Bernie Sanders: GOP 'itching' for war with Iran

[cali]

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday slammed Senate Republicans for their open letter to Iranian leaders, accusing them of seeking out a war with the country.

Speaking with a group of reporters following his speech at the International Association of Fire Fighters presidential forum in Washington, the Vermont senator said the 47 Republican senators warning Iran of a deal on its nuclear program are trying to “sabotage” a agreement.

“[M]y Republican friends seem to be itching for that war,” said Sanders, an independent who is openly considering a presidential bid as a Democrat. “When you sabotage the effort to reach a peace agreement by the leader of the United States of America — the man who is charged with dealing with foreign policy — that, to me, is really unspeakable.”

Sanders, one of the Senate’s leading liberal voices and former chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, detailed what he called the significant cost in lives and dollars of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Apparently, some of my Republican colleagues do not believe that two wars are enough,” he said, later adding: “I think that is a very, very tragic position to hold.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/bernie-sanders-iran-letter-war-115934.html#ixzz3U0XBLcKJ

Coming soon: The war on Iran. Shitstains.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. THey have sunken SO LOW i was just about to congratulate the SEVEN who did NOT commit

treason, talk about a low bar.

[Blue Owl]

2. The MIC needs a new pair of shoes

n/t

[Newest Reality]

4. Yup!

Imelda Marcos style. That means we also have to build them more shoe closets.

Advising everyone to be good citizens: Support your MIC and God bless America!

There is a good reason that a county at the Northern tip of Virginia is the wealthiest in the nation.

[H2O Man]

3. Recommended.

Their rabid stance on Iran has concerned me for years.

[hifiguy]

5. The MIC pays them very well for their servitude. nt

Miserable fuckers.

[spartan61]

6. I have been trying to call Marco Rubio's

D.C. office all morning and the phones are so tied up that all I could do was leave a message (and send an e-mail.) I hope the tie ups are because of his signature on the "letter." I said that because of the senator's stupidity in signing what could be a violation of the Logan Act, he will never get another vote from me. (Altho I have never voted for him). I said he is a cheerleader for another war in the M.E. and he is bought and paid for by the IMC that President Eisenhower warned us about in 1961.

I hope all of you DUers call your Senators if they signed the letter. We need to speak up.

[Aerows]

7. This makes me sick.

The Republicans have shown their true faces, as though we weren't already aware of them.

They want to send our children to war while they are safe, comfy and rich with theirs.

[KamaAina]

8. Run Bernie Run!

[pansypoo53219]

9. WILL THEY PAY FOR IT?

[WillyT]

10. K & R !!!

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. Tell it, senator!

[Matrosov]

12. So hand every GOP politician an M16

and let the right-wingers go over their own their own dime and sacrifice their own lives.