A deal to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapons has come about through diplomacy with no shock and awe, but Republican celebrities are not happy with it.
South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham called the Iran nuclear deal a “death sentence for the state of Israel.”
“They don’t want a power plant, they want a bomb. So every Arab nation is going to have to say the following about 15 years from now, they’re going to have a nuclear weapon, so we better get started on ours.”
Rick Santorum warned. “We’ve given them legitimacy in the international community, something that they deeply wanted here, and they’ve done basically nothing in exchange for that. They come out of this a much, much stronger and I believe more virulent state with very, very few responsibilities. In fact, nothing in this deal curbs their terrorism. There’s nothing that says that they have to cease any type of terrorist activity.”
Mike Huckabee said, “Shame on the Obama administration for agreeing to a deal that empowers an evil Iranian regime to carry out its threat to ‘wipe Israel off the map’ and bring ‘death to America.’ John Kerry should have long ago gotten up on his crutches, walked out of the sham talks, and went straight to Jerusalem to stand next to Benjamin Netanyahu and declared that America will stand with Israel and the other sane governments of the Middle East instead of with the terrorist government of Iran”.
Then there’s Marco Rubio with, “President Obama has consistently negotiated from a position of weakness, giving concession after concession to a regime that has American blood on its hands, holds Americans hostage, and has consistently violated every agreement it ever signed. I expect that a significant majority in Congress will share my skepticism of this agreement and vote it down.”
Bobby Jindal chimed in with, “If Secretary Clinton goes along with President Obama’s efforts to appease Iran, it will make our enemies stronger, endanger our ally Israel and trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that will destabilize the region”.
Ben Carson said, “Without anywhere, anytime surprise inspections, a full accounting of Iran’s past secret nuclear arms pursuits, elimination of Iran’s uranium stockpiles and the lifting of any sanctions only upon verification of Iranian compliance (means) this is not a good deal, but a recipe for disaster and the first fateful step toward a frenzied nuclear arms race in the Middle East”.
To Scott Walker this deal “will be remembered as one of America’s worst diplomatic failures.”
Jeb Bush stated, “The nuclear agreement announced by the Obama administration today is a dangerous, deeply flawed, and short sighted deal. Based on initial reports and analysis, it appears this agreement does not ‘cut off all of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon’ — in fact, over time, it paves Iran’s path to a bomb. Most of the key restrictions last for only 10 to 15 years. Even before the deal expires, it could allow Iran to develop an industrial-scale enrichment program and continue its R&D on advanced centrifuges and development of an ICBM.”
Carly Fiorina told CBS’ “This Morning”, “Unfortunately, he says it makes a nuclear arms race less likely. Our Arab allies have said just the opposite. So has Israel, so there is reason for suspicion here that’s not partisan. You have a whole set of Arab allies — Saudi Arabia and Israel, as we know, don’t agree on very much — but they do agree this is a bad deal.”
Mitch McConnell feels, “It’s going to be a very hard sell. We already know that it’s going to leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state. It appears as if the administration’s approach to this was to reach whatever agreement the Iranians are willing to enter into.”
John Boehner said this past Sunday, “From everything that’s leaked from these negotiations, the administration’s backed away from almost all of the guidelines that they set up for themselves. No deal is better than a bad deal.”
But as President Ronald Reagan explained, “My purpose was… to send a signal that the United States was prepared to replace the animosity between [the U.S. and Iran] with a new relationship”.
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Yep, Israel was going to ship arms to Iran that had already threatened to wipe it off the map.
According to notes taken by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on December 7, 1985, Saint Ronald Reagan was aware of the transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles. In November 1986 Reagan admitted that the weapons transfers had occurred.
A lot of the documents that could have answered a lot of questions about this deal were destroyed or withheld from investigators by Reagan administration officials.
On March 4, 1987, Reagan admitted, “what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages. My purpose was… to send a signal that the United States was prepared to replace the animosity between [the U.S. and Iran] with a new relationship… At the same time we undertook this initiative, we made clear that Iran must oppose all forms of international terrorism as a condition of progress in our relationship. The most significant step which Iran could take, we indicated, would be to use its influence in Lebanon to secure the release of all hostages held there”.
That trade consisted of
• August 20, 1985 – 96 TOW anti-tank missiles
• September 14, 1985 – 408 more TOWs
• November 24, 1985 – 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
• February 17, 1986 – 500 TOWs
• February 27, 1986 – 500 TOWs
• May 24, 1986 – 508 TOWs, 240 Hawk spare parts
• August 4, 1986 – More Hawk spares
• October 28, 1986 – 500 TOWs
U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese admitted that profits from weapons sales to Iran were made available to assist the Contra rebels.
And Oliver North, the guy who likes to question President Obama’s patriotism was a military aide to the National Security Council and chief negotiator of the deal. His defense for his actions was that he did what he did because he was “under orders from his superiors.”
In spite of being convicted of obstructing Congress and unlawfully destroying government documents, under George H.W. Bush, who claimed he knew nothing of weapons going to Iran, North’s conviction was erased on the grounds that he had acted strictly out of patriotism.
And, on Christmas Eve 1992, Bush issued presidential pardons to all indicted in the scandal.
Shame on President Obama for attempting to build a relationship with Iran through diplomacy when it is now clear the best way, the Ronald Reagan way, would be to give them weapons, and involve Israel in the process.