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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:38 AM Mar 2015

Tom Cotton fires back at Biden over Iran letter

By KENDALL BREITMAN 3/10/15 7:25 AM EDT

Sen. Tom Cotton is firing back at Vice President Joe Biden’s criticism of his letter to Iran, saying: What does he know about foreign policy?

“Joe Biden, as (President) Barack Obama’s 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 MSNBC’s “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

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Tom Cotton fires back at Biden over Iran letter (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
Cotton is a seditious punk and a war pig nt geek tragedy Mar 2015 #1
and WHO THE FUCK is tom cotton? fuck him. spanone Mar 2015 #2
Keep digging that hole. This black stain will leave an even deeper mark on you riderinthestorm Mar 2015 #3
It won't happen, edhopper Mar 2015 #4
Lynn Winstead tweet marym625 Mar 2015 #5
 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
3. Keep digging that hole. This black stain will leave an even deeper mark on you
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:45 AM
Mar 2015

history will not be kind.

edhopper

(33,597 posts)
4. It won't happen,
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:46 AM
Mar 2015

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)
5. Lynn Winstead tweet
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:46 AM
Mar 2015

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)

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