Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls out the Neocon Warmongers and Dick Cheney by Name on the Senate Floor!

[sabrina 1]

Many people have waited for YEARS to hear this. Waited for our Representatives to TELL THE TRUTH about these Criminals, who are now trying to get us into MORE WAR, this time with Iran.

They have tried to undermine President Obama's efforts to avoid war with Iran, along with their neocon, warmongering buddy, Netanyahu, using OUR troops to fight yet another unnecessary War For Profit while they and their chicken hawk buddies reap the profits. Sanders reminded the world today of the cost of their Wars For Profit to those who were sent to fight them, and to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Today, Bernie Sanders did what he does so well, he told the TRUTH about those tragic wars:

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Peace Warrior Bernie Sanders Storms The Senate And Calls Out GOP Warmongers

While announcing his support for the Iran nuclear agreement, Sen. Sanders (I-VT) called out the Republicans who wrong about Iraq and now oppose the Iran deal.

Sanders said:

Those who have spoken out against this agreement, including many in this chamber, and those who have made every effort to thwart the diplomatic process, are many of the same people who spoke out forcefully and irresponsibly about the need to go to war with Iraq – one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of our country.

Sadly, people like former vice president Dick Cheney and many of the other neo-cons who pushed us to war Iraq were not only tragically wrong then; they are wrong now. ]Unfortunately, these individuals have learned nothing from the results of that disastrous policy and how it destabilized the entire region.

I fear that many of my Republican colleagues do not understand that war must be a last resort, not the first resort. It is easy to go to war, it not so easy to comprehend the unintended consequences of that war.

As the former Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, I have talked to veterans from WWII to Iraq, and I have learned a little bit about what the cost of war entails. In Iraq and Afghanistan, we have lost 6,700 brave men and women, and many others have come home without legs, without arms, without eyesight.

Let us not forget that 500,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan came back to their families with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The suicide rate of young veterans is appallingly high. The divorce rate is appallingly high, and the impact on children is appallingly high. God knows how many families have been devastated by these wars.

And we should not forget the many hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women, and children who died in that war, and those whose lives who have been completely destabilized, including those who are fleeing their country today with only the clothes on their back as refugees. The cost of war is real.

The left has presented a united front on the Iran deal. The liberal leaders in the Senate have had President Obama’s back because they understand what is at stake. The Iran nuclear agreement is a matter of war and peace.

As Sen. Sanders pointed out on the Senate floor, the same people who lied to us about Iraq, now want the American people to believe them about the Iran deal.

Republicans have less than no credibility on this issue, and Sen. Sanders did his country a great service when he reminded everyone about the GOP’s record of pro-war lies.

He predicted the horrors the neocon wars would bring back when they started their lies and deceptions, and he was right then.

Thank you AGAIN Bernie for TELLING THE TRUTH! And for standing up for this country against these criminals who should be hiding in their undisclosed locations, breathing a sigh of relief that they are not sitting in a jail cell for the rest of their lives (which they should be and would be if it were up to me).

[RobertEarl]

1. This is expected

This is the kind of Man Bernie is.

I am thrilled to work for his election and to finally get to vote for him.

Thank you, Mr. Sanders.

[sabrina 1]

3. Yes, I don't remember feeling so positive about a candidate on almost every issue, or

trusting that a politician is not just grandstanding, but actually MEANS what he says, ever before.

Whatever happens, this man tells the truth and that is something we will always remember, that there was at least one politician who did not profit from his service to the people and who refused to just 'go along' because to do the right thing might cost him a few votes.

He is a very rare human being, not just as a politician, but as a human being.

[RobertEarl]

6. A True Statesman

We have had an awful dearth of statesmen, and is why our beloved country has such problems.

To read that he is so brave by standing up for Obama, and for peace, gives me hope.

[bkkyosemite]

2. He is intelligent, forthright, truthful, ...

insightful, informative, covers all basis in this speech and is the right man for the job of President. He knows what he is talking about. Go Bernie Go.

[sabrina 1]

4. Contrast his speech with Hillary's take on Iran and all I can say is that Bernie must win

this election or this country will be back to 2003 again with the neocons salivating at the thought of war and we will be subjected once again to the same lies and deceptions that led us into the disaster, as Bernie called it 'the worst blunder ever' or words to that effect.

Reading both their remarks today has motivated me even more to get Bernie Sanders elected.

[choie]

5. He's the only candidate

with a moral backbone.

[sabrina 1]

7. Yes, he is. I don't recall ANYONE else in elected office talking about Cheney and the neocons

so truthfully from the Senate Floor. If only we had more like him, this would be a very different country.