Tom Cotton compares John Kerry to Pontius Pilate
Source: Politico
Cotton said that Kerry, who is appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday to sell lawmakers on the agreement, acted like Pontius Pilate by not drawing a line.
He washed his hands, kicked it to the IAEA, knowing that Congress would not get this information unless someone went out to find it, he said, noting allegations that Iran has tested nuclear detonators at its Parchin facility. (Iran has denied the accusations, but has so far refused to allow IAEA inspectors full access.)
There needs to be a baseline, Cotton said. For all we know, he remarked, any unknown actions at Parchin would undercut the agreement.
On Wednesday, National Security Adviser Susan Rice told reporters that Congress will be briefed on the side documents and should come to the same rational conclusion as the administration that it is a good and strong deal.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/tom-cotton-john-kerry-pontius-pilate-iran-deal-120520.html#ixzz3gjAEIPTy
So, John Kerry not only lost Vietnam, but also killed Jesus, according to the war pig brigade.
Voting against this deal is a litmus test. Whose side are people on--Tehran Tom's or John Kerry's?
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Ron Paul: Iran Agreement Boosts Peace, Defeats Neocons
RonPaul.com
July 20, 2015
Foreign Policy
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)There's no such thing as a realist, let alone isolationists, in the Republican party.
They're 100% warmongering neocons.
Report1212
(661 posts)^_6
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)n/t
still_one
(92,394 posts)Reter
(2,188 posts)The father never sold out to win votes.
Reter
(2,188 posts)He's a right-leaning libertarian. His son is similar, but he is more so. Paleo-conservatives like Pat Buchanan can be described as ultra-conservative. They also support the Iran deal.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 27, 2015, 02:08 PM - Edit history (1)
bulloney
(4,113 posts)When will he and others of his ilk get through their thick heads that this agreement was negotiated with several other allies? Would they sign off on this agreement if they didn't think it would achieve its objectives? Don't they have skin in the game, so to speak?
Cotton and the other bozos talk like this was strictly a U.S.-Iran agreement, and they are so obsessed with opposing the Obama Administration on everything that they'll just put their ignorance out there just to appease their knuckle-dragging base.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)from his vile mouth.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Arkansas News Bureau @arkansasnews 16h16 hours ago
Boozman, Cotton call for investigation of Planned Parenthood http://ow.ly/PXZnV
randys1
(16,286 posts)I dont know where the Black people's straw is, were I them it would have been 40 yrs ago for me.
But i know what mine is.
My other straw is Gay rights, anybody see that FUCK Santorum on Rachel last night?
MBS
(9,688 posts)The worst combination.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)But this guy is getting on my nerves.
He's not what the world needs.
MBS
(9,688 posts)To say the least.
blm
(113,091 posts)be the road he will travel to get there.
lark
(23,155 posts)He'll do nothing but weaken the brand and give us a better chance of winning. He's the future Donald or Ted.
flygal
(3,231 posts)that intends to sell a lot of stupid books and get a Fox News deal.
wshaffer
(5 posts)If you think he is ignorant just think of how ignorant the people are who elected him. He and others like him aren't really against the treaty as they aren't really intelligent enough to understand it. They are really against the fact that a Democratic Administration has been able to do something the Republicans couldn't come close to doing. Clinton was making progress but along George W. and he got the hackles up on his back and refused to negotiate, he'd rather fight a war or two. O'Bama with the help of two outstanding Secretaries of State, exerting sanctions and other diplomatic pressures, along with the cooperation of several powerful Nations has made it happen. Tom Cotton would rather follow Bush's path and plunge the US in more wars that can't be won.
abakan
(1,819 posts)Whenever it is we should it make our mission to get rid of him.
Botany
(70,581 posts)Sen. Cotton, this is the man behind "the deal" w/Iran ..... Ernie Moniz
If he isn't the best in the world at this kind of work then the list of those that are just
as good or better is pretty damn short.
http://energy.gov/contributors/dr-ernest-moniz
snip
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Moniz was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was a faculty member since 1973. At MIT, he headed the Department of Physics and the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. Most recently, Dr. Moniz served as the founding Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and as Director of the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment where he was a leader of multidisciplinary technology and policy studies on the future of nuclear power, coal, nuclear fuel cycles, natural gas and solar energy in a low-carbon world.
From 1997 until January 2001, Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy. He was responsible for overseeing the Departments science and energy programs, leading a comprehensive review of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, and serving as the Secretarys special negotiator for the disposition of Russian nuclear materials. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.
In addition to his work at MIT, the White House and the Department of Energy, Dr. Moniz has served on a number of boards of directors and commissions involving science, energy and security. These include President Obamas Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, and the Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear Future.
snip
Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in Physics from Boston College, a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Stanford University, and honorary degrees from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, Michigan State University and Universidad Pontificia de Comillas.
blm
(113,091 posts)and the 2% who say it isn't are the ones whose views will be catapulted the loudest by corporate media.
Q&A with Hans Blix: Iran deal is remarkably far-reaching
Hans Blix is a Swedish diplomat and the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the international organization tasked with monitoring and inspecting Irans nuclear facilities as part of the July 14, 2015, nuclear deal signed by Iran and six world powers. From 2000 to 2003, he led the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.
On July 20, 2015, Blix spoke with msnbc by phone from Uppsala, Sweden, to discuss the nuclear accord with Iran. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.
MSNBC: What is your general impression of the Iran nuclear deal now that youve read the text? Do you think its a good deal, a bad deal, the best of a few bad options?
BLIX: I think it is a remarkably far-reaching and detailed agreement. And I think it has a potential for stabilizing and improving the situation in the region as it gradually gets implemented.
Ive seen how some people have said or alleged that Iran got everything I simply dont understand that attitude. From the beginning, Iran accepted that they would reduce the number of centrifuges to about five or six thousand; they will commit themselves to have no reprocessing, that is, no plutonium production; they commit themselves to rearrange the research reactor that they are building in Arak so that they it will be less prone or less convenient for plutonium production; they limit the stores and stocks they have of enriched uranium; and they agree not to reach to any higher level than 3.67% [enrichment].
There are lots of other commitments that they make. What are the commitments on the other side? The commitments are to drop punishment. I do not see that as very onerous.
lark
(23,155 posts)This isn't a personality contest, it's about who really wants to wage a ridiculous war of choice on Iran and who thinks that war isnt the answer to every single question about the middle east. It's that basic for most of them. Of course, there are some who just follow little murderers dicatates, but they are part of the first group when it comes to voting.
still_one
(92,394 posts)The Stranger
(11,297 posts)If a Republican is elected President, he'll pretend that the agreement was violated. Having the agreement actually makes it EASIER to foment the inevitable war with Iran. Reprise Iraq and inspections -- rinse and repeat.
You may as well get used to it.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)renegade000
(2,301 posts)I don't know how the story goes in Mr. Cotton's bible, but I seem to recall Pontius Pilate acceding to the demands of the Jewish theocratic establishment at the time. And subsequently, the whole "Jewish deicide" concept was an element of all the future anti-semitic attitudes (and atrocities) committed by Christian cultures.
Netanyahu will probably rib him about that one next time they chat haha.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Says the same thing.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Assholes who bring imaginary characters into congress. I'm so sick of a book being so damn important and looked at for truth when it is the farthest from the truth. He may as well compared Kerry to Whinnie the Pooh.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)his existence is well documented. he happens to appear in the bible, yes, but so do other people who are historical figures.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)With each passing day Tom Cotton acts more and more like the Antichrist.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)did you forget there Cotton ball, that you broke the law and the Constitution when you and some of your little band of right wing men and woman sent a open letter to the Iranian government awhile back------------talk about being Pontius Pilate-------take a look in the mirror
merrily
(45,251 posts)abakan
(1,819 posts)I think his metaphors are ridiculous.
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Then again, no doubt Kerry has been to Rome at some point in his life. So, there's that, too.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)News at 11.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)This is egregiously in error.
One should not compare Tom Cotton to a flaming sack of shit.
Tom Cotton is a flaming sack of shit.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)You wins teh internets.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Tom Cotton has no known uses.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Iran likes this deal, that's why they agreed to it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)I don't see anything he's done that really benefits Iran. He just doesn't seem to be supporting anything that would even attempt to resolve the issue. IMHO, a better description might be that he's on the side of those that stand to benefit from keeping the Iran issue "on the table".
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)If the US unilaterally pulls out of the agreement, China, Russia, German, France, the EU and the UN et all will drop their sanctions on Iran. Iran will get economic benefits immediately, get state of the art anti-aircraft missile defense systems, AND it will get to develop nuclear weapons at an accelerated pace.
The only countries hurt by it would be the US and Israel.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I'm sorry that I even have to acknowledge this skinny fuckbag.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)To me, Cotton voting against this - and ANY agreement - is washing his hands rather than working for peace.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)is an ambiguous analogy. He was saying in one interpretation that the security of the world and the Roman Empire took precedence over the petty ideological squabbling of a pack of Pharisees.
You want Barabbas have Barabbas what does the world care.
rladdi
(581 posts)can now win elections by LYING. Tom is a vet and he should know that honesty and truth is important. But Republicans prefer to LIE
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)P . . . N . . . A . . . C
Cotton's "godfather," Willie Kristol, wants Iran bombed.
By the way, this is a crazy analogy. Pilate turned Jesus' fate over to the Jewish mob. In this analogy is he comparing Israel to Christ? Really?
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)He (Cottonmouth Tom -- a poisonous viper) has disgraced the uniform.
And I apologize to all reptiles for drawing that analogy, they deserve better).
Cha
(297,655 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,588 posts)I say Tom Cotton is a punk ass big mouth who does nothing but enflame the right and disrespect the work of the President and his staff. After all, Cotton was the leader of the 47 Traitors who wrote the letter.
antiRWmedia82
(1 post)Either that, or he can go fight himself. Asshole.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Nitram
(22,877 posts)crim son
(27,464 posts)when it comes to pure, ignorant, outrageous and offensive political statements.