The fervent efforts of opponents have been in vain-just last night I saw a fevered anti deal commercial on MSNBC of all places breathlessly insisting that Iran can't be tested any time without notice.
"Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced Wednesday that she would back President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran — becoming the 34th vote in the Senate in favor of the agreement and ensuring that the accord will be protected from attempts to kill it in Congress."
“No deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime,” Mikulski said. “I have concluded that this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is the best option available to block Iran from having a nuclear bomb. For these reasons, I will vote in favor of this deal. However, Congress must also reaffirm our commitment to the safety and security of Israel.”
"Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced Wednesday that she would back President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran — becoming the 34th vote in the Senate in favor of the agreement and ensuring that the accord will be protected from attempts to kill it in Congress."
“No deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime,” Mikulski said. “I have concluded that this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is the best option available to block Iran from having a nuclear bomb. For these reasons, I will vote in favor of this deal. However, Congress must also reaffirm our commitment to the safety and security of Israel.”
"The administration needed to prevent opponents of the Iran deal from reaching a two-thirds majority to override a presidential veto of legislation scuttling the deal. But the momentum to preserve the Iran accord has shifted dramatically in favor of Obama — with backers of the agreement now focusing on securing 41 votes in favor of the nuclear accord to prevent a resolution of disapproval from ever reaching Obama’s desk."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/mikulski-will-back-obamas-nuclear-deal-with-iran-213253#ixzz3kawYREhL
If you want the short version of the case for the deal just consider who is against it: Dick Cheney.
"True to form, the excerpt of the Cheneys’ book published in the Wall Street Journal delivers all the falsehoods, bizarre leaps of logic, and panicky fear-mongering we’ve come to expect from them. Cheney tried to convince America that Saddam Hussein was responsible for September 11th. He saidthat “we do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.” He said, “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
"And that very same man now writes: “The Obama agreement will lead to a nuclear-armed Iran, a nuclear-arms race in the Middle East and, more than likely, the first use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
"World War II figures prominently in Cheney’s new narrative, and not just because he, like so many other Republicans, compares Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain. For Cheney, that war isn’t just a story of what could go wrong, it’s a story of what could go right. It’s a tale of American greatness and triumph, a heroic battle in which brave American boys are sent forth to beat back evil and secure our place as the guarantor of freedom in every corner of the globe"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/08/31/dick-cheney-is-back-heres-why-the-gop-wont-listen-to-him/
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/mikulski-will-back-obamas-nuclear-deal-with-iran-213253#ixzz3kawYREhL
If you want the short version of the case for the deal just consider who is against it: Dick Cheney.
"True to form, the excerpt of the Cheneys’ book published in the Wall Street Journal delivers all the falsehoods, bizarre leaps of logic, and panicky fear-mongering we’ve come to expect from them. Cheney tried to convince America that Saddam Hussein was responsible for September 11th. He saidthat “we do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.” He said, “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
"And that very same man now writes: “The Obama agreement will lead to a nuclear-armed Iran, a nuclear-arms race in the Middle East and, more than likely, the first use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
"World War II figures prominently in Cheney’s new narrative, and not just because he, like so many other Republicans, compares Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain. For Cheney, that war isn’t just a story of what could go wrong, it’s a story of what could go right. It’s a tale of American greatness and triumph, a heroic battle in which brave American boys are sent forth to beat back evil and secure our place as the guarantor of freedom in every corner of the globe"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/08/31/dick-cheney-is-back-heres-why-the-gop-wont-listen-to-him/
In the fevered imagination of Dick Cheney it's always WWII, the Cold War, or 9/11. This is a man who is most at home hiding underground gaming out scenarios of what happens if we are hit by a nuclear weapon.
Remember those old Cold War drills when teachers used to make students hide under their desks? Even in the late 70s my third grade teacher would have these drills.
Cheney has never gotten beyond this mindset. And I do think he's crazy-in the sense that he really believes this-that at any minute we will be attacked by a nuclear bomb.
It's also important that the attempts by Netanyahu to tamper in the US political process have been rebuffed. At the end of the day as Trump himself says it's tough to see what hap[ens even if the US did vote no. The sanctions regime would still be over.
All this talk by the GOP about Obama's 'feckless foreign policy' shows that they miss Cheney's warmongering though they'd never embrace him personally-his name is too toxic.
But the larger public hardly has Cheney hunger and this is an important foreign policy breakthrough that should be celebrated.
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