Congresswoman Barbara Comstock who represents Virginia’s 10th district issued the following statement on today’s Iran deal. [read_more]
“From everything we’ve seen and heard to date, this is a perilous deal for America and a perilous deal for Israel and our other allies in the Middle East. Going into these negotiations the Obama Administration said that the goal was to not have Iran obtain nuclear weapons. This deal fails that test and is not in the national security interest of the United States. This deal does not dismantle Iran’s nuclear weapons program, it does not provide anytime, anywhere inspections, and does not cut back Iran’s ballistic missile program.
“Yet it lifts the arms embargo in five years, providing Iran, a country that exports terrorism, with the means to spread violence around the region. Iran is the world’s largest sponsor of terror, and what President Obama trumpeted today does not keep America safe, rather it only emboldens Iran to continue spreading instability and terror throughout an already unstable region of the world. It also rewards the Iranians with billions of dollars in sanctions relief.“Congress will now have 60 days to review this deal and it is the job of Congress to evaluate and disclose the facts about this dangerous policy. The American people need to be informed about the dangers this deal poses to our nation’s security and the existential threat an Iran with nuclear weapons will mean for the world. At the end of this process, I will urge my fellow colleagues to vote to disapprove this misguided deal and to vote to override the President’s threatened veto.â€
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Seeing this article degrade into sockpuppetry and 9/11 “truthers” is a quite obvious sign of what this website has degraded into.
Is this be the case, the question that arises? Then why do you regularly read it as if it were a best seller?
Ha, ha, ha,
How’s about Israel stopping Tehran?
What, is Netanyahu expecting a Hunukka card from Obama after the BS he’s pulled????
Barbara Comstock has an “F” rating on the liberty scorecard. She did nothing to help the farmer in Fauquier fighting the PEC other than enjoy her fundraising efforts. I believe the word is “opportunist” and this is her rhetoric for the time being.
https://www.conservativereview.com/Members/B/412658
Folks! It’s gotten to be a strange world!
Here is Iran, a country bordered by two countries (Iraq and Afghanistan) which have been invaded and occupied by a nuclear world power under what appears to have been doubtful pretenses, and with that invading power having created a domestic security state apparatus that makes the old GDR Stasi (Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit) look like a Romper Room operation. And Comstock calls Iran the world’s greatest terrorist!
Please folks, help me out! Please tell me what is the real security interest of the United States? And what of the American people? And does the security interest of the United States (whatever that may be) trump the interests of the people?
“Doubtful pretenses” to invade Afghanistan after the harboring of the group that brought down the World Trade Center and crashed a plane into the Pentagon? My how we have short memories. And saying that ANYTHING in the current U.S. security regime equals or exceeds the abuses of the Stasi really reduces your contribution to beyond the point of absurdity.
Yes, Iran is the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism. Ask her neighbors, ask Lebanese Christians and Druse, ask Israel, ask Egypt, ask Kuwait and all the Sunni states of Arabia. Since 1979, and with added gusto since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, the mullahs in Teheran have been responsible for thousands of murders across the region, and for several armed internal and cross-border military clashes. They are religious radicals bent on exporting their Islamic Revolution, with a direct impact on the security of the United States and the rest of the civilized world. You’ve got to be wearing blinders not to see that.
The problem as I see it, Bush 43′ led America to believe we were going into Afganistan to get Bin Laden? Not remake the country.
14 years in Afganistan, what do we have to show for it? What will happen the minute we leave?
And who got Bin Laden? Obama did, in Pakistan no less.
Regarding Iraq? Just look at the mess that Bush created in the middle-east now? We were better off with Hussein in Iraq.
Oh, good grief.
No, just the facts.
Steve,
In reply ………
You need to explain to me how it came to be that the laws of physics were mysteriously suspended on 911. You need to explain to me the presence of metallic micro-spheres and thermate and/or thermite particulate in the debris field, and then additionally come up with a good story about Building #7, which by the way, was not struck by airplanes on 911.
911 RESOURCE MATERIALS:
http://www.ae911truth.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOnAn_PX6M
http://patriotsquestion911.com/pilots.html
Caveat: 1) ae911truth is the best site because they stick strictly to forensic evidence, and do so based on hard science. 2) I include the other two items because I find them interesting. In this material, not agreeing with everything being said is the price I am willing to pay for an occasional nugget come my way.
MY BOTTOM LINE ON THE ABOVE:
I trust the architects and engineers at ae911 truth.org more than I trust government appointed flunkies who wrote up the NIST Reports.
As to the rest of your text, I see this stuff on FaceBook, in blogs, etc. all the time … and most of it is rather pedestrian. Let’s just say, I am more convinced by Ron Paul’s thoughts on the Middle East than I am enthralled by yours. And that I am more interested in what might constitute an authentic self-interest of the American people over the endless rivers of war mongering daily streaming out of Oz up in Washington.
Please excuse me now, I have to run next door and ask my neighbor lady about the mullahs in Tehran. It’s going to be a hard mission because the neighbor lady has probably never heard of Tehran. But nonetheless, I promise that I’ll extract out her what I can. This of course my require some water-boarding, but whatever it is that materializes, it will probably be as a good as anything on Fox or CNN, and maybe better than Public Radio and MSNBC.
Thanks for writing,
And with my best to you,
Dave
So silly.
Betsey ………..
Silly? The drive for historical truth? Or the mullahs at the end?
Here is an un-silly quote from an un-silly man:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008
Solzhenitsyn on Atheism:
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Edward E. Ericson, Jr., “Solzhenitsyn – Voice from the Gulag,”
Eternity, October 1985, pp. 23, 24.
As a young man, getting close to a half century ago, I visited the old Soviet Union (which always Russia to the Russian people, and greater in its heart and soul than the Soviet state). It was a bleak place filled with tones of an oppressive gray wherever the eye cast gaze. Everyone was watched and were careful where they were when they said what to whom. The only relief was in caviar, Russian champaign from Georgia, theater and books … and you had to have money for pleasures like these.
Today, the shoe is on the other foot … although the oppression is not yet fully manifested, and therefore people like me look silly, even tin hatted.
If you are young enough, you may live long enough to reap the whirlwind. When things get this far, such as they have in the United States of America, it never gets better. The oppression begets oppression, the controls and regimentation deepen. In America, where political and social control are much more subtle and clever than in America, the torments will at first be mostly mental.
Again, if you are young enough, you may see things which I do not care to witness. It may take another twenty years, or another fifty or so. I cannot predict such things. But if the reserve dollar, an imaginary unit of account runs into real trouble internationally, the gig is up.
But whatever am I saying? So silly am I !!
My best to you,
Dave
LOL
I doubt the 911 conspiracy theories you mentioned? It is virtually impossible to keep that big a secret for so long?
However, here is one known cover up. A fact that cannot be easily disputed? The fact that our government let us down.
Our government failed us miserably regarding 911, in it’s number one responsibility. The responsibility of protecting America.
Not one government official has ever been held accountable for 911. Not Bush 43′, not the National Security Advisor, not the CIA, FBI, nor anyone else.
So if you want to chase cover ups and conspiracy, chase the government cover up of why no one in government has ever been held accountable for their failure in the 911 attack.
That is a cover up that is easily proven!
Reinhardt …
I agree with some of your reasonings, but not all of your conclusions.
I used to think, especially in my younger years, that no … “it is virtually impossible to keep that big a secret for so long” … just as you assert. But I’ve changed my mind on this. Facts about Pearl Harbor were suppressed for decades. The truth about the Lusitania only came out decades upon decades after the event. Ditto for the Reichstags fire. The list is long ranging.
I not longer find it useful to use the phrase ‘conspiracy theories’ because I am painful aware of the political usage of such phrases as to the useful to some channeling of mass think. And that is why the folks at aetruth.org are so good. They just stick to the facts which cannot be disputed provided that one has at least a minimal grounding in science. And because the aetruth people has adopted this approach, roughly half of Americans now think that 911 is ‘no longer just airplanes.’
Regarding 911, I would have thought that most people would be able to understand that it takes energy to do work, and thus might be able to distinguish conceptually between ‘high energy event’ and ‘low energy event,’ and understand that the government’s representation is all ‘low energy event’ explanation. 911 and ‘low energy’ should not be identities from a scienced point of view. But this bit of calculation is beyond a lot of peoples ‘pay grade’ so to speak with politeness.
In any event, the aetruth.org people do seem to present in a way the reasonable people seem to begin to grasp. And I am thankful for that.
Dave