You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Don't interfere with Tehran talks, Kerry tells Congress
2015-04-13
[ARABNEWS] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 will this week defend an emerging deal intended to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, urging skeptical US politicians not to put up obstacles that could scupper the tough negotiations.

"I'll lay out the facts," Kerry told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday when asked about a different narrative emerging from Iranian leaders about the outlines of a deal agreed in Lausanne, Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
 earlier this month.

"Everything I have laid out is a fact. And I'll stand by them."

The Lausanne framework marked a major breakthrough in a 12-year standoff between Iran and the West, which disputes Tehran's denial that it is seeking to acquire nuclear bomb.

Kerry, however, has come under fire from US politicians, including his former Republican Senate friend and adversary John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
who last week said America's top diplomat was "delusional."

"I think you're going to find out that they never agreed to the things that John Kerry claimed they had," McCain told a radio show on Thursday, adding that Kerry was now trying to "sell a bill of goods hoping that maybe the Iranians wouldn't say much about it."

But President Barack Obama
Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back...
on Saturday leapt to Kerry's defense.

Suggesting America's top diplomat was "somehow less trustworthy in the interpretation of what's in a political agreement than the supreme leader of Iran -- that's an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries," Obama told news hounds in Panama.

Obama said he could understand that people might not trust Iran, which has not had diplomatic ties with the United States since the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Tehran.

Posted by:Fred

#6  Crazy Fool, you seem to not understand the difference between 'interference' and 'leadership.' One is done by Republicans and the Other by Democrats.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-04-13 11:18  

#5  Nor his interference in the Vietnam War so long ago. I believe he tried to get in on the Paris Peace Talks back then (or at least met with the North Vietnamese delegation) didn't he?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-04-13 11:03  

#4  Don't seem to recall your own interference in the conduct of a war in Bush II reign do you?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-04-13 09:31  

#3  I believe you'll find that location is already filled Darth. Putin rammed a Russian flagpole there a while back.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2015-04-13 03:34  

#2  Fuck you lurch.

Your wanna be emperor can take his talks and shove them up his girly ass.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-04-13 00:21  

#1  The President - He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party

The Constitution of the United States of America

The Executive Branch be warned. Do not usurp the power of the other two branches especially regarding the potential danger of nuclear apocalypses. PERIOD.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2015-04-13 00:18  

00:00