I have been writing about President Obama’s abandonment of the goal to stop Iran’s development of nuclear weapons in favor of a cockamamie negotiation to further delay that effort.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to speak to a joint session of Congress this week to tell us about the threat the world faces in Iran, and the president doesn’t like it.
He has turned the dogs loose in a bitter personal attack against Netanyahu and Israel, one of our strongest allies.
Secretary of State Kerry was sent out to denigrate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a House hearing. (nypost.com)
Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, shamefully said, “The prime minister, as you will recall, was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush, and we all know what happened with that decision.” This, despite the fact that Netanyahu wasn’t prime minister at the time,
I didn’t hear anyone challenge Kerry on that statement, so I will. Nearly everyone, including Kerry, and Hillary Clinton, voted to attack Iraq on Oct. 11, 2002.
We captured Saddam Hussein, of whom Kerry said in 2003, “If you don’t believe … Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn’t vote for me.”
We have recently found WMDs in Iraq and have heard DNI Director James Clapper’s testimony that Hussein moved weapons to Syria in the midst of the war.
And, yes, Mr. Secretary, we do know what happened there. After tough battles in such cities as Fallujah, we won that war and Iraq was quite stable. But your administration, so eager to keep a campaign promise to get out of Iraq, failed to negotiate a status of forces agreement to leave a contingent of U.S. troops there.
Today ISIL is well-ensconced in Iraq. Your administration has no strategy, so you choose to blame Bush.
Finally, Mr. Secretary, you said, “we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally; less deaths, less violent deaths today, than through the last century.”
How refreshing it was to hear Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn respond with, “Secretary Kerry is out of touch with reality.”
National Security Advisor Susan “It was the video” Rice did a hit on Benjamin Netanyahu’s up-coming speech before Congress during her appearance on the Charlie Rose Show. (timesofisrael.com)
But the administration didn’t stop with Kerry. They again sent National Security Advisor Susan “It was the video” Rice out to join the attack. Appearing on CBS’s Charlie Rose Show, she said Netanyahu’s speech here is “destructive to the fabric of the relationship.”
This from an administration that referred to Netanyahu as “chickens—t.”
Why is the president so hell bent to negotiate a bad deal that he will not only allow Iran to move closer to a bomb, he is willing to sacrifice this country’s long-standing friendship with Israel?
I wonder how many people who thought Obama’s plan to transform this nation included the waving of a white flag across the Mid-East?
