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bananas

(27,509 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:42 PM Jul 2015

Here's a congressman who can actually understand Iran nuclear deal

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Source: Chicago Sun-Times

For weeks now, Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., has been studying the Iran nuclear deal. Unlike every other lawmaker, Foster is the only one in Congress who can actually understand the highly technical agreement and check it out for himself.

“Unfortunately, there are many technical pathways to a bomb, each of which has to be investigated,” said Foster, who is undecided on whether to support the deal.

Foster earned a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University and spent 22 years as a particle accelerator designer at Fermilab in suburban Batavia before jumping into politics.

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Said Foster, “If there are fundamental, gaping technical flaws, things the Iranians can drive a truck through, then this agreement does no one any good at all. So. the first order of business is to do my best to convince myself that those sort of flaws don’t exist or let people know about them if I see them.”

Read more: http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/7/71/837554/heres-congressman-can-actually-understand-iran-nuclear-deal

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Here's a congressman who can actually understand Iran nuclear deal (Original Post) bananas Jul 2015 OP
Just another Liberal Elitist Knowitall,,,,NOT!! benld74 Jul 2015 #1
If there is no deal... yallerdawg Jul 2015 #2
Right. The French foreign minister is already visiting Iran question everything Jul 2015 #3
And we still have an ace up our sleeve. yallerdawg Jul 2015 #4
or rtracey Jul 2015 #5
very sorry locking-it's a great article but not LBN please repost in GD azurnoir Jul 2015 #6

benld74

(9,904 posts)
1. Just another Liberal Elitist Knowitall,,,,NOT!!
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:46 PM
Jul 2015

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. If there is no deal...
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:59 PM
Jul 2015

and the rest of the world - Russia and China, too - drops sanctions, buys Iranian oil, enriches the clerics who can now buy all the conventional weapons they want, export all the terror they want, and start up their nuclear weapons program again, with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel watching - what can you "drive a truck through"?

I hope Rep. Foster is "voguing"!


question everything

(47,476 posts)
3. Right. The French foreign minister is already visiting Iran
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:04 PM
Jul 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/world/middleeast/french-foreign-minister-laurent-fabius-tehran.html

The French foreign minister arrived in Tehran on Wednesday, the latest in a string of visits by officials from European countries seeking closer economic and political ties with Iran after the nuclear agreement this month.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
4. And we still have an ace up our sleeve.
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:13 PM
Jul 2015

Israel don't play!

Iran really has no path to a nuclear weapon.

And we are always ready for another "just war"!

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
5. or
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:39 PM
Jul 2015

Or, Iran just keeps doing what they are doing NOW, sitting on enough enriched plutonium too make 4 bombs, continue what they are doing NOW and make more, continue what they are doing NOW and buy more centerfuses.....etc, etc, etc... I cant figure out why 2+2 = 5 with the right wing......do nothing and Iran stays status quo, treaty...10-15 years of nothing.....hmmmmmm?

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
6. very sorry locking-it's a great article but not LBN please repost in GD
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 05:07 PM
Jul 2015
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