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UCmeNdc

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 11:56 AM Jul 2015

Republican presidential hopefuls blast agreement with Iran

Surprise! Republican presidential wannabes—and a defeated GOP candidate from 2008—are ripping the agreement with Iran and the negotiators who produced it.

First off, there's this guy, known for singing "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" during his campaign for the presidency seven years ago:

Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican presidential nominee defeated by Obama in 2008, said the pact was built “on the belief that somehow the Iranian government will fundamentally change in the next several years.” That is “delusional and dangerous,” McCain said.

Has-beens aren't the only objectors. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the guy oddsmakers give the edge to for the GOP nomination, had this to say:

The nuclear agreement announced by the Obama Administration today is a dangerous, deeply flawed, and short sighted deal.
A comprehensive agreement should require Iran to verifiably abandon – not simply delay – its pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability. [...]

This isn’t diplomacy—it is appeasement.




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/14/1402175/-Republican-presidential-hopefuls-blast-agreement-with-Iran
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