Washington – Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said Sunday he is leaning toward supporting the Iranian nuclear deal because the alternative would be war.
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Manchin is the latest Democrat to speak favorably of the agreement. Members of his party have started lining up to support the pact as the Obama administration works to sell it to lawmakers. Secretary of State John Kerry argued the case last week on Capitol Hill.
“I’m leaning very strongly towards that because of the options that I have,” Manchin said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” ”The only other option is go to war, and I’m not ready to send our people into harm’s way again until people in that part of the world want to clean up their own mess.”
Manchin said he has spoken to leaders in four of the five countries that negotiated the Iran nuclear deal, and he said if Congress rejects it, the U.S. will be on its own and faced with going to war against Iran.
“And they all believe that this is a pathway that they should be taking; it’s one they support,” he said. “If we pull out, we pull out by ourselves. So I’m looking at all of the information I have to make a decision by September.”
Republican critics told Kerry last week they think the U.S. failed to insist on enough restraints on Iran’s nuclear program before agreeing to lift economic sanctions.
Congress has 60 days to review the agreement, which lifts economic sanctions if Iran curbs its nuclear program’s capacity. The deal will take effect unless Congress blocks it, which GOP leaders who control the House and Senate hope to do.
Obama has promised to veto any effort to block the deal from taking effect, and the administration is looking for enough votes to keep Republicans from overriding a veto.
war should of been several years ago before obama tricked us in giving them sevveral more years to build the bomb.
there is obviously no solution either now or latter. better now than latter and get it over with. war today is different no combat soldiers but cruise missle directedf at them till they beg.
Those who want to push this deal paint it as a choice between war and peace. That is ridiculous. Is there war now – when there is currently no deal? The other choice is the status quo. It appears better than rolling the dice for peace with a partner in the deal who has never been trustworthy since they took over in 1980. Why release billions of dollars to a state that funds terrorism for their promises, which they have never proven themselves worthy of keeping?
Of course he’ll vote for it, HE’S A DEMOCRAT!!
Charlatan Hall, as a liberal who’s religion is liberalism, would sell his fellow jews down the river and vote for it too. All for liberalism.
The bottom line is as more of this Obama Baal Kerry capitulation comes into the public, the words of the נביאים are coming to mind more and more. Once we heard that America will defend Iran in an attack, LOTS became understandable