Treasonous Republicans Undermine PotUS in Letter to Tehran

[Lewkowski]

Israel isn't a part of the NPT. America would look pretty bad if it continues despite Iran being in compliance.

Assuming they aren't doing anything else bad... (like funding terrorism, threatening our allies, human rights violations (you know real ones as opposed to the European type human rights violations) are all good reason to drop a hammer whenever the hell we feel like it.

[Loki]

Assuming they aren't doing anything else bad... (like funding terrorism, threatening our allies, human rights violations (you know real ones as opposed to the European type human rights violations) are all good reason to drop a hammer whenever the hell we feel like it.

Is that why the GOP senators want to make common cause with Iranian hardliners?

[Flixy]

Assuming they aren't doing anything else bad... (like funding terrorism, threatening our allies, human rights violations (you know real ones as opposed to the European type human rights violations) are all good reason to drop a hammer whenever the hell we feel like it.

Come on, those are all things the USA has also done, come up with something better

Edit: come to think of it, a bunch of that was done by Reagan, who is idolized by a a bunch of these senators, so it's not like they care about things like funding terrorists, right?

[Lewkowski]

Is that why the GOP senators want to make common cause with Iranian hardliners?

While the enemy of my enemy sometimes means something... it doesn't always. Hell half of the Middle East hates half of the other Middle East and they all hate America.

[GGT]

I dare say; a functioning NPT is more in the interest of the USA than the relationship with Israel.

The relationship with Israel will always be important to the US. It just makes things more difficult when a PM (like Netanyahu) says or does certain things running up to their elections.

I dunno, Pelosi meeting Bashar al-Assad while Bush had explicitly cut him off from diplomatic contacts stands out. This was in 2005, when Assad was letting Al Queda into Iraq like it was Mardis Gras.

I heard about that (probably by the Liberal Media), and she was accompanying a State Dept. official from the Bush Administration....

Wanna guess how you get a future US administration not to renege? Get a treaty passed in Congress.
This letter is merely a flat-footed way to reminding the President that Congress votes on treaties.

But a new treaty isn't being negotiated! As Loki pointed out -- this falls under an existing non-proliferation treaty with several other nations involved. Saying the Republican clown-car-congress is merely being 'flat-footed' is a vast understatement.

[Hazir]

No matter how important the relationship with Israel is percieved by the USA, a functioning NPT is significantly more important. That was already true in the past and only has become more true with the USA being less dependent on oil imports from the middle east.

[Aimless]

Some men are traitors. Others just want to watch the world burn:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/28/...peal-to-trump/

We have a few Bolton fans in the house don't we?

[Aimless]

And here we are at last. Trump undermines the US's credibility and deals the first blow to the deal, permanently damaging it and decreasing global security a little bit more. Will GOP congressmen cheer him on or will they finally remember their responsibilities?

[Loki]

Should be interesting. Most of the GOP ran an anti-Iran deal platform because they figured they'd never have to make any decisions (as long as the president certified the deal).

[EyeKhan]

.. will they finally remember their responsibilities?

No.

[Aimless]

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