Obama: Iraq war backers now seek to derail Iran nuclear deal

The Washington Post ^ | 08-05-2015 | Brian Murphy

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

President Obama took sharp aim at critics of the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday, saying many of those who backed the U.S. invasion of Iraq now want to reject the accord and put the Middle East on the likely path toward another war.

Obama also sketched out further setbacks he claimed would be set in motion by a snub from Congress: undercutting America’s standing in global diplomacy, leaving Washington isolated and putting ally Israel in greater peril.

“Now more than ever we need clear thinking in our foreign policy,” Obama told an audience at American University — the same venue used by President Kennedy to help encourage a landmark arms control deal with Moscow at the height of the Cold War.

“Many of the same people who made the case for war with Iraq” are now opposing the Iran deal, Obama said, who urged for a shift away in U.S. policies “characterized by a preference for military action over diplomacy.”

[Durbin]

But i thought john Kerry wanted the deal. DOH!!!

[Jim W N]

I know he is the putative POTUS but honesty why does anyone listen to him? Maybe we should stop posting his comments which are designed only to further his agenda and have nothing to do with what is really true.

[HarleyLady27]

Good, someone needs to ‘de-rail’ the stupid thing...

Nobody except Trump and Cruz will have the ‘balls’ to do it, the rest of the ‘spineless sissies’ will hide back in their ‘closets’....

[Proud2BeRight]

“But i thought john Kerry wanted the deal. DOH!!!”

As did Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

[BenLurkin]

“Now more than ever we need clear thinking in our foreign policy,”

Says the coke head.

[TigersEye]

“Now more than ever we need clear thinking in our foreign policy,” Obama told an audience at American University -

Is that what you call a Freudian Slip?

[faithhopecharity]

in any other country, a raving lunatic would be housed in a rubber room for the mutual protection of said lunatic and society

[CivilWarBrewing]

Comparing the invasion of Iraq to the Iran nuke deal is apples and oranges. There wasn't even any discussion of Iran relative to the Iraq invasion back when that happened.

Nice try, Team 0dumbo. Maybe you guys should go back into your little conference room and try again. Idiots.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shill alert -- Nope, not what he said:

Blue State Blues: Barack Obama's Antisemitic Rant on the Iran Deal

On Thursday, Obama led a conference call with left-wing activists in which he repeatedly railed against his political opponents by using the old canard of rich Jews using their money to exert control. Accusing critics of the deal of being "opposed to any deal with Iran" -- i.e. of advocating war -- Obama railed against "well-financed” lobbyists, as well as the "big check writers to political campaigns," and "billionaires who happily finance super-PACs." He complained about "$20 million" being spent on ads against the deal -- a subtle reference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC -- whose support he had repeatedly courted when running for office). Some of Obama's references were thinly-veiled attacks on specific (Jewish) individuals... On the call, Obama twice accused his opponents of being the same people "responsible for us getting into the Iraq war." That sweeping, and largely false, characterization of the opponents of the Iran deal repeats the sensational accusations of The Israel Lobby, a widely discredited 2007 book that accused a group of pro-Israel, and largely Jewish, individuals and organizations of pushing the U.S. into war with Iraq, and seeking to drag America into a new war with Iran.