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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats 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.
choie
(4,111 posts)Nita Lowey..
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)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)...was appointed to a Presidential Cabinet position....or ANY position of power in the Obama Administration.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)against the Iraq war while in the House.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml
bvar22
(39,909 posts)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)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)but I see you are playing in your imagination. I would stay out of there if I were you.