Posted on 03/11/2015 2:19:33 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Secretary of State John Kerry spent five minutes of a Senate hearing excoriating a group of 47 Republicans who sent a highly unusual letter to the government of Iran warning that Congress could modify the terms of any nuclear deal it negotiates with the White House.
'This letter raises questions of judgment and policy,' he insisted, before Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker cut him off and scolded him for delivering 'a well-written speech.'
'It's not a speech! This is not a speech!' Kerry erupted. 'This is a statement about the impact of this irresponsible letter. The letter does not have legal authority, and I think you have to ask what people are trying to accomplish.'
Kerry later staked out a position that lawmakers have no standing to change any nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Iran because it won't be 'legally binding' in the first place.
'We've been clear from the beginning: We're not negotiating a, quote, "legally binding" plan,' Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
'We're negotiating a plan that will have in it the capacity for enforcement. We don't even have diplomatic relations with Iran right now.'
He blamed Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton and 46 other GOP senators for signing a letter on Monday that 'ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of American foreign policy.'
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I’ve always noticed how after they get their way and the murders begin, they just walk away like nothing happened. Kerry is looking for another fix.
Kerry is insane. Always was.
Maybe someone can do an autotune video of the melt down.
“Hide your wife. Hide your kids.”
The great thing about kerry is that he can supply the Katsup for the video — so real blood would not need to be shed “Breakdown at the Senate committee Corral “ starting j f Kerry and ? Maybe Jane Fonda, maybe ?
I kept looking for the satire link.
I like the way you think. If you decide to run for Congress, you’ve got my vote.
Barry and Johnny are about to become undone by the Hillary email exposé. Just wait 'til we see what comes outand git yer popcorn ready.
A speech from Yaaawn should be cruel and unusual punishment in the fashion of Jinjus Kahn.
Pray America is waking
I thought he had no cojones, but it takes some to get up and make a statement like that in light of his own history.
How does he live with himself? If I had to do that, the cognitive dissonance would make my head explode.
Didn’t Kerry throw away his service medals and denounce the war in Vietnam, give aid and comfort to the enemies of the USA? Isn’t this why this a-hole isn’t President?
Shameless traitor John Kerry believe he can fool most of the American people all the time.
February 13, 1970 -- Candidate Kerry tells the Harvard Crimson, "I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations," and that he wants "to almost eliminate CIA activity."
Late May or early June, 1970 -- John and Julia Kerry travel to Paris on a private trip. Kerry meets with Madam Win Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG) -- the political wing of the Vietcong -- and with representatives of Hanoi who were in Paris for the peace talks.
April 22, 1971 -- John Kerry testifies on behalf of the VVAW before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. He claims that American soldiers had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan..." and that these acts were "not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." Kerry also accuses the U.S. military of "rampant" racism and of being "more guilty than any other body" of violating the Geneva Conventions, supports "Madame Binh's points" when asked to recommend a peace proposal, and states that any reprisals against the South Vietnamese after an American withdrawal would be "far, far less than the 200,000 a year who are murdered by the United States of America."
Almost as if he is intentionally trying to weaken the USA.
Careful, horseface.
You’ll undo all that plastic surgery.
I really like Sen. Cotton.
He is a hypocrite also. This letter is mild opposition to the Bammy compared to the traitors Harkin and Kerry going to Nicaragua and visiting Ortega in the 80s to support him against President Reagan.
Corker has his lips locked too tightly to Bammy’s butt to point out much of anything.
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