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To: locogringo who wrote (842231)	3/12/2015 3:29:15 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 1577890

How Barack Obama Undercut Bush Administration’s Nuclear Negotiations With Iran Posted on March 12, 2015 by John Hinderaker in Iran, Obama Foreign Policy powerlineblog.com In 2008, the Bush administration, along with the “six powers,” was negotiating with Iran concerning that country’s nuclear arms program. The Bush administration’s objective was to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. On July 20, 2008, the New York Times headlined: “Nuclear Talks With Iran End in a Deadlock.” What caused the talks to founder? The Times explained: Iran responded with a written document that failed to address the main issue: international demands that it stop enriching uranium. And Iranian diplomats reiterated before the talks that they considered the issue nonnegotiable. The Iranians held firm to their position, perhaps because they knew that help was on the way, in the form of a new president. Barack Obama had clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3. At some point either before or after that date, but prior to the election, he secretly let the Iranians know that he would be much easier to bargain with than President Bush. Michael Ledeen reported the story last year: During his first presidential campaign in 2008, Mr. Obama used a secret back channel to Tehran to assure the mullahs that he was a friend of the Islamic Republic, and that they would be very happy with his policies. The secret channel was Ambassador William G. Miller, who served in Iran during the shah’s rule, as chief of staff for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as ambassador to Ukraine. Ambassador Miller has confirmed to me his conversations with Iranian leaders during the 2008 campaign. So Obama secretly told the mullahs not to make a deal until he assumed the presidency, when they would be able to make a better agreement. Which is exactly what happened: Obama abandoned the requirement that Iran stop enriching uranium, so that Iran’s nuclear program has sped ahead over the months and years that negotiations have dragged on. When an interim agreement in the form of a “Joint Plan of Action” was announced in late 2013, Iran’s leaders exulted in the fact that the West had acknowledged its right to continue its uranium enrichment program: “The (nuclear) program will continue and all the sanctions and violations against the Iranian nation under the pretext of the nuclear program will be removed gradually,” [Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif] added. … “Iran’s enrichment program has been recognized both in the first step and in the goals section and in the final step as well,” Zarif said. “The fact that all these pressures have failed to cease Iran’s enrichment program is a very important success for the Iranian nation’s resistance,” he added. So Obama delivered the weak agreement that he had secretly promised the mullahs. In view of these events, it is deeply ironic that the Democrats are accusing 47 Republican senators of undermining Obama’s position in the negotiations for a final agreement. Unlike Obama, they have done nothing in secret. They have published an “open letter” that is intended for the Obama administration and the American people as much as for Iran’s leaders. The letter spells out basic truths relating to our Constitution and the Senate’s role in ratifying treaties. Unlike Obama’s secret overture to Iran, the GOP senators aren’t discouraging Iran from dealing with Obama so that they can get a better deal later. On the contrary, their letter strengthens Obama’s bargaining position. He can say, “Even if I wanted to, I can’t give in on nuclear enrichment. It would never get through the Senate.” But of course, that isn’t what Obama wants to do. He wants to agree to a weak deal that will allow Iran to become a nuclear power. The Democrats are upset because the senators’ letter shines the light of truth on the Obama administration’s plan to give away the store.

To: locogringo who wrote (842231)	3/12/2015 4:11:49 PM
From: Mongo2116	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577890

The bad news is, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sits on that committee. The good news is, Rubio can’t seem to help flaunting his ignorance. The best news is, Kerry didn’t hesitate to put the senator in his place. KERRY OWNED THAT BEETCH!! LMAO!!

To: locogringo who wrote (842231)	3/12/2015 4:16:49 PM
From: Mongo2116	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Respond to of 1577890

Debunking Right Wing SCUMBAG Lies: Conservatives And The Military As far back as the American Revolution, conservatives have turned their back on the needs of the military. General George Washington’s pleas to the Continental Congress to provide clothing, food and other equipment for his soldiers were overruled by conservative politicians promoting the idea of “states’ rights” and as a result over 2,500 troops died as the result of disease, exposure and starvation. [1][2][3][4][5] At one point, Benjamin Franklin seriously considered arming American troops with bows and arrows. [3] Republican presidents tried to block the Veterans Bonus Bill, which promised a cash benefit to WWI veterans, starting with Warren G. Harding who vetoed the bill and Calvin Coolidge who tried to veto the bill again two years later, but was overridden by the Democrat led Congress.[6] In 1932 a group of 17,000 WWI veterans, known as the Bonus Army, gathered in Washington D.C. to demand immediate cash payment redemption of their service certificates as many of them had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. Under legislation passed with the approval of veterans groups in 1924, payments had been deferred, with interest, until 1945. Republican President Herbert Hoover ordered the U.S. Army to clear their campsite and Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur led the infantry and cavalry assault with fixed bayonets and the support of six tanks. Hundreds of veterans and family members were injured, two veterans were killed and more than one thousand people were gassed including ambulance workers, police, reporters and local residents. Two infants at the camp also died as a result of the gas.[7][8][17] It is noteworthy that a year later when confronted with a similar demonstration, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt sent his wife Eleanor to greet them with coffee and cake, even joining the vets in a sing-along. “Hoover sent the Army; Roosevelt sent his wife,” said one vet.[9][34] In 1959 Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower rejected a proposed extension of the G.I. Bill for veterans, believing that military service “should be an obligation of the citizenship, not a basis for government benefits.”[10][11] In 1968 Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon ran on a platform of ending the Vietnam War while secretly passing word to the Communist leaders of North Vietnam to avoid signing any agreements to end the war prior to the election. U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam went on until January of 1973 costing the U.S. more than 22,000 additional lives along with untold tens of thousands of Vietnamese lives.[12] Republican President Gerald Ford sent 41 American servicemen to their unnecessary deaths in Cambodia in 1975 during the Mayaguez affair.[13] Republican President Ronald Reagan cut and ran following a suicide bomber attack in Beirut Lebanon which killed 241 U.S. servicemen in 1983 which included the death of 200 Marines. It was the deadliest attack on the Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.[14] This takes us up to President George W. Bush who sent American troops into not one, but two dubious wars waged in defiance of military opinion at the time and with no clear overall objective or exit strategies.[15][16] Contrasted with all that is the history of Democrats and the military. For instance in 1936 the Democratic Congress finally gave WWI veterans their promised early bonus through passage of the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act.[18] In 1944 Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights,[19] the first such legislation of its kind which provided WWII veterans college or vocational education, low interest zero down payment home loans and unemployment compensation. In 1952 Truman signed the Veterans Adjustment Act into law offering benefits to Korean War veterans.[20] In 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Veterans Readjustment Benefits Act, which further improved benefits accorded to veterans.[21] Most recently, in 2010 President Barack Obama signed a landmark law repealing the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military, fulfilling one of his major campaign pledges and casting the issue as a matter of civil rights long denied.[22] President Obama said at the time of the signing: