him.
Kerry and other Democrats have sent the same kind of letter under Reagan.
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