Pelosi blasts Netanyahu speech as ‘insult to intelligence of U.S.’, Amanpour calls it ‘dark, Strange

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/intelligence-ahmanpour-strangelovian

An amazing scene today, as a rightwing foreign leader told the Congress that our president is pursuing a “very bad” foreign policy and the Congress jumped up to cheer him. On the cables the analysts are falling over one another to praise Netanyahu’s speech. Jake Tapper said it was a “very very effective speech,” particularly in Netanyahu’s references to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel sitting in the gallery. Dianne Feinstein said it was a “very powerful speech” — and then sold out the White House negotiators, saying we should be getting 20 year promises from Iran, not ten. Jeffrey Goldberg said the biblical imagery will speak to Christian Americans.

But sanity is breaking through. Christiane Amanpour called the speech “dark, Strangelovian” in its hysteria about Iran as Nazi Germany. Ambassador Marc Ginsberg said Netanyahu played “guardian of the Jewish galaxy” and the only thing missing was comparing Obama to Neville Chamberlain and saying the talks are taking place in Munich, not Montreux. Ginsberg said the speech precipitates the Congress on a “steep slope” and “collision course” with Obama.

And here is part of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s important statement.

“I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech – saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.”

[sadoldgirl]

1. She did not need to tear up,

she could have left, period.

[PADemD]

2. Pelosi should not have attended.

I am very disappointed that my PA Senators and House Rep attended.

[justhanginon]

3. Be very happy with Rep. Pelosi's assessment

of the Netanyazoo's speech. My wonderful senator Mark Kirk, AIPAC's golden boy and adopted son on an allowance, had the following to say about the speech.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) went as far as to compare Netanyahu to another politician who once stood in the face of an expanding regional power.

Netanyahu, Kirk told The Huffington Post, is “the Winston Churchill of our time.”

It's amazing what money can buy. As a an Illinoisan, i'm so embarrassed!!!!!!!

[Scootaloo]

4. Winston churchill was in favor of gassing Arabs and nuking Moscow

Mark Kirk might not be far off the mark

[justhanginon]

5. Thanks for the info. I did some checking and

that is really something that is just frightening. Never got that in my history classes and will do some further reading.
I think I will compose a letter to Sen. Kirk and apprise him of this. In a polite way of course. Of course!

[guillaumeb]

6. the Winston Churchill who gassed the Arabs?

do not believe me?
go to the link:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/01/winston-churchill-shocking-use-chemical-weapons

[sabbat hunter]

7. the link says

he used chemical weapons against the Russians not the Arabs.

"Churchill planned and executed a sustained chemical attack on northern Russia." It was sadly a time when chemical weapons were used by all sides in war, in this case when the UK was supporting the White Russians vs the Red Russians in their civil war.

[guillaumeb]

8. my fault

I should have said explained about the British use and connected it to Churchill that way.