Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell On the Iran Deal

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Wilkerson: Iran Deal Creates World's Most Intrusive Inspection Regime

Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, says the nuclear accord will led to greater U.S.-Iranian cooperation over Mideast policy - July 14, 2015

TRANSCRIPT AT: http://therealnews.com/t2/

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1. Iran told the West and all those that lost on 9-11, that they would help get Osama Bin Laden.

Iran wanted to stabilize and maintain the balance of political and religious power in the Middle East, before the 2003 Bush fiasco in Iraq. Republican warmongers need to take care of the many needs here in the Homeland. Hopefully, Obama will call them on plans for another war. Hopefully Obama will make a national speech with a veto.

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2. It's called diplomacy and leadership. Repugs have neither.

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3. I think he is the only repubican for whom I have any respect.

I wonder how he can still continue to consider himself part of the GOP.

Maybe he doesn't.

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4. Here is the simple truth concerning a more stable Middle East

<snip from the transcript>

And let's look at this a little bit further. What really troubles Mr. Netanyahu and his leadership in Israel is their program is for a greater Israel. They want the West Bank, they want Gaza, they want the Sinai, they want ultimately Jordan, and they want parts, if not all, of Syria. That's the greater Israel aspirations of Bibi Netanyahu.

So what they fear is not Iran's nuclear capability. They know if Iran used a nuclear weapon Iran would disappear from the map. Certainly Tehran would. Because not only they but we would respond. Deterrence is working, in other words. What Netanyahu's worried about is United States will affect [a rapprochement] with Iran. And that rapprochement will take us back to the time of 1953, 1979 when Iran was our protector in the Gulf. They were our country in the Gulf. They looked after our interest in the Gulf. That would be anathema, is anathema to Netanyahu, because it would mean Israel would automatically be on a less important plane, even a much less important plane.

And they don't want to see that. They do not want to see the United States diffuse its interest, if you will, in the region. And they don't want to see the military geographic, demographic true hegemon in the Gulf, Iran, the most stable country in Southwest Asia by the way, be a part of the U.S. international and regional scheme.

That's nonsense. That's a recipe for future danger and insecurity. For not just the region, but also for Israel. The best way to secure Afghanistan, to secure Iraq, to end the political war or the civil war politically in Syria, and to protect Israel's security and keep the region reasonably stable is to have Iran is a partner in doing all that where our interests are common.


Link: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14247

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5. TY, for this addition to the OP. nt

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6. K & R. nt