Tag: Nuke Deal

Nine reasons Obama is going to win on Iran. The first: Netanyahu – Mondoweiss

Is Texas still in the hands of the people?  The pending takeover must have hit a snag.

This past week has been one of the most boring times…..the MSM had a couple of shootings that they could milk but after that there was nothing but gossip and silliness…….the world is on fire, literally and the best the American MSM can do is some tiff between a couple of overpaid entertainers and some loud mouth politician that has NO hope of a nomination but yet is how news…….

I think I shall forgo stupid and embrace the seriousness of the world’s condition……..

Israel and its Neocon lackeys are in full court press to defeat the Iran deal…….the problem is they have no facts and plenty of misinformation at hand to push……

They are pulling NO punches and no lies…..they will say whatever it takes to defeat the deal……but with all their antics and tactics it seems that Obama and Iran will probably win the battle of bullshit…….

There are 9 reasons why Obama will win the debate…..

 

Nine reasons Obama is going to win on Iran. The first: Netanyahu – Mondoweiss.

They All Come Crawling

Just a couple of days ago the US announced to the world that there was a deal on the nukes and Iran……immediately the world reacted…….some were pleased others were worried.  Then there is the US Congress and the GOP which instantly went into a stroke and started the usual chorus of condemnation.

Days after the announcement there was a steady parade of US officials begging forgiveness from Israel for the deal.  Kerry had to make a stop over in Israel to take his tongue lashing from Netanyahu……..Obama called to be sure that BiBi got the word from him and not from some other source and now SecDef Carter will make his trip to Israel bearing gifts………

The US has offered to increase military aid to Israel by another $1.5 billion per year to ease tensions over the nuclear deal with Iran, media has reported. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to make the offer during next week’s visit to Tel Aviv.

The proposed increase would see Israel getting an additional squadron of F-35 fighter jets, funding for research and development of missile defense systems, and ammunition to replenish the stocks used in last year’s bombing of Gaza, Israeli sources told Jerusalem Post.

Under the current arrangement, Israel is receiving $3 billion a year, most of which is used to purchase US military hardware such as fighter jets and missile defense systems. Israeli and US officials have been discussing increasing the amount of aid to anywhere between $4.2 and $4.5 billion per year, sources familiar with the talks told the New York Times.

The US must make nice with Israel……which brings me to a point……

After the deal announcement was made I heard several opponents say that the US had caved to Iran and others…………that we had somehow kowtow to the whims of Iran……..

Americans, some of them, are pissed that the US must crawl to Iran to make this deal……..but wait……..all this trying to make nice with Israel….is that not the same thing as the previous situation mentioned?  Are we NOT kowtowing to Israel?  Are we not crawling to them like they own us?

The Right wing and some Dems want the US to be strong and not be pushed around by others…….but yet it is somehow okie dokie to be pushed around by Israel…….why is that?

Why are Americans perfectly fine with Israel tells us what to do and how we should do it?

Hawks hate the Iran nuclear deal – Vox

Does anyone remember Nixon’s trip to China in 1972?  Let me refresh your memory…..when it was announced that he would make the trip the Congress went batcrap crazy…..condemning the trip because the US would be doomed and that the Commies had won the Cold War……doom and gloom…….reminds me of the hoopla coming from the GOP today over the Iran Deal……The GOP was wrong then…..they are wrong today!

Since the announcement, to be honest from the beginning, of the Iranian deal the war hawks have been against the thing…….they predict doom and gloom if it is passed.  I was expecting that from that dweeb in Israel but I would think that there would be some back slapping (I know I was being delusional).

Every hawk in Congress has been in front of the cameras and crapped on the deal…….and at the same time few I have even read the document….I mean it is 159 pages….cannot be that hard to acquaint oneself with it………I understand that most of them have the reading capability of a 10 year old…..but seriously.

They hate the deal……which is okay but why do they hate the deal?  Not one has made a cogent argument against it.

Can we ever get the honest story of why the hate?

 

Hawks hate the Iran nuclear deal and can’t be honest about why – Vox.

Iran Hawks and the Nuclear Deal | The American Conservative

24 hours since the beginning of Operation Jade Helm began……..and I have yet to hear of any moves by the military to take over any cities…..it has been pretty quiet…….nothing to see here…..move on………

From the moment the Iranian deal was announced the Right hs been doing everything they can to crap on……..late into the first day of the announcement there are some saying that they have not reviewed the document so they will hold their condemnation until they have……it is 159 pages and NO one had the time to read it?  I realize that most of them have the reading skills of a 9 year old…..but surely they have someone on staff that has an IQ above their shoe size………

Their condemnation is nothing short of pathetic…..lots of misinformation (read as LIES)………this is why we have a terrible foreign policy…….mouths fly open before the situation is known……..

This is a pretty good piece in the American Conservative……check it out……then please let me know your thoughts……

 

Iran Hawks and the Nuclear Deal | The American Conservative.

What Will The Iran Deal Mean?

Analysis is not complete…….I will be looking at the deal from several different angles……..Lots will be written now that there is a deal to be had…….but what will the deal actually mean to those in the wings?

Well we know what the war hawks and their master Israel will have to say and then is the Saudis who will pout and shout about their chances of ruin because of the deal…….all the while they are making a deal for nukes.  Think about that…….nukes in the very land of the original ideology of AQ………whose extremism knows no bounds……..but that is for another post (no doubt)…….

All that said……what will this deal mean to others?  Or the election?

Assuming it clears Congress, it won’t be possible to truly assess whether the Iran nuclear deal was a smart move by President Obama until after he’s out of office, observes David Sanger in the New York Times. “The best guess today, even among the most passionate supporters of the president’s Iran project, is that the judgment will be mixed.” Still, here’s a sample of what’s out there:

  • Effect on election: Foreign policy could matter, writes Greg Sargent at the Washington Post. The deal “makes it more likely that the 2016 election will be fought, at least partly, around a broad argument over the proper extent of U.S. international engagement as a means to solve the biggest future challenges we face.”
  • Legacy changer? “If it succeeds, the agreement could upgrade Obama’s checkered foreign policy legacy, as well provide a crowning achievement for (John) Kerry’s 30-year political career,” observes Politico. “Analysts call it one of the modern era’s most important arms control agreements, in a league with the 1970 international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the 1994 START nuclear missile treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.”
  • Tough sell with GOP: This quote from Lindsey Graham to Bloomberg about the deal is a familiar sentiment: “It’s incredibly dangerous for our national security, and it’s akin to declaring war on Sunni Arabs and Israel … because it ensures their primary antagonist Iran will become a nuclear power and allows them to rearm conventionally.”
  • From the left: This could end “36 years of ferocious antagonism and a 12-year stand-off over Iran’s nuclear program,” says a post at Daily Kos. “That stand-off was punctuated by repeated right-wing calls for air attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Any attacks, in addition to killing large numbers of Iranian civilians, would certainly have produced a strong military response from Iran, something the proponents chose to ignore the way they always ignore blowback and the other consequences of such actions.”
  • From the right: “All you need to do to make sense of this deal is believe, as the White House obviously does, that attacking Iran’s enrichment facilities would be a worse outcome than Iran building a bomb,” writes Allahpundit at Hot Air. “That’s it. The great shining ‘achievement’ of the deal isn’t that it eliminates Iran’s program—it doesn’t—but that it removes any remaining domestic pressure on Obama to further escalate with Iran, either by sanctions or military strike, to stop it.”

The deal will mean much to many……..but my question is…..will the world be a safer place?

Here’s the full text of the Iran nuclear deal – Vox

The full court press is so……..the war hawks will be dealing out all sorts of lies and misinformation about the deal signed between Iran and the P5+1…

You may listen to the naysayers or take a lying lump of crap like Netanyahu’s word for what is in the deal…..but do something most pundits that are crapping on the deal have not done…..READ THE AGREEMENT!

Hopefully my readers will want to know the whole story before they make up their minds………so if they do then let this press lead you through the maze of the agreement…..once you have a handle on the deal then please voice your opinion…….

 

Here’s the full text of the Iran nuclear deal – Vox.

Iran Deal: What Now?

In case anyone is interested…..today Is Bastille Day.

I wrote about the deal as I heard about it…..about 0354 my time…….and since the announcement of the deal I have heard lots of people coming out in favor of it and even some normally rational individuals that are sarcastic about the deal…….and during that time not many of them knew what the deal was all about other that it was Iran…..and Iran bad in their tiny minds…….

I do not object to people bitching about something from one side or the other……but to bitch about something because someone said it is bad/good is where my problem lies…….

So let me make it easy for you…..if you want to write about the deal then maybe a few facts will help you decide which direction to write…….

Here is the deal………..as of this morning………

After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation—not to mention 20 months of “tortuous talks,” as CNN puts it—world powers and Iran have today struck a landmark deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions—an agreement designed to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another US military intervention in the Muslim world. What you need to know about the 159-page Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a deal that President Obama this morning emphasized “is not built on trust. It is built on verification”:

  • Iran will get rid of 98% of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium, to a level of no more than about 660 pounds, for 15 years. That’ll happen by diluting its stockpile or shipping it out of Iran, per the Guardian. Obama today explained that its current stockpile could fuel 10 nuclear weapons; under the new limitation, Iran would have a fraction of what would be required for a single weapon.
  • It will “remove two-thirds of its installed centrifuges and store them under constant international supervision,” per Obama.
  • The affect of the aforementioned stipulations, per the New York Times “the limits … would extend, to one year, the amount of time necessary for Iran to produce enough weapons-grade material for a single bomb if it should abandon the accord.”
  • The relief Iran will see once the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed the country is beginning to take the agreed-upon steps: a lifting of international sanctions related to finance, oil, shipping, and more (one line references the importation into the US of Iranian-origin carpets, pistachios, and caviar). An arms embargo will also be lifted in future years. “All these sanctions will snap back into place” if Iran violates the deal, per Obama.
  • IAEA inspectors “will be able to access any suspicious location,” per Obama. The Guardian explains that Iran can object to an IAEA request to inspect a location where undeclared nuclear activity is allegedly happening, but a multinational commission can, through a majority vote, override that.
  • Speaking of votes, Obama warned that he “will veto any legislation [from Congress] that prevents the successful implementation of this deal. … No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.”

As I understand the deal today…..I do not see much in a downside for the US.  But that will not stop Israel and their incessant predicting they will have a bomb in 6 months…..or was it 2 years…..no I think it was 5 years……..standing behind Israel is the Saudis and their complaints that Iran cannot be trusted……..but their concern is a religious paranoia not a bomb so much…….

All in all…..I would say a descent deal……we will have to see how the Right wing hawks will try to dick it all up……..and that will be the the real story here.

BTW…..Iranian pistachios are the best!