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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,023 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:55 PM Mar 2015

Immediately After Launching Effort to Scuttle Iran Deal, Tom Cotton to Meet with Defense Contractors

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In an open letter organized by freshman Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., 47 Senate Republicans today warned the leaders of Iran that any nuclear deal reached with President Barack Obama could expire as soon as he leaves office.

Tomorrow, 24 hours later, Cotton will appear at an “Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution” event with the National Defense Industrial Association, a lobbying and professional group for defense contractors.

The NDIA is composed of executives from major military businesses such as Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications, ManTech International, Boeing, Oshkosh Defense and Booz Allen Hamilton, among other firms.

Cotton strongly advocates higher defense spending and a more aggressive foreign policy. As The New Republic’s David Ramsey noted, “Pick a topic — Syria, Iran, Russia, ISIS, drones, NSA snooping — and Cotton can be found at the hawkish outer edge of the debate…During his senate campaign, he told a tele-townhall that ISIS and Mexican drug cartels joining forces to attack Arkansas was an ‘urgent problem.'”

On Iran, Cotton has issued specific calls for military intervention. In December he said Congress should consider supplying Israel with B-52s and so-called “bunker-buster” bombs — both items manufactured by NDIA member Boeing — to be used for a possible strike against Iran.


https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/09/upon-launching-effort-scuttle-iran-deal-senator-tom-cotton-meets-defense-contractors/

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Immediately After Launching Effort to Scuttle Iran Deal, Tom Cotton to Meet with Defense Contractors (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2015 OP
Number 1. GP6971 Mar 2015 #1
Or the drink Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2015 #2
Hadn't thought of that! n/t GP6971 Mar 2015 #3
Or a vitamin. blue neen Mar 2015 #10
He's going there obviously to pick up his check . . . brush Mar 2015 #12
So...Cotton Head, how are we supposed to ship those B-52s? Rex Mar 2015 #4
Craigslist ad, "Gently used B-52's, Tucson, Arizona. U haul. Cash only." TwilightGardener Mar 2015 #7
BAWHAHAHAHA!!! Rex Mar 2015 #8
send him to the Mideast to demand that Iran do his will wordpix Mar 2015 #14
Um, Cotton was in the Army and served a tour truebluegreen Mar 2015 #15
I stand corrected but he could go for another tour, lots of our guys have to wordpix Mar 2015 #17
His time in the Army must have been something like this Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2015 #18
I'm just glad he's getting a lot of national press truebluegreen Mar 2015 #19
I like it when they're openly crooked and bought, instead of pretending to be TwilightGardener Mar 2015 #5
"Did I make you proud?" tracks29 Mar 2015 #6
Tim is that you! Rex Mar 2015 #9
No I'm not Tim tracks29 Mar 2015 #11
love it, too wordpix Mar 2015 #13
SMH Mr Dixon Mar 2015 #16

GP6971

(31,165 posts)
1. Number 1.
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 11:36 PM
Mar 2015

Cotton is an asshole

Number 2. He doesn't even know what a B52 is. He must be thinking of the band.

brush

(53,786 posts)
12. He's going there obviously to pick up his check . . .
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:31 AM
Mar 2015

for doing his job — advocating for war with Iran so the defense contractors/war profiteers can make humongous war profits.

It'll be taped underneath his place at the table (but maybe not really).

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
4. So...Cotton Head, how are we supposed to ship those B-52s?
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 11:52 PM
Mar 2015

You think he is going to go put them back together by himself?

OH GODDDD! THE STUPID IT BURNNNSSSS USSS!!!

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
14. send him to the Mideast to demand that Iran do his will
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:18 AM
Mar 2015

none of these chickenhawks ever sign up

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
15. Um, Cotton was in the Army and served a tour
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 08:47 AM
Mar 2015

in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I would posit a brain injury, because he is also a Harvard-educated lawyer (prior to his service).

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
19. I'm just glad he's getting a lot of national press
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 07:14 PM
Mar 2015

that shows him as the whack job he is--even crazier than Ted Cruz, if that is possible. Oh, and totally in the pocket of the war profiteers: we should always call them that, instead of the defense industry, or defense contractors--it might help.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
5. I like it when they're openly crooked and bought, instead of pretending to be
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 11:56 PM
Mar 2015

honest, clean and a servant of the people. Saves me from ever wasting on such people even a modicum of respect and benefit of the doubt.

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