Posted on 05/07/2018 3:47:14 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R., Texas) on Sunday said that he would advise President Donald Trump against pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.
Thornberry, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, appeared on "Fox News Sunday" to discuss his position on the Iran nuclear deal and what he would advise Trump to do in the next week.
"Should President Trump pull out of the Iran nuclear deal next Saturday– by next Saturday, even if the Europeans decide to stay in it and continue to do business with Tehran?" Host Chris Wallace asked.
"I would counsel against it. I was opposed to the Iran deal. I thought it was a bad deal. Iran got most of the benefit up front with relief of sanctions and a plane load of cash that President Obama sent over there, so we lost a lot of our leverage," Thornberry said. "I'm not necessarily opposed to sticking with this deal forever, but we need to have a clear idea about next steps if we are going to pull out and especially given the larger context of Iran's aggressive activity in the Middle East."
Later in the interview, Wallace asked Thornberry whether he thought that the Iran deal was "fixable" and if so, should Trump stay in it if he can get some ad-ons with European allies.
"I think these ad-ons would be very important. Is it possible? It's hard to say until you try, so maybe the best thing is for the president to delay a bit more his deadline of this month and put the French and the British up to the test about whether it is possible to get this other sort of agreement," Thornberry said.
He went on to agree with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement earlier this week on Iranians and how they tried to cheat on the Iran nuclear deal.
"One of the other things they are doing is they're shipping in arms to Hezbollah right on Israel's doorstep and the temperature is being turned up there. The possibility of conflict is probably greater than it's been in quite some time and it will be very important for the international community to be united to prevent that conflict," Thornberry said.
He goes on to back pedal a bit. This was not an unconditional no vote.
Who talks like this? This walking turd would "counsel" DJT? What a clod.
And his solution is?
Well Senator Dipstick, you thought it was such a bad Idea before that you went along with procedures which implemented this WITHOUT you performing your constitutionally defined duty to ratify it into a treaty.
Methinks thou protesteth too much about a stinker you distanced yourself from.
but we need to have a clear idea about next steps if we are going to pull out and especially given the larger context of Iran’s aggressive activity in the Middle East.”
You’re opposed to the deal, but you don’t want out of it. I guess it was real easy to voice your opposition, when you knew it didn’t matter, b/c of obama. But, now that you actually have to stand up for something and articulate, it’s a little more waffling. What a punk. Amazing that these are the people that represent us in Congress.
Out of curiosity, has Thornberry requested a meeting with the President and Gen Mattis, to discuss this? Maybe there are clear ideas about the next steps to be taken, instead of just assuming that no one knows anything, about anything. Maybe he could just STFU and not run his mouth, without first talking to the President, about crap he doesn’t know anything about.
I’m hoping that we pull out of the train wreck deal and wait to see what the Iranians do. If they feel froggy and jump, I’m advising that instead of targeting military bases and navy bases, they target the Iranian Parliament buildings and take out their government.
Go, Old Skool on them and end this crap once and for all.
John McCain, the GOP chairman of the senate armed services Committee, should give Trump a suggestion.
So what if they cheat????
........................RINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R., Texas) owns a lot of Boeing stock.
America worships mamon.
Big globalist corporations back the Iran deal.
They are making a fortune on Iranian petro dollars in return for sales of equipment and technology.
As Saul Alinsky said, he could buy a rope from a capitalist today that he would use to hang him tomorrow.
Agreed.
How do these solid Red States keep electing dweebs and RINO’s?
Dirty money running dirty politicians?
It’s high time that Americans get to thoroughly examine the source of every dime these folks, their friends and family receive.
If they don’t like it, then how do they justify their interest in Trump’s financial history?
Texas oil outfits can make a lot of bucks in Iran while Iran prepares to become a worldwide power. This guy is a loser.
All the idiots assume that President Trump is an idiot too. The cannot help it. They have been immersed in idiocy for years. Its all they know.
Our “leaders” class is replete with duplicitous degenerates.
Thornberry sounds very GOP establishment open borders globalist dirtbag POS to me,
What part of “We will kill you” that Thornberry does not understand from the Iranians?
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