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Please don't let Congress scuttle this!!!! Contact your representatives now!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/retired-generals-and-admirals-back-iran-nuclear-deal/2015/08/11/
Three dozen retired generals and admirals released an open letter Tuesday supporting the Iran nuclear deal and urging Congress to do the same.
Calling the agreement the most effective means currently available to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the letter said that gaining international support for military action against Iran, should that ever become necessary, would only be possible if we have first given the diplomatic path a chance.
The release came as Secretary of State John F. Kerry said U.S. allies were going to look at us and laugh if the United States were to abandon the deal and then ask them to back a more aggressive posture against Iran.
Not only would U.S. global credibility be undermined, Kerry said, but also the dollars position as the worlds reserve currency would be threatened.
Its not going to happen overnight, Kerry said in a public question-and-answer session at Reuters news service headquarters in New York . But Im telling you, theres a huge antipathy out there to U.S. leadership. Pointing to efforts by Russia and China to join forces with rising, nonaligned powers, he said that theres a big bloc out there, folks, that isnt just sitting around waiting for the United States to tell them what to do.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Stephen Young, Global Security Program-Union of Concerned Scientists (UCSUSA) joins Thom. Democratic senator Chuck Schumer has come out against the international agreement to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.But the international community supports this deal - and so does the scientific community.
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Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)a chance to do some real damage at a number of levels. Why should they forgo this opportunity?