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Originally Posted by Guest
The idea of the Review Act is to go into debate of an act with an open mind. Senator Ron Wyden is in the Senate obviously. The Senate does contain reasonable people from both parties. Senators may have a good reason to have their nose a little out of joint.
However, the House is a horse of a different color. Mr. Boehner showed his true colors, when he invited President Net tin yahoo (no disrespect, but my spelling really sucks) speak before a joint session of Congress. The House Republicans never had any intention of approved the agreement with Iran.
We keep on coming back to the fact that we think we are the only one that negotiated with Iran. There is a 90 day period for the UN agreement to take effect. There is a 60 day period for Congress to act. If Congress overrides the veto, we will be standing alone. So, why wait for Congress approval before getting an UN vote?
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Just going to give my thoughts very quickly on the entire thing which is over because that is how it is.
We had sanctions. The UN had sanctions. They were working. That is why Iran agreed to come to the table. We set parameters for those negotiations and
changed each and every one of them to the benefit of Iran.
Congress wanted input. The President did not want to give it. Congress won that on a vote. Israel, the single most affected state on this thing wanted to be involved or at least have an opportunity to speak their mind. The President did not want that, thus the Speaker invited him here simply to give his opinions to the congress.
We had partners,
every single one of which had very strong reasons to lift the sanctions but needed this deal to do that.
We said recently that no way would we allow the arms embargo from the UN to be lifted. Our President needed to apply pressure to the congress and thus went directly to the UN to have them lifted. They were lifted,
Thus congress is now gong to be the bad guy one way or the other and the President has what he wants......not stopping nuclear building, simply postponing. ALL the neighbors in the region are opposed. Those who are with the US are those who will trade and make much money off the deal, including Russia.
We now have Syria looking to build up arms. Israel re looking at all their options and announcing they will not consult with the US as in the past but if they feel threatened will take unilateral action.
The terrorists in the middle east, sans ISIS so they say, are in joy. The only state in the ME that supports them now can do it openly and arm them, because remember we took that off the table because Iran asked us to.
We are screwed....those or some of those will rave about the ability of the President to box in his own congress while allowing Iran to celebrate taking us to the cleaners. He wanted the deal,
despite caving on every requirement he had before beginning, and he got it just as he gets it all, by manipulation and being shrewd, something we don't see much in a President when discussing foreign affairs, especially in a situation this serious.
So let the strong party democrats celebrate. Let the nuclear race begin in the ME. Let the arms flow being TO Iran from Russia. Let the money flow to Iran from France and Germany for arms and oil.
Next thing, and I am not joking will be when Iran cheats and they WILL cheat, Obama will blame someone else....not him. When the arms race begins it will be anyones fault but his.