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The White House on Friday blasted Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for planning a protest against the Iran deal on Capitol Hill, labeling it a pro-war rally.
Senator Cruz and Donald Trump have announced they are going to hold a big pro-war rally on the steps of the United States Capitol, press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
The phrase is a familiar one for Earnest, who also used it to dismiss an anti-Iran deal event organized by Cruz in July.
The spokesman noted former Vice President Dick Cheneys plan to slam the Iran deal in a speech next week.
The same people making the same arguments against the Iran deal were the people who advocated for us getting into the war in Iraq in 2002 and 2003, Earnest said. The fault lines of this debate should be familiar to anybody who has been covering American politics for the past 12 or 13 years.
Supporters and opponents of the Iran deal are ramping up lobbying efforts to sway lawmakers and the public ahead of a key congressional vote in mid-September.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)GOPers love blood shed as long as its not their blood, suffering and death. Money honey at any cost is one of their mottos.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Dick Cheney. Thats 0 out of 3 with military service. Yet they act as if they were Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill.
Note to Ted Cruz: You're last name isn't Roosevelt, and San Juan Hill belongs to Castro now.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)compliant and completely amnesic corporate media.
REC for the Democratic Party owned White House!
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Big - huge - and if Bush, actually anyone of their clowns, is their nominee..well, folks, hang on - from coast to coast protests against war...NOT again...not on our watch...this is where DU can be important in activating and leading against WAR!
You really think we can go into another fiasco?? - Who the hell would join us??? NO ONE!