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CRUZ or LOSE!Posted on 04/18/2015 2:17:29 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday argued that finalizing any pact with Iran over its nuclear arms research would instantly produce one of the worst diplomatic deals of all time.
“It is a historic mistake,” Cruz told listeners at the New Hampshire Republican Party’s First In the Nation leadership summit in Nashua, N.H.
“Every year in Iran they celebrate ‘Death to America Day,’ ” the 2016 GOP presidential hopeful added.
“If history teaches any principle, it is that if somebody says they want to kill you, believe them,” he concluded.
Cruz argued that even a framework accord with Iran would jeopardize global safety. Setting its details in stone, he charged, would prove catastrophic.
“The next 20 months are going to be a dangerous time,” Cruz said of President Obama’s remaining tenure.
“It’s going to be like ‘Lord of the Flies,’ ” Cruz added, citing William Golding’s 1954 dystopian novel about social disorder on an island of stranded children.
“The threat of a nuclear Iran is the single greatest threat to America’s national security,” he said.
The Texas lawmaker voiced gratitude Saturday that America was such a free country. That liberty, he argued, had allowed Congress to at least try countering Obama’s decisions.
“One of the greatest blessings we have is that in America we have no Supreme Leader,” Cruz said, referencing Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“If someone in Iran disagrees with the edicts of Supreme Leader Khamenei, they will take you and shoot you," Cruz declared.
Obama decided Friday he would let Congress review any potential Iran agreement before its June 30 deadline for a final deal. Lawmakers will get 30 days to analyze the deal’s language.
The Obama administration has promised it will lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for greater restrictions on its atomic energy program. Tehran has vowed it will allow more frequent nuclear inspections and caps on its centrifuge and uranium stockpiles as part of the deal.
Obama has long argued diplomacy is the best strategy for preventing a nuclear Iran. Critics argue that Khamenei’s regime has proven too dishonest in past talks.
Cruz joined two other 2016 hopefuls – GOP Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) – in signing a letter sent to Iran’s leadership last month. It contained signatures from 47 GOP Senators vowing Congress would void any nuclear deal that threatened America’s safety.
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The last 6 years 9 months have been a historic mistake.
Stand and stop it.
Enabling his Iranian IslamoNazi pals to build up a nuclear missile arsenal... is a mistake of historic proportions for USA and the Christian Western world. And for all the countries in the Middle East, of course.
But it is not a mistake for Obama. It is exactly what he’s been working to create over there, for six years already.
Recall, he even threatened to “go to war against” any countries that tried to stop it. And he’s used our great USAF for all this time... to protect the IslamoNazi nuke factories....(instead of eliminating them). And, he’s allowed the anti-American Mullahs to have billions of dollars and all kinds of trade deals now...
A totally consistent pattern of facilitation, enablement, defense, and funding of the Nuclear Missile arsenal that will destroy America and Europe (Iran’s even identified their five top priority targets.... as I recall they are NYC, WashDC, LA, SF, and I think it was ChiTown .. or possibly Boston?)
Point of it all is to destroy The Great Satan (USA).
And Europe as an extra added little bonus (first bomb they say will be on Rome, then....?)
Mistake for USA, yes. Mistake for Europe, yes.
But not a mistake for BHO. A plan, yes. Not a mistake.
Behavior has been too amazingly consistent for there to have been any mistake on his part.
That’s what everyone should be saying to the media and beyond - it is a HISTORIC mistake.
It is going to make Neville Chamberlain look like a genius in contrast.
“Stand and stop it.”
Agreed. It’s time.
As usual, Ted is right.
nobama is bound and determined to do everything he can to destroy the USA before his term is up. Assuming he leaves. An “emergency” allowing him to declare martial law and cancel the 2016 elections would not surprise me at all.
Hopefully, if he tries that, it will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and Americans will finally wake up and fight back.
Absolutely!
Like Thomas Sowell said: "Comparing Obama to Chamberlain is unfair — to Chamberlain."
Agreed, and it may take a treasonous act like that to awaken many.
I can understand why that ignorant and stupid little man-child will do such a foolish thing, but I simply don't grasp how everyone else can watch him dancing around on land mines and not realize what is going to happen.
I watched most of Ted’s speech, and, as usual, it was great. Also, I believe he grammatically correctly said the Iran deal is “AN historic” mistake. Being sort of a grammar stickler, I appreciate speakers who get some things right that most don’t.
I was wondering if any other Freepers were able to watch or listen to his speech, which appeared to be the last speech of the event today. I would characterize most of the applause early in the speech as “polite”, but as he went on the applause became noticeably stronger. Ted also fielded two audience questions, and knocked them out of the park with his replies.
Senator Ted Cruz at the New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit
“We’ve heard how Senator Bob Corker has proposed a bill that basically demands Obama abide by the Constitution on this Iranian agreement. However, today we find out that isn’t the case at all. The bill he is pushing will actually make Obama’s power grab easier!
Under the proposed legislation, Congress will review the president’s deal with Iran and can reject it with a 6-vote margin. But Obama can turn around and veto that, which would then require a 67-vote total to overturn his veto. This is completely bass-ackwards to the way the Constitution set things up.
Talk show host, Mark Levin explains “We’ve turned the treaty provision on its head. Instead of requiring two-thirds of the Senators present to approve, this bill explicitly demands 67 votes to STOP the president. You need 67 votes to override a presidential veto to undo what Obama’s done. Now, we need a supermajority to override the president rather than a supermajority where the president needs approval for a treaty.”
Keith Koffler at the White House Dossier blog agrees. “He’s right. Because a treaty requires a two-thirds vote by the Senate to be accepted as law. Corker’s bill turns that on its head, allowing Congress to vote down the treaty with Iran but giving Obama veto power, which must be overridden by a two-thirds vote. Meaning that instead of needing two-thirds of the Senate to approve his treaty, Obama only needs one-third.”
He continued “With the Corker bill, he (Obama) now has Congress in his pocket, as he joins Iran in shredding the Constitution over a Swiss negotiating table. And in ten to fifteen years, when Iran conducts its first nuclear test, Congress will have had a role in the tragedy.”
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