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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 07:12 PM Dec 2013

Cory 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 there’s another American war:

If the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in legitimate self-defense against Iran’s nuclear weapon program, the United States Government should stand with Israel and provide, in accordance with the law of the United States and the constitutional responsibility of Congress to authorize the use of military force, diplomatic, military, and economic support to the Government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people, and existence;


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Cory Booker joins 13 other Senate Dems in bucking Obama on Iran-war bill (Original Post) n2doc Dec 2013 OP
Well, that's freaking heartbreaking. factsarenotfair Dec 2013 #1
AIPAC at work, no doubt. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #2
Goldman Sachs must be sitting on a lot of Raytheon stock MannyGoldstein Dec 2013 #3
Buck him on the NSA. Stand with him on this. marmar Dec 2013 #4
Booker wants to be president. No way I'd ever support him in a primary. Drunken Irishman Dec 2013 #5
I e-mailed an expression of my disappointment to Mark Begich. Blue_In_AK Dec 2013 #6
. Wilms Dec 2013 #7
 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
2. AIPAC at work, no doubt.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 07:15 PM
Dec 2013

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.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
6. I e-mailed an expression of my disappointment to Mark Begich.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 07:51 PM
Dec 2013

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.

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