What in the world is Barack Obama thinking? Why is he continuing to push the Iran deal to the American people and stronghold Congress by promising to dismiss it if they vote NO?
John Kerry and Obama made the worst deal imaginable with Iran, and they don’t want to admit they have made the mistake.
Now our military experts and leaders are chiming in, and it’s time for you to spread the word!
One hundred ninety retired military generals and admirals have signed an open letter addressed to Congress condemning the proposed deal with Iran over their nuclear program. The letter is some of the most direct criticism to date from military professionals.
Here is the letter in its entirety, you can read the original here:
Dear Representatives Boehner and Pelosi and Senators McConnell and Reid:
As you know, on July 14, 2015, the United States and five other nations announced that a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been reached with Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. In our judgment as former senior military officers, the agreement will not have that effect. Removing sanctions on Iran and releasing billions of dollars to its regime over the next ten years is inimical to the security of Israel and the Middle East. There is no credibility within JCPOA’s inspection process or the ability to snap back sanctions once lifted, should Iran violate the agreement. In this and other respects, the JCPOA would threaten the national security and vital interests of the United States and, therefore, should be disapproved by the Congress.
The agreement as constructed does not “cut off every pathway” for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. To the contrary, it actually provides Iran with a legitimate path to doing that simply by abiding by the deal. JCPOA allows all the infrastructure the Iranians need for a nuclear bomb to be preserved and enhanced. Notably, Iran is allowed to: continue to enrich uranium; develop and test advanced centrifuges; and continue work on its Arak heavy-water plutonium reactor. Collectively, these concessions afford the Iranians, at worst, a ready breakout option and, at best, an incipient nuclear weapons capability a decade from now.
The agreement is unverifiable. Under the terms of the JCPOA and a secret side deal (to which the United States is not privy), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be responsible for inspections under such severe limitations as to prevent them from reliably detecting Iranian cheating. For example, if Iran and the inspectors are unable to reach an accommodation with respect to a given site, the result could be at least a 24-day delay in IAEA access. The agreement also requires inspectors to inform Iran in writing as to the basis for its concerns about an undeclared site, thus further delaying access. Most importantly, these inspections do not allow access to Iranian military facilities, the most likely location of their nuclear weapons development efforts. In the JCPOA process, there is substantial risk of U.S. intelligence being compromised, since the IAEA often relies on our sensitive data with respect to suspicious and/or prohibited activity.
While failing to assure prevention of Iran’s nuclear weapons development capabilities, the agreement provides by some estimates $150 billion dollars or more to Iran in the form of sanctions relief. As military officers, we find it unconscionable that such a windfall could be given to a regime that even the Obama administration has acknowledged will use a portion of such funds to continue to support terrorism in Israel, throughout the Middle East and globally, whether directly or through proxies. These actions will be made all the more deadly since the JCPOA will lift international embargoes on Iran’s access to advanced conventional weapons and ballistic missile technology.
In summary, this agreement will enable Iran to become far more dangerous, render the Mideast still more unstable and introduce new threats to American interests as well as our allies. In our professional opinion, far from being an alternative to war, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action makes it likely that the war the Iranian regime has waged against us since 1979 will continue, with far higher risks to our national security interests. Accordingly, we urge the Congress to reject this defective accord.
What do you think about this turn of events? Will Congress listen to these generals or discard their warning? Share this story and add your comments below.
H/T – Washington Post
This is about a dead end of a letter anyone has written so far!
This letter has been written to all the Little Rascals in the Honeycomb Hideout!
Boehner,Pelosi,et al,have done nothing FOR the American People! Boehner and his kabal of “frat boys” has thrown the TRUST of the public under the bus.
Obama has publicly said he is circumventing CONGRESS and they catered to his wishes.
These Generals are preaching to the choir,all of the Dead End Kids who helped create this mess and REFUSE to slow down making it worse!
It about time people like the Generals,and others that HAVE A PROBLEM with this regime NEED TO START TALKING TO THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER. THE U.S. CITIZENS.!
Not the class clowns!
It would not surprise me to hear that Congress discard the warning from this Senior General and Admiral Staff. Since Obama has some of his cronies in both parties he wants what he wants, and everyone knows he still has his pen, and his ability to veto what he wants delaying anything the majority of Congress attemps to put on his desk. Now if you ad a Congress that reslly concerned for the welfare of the American People and the Security of America, they should take the Senior Former Military Officers recommendation to heart and refuse to approve Obama’s demands for Iran. Personally I would not trust them as far as I could throw an elephant. They have been supportive of every major attack against the United States, amd adamtly swore their hate for all Americans and the desire to destroy our way of life. Furthermore they have sworn to kill all infidels and support all terrorist actions against Amerca and her citizens.. WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO TRUST IRAN SINCE 1979, AMD NOTHING HAS CHANGED TO MAKE IT ANY DIFFEREMT NOW… THE IRANIA GOVERNMENT WILL SAY ANYTHING SO THAT THEY CAN ACHIEVE THEIR GOAL OF MAKING A NUCLEAR WEAPON. OBMA IS SUPPORTIVE ECAUSE HE IS A MUSLEM SYMPATHIZER….
I’ll tell you where congress is this weekend.They are home in their million dollar plus houses having bbq’s, eating 50 dollar a pound steaks and drinking bottles of 200 dollar scotch and laughing all the way to the bank. This congress we elected has thrown the American people and their constitution under the bus. From where I’m standing, a new movement has to begin in this country. The movement has to create a new party that can defeat the old democrats and republicans,and restore the constitution of the United States of America. This is what Ben Franklin would do,they were men of honor and courage, dear god give us the strength to prevail.
well america you need to tell congress if they approve this deal it will be there last one VOTE THEM OUT IN THE UP COMING ELECTION,S AND THEN ARREST THEM ALL FOR TREASON AND THIS INCLUDES OBAMA KERRY AND THE WHOLE WHITE HOUSE ADM.better wake up america or the first nuke could hit your city and these generals know what there talking about they weren,t general,s for nothing i just can,t believe congress is thinking about approving this deal and letting the iranians do there own insp.. and all the time they gave them to either reject the insp. and no military site insp.and obama,s side deal,s that we don,t hear about it,s like obama care what pelosi said we have to pass it to see what,s in it is this what were going to let them do while obama tear,s our military down then we won,t be able to defend ourselve,s better wake up AMERICA before it,s to late the truth is obama needs to be impeached with all his adm.he,s putting his legacy ahead of our security so when this goes through don,t blame nobody but yourself because you could have stopped this and you didn,t so take your pick the deal or our existance because one has to go
contrary to what you seem to believe, we are neither a military, nor a religious state/country. we have a constitution that we follow. if you want to live in a country run by religious or military regimes, go to iran and live there..or syria.. this is america.
Congress is going to do what Congress does. That means not much. They have put them self above common people, in a class only for high ranking government officials. As long as they are in office the only thing they need from us is money. A worthless lot.
If Congress doesn’t heed the warning of these experienced generals, then they should face charges of treason along with Obama.
how can we let these noble veterans of this great land know that we are with them?
enough is enough.
Where in the hell is congress? They must not consider this serious, they only spew out words, IMO, they have the power to stop this dangerous tragedy..
good grief..
No, senators and congressmen will NOT listen to these military professionals. Unfortunately, loyalty to party is now more important than responsibility toward country.
I believe now as always this is the deal Obama wanted in the first place, and John Kerry was doing his bidding! In my opinion they are both traitors
This is unconscionable. The inspectors are Iranians, the get billions of dollars and still continue to build nuclear weapons. I cannot believe Kerry is that incompetent! Obama, Clinton and Kerry should be arrested and sentenced for treason! AMERICA WE HAVE TO WAKE UP AND STOP THIS.
MAKES ME PROUD OF MY TIME IN THE MILITARY ___USN
The Iranians should use Obama as a test dummy and let him ride on one of their nukes.
Thank heavens these General & Admirals are speaking up. Who could believe Obama and that the Iranians are trustworthy… where has common sense gone and how does this president get away with destroying America and people are still blind to what he’s doing. Wake up America!
Here’s the deal: “John Kerry and Obama . . . don’t want to admit they have made the mistake.” Folks, it was not a mistake. Those two traitors what to arm Iran and disarm America. It is very simple! They both hate America.
I saw an ad on TV that said to urge Congress to accept the deal with Iran and that Republicans are to blame for whatever… That ad was very confusing. It flipped things around. Has anyone else seen that ad?
It was probably an “Occupy Democrats” ad but could have been from any of a half-dozen Marxists groups supporting Obama.
Something they failed to mention here is that the so-called inspectors will be Iranians.