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By KENDALL BREITMAN 3/10/15 7:25 AM EDT
Sen. Tom Cotton is firing back at Vice President Joe Bidens criticism of his letter to Iran, saying: What does he know about foreign policy?
Joe Biden, as (President) Barack Obamas own secretary of defense has said, has been wrong about nearly every foreign policy and national security decision in the last 40 years, Cotton said Tuesday on MSNBCs Morning Joe, in a reference to former Pentagon chief Robert Gates, who ripped Biden in a tell-all memoir after leaving office.
Moreover, if Joe Biden respects the dignity of the institution of the Senate he should be insisting that the president submit any deal to approval of the Senate, which is exactly what he did on numerous deals during his time in Senate, Cotton said.
On Monday, the freshman senator from Arkansas, along with 46 other Republican senators, signed a letter to top Iranian leaders informing them that any nuclear deal they reach with President Obama would be nothing more than an executive agreement that would likely be tossed out when a new president takes office.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/tom-cotton-joe-biden-iran-letter-defense-115925.html#ixzz3Tzfoj2JN
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)spanone
(135,855 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)history will not be kind.
edhopper
(33,597 posts)but it would be nice to see someone go over all those foreign policy decisions he thinks Obama has been "wrong" about.
Let's start with the Iraq War, shall we?
I also wonder what Cotton thinks Obama was wrong about when he was 13 (40 years ago).
Maybe when he thought it was a good idea to place Marines in Lebanon in a badly guarded base?
Or was it trading arms to Iran?
marym625
(17,997 posts)Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) tweeted at 8:55 AM on Tue, Mar 10, 2015:
Dear Iran,
We have 47 signatures on a change . org petition letting you know we're confused about international law.
-Tom Cotton
(https://twitter.com/lizzwinstead/status/575293961692147713?s=03)