Posted on Jan 24, 2016

The GOP Gets the Iran Prisoner Swap Wrong

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Give President Obama credit. His Iran nuclear deal may be disastrous but the packaging was brilliant. The near-simultaneous prisoner exchange was meant to distract from last Saturday’s official implementation of the sanctions-lifting deal. And it did. The Republicans concentrated almost all their fire on the swap sideshow.

And in denouncing the swap, they were wrong. True, we should have made the prisoner release a precondition for negotiations. But that pre-emptive concession was made long ago (among many others, such as granting Iran in advance the right to enrich uranium). The remaining question was getting our prisoners released before we gave away all our leverage upon implementation of the nuclear accord. We did.

The GOP Gets the Iran Prisoner Swap Wrong

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Operation Opera - Israel Airstrike on Iraq Nuclear Reactor 1981

Operation Opera, also known as Operation Babylon and Raid on the Reactor, was a surprise Israeli air strike carried out on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an Ir...

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The Iran Nuclear Deal

Is the nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran a good or bad deal? Would it be harder or easier for Iran to develop nuclear weapons? Would it ma...

let me see... Iran gets $150 billion give or take a few billion and we get a Chamberlain moment like when Chamberlain thought he had a cool deal with Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. Now its 2016 and 7 years from now the POTUS global warming and carbon tax scheme will be off the table and a threat of nuclear winter will be there like when we had the Cuban Missle Crisis that almost prevented my birth if the USA had gone to war on October 27th, 1962 after the U2 shootdown. I was born on October 28, 1962 the next day. Iran will probably attack Israel or Iran will do it first since they have always said since the days of the Ayatollah Khomeini that Israel needs to be destroyed.
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American Muslims celebrating 9/11

ONLY DISLIKE THE VIDEO IF YOU LOVE 9/11 AND SUPPORT THESE MUSLIMS. LIKE the video if you hate 9/11 and terrorists. #53 - Most Discussed (Today) - News & Poli...

the schism against Sunni and Shia has affected so many countries like France, England and elsewhere....continues...
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Iran and Saudi Arabia are at each others throats but Iran is the Mother of HAMAS and Saudi Arabia is the mother of Whabbiism and ISIL and Iran has a hard-on to wipe out Israel.

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It is a mess that POTUS can't say was a legacy of former President George W. Bush since Operation New Dawn was on his watch and we agreed to make a deal with Iran in 2015.

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Operation Orchard: Israel's strike on the Syrian reactor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Operation Orchard[2][3] (Hebrew: מבצע בוסתן, Mivtza bustan) was an Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor[4...

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I am glad we got most of them back. I just hope this was not a pyrrchic victory...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

Pyrrhic victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has been victorious in some way. However, the heavy toll negates any sense of achievement or profit. Another term for this would be "hollow victory".[1][2]

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