Posted on Aug 27, 2015
SSgt Alex Robinson
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LTC Stephen F.
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SSgt Alex Robinson I support the nearly 200 Retired Generals and Admirals that want Congress to say "No" to the Iran Deal. President Obama and his administration realize that he has no crowning achievement in foreign policy and is probably jealous that President Jimmy Carter was instrumental to the signing of the Camp David Agreement. I don't know the depths of the motivations of President Obama vis-à-vis the Iranian Nuclear agreement; but, I doubt he is thinking about what is best for the world let alone the USA.
Iran is a complicated situation to say the least. I was a soldier during the 1979 Hostage Crisis in Tehran under President Jimmy Carter. Prior to the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Iran under Shah Pahlavi was a strong allie of ours. During the Iran-Iraq War, coincident with one of the efforts of Saddam to exterminate the shia in southern Iran, in a covert arrangement to support freedom in Nicaragua, arms were made available to Iran. During this same decade, U.S. support for the Afghan mujahideen was occurring during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan included support to bin Laden. Over the next decade he turned from being an enemy of our enemies to a enemy of this nation. [I expect the details about that won't be downgraded for at least 50 years].
The Iranian peoples [there are more than one group in Iran] have a long history of support for the USA. The Revolutionary Guards have a history of hating us since they were conceived of in Paris in the 1970s. Whether the Revolutionary Guards and especially their quds force are operating in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iraq they are actively opposed to virtually everything this nation has stood for - what this nation stands for is in flux right now. COL Mikel J. Burroughs, LTC Stephen C., Capt Seid Waddell, GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad, SGM Steve Wettstein, SGT Randal Groover, SGT Robert Hawks, SGT Forrest Stewart, SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas
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SGT Forrest Stewart
SGT Forrest Stewart
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Well said sir!
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SGT Scott Bell
SGT Scott Bell
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yes
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SGT Robert Hawks
SGT Robert Hawks
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Absolutely the Iran deal is a joke and will give Iran a nuclear weapon that we will have to deal with sooner than later.
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LTC Stephen F.
LTC Stephen F.
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SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas - I saw your response yesterday and voted you up my friend.
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SFC Mark Merino
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POTUS is going to do whatever POTUS wants to do and warnings be damned.
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SPC Mark Beard
SPC Mark Beard
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I  agree   with  the   200 and  I  stand   with  them 
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SSG Floyd Morris
SSG Floyd Morris
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I agree, with all our Generals.
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SPC George Rudenko
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I value their opinion and expertise. I believe Iran will f up, and will do it soon. The failure won't be in the interpretation of this accord, butbhow we ACT when Iran screws up yet again. Why do you think we have submarines exclusively assigned to Iran and N Korea? Not for the food.
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