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Kerry: Our Goal is Not Eliminating Iranian Nuclear Capability
FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 15, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 04/16/2014 5:34:12 AM PDT by SJackson

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Kerry: Our Goal is Not Eliminating Iranian Nuclear Capability

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 15, 2014 @ 7:30 pm In The Point | No Comments

Sometimes a choice of words can be extremely revealing. That was the case with Kerry’s contentious testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Under pressure, Kerry tends to slip and say revealing things. That was how the infamous, “for it and against it” clip was born.

Kerry dismissed breakout as “just having one bomb’s worth, conceivably, of material, but without any necessary capacity to put it in anything, to deliver it, to have any mechanism to do so, and otherwise.”

He then admitted that “our goal” is not eliminating nuclear capability as much as “proving that this is a peaceful program.”

The first part of that is a preview of the next stage of Obama Inc’s Iran argument. One bomb doesn’t matter. Wait until they have thirty.

The second part however is even more revealing.

“I talked with our team on the ground in Vienna yesterday,” Kerry said. “They are having serious, expert, in-depth, detailed conversations about what it takes to achieve our goal. I mean, of proving that this is a peaceful program.”

Proving the peacefulness of Iran’s program should be its responsibility. It’s not supposed to be our goal to prove that, but to find ways of confirming it.

But Kerry spoke truly. He is out to prove that it’s peaceful. Whom is he out to prove it to? To Americans.

Just as in Vietnam and Nicaragua, Kerry has once again adopted the viewpoint of the enemy and is using it to make the enemy’s argument to Americans.



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Thanks SJackson.

> He then admitted that “our goal” is not eliminating nuclear capability as much as “proving that this is a peaceful program.”

Well of course he wants to “prove” that — then everyone will roll over on the “agreement” and “treaty”.


21 posted on 04/16/2014 7:14:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SJackson
Kerry dismissed breakout as “just having one bomb’s worth, conceivably, of material, but without any necessary capacity to put it in anything, to deliver it, to have any mechanism to do so, and otherwise.”

That's absurd and he knows it. Iran test fired ballistic missiles from a barge in the Caspian Sea in the 1990s. They put a satellite in low earth orbit in 2009. If you believe the reports about Operation Merlin, they already have the blueprints for a compact warhead. All they're missing is the fissile material.

22 posted on 04/16/2014 7:28:06 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Iron Munro

Traitors and moles; America haters run my country.

PUKE


23 posted on 04/16/2014 7:42:20 AM PDT by ecomcon
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25 posted on 04/16/2014 8:34:27 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ~ Albert Einstein)
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To: cincinnati65

Actually, it’s like watching the cheerleaders (for the other team) play the NFL.


26 posted on 04/16/2014 9:07:29 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ~ Albert Einstein)
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To: SJackson

Wow. We are so screwed.


27 posted on 04/16/2014 9:13:01 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: SJackson
And,OTOH,your intention was to *help* your pals (the enemy) *win* the Vietnam War.

You will rot in hell,Mr Kerry...both for having helped the Communists win in Vietnam *and* for helping the moslem pig fornicators in Iran get a nuke.

28 posted on 04/16/2014 10:27:54 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: SunkenCiv
Well of course he wants to “prove” that — then everyone will roll over on the “agreement” and “treaty”.

Well, it absolutely WILL be a peaceful program.

Perhaps for many years.

Until it ISN'T!

By then it's too late.

At least we nuked someone right off the bat with what... our third bomb ever built? People knew we weren't messing around.
29 posted on 04/16/2014 10:50:28 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: OldSmaj

Yeah, and he “won” three Purple Hearts, too...

...or so I’ve heard...

...from him...

...about a thousand times...


30 posted on 04/16/2014 1:29:43 PM PDT by WayneS (Help Control Politician Overpopulation - Spay or Neuter Your Senator or Congressman Today!)
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To: SJackson

“I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them [the Iranians], see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes. If they weren’t willing to work a deal, then we could have put sanctions together. The president did nothing.”

John Kerry - during a Sept. 30, 2004 foreign policy debate with former President George W. Bush


31 posted on 04/16/2014 1:32:34 PM PDT by WayneS (Help Control Politician Overpopulation - Spay or Neuter Your Senator or Congressman Today!)
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To: WayneS

I believe either the Euros or Russia offered that deal some years ago, possibly both. Since the objective is nuking Israel, I wouldn’t trust either of them, Russia less than the Euros, but Iran didn’t bite. For good reason, they’re getting a much better deal from Obama


32 posted on 04/16/2014 2:27:41 PM PDT by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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To: SJackson

First he concludes in advance of any investigation that it is a peaceful program, and then his goal is to prove it. So long as he stays objective and judicious./s


33 posted on 04/16/2014 3:58:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SJackson

Gee “our” goals change a lot.

Reminds me of Lone Ranger asking “What do we do now Tonto?” and Tonto responds, “What do you mean ‘we’, white man”?

Kerry recently said it was also not “our” (USA’s) goal to have Arabs/Muslim nations recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” as UN guaranteed some 60+ years ago.


34 posted on 04/16/2014 4:41:58 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: SJackson

Kerry is a fraud. He has always believed American diplomacy is supposed to accept what our opponents say, at face value, and refuses to accept we have absolutely NO obligation to do so and do so ONLY at our risk, a risk we need not and should never take.


35 posted on 04/16/2014 5:10:52 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: SJackson

What a moroon


36 posted on 04/17/2014 8:31:21 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Iron Munro

“A meeting of the mindless”


37 posted on 04/19/2014 12:30:09 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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