The sanctions and diplomacy gained us no interruption of their nuke program, nor electronic monitoring nor inspections. Five other countries believed it was in their best interests to craft the agreement.
Spare me the Obama bashing, he's 10 times the man and president than the embarrassingly ignorant sociopath you support is.
And don't make me laugh about 'legacy' while the fat-assed jerk is fashioning a disgraceful one of his own.
Tearex, Your words and - Trump’s Iran policy is rooted in lies — the kind that got us into the Iraq War
"No, I would have preferred continue sanctions and diplomatic pressures while they were at their weakest point."
Failing to see his dishonesty for what it is could have devastating consequences.
President Trump speaks to the press on the White House South Lawn on Tuesday. (Al Drago/Bloomberg News)
By Ben Rhodes Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration, is author of "The World as It Is."
May 16
The Iraq War showed us all what happens when exaggerations and lies are weaponized to justify an ideological push for war: In 2002 and 2003, a relentless series of ominous, overblown public statements .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/08/iraq.usa .. and bogus intelligence reports ..http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/14/sprj.irq.documents/ .. were used to justify an invasion — part of a deliberate campaign to make an offensive military action look defensive: “Should Saddam Hussein choose confrontation,” President George W. Bush said, “the American people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war.”
It wasn’t true. Yet Bush made the case that the United States had to attack before Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction that Iraq didn’t really have. Now a similar cycle of deception may be repeating itself with President Trump’s increasingly belligerent posture on Iran.
[Tearex, YOU are telling us to trust YOU before all those other people (and others), all of which were then, and still are, much better informed than either YOU or your MEME president.]
---- [Tearex, in there are all the misrepresentations and untruths which you have just repeated on this board here, ...Iran was at their knees economically and socially... https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149038754 , here, ... not to mention he use US cold cash currency to ratify his personal deal with Iran.... https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149039213 , here, ...Clearly I was referring to what is his constitutional duty to ratify "as a treaty" through the US congress. Such matters of National Security can not bind the US into any such agreement with out doing so. And dictator Obama should have not PRETENDED otherwise, just like he tried with Paris agreement. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149039639 , and here, No, I would have preferred continue sanctions and diplomatic pressures while they were at their weakest point. Instead Obama wanted a legacy for himself, so he made a bad deal that gave them relief to continue progress with their delivery systems and be positioned for immediate nuclear weapons capability at he end of ten years or earlier. Earlier since the verification and monitoring was toothless. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149040061] ----
This month, the manufactured crisis was escalated. Bolton announced the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the region, referencing .. https://twitter.com/desiderioDC/status/1125203868399349760 .. unspecified “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran that could lead to the use of “unrelenting force” by the United States. Days later, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned .. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-trump-pompeo/pompeo-warns-iran-against-attacking-us-interests-idUSKCN1SF2L6 .. that any attacks from Iran or its proxies would be met with a “swift and decisive U.S. response.” The State Department has drawn down some of our personnel in nearby Baghdad, again citing unspecified threats from Iran.
The ideological agenda behind the administration’s rhetoric and policies is clear. Bolton, in particular, has long advocated regime change and called for war, writing an op-ed .. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/opinion/to-stop-irans-bomb-bomb-iran.html .. in 2015 for the New York Times titled, “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran.” Israel and Saudi Arabia — with governments that have cultivated close ties with Trump — favor confrontation with Iran. Based on that history, it’s hard not to conclude that Trump’s administration has pursued a clear strategy: provoke Iran into doing something that gives a pretext for war.And as with Iraq, the administration has used exaggerations and unspecified intelligence reports to lay the predicate that an offensive war against Iran will be defensive. In that context, the closure .. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/29/652988484/u-s-closes-consulate-in-basra-citing-iran-backed-violence .. of the U.S. Consulate in Basra and the Baghdad Embassy drawdown are ominous, removing targets that could feature in an Iranian response to a U.S. attack.
The remaining question involves Trump’s ultimate intentions. He campaigned pledging to end U.S. wars in the Middle East and as recently as his State of the Union address earlier this year, said .. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-2019-transcript/index.html , “Great nations do not fight endless wars.” But he also clearly revels in undoing the progress of President Barack Obama’s Iran deal and posing as a tough guy on the world stage. He could (and should) pivot back to diplomacy, as he’s attempted to do with North Korea, though his actions to date have only set back the starting point for serious diplomatic efforts. Instead, on his watch, our country has become isolated from our allies, and, unsurprisingly, Iran has signaled that it plans to restart elements of its nuclear program that were rolled back or halted under the JCPOA. Trump could still pull back from the brink, or he could follow the momentum of his own creation into a war that could be a deadly, costly disaster.
We don’t know what he’ll do. But we know Trump is averse to truth, addicted to lies, and that what he says about Iran should be treated with tremendous skepticism. The consequences of a war with Iran — a much larger, more determined and more sophisticated adversary than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq — should be urgently aired. And Congress, the branch of government empowered to declare war, should make clear that military action against Iran is not authorized.
Put Trump's penchant for lying, he says he has no plans to incite conflict, together with Bolton's well known and undisputed zeal for war against Iran, and Trump's replacement of Tillerson a moderate in favor of [...] Echoes of Iraq in Trump’s Confrontation with Iran https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=148788431 Toss in Iraqi officials have voiced skepticism about the threat described by the Americans, and on Tuesday, so did the British deputy commander of the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, or ISIS. P - “No, there’s been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria,” Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika,... https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=148820755 .. and in reply .. Iraq, Fearing Another U.S. War, Warns Militias Against Provocation https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=148845109
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