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Former VP Cheney Likens Iran Deal to Munich Pact
inn ^ | 8/30/15 | Elad Benari

Posted on 08/30/2015 9:36:12 PM PDT by Nachum

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz are blasting the nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers, likening it to the Munich agreement signed in and which paved the way to World War II.

The harsh criticism of the deal came in a joint op-ed the two wrote for The Wall Street Journal on Friday.

The two write that “despite the explosive spread of terrorist ideology and organizations, the establishment of an Islamic State caliphate in the heart of the Middle East, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and increasing threats from Iran, China, North Korea and Russia, President [Barack] Obama has departed from this 75-year, largely bipartisan tradition of ensuring America’s pre-eminence and strength.”

Obama, the Cheneys argue, “has abandoned Iraq, leaving a vacuum that is being tragically and ominously filled by our enemies. He is on course to forsake Afghanistan as well.”

“For seven decades, both Republican and Democratic presidents have understood the importance of ensuring the supremacy of America’s nuclear arsenal,” they charge. “President Obama seems not to. He has advocated cutting our nuclear force in the naïve hope that this will persuade rogue regimes to do the same. He has imposed limits on our ability to modernize and maintain nuclear weapons. He has reduced the nation’s missile-defense capabilities.”

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TOPICS: Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1938; afghanistan; bomb; cheney; dhimmitude; dickcheney; germany; iran; iraq; israel; kerry; lebanon; lizcheney; munich; nuclear; obama; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; terror; waronterror; worldwar3; yemen
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To: Nachum

Obama has abandoned Iraq, leaving a vacuum that is being tragically and ominously filled by our enemies.

He is on course to forsake Afghanistan as well.


21 posted on 08/31/2015 6:10:49 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: SJackson

*SIGH* I sure miss that man!


22 posted on 08/31/2015 6:39:52 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Nachum

Dick Cheney is one of the greatest statesmen of our time when it comes to understanding and advocating American interests. Had he been president, American interests in the Middle East would have been much better protected than they were under GWB. And American achievements in the Middle East under Cheney would have been less susceptible to erosion under the disastrous and disgraceful administration that followed.


23 posted on 08/31/2015 12:12:16 PM PDT by FJB
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To: lewislynn

“So we should send them the materials they need then?”

Why in the world would you want to do that? Unless of course those materials were sent fully assembled and set to detonate upon arrival. But certainly one would hope that would be a last resort.

No, rather than sending them the materials as you are suggesting, perhaps there needs to be consequences for them building a nuke other than words. I do not support giving Iran the first strike before any action is taken by the U.S. or Israel.

So let me ask you a question. Do you think Iran’s desire to acquire a nuke is to use it as a deterrent against potential aggression from other nations? I don’t think they have the ability to restrain themselves from using such a weapon, either directly, or through a proxy.


24 posted on 08/31/2015 12:44:39 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Nachum; FlingWingFlyer; DoughtyOne; dfwgator; Slings and Arrows; Liz; LottieDah; Yehuda; ...
Dick Cheney and daughter Liz appeared on Rush Limbaugh's radio show today, talking up their new book on American exceptionalism and history of world leadership, targeted toward millennial readers.

Their comparison of the Obama Iran deal to the Munich pact has much validity, though that notion has been widespread since the deal was announced and hardly originated with the Cheneys.

25 posted on 08/31/2015 1:46:02 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

true.
differences between Obama/Iran and Munich...

1. Chamberlain was a subject/citizen and patriot of the country he led.
2. Great Britain was very weak and many military experts said it could not handle war with Germany, that time at least was needed to prepare.
3. Munich did not enable Hitler to acquire nuclear bombs (though of course he later went hard to work trying to make them)
4. Munich did not reward Hitler with $150 Billion
5. Hitler was at least talking like he ‘wanted peace’ — an obvious deception, even then, yes.... but he played the part of a peacemaker with Chamberlain (unlike Iran which to this very day is still averring its plans to destroy USA)

but yes, Munich is probably the best comparison available
.. its just that Munich was, for all its disasterous short-sightedness — not nearly as dangerous as what Obama is doing to America TODAY
4.


26 posted on 08/31/2015 2:06:07 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: faithhopecharity; All
Thanks for pointing out those dissimilarities between the Munich Pact and the Obama Iran deal.

The bottom line is that the Obama Iran deal is even more dangerous than the Munich Pact proved to be!

27 posted on 08/31/2015 3:53:35 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: faithhopecharity

In short, Chamberlain was naive. Obama is a deliberate saboteur.


28 posted on 08/31/2015 4:27:13 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks


29 posted on 08/31/2015 8:26:15 PM PDT by GOPJ (Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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