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Kerry: It Was ‘Strategic Thinking,’ Not a ‘Concession,’ to Leave Missiles Out of Iran Nuclear Deal
Cybercast News Service ^ | February 19, 2018 | 4:21 AM ES | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 02/20/2018 7:51:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

Setting aside Iran’s ballistic missile threats, support for terrorism and regional destabilization when crafting the nuclear deal was not a concession but “strategic thinking” on the part of the negotiators, former Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday.

As he has done frequently since leaving office, Kerry used the opportunity of the Munich Security Conference to defend, at length, the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal which President Trump has threatened to abandon.

Kerry said that the U.S. recognized that the agreement being negotiated was not dealing with other problematic issues, including human rights abuses, missiles, arms shipments, support for Hezbollah, and its interference in Iraq and Yemen.

Although those were legitimate concerns, he said, the decision to leave them off the agenda was taken “not as a concession, but as a matter of strategic thinking.”

Kerry characterized that thinking as arising from a realization that the George W. Bush administration’s approach — demanding that Iran stop all uranium-enrichment — had gone “nowhere,” and a recognition that the problem could not be resolved through a military option. …

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1 posted on 02/20/2018 7:51:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Is he nuts or what!?


2 posted on 02/20/2018 7:53:31 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God did help the Republic, can we keep it.)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

I can’t figure out the words as to how to respond to something this stupid.


3 posted on 02/20/2018 7:53:58 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Empireoftheatom48

He’s been a whore for 50 years now.


4 posted on 02/20/2018 7:54:41 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Empireoftheatom48

I’ll say evil.

More and more, the reverse of Hanlon’s Razor is proving true, to wit that when it comes to the left, one must never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.


5 posted on 02/20/2018 7:56:06 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Kerry “Got Peace in Our Time” at the Munich Security Conference .


6 posted on 02/20/2018 7:56:14 PM PST by Phosgood (Send in the Clowns...but Wait, they're here!! >..<)
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To: Olog-hai

I nominate him for ‘Mr. Swamp 2018.’


7 posted on 02/20/2018 7:58:58 PM PST by posterchild
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To: Phosgood

Can I get me a peace in our time?


8 posted on 02/20/2018 7:59:44 PM PST by posterchild
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To: Olog-hai

This guy is dumber than a box of rox, and rox, my apologies for insulting you.


9 posted on 02/20/2018 8:03:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I think you did just fine.

Words fail...


10 posted on 02/20/2018 8:04:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Olog-hai

What a lying son of a bitch


11 posted on 02/20/2018 8:06:32 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: Republican Wildcat

One word: Traitors


12 posted on 02/20/2018 8:06:43 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

John Kerry has is now, and has for 50 years been a TRAITOR.


13 posted on 02/20/2018 8:07:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai
the George W. Bush administration’s approach — demanding that Iran stop all uranium-enrichment — had gone “nowhere,”

So the solution is to allow them to enrich only some?
14 posted on 02/20/2018 8:09:41 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Empireoftheatom48

That rice in his butt must have left a bacteria that is eating his brain.


15 posted on 02/20/2018 8:10:01 PM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, they ARE strategic missiles.....


16 posted on 02/20/2018 8:10:26 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Empireoftheatom48
Is he nuts or what!?

Probably but mostly he just hates America. He always has.

American Patriots Against John Kerry

The 1970 meeting that John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists violated U.S. law, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue.

Kerry met with representatives from “both delegations” of the Vietnamese (North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry’s own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry’s meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws forbidding private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s.

According to Corsi, Kerry violated U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. “A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,” Corsi told CNSNews.com.

By Kerry’s own admission, he met in 1970 with delegations from the North Vietnamese communist government and discussed how the Vietnam Warshould be stopped.


17 posted on 02/20/2018 8:10:34 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

How about, Liar, liar you’re pants are on fire, you’re nose is longer than a telephone wire!
Kerry defends total ineptitude and appeasement, and he knows the truth.


18 posted on 02/20/2018 8:13:18 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: depressed in 06

No, the mother effer shot himself in the foot in Nam and blew what little brains he had out.


19 posted on 02/20/2018 8:15:35 PM PST by crz
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To: Olog-hai

Worst deal in the history of mankind.


20 posted on 02/20/2018 8:16:38 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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