367 Congressmen, representing a veto-proof majority of the House of Representatives, have signed on to an open letter in which they warn President Obama against reaching any Iran deal without first giving Congress the power to approve of block the pact.
The letter reflects efforts from Congressional leaders, lobbied heavily by Israel, to try to prevent President Obama from reaching a nuclear deal of any sort with Iran.
Though it drew comparisons to the recent letter from Senate Republicans warning against the deal, that letter was addressed to Iran itself, and warned the Congress would disavow the deal after the fact. This letter, instead, is urging the president to give Congress oversight on the talks, albeit with an eye on the same end of killing the negotiations.
It is less of a legal landmine than the Senate letter, but potentially a more important letter overall, as it represents a veto-proof majority, and if all those signatories actually back legislation to that effect, the Obama Administration will struggle to do much about it.
Yeah, now suddenly Congress wants a say in foreign policy affairs.
Only when there's a danger that peace might break out and Lockheed's profits decline.
Either AIPAC has them by the short hairs or thy are beholden to some defense contractor who would like for us to eventually get in the ring with th Iranians. BHO should have told Netanyahu -"Yo Bibi–I ain't yo bitch, and neither is the US Congress."
Ever expanding — Brutally imperial
For surely this is what our government was created for, so that the white bigoted European race could initially make slavery of the blacks legal, expansion by a genocide of native Americans perfectly doable and to this day expansion by a genocide of the Palestine natives with the Jews of Israel being suckered into doing their dirty work.
No more letters. Make it a postcard: PEACE IS NOT POSSIBLE.
What's their alternative? A very expensive and most likely un-winnable war that could go nuclear. Brilliant. And how do these proponents of balanced budgets plan to pay for this mother of all boondoggles?
If there were any more need of evidence that Congress is owned by AIPAC and Israel, this provides it. If I were President, I would declare the Israeli Ambassador "persona non grata", expel him from our USA, and inform the government of Israel that we will not accept another Israeli Ambassador unless and until we receive a written guarantee that Israel will henceforth conform with existing Geneva Convention prohibitions against foreign Ambassadors interfering with the internal political affairs of the host nation — including, but not limited to, lobbying members of Congress for the purpose of interfering with our President's constitutional Article II powers to conduct the foreign policy of the United States. But I am not holding my breath to see if our President will so act in response to Israel's outrageously improper and illegal interference with his constitutional powers, since President Obama has shown himself to be in reality as submissive to AIPAC and Israel as are almost all members of Congress. It is difficult to imagine how much more blatantly Israel could control our nation's policies in whatever areas Israel chooses to intervene, but I doubt that we have yet reached the limits (if any) of this outrageous groveling of our "leaders" in Washington before their Israeli masters.
"existing Geneva Convention prohibitions against foreign Ambassadors interfering with the internal political affairs of the host nation"
No such Geneva Convention prohibitions exist. Nor are there any such provisions in the conventions actually applicable to ambassadors and other diplomats (the Vienna Conventions).
367. That's depressing. There really is no hope.
Pat Buchanan truthfully labeled the US Congress as "Israel Occupied Territory" years ago, and newly elected members have to take their obligatory indoctrination trip to Tel Aviv, and now they get their marching orders directly from Tel Aviv or the Fifth column Israel Lobby here.
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