Posted on 03/15/2015 7:56:46 AM PDT by Dave346
Secretary of State John Kerry isn't planning on asking forgiveness any time soon for Senate Republicans' recent letter to Iranian leaders, saying the missive contained not only "false information" but that it was "directly calculated to interfere."
When asked whether he would take responsibility for the letter in the multi-party negotiations with foreign leaders over Iran's nuclear program, Kerry said "not on your life."
"I'm not going to apologize for the unconstitutional, un-thought-out action by somebody who's been in the United States Senate for 60-something days," Kerry told CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan in an interview Sunday on "Face the Nation," referring to the letter's primary author, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. "That's just inappropriate."
The country's lead diplomat said the letter was an obvious attempt to meddle in foreign affairs in an unprecedented way.
"The effect and the intent of the author was to basically say, 'Don't do this deal,'" Kerry said. "It's like--you know--giving people a grade on a test before the test is even written, let alone given. It's wrong, it's unprecedented, and I hope it hasn't made it very difficult here."
The former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee decried the "calculated" attempt to "interfere" with negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
"It specifically inserts itself directly to the leader of another country saying, 'Don't negotiate with these guys because we're going to change this,'" Kerry said.
Kerry also responded to Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, who, though he didn't sign on with his fellow Republicans, recently wrote his own message to the White House expressing his concern over the interference of the United Nations.
"I talked to him about it the other day and made it clear we are negotiating under the auspices, to some degree, of the United Nations," Kerry said. "So just as Congress has to vote to lift sanctions, so Congress does have the vote, so does the United Nations have to lift some sanctions at some point in time."
It's not the first time the secretary of state has condemned Senate Republicans over the letter meant to interfere with the sensitive talks. He has previously said he was in "utter disbelief" of their "unprecedented" actions, but he hopes that the chance for diplomacy with Tehran has not been hindered.
"Iran has said its program is peaceful. In the time that we've had, the fundamental framework of the decisions necessary to prove your program is peaceful should be possible," Kerry said. "If it's peaceful, let's get it done. And my hope is that in the next days that will be possible.
"If they moved along the road to decide suddenly to break out and rush to try to have enough fissile material to build a bomb, we have a number of options available to us," the secretary of state said, though he did not specify a recourse. "President Obama has said they are all on the table."
This traitorous fool should apologize for his disgusting hatred of this country, starting with his deplorable Viet Nam war anti-American behavior. He’s one of those people you just wish would go away.
Well on his behalf... Hanoi John has a whole laundry list of traitorous actions that he should have apologized for long ago. Asking Kerry to apologize for the completely appropriate action of fifty concerned senators seems a little like asking Jeffrey Dahmer to apologize for the selection of chocolates produced by the Ambrosia Chocolate Co. where he worked.
Sen. Cotton did not shoot himself in the foot to get a medal to take home, so he could throw it away later on camera in his fake green fatigues after consulting with Teddy “waitress sandwich,chappaquidick chauffer,drunken moron” Kennedy.
Nor has Cotton spent his life with a silver spoon in his mouth, in his european mansions, gigoloing for a new rich wife, and finding one in Theresa Heinz— the idiot woman the late Sen. John Heinz married. Cotton hasn’t spent his life with “other people’s money”.
Kerry “f’n moron”
This show was disgusting. Bob Schieffer was in full attack mode on Tom Cotton, fully wipe-the-butt mode with Kerry, then Manchin came in to make it 3:1. Cotton kept throwing Kerry’s own testimony just a few days earlier in front of the Senate in his face, so to speak, in answering Schieffer.
So, did the commandante conduct “free and open elections”? NO! and you know who certified they didn’t? .... Jimmmaaaaah Cahhtahh, the maven of democracy from Saudi/Joe-jah.
One stupid monkey after another.
Note the signatories to this letter— Jim Wright (mr. bookseller with congress funds buying and real estate crook), James Boland (the Boland Amendment that was considered “sacred” such that going around it by the Commander in Chief was considered an impeachable offense- ie Iran Contra successful efforts to get this a@@hole out).
Ortega made it back in, to reclai all the estancias his thugs took. Just as in Venezuela chavez siezed private farms for his mugabe thugs. Nice, huh?
Along with Tom Harkin and looks like the ho Bianca Jagger. LOL! Murdered a whole lot of people.
The only teachable moment here is at least doofus Kerry didn’t back down like so many pubes. Maybe we can clone his yarbles to a few of our Republican cupcakes.
Kerry is 110% wrong as usual
No one cares what that back stabbing traitor says.......
Are you sure he was not? One of the rumors of his DD214 was that it was changed by Jimmy Carter.
Don’t know if it is true, but when he want to Paris...to talk with the N. Vietnamese delegation, while wearing a uniform, seems a bit more interesting than a letter restating congressional powers and the limitation of presidential ones.
DK
We won’t know but his latest statement of discharge 6 years after he should have gotten one leads one to believe his less than honorable one was upgraded under Carters Amnesty.
IMPEACH OBAMA FOR HOLDING SECRET TALKS WITH IRAN!!!!
The pompous degenerate kerry is on the wrong side of everything...nothing new.
John “always wrong” Kerry.
Better yet:
John Fail Kerry. (has an eff in it)
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