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Obama's enemies list
2015-08-08
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Jpost] In President Barack Obama's defense of his nuclear deal with Iran Wednesday, he said there are only two types of people who will oppose his deal -- Republican partisans and Israel- firsters -- that is, traitors.

At American University, Obama castigated Republican lawmakers as the moral equivalent of Iranian jihadists saying, "Those [Iranian] hard-liners chanting 'Death to America' who have been most opposed to the deal... are making common cause with the Republican Caucus."

He then turned his attention to Israel.

Obama explained that whether or not you believe the deal endangers Israel boils down to whom you trust more -- him or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And, he explained, he can be trusted to protect Israel better than Netanyahu can because "[I] have been a stalwart friend of Israel throughout my career."

The truth is that it shouldn't much matter to US lawmakers whether Obama or Netanyahu has it right about Israel. Israel isn't a party to the deal and isn't bound by it. If Israel decides it needs to act on its own, it will.

The US, on the other side, will be bound by the deal if Congress fails to kill it next month.

So the real question lawmakers need to ask is whether the deal is good for America. Is Obama right or wrong that only partisan zealots and disloyal Zionists could oppose his great diplomatic achievement? To determine the answer to that question, you need to do is ask another one. Does his deal make America safer or less safe? The best way to answer that question is to consider all the ways Iran threatens America today, and ask whether the agreement has no impact on those threats, or whether it mitigates or aggravates them.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#5  After Seal Team 6 killed Osama Bin Laden, the Obama regime's stonewalling of the investigation of the deaths of 22 members of Seal Team 6.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2015-08-08 16:13  

#4  Don't you wish we had a President who loved his country

Oh make no mistake. He "loves his country" alright. It's just a certain group of the current inhabitants that he and FLOTUS have no use for.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-08 09:30  

#3  Keep in mind - first, last, and always - his objective is to appeal to his far-left base.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-08-08 09:01  

#2  
Posted by: Glaimp Whavise9999   2015-08-08 07:33  

#1  “I can assure,” Obama told the Jewish leaders, “that Israel will bear the brunt of the asymmetrical responses that Iran will have to a military strike on its nuclear facilities.”

Israel has always borne the brunt of Iranian asymmetrical responses.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-08 06:48  

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