Tom Cotton compares John Kerry to Pontius Pilate

[geek tragedy]

Source: Politico

Cotton said that Kerry, who is appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday to sell lawmakers on the agreement, “acted like Pontius Pilate” by not drawing a line.

“He washed his hands, kicked it to the IAEA, knowing that Congress would not get this information unless someone went out to find it,” he said, noting allegations that Iran has tested nuclear detonators at its Parchin facility. (Iran has denied the accusations, but has so far refused to allow IAEA inspectors full access.)

There needs to be a baseline, Cotton said. “For all we know,” he remarked, any unknown actions at Parchin “would undercut the agreement.”

On Wednesday, National Security Adviser Susan Rice told reporters that Congress will be briefed on the side documents and should come to the “same rational conclusion” as the administration that it is a “good and strong deal.”





Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/tom-cotton-john-kerry-pontius-pilate-iran-deal-120520.html#ixzz3gjAEIPTy

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So, John Kerry not only lost Vietnam, but also killed Jesus, according to the war pig brigade.

Voting against this deal is a litmus test. Whose side are people on--Tehran Tom's or John Kerry's?

[TheNutcracker]

1. Ron Paul, an ultra conservative said Iran Agreement Boosts Peace, Defeats Neocons

http://www.ronpaul.com/2015-07-20/ron-paul-iran-agreement-boosts-peace-defeats-neocons/

Ron Paul: Iran Agreement Boosts Peace, Defeats Neocons


RonPaul.com
July 20, 2015

Foreign Policy

[geek tragedy]

2. Fuck Ron Paul nt

[geardaddy]

16. +1

[TheNutcracker]

21. I get that, but here's one of their own, who disagrees and shows a democrat who served some respect

[geek tragedy]

25. I dunno if Paul's one of their own, more like his own brand of crazy

There's no such thing as a realist, let alone isolationists, in the Republican party.

They're 100% warmongering neocons.

[Report1212]

51. Cant cite someone unless you agree with them on everything

^_6

[Scootaloo]

52. he's not wrong in this instance n/t

[geek tragedy]

54. He's right here, but fuck him nt

[Scootaloo]

55. I wouldn't fuck him with someone else's dick n/t

[Reter]

64. Why?

n/t

[still_one]

28. Then he should talk to his son

[Reter]

66. He secretly supports it too, he's just a sellout so he can get the nomination

The father never sold out to win votes.

[Reter]

65. He's not an ultra-conservative

He's a right-leaning libertarian. His son is similar, but he is more so. Paleo-conservatives like Pat Buchanan can be described as ultra-conservative. They also support the Iran deal.

[olegramps]

68. Kerry isn't Pontius Pilot, but Cotton is Judas Iscariot.

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[bulloney]

3. This Tom Cotton character seems to get more ignorant every day.

When will he and others of his ilk get through their thick heads that this agreement was negotiated with several other allies? Would they sign off on this agreement if they didn't think it would achieve its objectives? Don't they have skin in the game, so to speak?

Cotton and the other bozos talk like this was strictly a U.S.-Iran agreement, and they are so obsessed with opposing the Obama Administration on everything that they'll just put their ignorance out there just to appease their knuckle-dragging base.

[riversedge]

4. Ever since his name appeared on the radar--it has been noting but hate coming

from his vile mouth.

[MBS]

6. " " " n/t

[riversedge]

7. Cotton call for investigation of Planned Parenthood

Arkansas News Bureau ?@arkansasnews 16h16 hours ago

Boozman, Cotton call for investigation of Planned Parenthood http://ow.ly/PXZnV

[randys1]

27. If PP is shut down like ACORN was, that will be my straw. That I can promise everyone

I dont know where the Black people's straw is, were I them it would have been 40 yrs ago for me.

But i know what mine is.

My other straw is Gay rights, anybody see that FUCK Santorum on Rachel last night?

[MBS]

5. Ignorant AND arrogant.

The worst combination.

[YvonneCa]

39. Exactly. n/t

[SwissTony]

9. I'm not American and don't live in the US

But this guy is getting on my nerves.

He's not what the world needs.

[MBS]

53. he gets on my nerves, too.

To say the least.

[blm]

11. Cotton is packing his bags for the WH and playing to the base the next few years will

be the road he will travel to get there.

[lark]

14. Good, let him run next time.

He'll do nothing but weaken the brand and give us a better chance of winning. He's the future Donald or Ted.

[flygal]

43. He does have a Palin-esq quality about him

that intends to sell a lot of stupid books and get a Fox News deal.

[wshaffer]

12. Yes he is ignorant

If you think he is ignorant just think of how ignorant the people are who elected him. He and others like him aren't really against the treaty as they aren't really intelligent enough to understand it. They are really against the fact that a Democratic Administration has been able to do something the Republicans couldn't come close to doing. Clinton was making progress but along George W. and he got the hackles up on his back and refused to negotiate, he'd rather fight a war or two. O'Bama with the help of two outstanding Secretaries of State, exerting sanctions and other diplomatic pressures, along with the cooperation of several powerful Nations has made it happen. Tom Cotton would rather follow Bush's path and plunge the US in more wars that can't be won.

[abakan]

44. When is he due for re-election?

Whenever it is we should it make our mission to get rid of him.

[Botany]

8. Tom Cotton compares John Kerry to Pontius Pilate ... The Stupid is Strong w/this one

Sen. Cotton, this is the man behind "the deal" w/Iran ..... Ernie Moniz

If he isn't the best in the world at this kind of work then the list of those that are just
as good or better is pretty damn short.

http://energy.gov/contributors/dr-ernest-moniz

snip

Prior to his appointment, Dr. Moniz was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was a faculty member since 1973. At MIT, he headed the Department of Physics and the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. Most recently, Dr. Moniz served as the founding Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and as Director of the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment where he was a leader of multidisciplinary technology and policy studies on the future of nuclear power, coal, nuclear fuel cycles, natural gas and solar energy in a low-carbon world.


From 1997 until January 2001, Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy. He was responsible for overseeing the Department’s science and energy programs, leading a comprehensive review of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, and serving as the Secretary’s special negotiator for the disposition of Russian nuclear materials. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.

In addition to his work at MIT, the White House and the Department of Energy, Dr. Moniz has served on a number of boards of directors and commissions involving science, energy and security. These include President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.

snip

Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in Physics from Boston College, a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Stanford University, and honorary degrees from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, Michigan State University and Universidad Pontificia de Comillas.

[blm]

10. GOP and corpmedia turning this into Climate Change debate - 98% of experts say it's a great deal

and the 2% who say it isn't are the ones whose views will be catapulted the loudest by corporate media.

Q&A with Hans Blix: Iran deal is ‘remarkably far-reaching’

Hans Blix is a Swedish diplomat and the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the international organization tasked with monitoring and inspecting Iran’s nuclear facilities as part of the July 14, 2015, nuclear deal signed by Iran and six world powers. From 2000 to 2003, he led the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.

On July 20, 2015, Blix spoke with msnbc by phone from Uppsala, Sweden, to discuss the nuclear accord with Iran. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

MSNBC: What is your general impression of the Iran nuclear deal now that you’ve read the text? Do you think it’s a good deal, a bad deal, the best of a few bad options?

BLIX: I think it is a remarkably far-reaching and detailed agreement. And I think it has a potential for stabilizing and improving the situation in the region as it gradually gets implemented.

I’ve seen how some people have said or alleged that Iran got everything – I simply don’t understand that attitude. From the beginning, Iran accepted that they would reduce the number of centrifuges to about five or six thousand; they will commit themselves to have no reprocessing, that is, no plutonium production; they commit themselves to rearrange the research reactor that they are building in Arak so that they it will be less prone or less convenient for plutonium production; they limit the stores and stocks they have of enriched uranium; and they agree not to reach to any higher level than 3.67% [enrichment].

There are lots of other commitments that they make. What are the commitments on the other side? The commitments are to drop punishment. I do not see that as very onerous.

[lark]

13. OH, I think it's way deeper than that.

This isn't a personality contest, it's about who really wants to wage a ridiculous war of choice on Iran and who thinks that war isnt the answer to every single question about the middle east. It's that basic for most of them. Of course, there are some who just follow little murderers dicatates, but they are part of the first group when it comes to voting.

[still_one]

29. There is not doubt, the republicans want war

[The Stranger]

15. Hey, people, just thought you should know, we're going to war with Iran whether you like it or not.

If a Republican is elected President, he'll pretend that the agreement was violated. Having the agreement actually makes it EASIER to foment the inevitable war with Iran. Reprise Iraq and inspections -- rinse and repeat.

You may as well get used to it.

[jmowreader]

17. Exactly how many IEDs went off under his jeep?

[Sunlei]

18. Radical Religious Tom Cotton always cries at the "wall of separation" between Church and State

just resign from politics Tom Cotton and make our government a better place for everyone else.

[renegade000]

19. Umm, well, that's a bit of an awkward analogy...

I don't know how the story goes in Mr. Cotton's bible, but I seem to recall Pontius Pilate acceding to the demands of the Jewish theocratic establishment at the time. And subsequently, the whole "Jewish deicide" concept was an element of all the future anti-semitic attitudes (and atrocities) committed by Christian cultures.

Netanyahu will probably rib him about that one next time they chat haha.

[True Blue American]

46. My King James Version

Says the same thing.

[TheNutcracker]

20. crossthread here to rec on the subject of John Kerry!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027002019

please give it a kick....

[Politicalboi]

22. When will we ever get rid of

Assholes who bring imaginary characters into congress. I'm so sick of a book being so damn important and looked at for truth when it is the farthest from the truth. He may as well compared Kerry to Whinnie the Pooh.

[restorefreedom]

41. pontius pilate was the governor of judea from 26 to 36

his existence is well documented. he happens to appear in the bible, yes, but so do other people who are historical figures.

[Geronimoe]

23. Senator Tom Cotton, the Antichrist

With each passing day Tom Cotton acts more and more like the Antichrist.

[turbinetree]

24. Really......................

did you forget there Cotton ball, that you broke the law and the Constitution when you and some of your little band of right wing men and woman sent a open letter to the Iranian government awhile back------------talk about being Pontius Pilate-------take a look in the mirror

[merrily]

26. Kerry probably does use water when washing his hands, so there's that.

[abakan]

45. Who in this scenario is Jesus?

I think his metaphors are ridiculous.

[Gore1FL]

47. War with Iran = Jesus in this analogy, I think.

[merrily]

50. You would have to ask him. I stated the only similarity I could think of.

Then again, no doubt Kerry has been to Rome at some point in his life. So, there's that, too.

[blackspade]

30. Blackspade compares Tom Cotton to a flaming sack of shit.

News at 11.

[geek tragedy]

31. I must take issue with you comparing him to a flaming sack of shit.

This is egregiously in error.

One should not compare Tom Cotton to a flaming sack of shit.

Tom Cotton is a flaming sack of shit.

[blackspade]

40. Well played sir, Well played.

You wins teh internets.

[Thor_MN]

49. A flaming sack of shit can provide heat and light.

Tom Cotton has no known uses.

[Martin Eden]

60. Probably smells better too. n/t

[hughee99]

32. Why are people who don't like this deal on "Iran's side" (ie. Tehran Tom)?

Iran likes this deal, that's why they agreed to it.

[geek tragedy]

33. Tehran Tom is a pen pal of the Ayatollahs

http://www.thenation.com/article/meet-tom-cotton-senator-behind-republicans-letter-iran/

[hughee99]

36. I'm aware of this. It doesn't make him on "Iran's side".

I don't see anything he's done that really benefits Iran. He just doesn't seem to be supporting anything that would even attempt to resolve the issue. IMHO, a better description might be that he's on the side of those that stand to benefit from keeping the Iran issue "on the table".

[geek tragedy]

37. What he's trying would immensely benefit Iran.

If the US unilaterally pulls out of the agreement, China, Russia, German, France, the EU and the UN et all will drop their sanctions on Iran. Iran will get economic benefits immediately, get state of the art anti-aircraft missile defense systems, AND it will get to develop nuclear weapons at an accelerated pace.

The only countries hurt by it would be the US and Israel.

[BlueStater]

34. Traitor Tommy is just an attention-seeking asswipe.

I'm sorry that I even have to acknowledge this skinny fuckbag.

[yurbud]

35. we have the world's largest military, thousands of nukes, but these guys think everyone is a threat

[karynnj]

38. If that's the litmus test lets ask Pope Francis who is more like Pontius Pilate

To me, Cotton voting against this - and ANY agreement - is washing his hands rather than working for peace.

[YvonneCa]

61. [phone]

[Monk06]

42. Well I guess the Neville Chamberlain comparison is sorta run it's course. Although Pontius Pilate

is an ambiguous analogy. He was saying in one interpretation that the security of the world and the Roman Empire took precedence over the petty ideological squabbling of a pack of Pharisees.

You want Barabbas have Barabbas what does the world care.

[rladdi]

48. I am surprised at Tom Cotton and his LIES. It seems Republicans

can now win elections by LYING. Tom is a vet and he should know that honesty and truth is important. But Republicans prefer to LIE

[Gothmog]

56. Tom Cotton is an idiot and is scary

[freshwest]

57. Whatever you say, Barrabas! n/t

[Depaysement]

58. Four Letters

P . . . N . . . A . . . C

Cotton's "godfather," Willie Kristol, wants Iran bombed.

By the way, this is a crazy analogy. Pilate turned Jesus' fate over to the Jewish mob. In this analogy is he comparing Israel to Christ? Really?

[Fritz Walter]

59. So much for "Brothers in Arms"

He (Cottonmouth Tom -- a poisonous viper) has disgraced the uniform.

And I apologize to all reptiles for drawing that analogy, they deserve better).

[Cha]

62. "We're With Stupid"

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

63. I'm tired of hearing this chump shoot off his mouth.

I say Tom Cotton is a punk ass big mouth who does nothing but enflame the right and disrespect the work of the President and his staff. After all, Cotton was the leader of the 47 Traitors who wrote the letter.

[antiRWmedia82]

67. Tom needs to STFU

Either that, or he can go fight himself. Asshole.

[47of74]

69. Well Tom is Judas Iscariot reincarnated.

[Nitram]

70. Tom Cotton is a Judas who has betrayed his own country.

[crim son]

71. Nice try, but Huckabee still has you beat

when it comes to pure, ignorant, outrageous and offensive political statements.