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So much for BO peep and Kerry saying no deal means War. This will be good news to those in Congress. Someone besides Israel speaking out about what Kerry has had to say. This French Diplomat is basically saying Kerry is lying. Full of it, yes it and **** too. What say ye?
Secretary of State John Kerry has been painting an apocalyptic picture of what would happen if Congress killed the Iran nuclear deal. Among other things, he has warned that “our friends in this effort will desert us." But the top national security official from one of those nations involved in the negotiations, France, has a totally different view: He told two senior U.S. lawmakers that he thinks a Congressional no vote might actually be helpful.
The French official, Jacques Audibert, is now the senior diplomatic adviser to President Francois Hollande. Before that, as the director general for political affairs in the Foreign Ministry from 2009 to 2014, he led the French diplomatic team in the discussions with Iran and the P5+1 group. Earlier this month, he met with Democrat Loretta Sanchez and Republican Mike Turner, both top members of the House Armed Services Committee, to discuss the Iran deal. The U.S. ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, was also in the room.
According to both lawmakers, Audibert expressed support for the deal overall, but also directly disputed Kerry’s claim that a Congressional rejection of the Iran deal would result in the worst of all worlds, the collapse of sanctions and Iran racing to the bomb without restrictions. “He basically said, if Congress votes this down, there will be some saber-rattling and some chaos for a year or two, but in the end nothing will change and Iran will come back to the table to negotiate again and that would be to our advantage,” Sanchez told me in an interview. “He thought if the Congress voted it down, that we could get a better deal.”.....snip~
Top French Official Contradicts Kerry on Iran Deal - Bloomberg View
I will wait until we get a reporter who is able to obtain a direct quote on the subject rather than a summarized hearsay version of his opinion.
Could we wait two years and get a better deal? Possibly.
Is it worth the risk that Iran might turn their current stockpile into a nuclear weapon within that same time period because we MIGHT get a better deal in two years? No.
So much for BO peep and Kerry saying no deal means War. This will be good news to those in Congress. Someone besides Israel speaking out about what Kerry has had to say. This French Diplomat is basically saying Kerry is lying. Full of it, yes it and **** too. What say ye?
Secretary of State John Kerry has been painting an apocalyptic picture of what would happen if Congress killed the Iran nuclear deal. Among other things, he has warned that “our friends in this effort will desert us." But the top national security official from one of those nations involved in the negotiations, France, has a totally different view: He told two senior U.S. lawmakers that he thinks a Congressional no vote might actually be helpful.
The French official, Jacques Audibert, is now the senior diplomatic adviser to President Francois Hollande. Before that, as the director general for political affairs in the Foreign Ministry from 2009 to 2014, he led the French diplomatic team in the discussions with Iran and the P5+1 group. Earlier this month, he met with Democrat Loretta Sanchez and Republican Mike Turner, both top members of the House Armed Services Committee, to discuss the Iran deal. The U.S. ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, was also in the room.
According to both lawmakers, Audibert expressed support for the deal overall, but also directly disputed Kerry’s claim that a Congressional rejection of the Iran deal would result in the worst of all worlds, the collapse of sanctions and Iran racing to the bomb without restrictions. “He basically said, if Congress votes this down, there will be some saber-rattling and some chaos for a year or two, but in the end nothing will change and Iran will come back to the table to negotiate again and that would be to our advantage,” Sanchez told me in an interview. “He thought if the Congress voted it down, that we could get a better deal.”.....snip~
Top French Official Contradicts Kerry on Iran Deal - Bloomberg View
It's come to this. Under this administration America is now so weak-willed in our foreign policy that the French are telling us to man up and try to actually pursue our interests.
Gosh. If only there was some means of keeping that from happening....
And your suggestion?
So much for BO peep and Kerry saying no deal means War. This will be good news to those in Congress. Someone besides Israel speaking out about what Kerry has had to say. This French Diplomat is basically saying Kerry is lying. Full of it, yes it and **** too. What say ye?
Secretary of State John Kerry has been painting an apocalyptic picture of what would happen if Congress killed the Iran nuclear deal. Among other things, he has warned that “our friends in this effort will desert us." But the top national security official from one of those nations involved in the negotiations, France, has a totally different view: He told two senior U.S. lawmakers that he thinks a Congressional no vote might actually be helpful.
The French official, Jacques Audibert, is now the senior diplomatic adviser to President Francois Hollande. Before that, as the director general for political affairs in the Foreign Ministry from 2009 to 2014, he led the French diplomatic team in the discussions with Iran and the P5+1 group. Earlier this month, he met with Democrat Loretta Sanchez and Republican Mike Turner, both top members of the House Armed Services Committee, to discuss the Iran deal. The U.S. ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, was also in the room.
According to both lawmakers, Audibert expressed support for the deal overall, but also directly disputed Kerry’s claim that a Congressional rejection of the Iran deal would result in the worst of all worlds, the collapse of sanctions and Iran racing to the bomb without restrictions. “He basically said, if Congress votes this down, there will be some saber-rattling and some chaos for a year or two, but in the end nothing will change and Iran will come back to the table to negotiate again and that would be to our advantage,” Sanchez told me in an interview. “He thought if the Congress voted it down, that we could get a better deal.”.....snip~
Top French Official Contradicts Kerry on Iran Deal - Bloomberg View
And your suggestion?
I suspect that this deal is being pushed because Obama wants something more to point to as what he sees as a success for his presidential legacy.
So much for BO peep and Kerry saying no deal means War. This will be good news to those in Congress. Someone besides Israel speaking out about what Kerry has had to say. This French Diplomat is basically saying Kerry is lying. Full of it, yes it and **** too. What say ye?
Secretary of State John Kerry has been painting an apocalyptic picture of what would happen if Congress killed the Iran nuclear deal. Among other things, he has warned that “our friends in this effort will desert us." But the top national security official from one of those nations involved in the negotiations, France, has a totally different view: He told two senior U.S. lawmakers that he thinks a Congressional no vote might actually be helpful.
The French official, Jacques Audibert, is now the senior diplomatic adviser to President Francois Hollande. Before that, as the director general for political affairs in the Foreign Ministry from 2009 to 2014, he led the French diplomatic team in the discussions with Iran and the P5+1 group. Earlier this month, he met with Democrat Loretta Sanchez and Republican Mike Turner, both top members of the House Armed Services Committee, to discuss the Iran deal. The U.S. ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, was also in the room.
According to both lawmakers, Audibert expressed support for the deal overall, but also directly disputed Kerry’s claim that a Congressional rejection of the Iran deal would result in the worst of all worlds, the collapse of sanctions and Iran racing to the bomb without restrictions. “He basically said, if Congress votes this down, there will be some saber-rattling and some chaos for a year or two, but in the end nothing will change and Iran will come back to the table to negotiate again and that would be to our advantage,” Sanchez told me in an interview. “He thought if the Congress voted it down, that we could get a better deal.”.....snip~
Top French Official Contradicts Kerry on Iran Deal - Bloomberg View
It's come to this. Under this administration America is now so weak-willed in our foreign policy that the French are telling us to man up and try to actually pursue our interests.
:shrug: there's a wide range of available options, from clandestine, to covert, to open and kinetic.
A Junior High debate team captain could have gotten a better deal than Kerry. Well, that's hyperbolic, but you get the point.
Kerry has never been on the right side of any foreign policy issue the US was involved with. His view of the world and the US's role in that world is so antithetical to everything we stand for, that I was amazed that the Senate confirmed him. I get that the "Old Boys Club" (the Senate) will confirm any of their previous club members to be an executive branch official, but damn... Kerry??? As Secretary of State???
Obama promised to talk directly to Iran in his first campaign, regardless of the cost to the US and how much it harmed our safety and the safety of our allies. He has kept that promise, and we are not safer but in fact the opposite.
Russia is annexing western Europe, China is annexing millions of square miles of the Pacific Ocean by creating islands, and ISIS is gaining ground and recruiting thousands from around the world, just to list three. Turkey is requesting NATO Article 4 be activated and supported by NATO countries, and I seriously doubt that Obama will support it, although he used the same to attack Libya.
Obama has put the world in the most dangerous position it has been in since WWII.
Military strikes? AKA war? Got it.
We tried sending a small military force in the middle east. It didn't work. We tried sending a massive military force in the middle east. It didn't work. We tried bombing into submission. It didn't work.
I'd like to try diplomacy.
As that was about my take, I might as well agree with the Frenchman.
Upon hearing the report of Jacques Audibert's comments the French embassy was not pleased.
The Embassy of France formally denies the remarks attributed to Jacques Audibert in this article https://t.co/fY0Tno74uT #Iran
— French Embassy U.S. (@franceintheus) July 30, 2015
Military strikes? AKA war? Got it.
We tried sending a small military force in the middle east. It didn't work. We tried sending a massive military force in the middle east. It didn't work. We tried bombing into submission. It didn't work.
I'd like to try diplomacy.
Gosh. If only there was some means of keeping that from happening....
The French Embassy denies the report – needless to say Mr. Jacques Audibert would be needed to confirm or deny what was or was not said.
"The Lid": French P5+1 Negotiations Leader Says Better Deal IS Possible
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