http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/06/1419025/-Oh-no-Republicans-Colin-Powell-Supports-the-Iran-Deal-Pretty-Good-Deal
Republican Colin Powell, former National Security Adviser, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former Secretary of State supports the Iran Deal. He revealed his support in fairly laudatory terms on Meet the Press.
Here's the summaryfrom PoliticusUSA.
It’s a pretty good deal… I know there are objections to it, but here’s why I think it’s a good deal,” the former Secretary of State said. He continued, “One of the great concerns that the opposition has that we are leaving open a ‘lane’ for the Iranians to go back to creating a nuclear weapon in 10-15 years are forgetting the reality that they have been on a superhighway for the last ten years to create a nuclear weapon or nuclear weapons program with no speed limit.”
And while Dick Cheney tried to ignore the reality that under the Bush administration Iran went from 0 centrifuges to 5000, Colin Powell was not ignoring reality.
“In the last ten years they’ve gone from 136 centrifuges up to something like 19,000 centrifuges.” That is something Republicans never talk about. Powell pointed out, “This agreement will take them down to 5,000 cent all of this will be under IAEA supervision and I think this is a good outcome.”
“They had stockpiled something in the neighborhood of 12,000 kilograms of uranium. This deal will bring it down to 300 kilograms,” Powell said. “It’s a remarkable reduction. I’m amazed that they would do this this but they have done it.”
“These are remarkable changes. We have stopped this highway race that they were going down and I think this is very, very important.”
It's a good deal. The Republicans have nothing.
And we also have to keep in mind that we are in this with a number of other countries. All of the ones that have worked with us, China, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, they have already agreed to it. The British foreign secretary was already in Iran last week with a trade delegation.
And so even if we were to kill this deal, which is not going to happen, it's going to take effect anyway because all of these other countries that were in it with us are going to move forward, the UN is going to move forward, and a hundred nations have already agreed to this deal thinking it's a good deal. And they're all going to be moving forward. We're going to be standing in the sidelines.
when will we all notice the lies and inconsistencies of republican propaganda every so often a voice of reason emerges and sets the record straight for those who are under informed do they listen mostly IMO no but some do and that spreads throughout slowly but inevitably.
with all the skulduggery and treasonous efforts to kill this deal like ObamaCares they have no replacement scratch that they do it's called war. also have you noticed during all the railing they treat this agreement as if it were ours and ours alone ignoring the other countries they claim they would come back to the table and reinsert the sanctions.
they say we are giving Iran billions of dollars but do they know that Iranian assets means that they are already Iranians money???? why hasn't anyone on either side or the news tols us we are not giving them anything that is not theirs more accurately we are giving it back. recognize
