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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCory Booker joins 13 other Senate Dems in bucking Obama on Iran-war bill
Did you think Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Richard Blumenthal were going to turn the page on blue state neoconservatism? Wonder no more. All the Democratic New York and New Jersey senators, plus Blumenthal of Connecticut and Robert Casey of PA, have signed up for the wag-the-dog bill that allows Israel to decide what war we will have next in the Middle East. The liberal Dems are allied with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk (a senator who takes his orders from AIPAC, says MJ Rosenberg).
Senator Menendez released his Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act, which includes broadened sanctions and a vow to let Israel decide whether theres another American war:
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factsarenotfair
(910 posts)How dare they try to push us into another war.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Obama needs to slap the shit out of these guys. He needs to tell them if they don't sit down and shut up during the 6-month negotiation period, he will out them by making it clear he will veto his own party if it comes to that.
Cory, do you really want to be the guy that ignites a civil war in the Dem party? And is this really the issue worth doing that?
Just STFU and let Kerry do his job.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Marvelous.
marmar
(77,090 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)It was explained to me that part of lifting the sanctions would include flooding the market with Iranian oil, thus bringing down the price, and since Mark undoubtedly receives a lot of campaign contributions from BP, ConocoPhillips and Exxon, the big producers in Alaska, he is taking this stand to make them happy. That would probably be Landrieu's rationale, as well.
I think it's so wrong that money trumps world peace any day of the week.