Posted on 03/11/2015 9:11:23 AM PDT by Dave346
Secretary of State John Kerry says he’s in “utter disbelief” over the letter to Iranian leaders led by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and signed by 46 other Republican senators, warning any Iranian nuclear deal reached with the U.S. could be revoked by the next president or modified by Congress.
“This letter ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy,” Kerry said Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “This risks undermining the confidence that foreign governments in thousands of important agreements commit to with the United States.”
In his 29 years as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, Kerry said, he “never heard of or even heard of being proposed anything comparable to this.” He said senators have the right to voice dissent but doing so in a letter to foreign leaders was “quite stunning.”
Kerry, who once chaired the Foreign Relations Committee, also said the letter was factually incorrect.
“It’s incorrect when it says that Congress could actually modify the terms of the agreement at any time,” he said. “They don’t have the right to modify an agreement reached, executive to executive, between the leaders of two countries.”
During the hearing, Sen. Marco Rubio also tangled with Kerry over the issue of Iran’s influence in the U.S. fight against the Islamic State.
The Florida senator, who is weighing a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, said he believes much of the U.S. strategy in Iraq and Syria is “being driven” by a desire not to upset Iran amid sensitive nuclear negotiations.
“All the facts contradict that,” Kerry shot back.
Kerry said many of the details about the negotiations were classified but noted the talks were designed to curtail Iran’s nuclear program — and the administration wasn’t trying to reach a “grand bargain” that would normalize relations with the Islamic Republic.
“This is about a nuclear weapon — that’s it,” Kerry said.
Rubio, whose experience on the Foreign Relations panel could bolster his stature in a 2016 GOP presidential field that lacks a lot of foreign policy experience, also pressed Kerry on whether the negotiations with Iran were hurting U.S. ties to its Arab allies in the Middle East.
Kerry responded that he was keeping U.S. allies in the region updated on the status of the talks.
I am in “utter disbelief” that this complete rich idiot traitor kerry is the secy of state.
“Hanoi” John Kerry in disbelief?
Is he ****ing $!**ing me? This guy went and negotiated face to face with Ortega when he was a senator. Hypocrite!
Tough sh*t, horse boy.
I am in utter disbelief that Kerry will Iran to have whatever they want.
Hey dude, what goes around comes around, eh? When congressional crybabies boycotted Bibi’s speech, they began this show of disunity. And so it goes
kerry, Obama, and et al all need to go through a PSYCHIATRIC Evaluation - They are Nucking Futs!
And that's why congress needed to send the letter. Our own President and Sec of State refuse to acknowledge the constitutional limits placed on them. Congress is simply letting all parties to any agreement know that Obama and Kerry do not have authority to commit the U.S. to any treaty without ratification by the senate.
> his guy went and negotiated face to face with Ortega when
> he was a senator. Hypocrite!
And the Viet Cong in Paris.
And again later in Viet Nam.
And the Castros in Cuba.
And Teddy’s sellout to the Russian’s during Reagan’s presidency.
And Carter’s footsies with the North Korean lunatics during the Bush years.
And the two DemonRAT senators that tried to make nice with Saddam Hussein while our troops were massing on the Iraqi borders.
And Pelosi’s trip to play Assad’s fool in Syria.
There are probably more, but these are just off the top of my head.
His hypocrisy knows no bounds
“By Kerry’s own admission, he met in 1970 with delegations from the North Vietnamese communist government and discussed how the Vietnam War should be stopped....not only a U.S. citizen, but a naval reservist”
Wow.
I guess no one asked him what he thought of Ted Kennedy WRITING A LETTER TO YURI ANDROPOV OFFERING TO HELP “DEAL” WITH REAGAN??????
He’s a dipshitte.
It is always a positive sign when Kerry is in utter disbelief. He is an idiot, and a laughingstock as our Secretary of State. The stupid voters of Massachusetts must be delighted.
Utter disbelief from a lying traitor — is a good sign Keep it up, Senators. Youre finally on the way to recovering your proper role in our system of governance.
The same Kerry that got out of Vietnam with three bogus Purple Hearts then got on TV and smeared his own troops calling them War Criminals?
Disbelief?
The USA is in utter disbelief about the Imam in Chief’s foreign “Policy.”
Well according to Breitbart, candidate Obama sent a personal message to Iran in 08 in a manner reminiscent of Ted Kennedy’s undermining the USA with the soviets.
“They don’t have the right to modify an agreement reached, executive to executive, between the leaders of two countries.”
IMPEACH THIS QUISLING BASTARD and remove him from Government FOREVER.
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