Beware comforting messages on Iran deal (House Foreign Affairs Chairman)

OC Register ^ | July 8, 2015 4:39 p.m. | Rep. Ed Royce,

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The latest spin is that Iran will, at some point, own up to its secret history of nuclear development. We’re also told that international inspectors will get all the access they need to Iran’s facilities. Never mind that Iran’s supreme leader said recently that his military sites would be off-limits. Just relax, the administration tells us.

I might be more willing to believe these comforting messages if I hadn’t heard them before. About 20 years ago, I was on a panel with Wendy Sherman, then working with President Clinton on a “framework agreement” to stop North Korea from getting a nuclear bomb. I was a new member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. But common sense told me that the Clinton administration was selling a bad deal, one riddled with loopholes.

Sherman dismissed my concerns. The Clinton administration told us that the genius of the North Korea deal was that it did not rely on us trusting this terrorist state. President Clinton told the American public: “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies and good for the safety of the entire world.”

Eight years later, the U.S. discovered the North Koreans were lying. They were able to secretly enrich uranium. In 2006, North Korea detonated its first bomb and threatens the U.S. and our allies to this day.

The Iran negotiations look to me like Groundhog Day. The script – and even a key member of the cast – is the same. I take no comfort that Wendy Sherman is today the lead negotiator on Iran, offering the same words of comfort. And we should take no comfort that President Obama, like President Clinton, is willing to reward a regime of terror with an agreement that looks as flimsy as our North Korean mistake.

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The GOP will get right on it, right?

No.

The GOP will embrace it like ObamaCARE, and ObamaTRADE,
and Amnesty, while pretending they are against it.
And they will continue to coverup the IRS abuse
and the Benghazi ATrocity (both which they enabled).

There is one party in the USA, and it is aligned
with al Qaeda (”rebels”) and Iran’s mullahs.

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Wendy Sherman IS the Lead Negotiator here? No wonder the Iranians have been so arrogant, they’ve learned from past history that another ‘Rat President will give them exactly what they want. This is so surreal, I’m really dumbfounded at the world we live in today.