Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest round of pleas for Congress to delay Iran sanctions to give diplomacy a chance has sparked an angry backlash from Senate hawks, and seems not to have changed anyone’s position in the split Senate.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R – IL) explicitly likened the Obama Administration to Neville Chamberlain, and insisted that the call was “anti-Israel.” He also said he believes the Senate should speed up sanctions just to spite the administration for suggesting the opposite.
In the House, where the leadership is more uniformly anti-diplomacy, the push for sanctions not only continues apace, but Rep. Ed Royce (R – CA) is proposing an additional resolution that does nothing except make it more difficult to negotiate with Iran.
While the Obama Administration is trying to sell the delay to Congress, the Israeli government is loudly lobbying the opposite side, insisting that diplomacy is unacceptable and that more sanctions are necessary to avoid a war in which they (Israel) would unilaterally attack Iran. Despite that claim, Israeli leaders have also argued the opposite, that they oppose a deal with Iran because it would make it more difficult for them to launch a war.
IAEA report on Wednesday stated that they saw “no radical change in Iran’s nuclear program” and so far its peaceful. Why no one is listening to the IAEA? This is a secret guys….. I have five pressure cookers at home, does that mean I’am going to go ballistic.
Regardless of the fact that the members of Congress are not shamed by their blatant warmongering, we need to find a way to shame them into rethinking their positions.
The position of bought and paid for Israeli shills in the Senate is becoming indefensible. When some of the veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars stand up and ask these pampered sell out windbags if they are willing to send themselves or their own children into an Iranian meatgrinder for the sake of paranoid fanatics in Israel while the President and his team are trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to this laughable non-issue – maybe they will be forced to do a shameful rethink.
Of course what Senator Kirk is doing is in fact ANTI AMERICAN and in fact treasonous as it is meant to usurp the Presidents Constitutional obligations to wage foreign relations and to PROTECT the United States from Armed Conflicts!
Union General Sherman stated that "war is all HELL" – and – Confederate General Lee stated that "it is good that war is so terrible less we grow too fond of it" . . . sadly, we Americans have ignored both Civil War generals as we are indeed very fond of warmongering! . . at least those who are warmongers have never been to war and are all too ready to send someone else's son and daughter off to wars.
Iran's nuclear program isn't the real issue. If nuclear weapons were the issue, the rogue state of
Israel built on stolen land should be held accountable for the hundreds of nukes it has. Iran is the
only country (outside Russia and China) perhaps North Korea, that the US Military Industrial
Complex can justify wasting the taxpayers' dollars. 7 billion bucks worth of US war material is
currently being sold as scrap (pennies on the dollar) in Afghanstan. I heard this BS before from
Right-wing flunkies on AIPAC's payroll. The only way Iran can get sanctions lifted is for it to
open up its country's oil reserves for foreign plunder. It turns my stomach listening to political
hacks for Israel dictate policy to the USA.
When a group ot "persons" allegedly representing humans in US States can support AIPAC resolutions 100% , (which has happened, though is may get down to 85%), yet pretend that US interests motivate them, democracy is seen as demockery.
Only sicko's want to punish a country that hasn't done anything bad to Joe, and his morning coffee.