Posted on 07/21/2015 8:21:56 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Cruz: Iran Deal Likely To Force Next President To Take “Direct Military Action”
“I think it is likely the next president will be advised in January ’17, you have two and only two choices: either you acquiesce to Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon or direct military action must be used to take it out.”
posted on Jul. 20, 2015, at 12:34 p.m
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said on Saturday that the deal to restrict Iran’s nuclear program and lift economic sanctions on the country would likely force the next president to take “direct military action” to prevent a nuclear catastrophe that “could cost the lives of tens of millions of Americans.”
The Texas senator said in an interview with the Trail Talk podcast over the weekend that it was “very likely that a new president” would be told, in January 2017, that Iran was “on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.” Cruz said the deal rendered economic sanctions “no longer an effective tool,” and therefore the new president would be presented with two choices: “acquiesce” or attack.
He said that the “unacceptably high” odds of Iran using a nuclear weapon if it acquired one made it so that President Obama had essentially forced his successor into taking the military option.
“I think it is likely the next president will be advised in January ‘17, you have two and only two choices,” Cruz said. “Either you acquiesce to Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon or direct military action must be used to take it out. I think that’s unfortunate but that’s what President Obama is forcing.”
Cruz added that Iran could launch a nuclear warhead from a ship off the Atlantic Coast, setting off an “electromagnetic pulse,” which would “take down the electrical grid for the entire Eastern seaboard.” Such a disaster, he said, could leave tens of millions of people “unable to get food and water.”
“The projections are that tens of millions of Americans would die, as they were unable to get food and water and the basic foodstuffs of life,” Cruz said. “That’s the threat President Obama’s nuclear deal provides and anyone who is remotely qualified to be commander in chief needs to be prepared to do whatever is necessary prevent a threat that could cost the lives of tens of millions of Americans.”
Here are Cruz’s full comments:
CRUZ: “If Congress does not stop this deal, I think it will be the single greatest challenge a new president in January ‘17 will confront because it is very likely that a new president when he or she sits down in the Oval Office for the first security briefing, will be told that Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and because President Obama unraveled the international consensus on sanctions, sanctions will no longer be an effective tool. Because even if you wanted to reimpose sanctions, it would take months, even years, if ever, to bring foreign countries back together in an effective sanctions regime, which means that tool, President Obama’s effectively taken away from the next president.
I think it is likely the next president will be advised in January ‘17, you have two and only two choices: either you acquiesce to Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon or direct military action must be used to take it out. I think that’s unfortunate but that’s what President Obama is forcing.”
QUESTION: “And President Cruz would entertain a direct military?”
CRUZ: “Under no circumstances would I allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. And I believe any responsible commander in chief should be prepared to do whatever is necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons because if they acquired those weapons, the odds are unacceptably high that they would use them in the skies of Tel Aviv or New York or Los Angeles. That getting this decision wrong could result in the deaths of millions of Americans and in fact it’s even worse than that.
One of the greatest threats of an Iranian nuke is if they had one nuclear warhead and they put it on a ship anywhere off the Atlantic seaboard and they fired it on a missile straight up in the air into the atmosphere and detonated a nuclear weapon, it would set off what’s known as an electromagnetic pulse—an EMP, which would take down the electrical grid for the entire Eastern seaboard. The projections are that tens of millions of Americans would die, as they were unable to get food and water and the basic foodstuffs of life. That’s the threat President Obama’s nuclear deal provides and anyone who is remotely qualified to be Commander in Chief needs to be prepared to do whatever is necessary prevent a threat that could cost the lives of tens of millions of Americans.”
Sadly I have to agree with Cruz. The Senate is going to pass this monstrous treaty.
+1 for Cruz!
Where are the rest of the candidates on this?
The last thing we need is a war with Iran so Obama is setting us up for one.
LOL, I can’t imagine Hillary taking over a bag of worms. If she did, they’d still blame it on Bush or Reagan. Screw Iran, its more important to have a $15 hour minimum wage and free stuff.
I want Cruz in the white house!
I believe the way to do that is to back Trump.
Trump will bring him in after he serves a term.
IMO, only Trump can defeat the MSM and the left/GOPe at this time.
Lets hope that Cruz contacts Israel before attacking. Iran needs to be a glass desert.
Cruz is quite the optimist...
To think that the nation is going to last that long.
I think that point is already passed. This deal gives Iran all the time they need to finish putting their bomb together, if they haven’t already. By the time a new guy gets into office, I don’t think even military action will stop it.
I agree with your post.
It’s scorched earth for the next year and a half.
Now there’s some Straight Talk.
That’ll be hillary and aint gonna happen.
If action needs to be taken, it needs to happen very soon. I think the Israelis well get the job done beforehand.
Just my two cents.
Then Barack Obama will declare war on Israel.
I don’t disagree with your analysis.
Then why did Cruz vote to disgard the Senate’s treaty power by voting for the Corker bill? Cruz has yet to give a point by point rebuttal to the points made by Mark Levin and Andy McCarthy on this issue.
Cruz could have voted no. It still would have passed 97 to 2.
Obama has definitely backed Israel into a corner.
“Now there’s some Straight Talk.”
Cruz is very real.
Now Trump will come along and state that he will Nuke Iran, Trumps poll numbers will go up.
Watch.
The American people are more ready for nukes than boots.
Talking about war while realististic, is not what this war weary nation wants to hear.
Cruz has to work in the senate, unfortunately that hurts him.
FUBO
Cruz should attack Obama as a traitor and demand impeachment or state whatever it takes to flip out the media and gain the peoples attention.
Use the “N” word or something.
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