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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2015, 03:27 PM Aug 2015

Democrats voting against the Iran deal are endorsing the Republican candidate in 2016.

The LieberDems who are voting against a diplomatic solution with Iran (and thus making military confrontation and diplomatic isolation of the United States a certainty) are firmly aligning themselves with the foreign policy vision of whomever the Republican nominee will be, whether it's Jeb!, Rubio, Walker, Cruz, or Trump--and firmly against Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley or Biden--on the single most definitive and important foreign policy issue of our time.

Jeb! will be able to say to Clinton, or to Bernie "Your former colleagues from New York have gone on the record as saying your approach would needlessly endanger Israel and encourage terrorism."

That's the level of treachery with the LieberDem, PNACrats, and AIPACrats who are helping the Republicans push for war and against diplomacy.

There is no "agree to disagree" here. These people (thus far Nita Lowey, Ted Deutch, Grace Meng, Kathleen Rice, and Steve Israel, but probably will be more) are traitors to the party.

Remember "Joe is with us on every issue but the war?"

How did that turn out?

There's a pro-war, anti-diplomacy 5th column inside the party conspiring to repeat the disaster of Iraq in 2003, and they need a Republican president to pull it off. And they're doing their damnest to make it happen.

Nominating Obama in 2008 was an important first step in purging the war party extremists from our ranks, but the work is not done.

Note that NOT A SINGLE DEMOCRAT WHO VOTED AGAINST BUSH'S WAR has announced their opposition to this agreement.

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Democrats voting against the Iran deal are endorsing the Republican candidate in 2016. (Original Post) geek tragedy Aug 2015 OP
I'm really surprised and disappointed at choie Aug 2015 #1
Lowey voted for the Iraq war, so she's one of those Democrats geek tragedy Aug 2015 #2
Not a single Democrat who voted against the IWR... bvar22 Aug 2015 #3
that is false. Hilda Solis, his first Secretary of Labor, voted geek tragedy Aug 2015 #4
My bad. bvar22 Aug 2015 #8
LOL...trying to turn the Iran nuclear deal into an attack on Obama? Cali_Democrat Aug 2015 #7
That makes no sense at all, bvar22 Aug 2015 #9
Lieberdem as in Lieberman-ishly, neocon, nominal Dem? hedda_foil Aug 2015 #5
Yep. they're endorsing Jeb Bush's foreign policy. nt geek tragedy Aug 2015 #6
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
2. Lowey voted for the Iraq war, so she's one of those Democrats
Wed Aug 5, 2015, 03:36 PM
Aug 2015

who's a Republican on foreign policy.

Steve Israel also voted for the Iraq war.

So did Elliot Engel, so we know how he's going to vote on the Iran deal.

Ditto Chuck Schumer.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
3. Not a single Democrat who voted against the IWR...
Wed Aug 5, 2015, 05:08 PM
Aug 2015

...was appointed to a Presidential Cabinet position....or ANY position of power in the Obama Administration.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
8. My bad.
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 05:38 PM
Aug 2015

President Obama did indeed appoint one member of Congress who voted against the WAR.
Hilda Solis is a legitimate Liberal who did an outstanding job as a Congresswoman from California.

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
7. LOL...trying to turn the Iran nuclear deal into an attack on Obama?
Wed Aug 5, 2015, 11:13 PM
Aug 2015

I must say, that requires quite a bit of creativity considering the fact that the Obama administration pretty much led the P5+1 side of the negotiations.

Assuming the deal becomes international law, it will peacefully resolve the situation and most of the credit will have to go to Obama and Kerry.

That just burns you up, doesn't it?

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
9. That makes no sense at all,
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 05:40 PM
Aug 2015

but I see you are playing in your imagination. I would stay out of there if I were you.

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