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Former Sen. Dick Lugar Becomes First Republican To Support Obama Nuke Deal
Breibart ^ | 8/21/2015 | Thomas Rose

Posted on 08/21/2015 10:12:15 AM PDT by nikos1121

Former Indiana Senator Richard G. Lugar became the first high profile Republican this week to endorse President Obama’s hugely controversial nuclear deal with Iran’s revolutionary Islamic government. If Congress is unable to override an expected presidential veto, in addition to $150 billion in immediate sanctions relief, the deal will guarantee the same radical Iranian regime that openly calls for the annihilation of an entire nation state both the legal right and practical ability to develop an industrial scale nuclear weapons infrastructure along with the intercontinental ballistic missile systems necessary to deliver nuclear payloads anywhere on earth. Speaking on MSNBC, the 83-year-old former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee praised the Iran deal as the “best available option” for restraining the world’s foremost terror supporting state. Exactly how it would restrain Iran, the voter-retired senator did not say. Lugar’s comments, together with an op-ed co-written with former Democrat Senator J. Bennett Johnston, praised Obama’s deal and harshly attacked Democratic Senator Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) 2% for being the first Democrat to break with the President. By becoming the first Republican figure to openly endorse a deal opposed by a large majority of American, and universally rejected by every single elected member of Lugar’s own Republican party, the octogenarian Hoosier continues his career practice of espousing foreign policy positions nearly identical to those promoted by America’s left-leaning foreign policy establishment clique. Lugar, warmly referred to as “Obama’s’ favorite senator” by the mainstream press, first rose to national attention in the late 1960’s when, as Mayor of Indianapolis, Lugar became known as Richard Nixon’s “favorite mayor.”

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To: nikos1121

I’m not surprised, but nonetheless I must add:

F#ck you, DICK!


41 posted on 08/21/2015 12:04:31 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: nikos1121

senile old fart..


42 posted on 08/21/2015 12:09:22 PM PDT by ken5050 ("Hillary Clinton is the NY Jets of American politics"......Salena Zito)
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To: nikos1121

Senility setting in.


43 posted on 08/21/2015 12:10:38 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: nikos1121

Dick who?


44 posted on 08/21/2015 12:24:44 PM PDT by CityCenter (Walker, Cruz in any order.)
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To: nikos1121

He wasn’t high profile even when he wasn’t former senator.


45 posted on 08/21/2015 12:51:55 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: nikos1121

That is why he is not in power anymore.


46 posted on 08/21/2015 12:54:26 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: nikos1121

“Former...”


47 posted on 08/21/2015 2:43:15 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: nikos1121

Not at all.


48 posted on 08/21/2015 2:45:27 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: nikos1121

Is this old, demented fool still alive? If so, is he in an institution for the addled?


49 posted on 08/21/2015 2:52:22 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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