Bernie makes a presidential appearance and shows who should be the true leader of the US just when Trump kills the Iran deal
‘After
17 years of war in Afghanistan, after 15 years of war in Iraq, the
American people do not want to be engaged in never-ending wars in the
Middle East.’
While
Donald Trump killed the Iran deal, essentially 'crawling' behind
Netanyahu and signaling the start of preparations for another US
bloody war against the longtime target Iran, Bernie Sanders showed
once again who should be the real leader of the United States.
Sanders
made a presidential appearance to prove again that he should be in
charge, not only for the benefit of the US, but for the benefit and
the security of the world. In contrast to the childish, irresponsible
puppets who constantly play dangerous war games, Bernie said all the
things that a true, responsible leader should say.
A piece
of Bernie's speech gives us a strong proof that he is not someone who
will hesitate to name the sinister architects of the disastrous wars
and deal with them, like the top bloodthirsty neocon, John Bolton: “I
would remind you, that his [Trump’s] newly installed
National Security Advisor, John Bolton, wrote an article a few years
ago entitled ‘To stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran’. Now, Donald Trump
seems to be creating his own excuse for doing exactly that.”
We urge
Trump's supporters, who still believe that fairy tale of the
'anti-establishment' Trump, to compare the two speeches, in order to
realize that Bernie Sanders is the one that the US warmongering
establishment sees as a real threat.
While
Trump slipped towards the ordinary cliches and blatant lies of
previous GOP presidential puppets, Bernie run full speed against the
corporate Democrats and the liberal media who are in bed with the US
military-industrial complex, just as the Republicans.
Does
this presidential speech by Bernie marks a first step for a third,
truly progressive political formation against the current bipartisan
dictatorship?
Key
parts of Bernie's speech:
President
Trump's speech today was the latest in a series of reckless decisions
that move our country closer to armed conflict. By reimposing nuclear sanctions on Iran and withdrawing from the joint
comprehensive plan of action, otherwise known as the Iran nuclear
agreement, President Trump has put our nation on a dangerous path. We
should understand that the JCPOA is not just an agreement between the
United States and Iran, but one negotiated alongside other members of
the international community, including the United Kingdom, France and
Germany along with China and Russia. The United Nations Security
Council also endorsed it.
With
today's announcement, President Trump has also ignored the public
statements of his own national security officials, like Joint Chiefs
Chairman, Dunford, and Defense Secretary, Mattis, both of whom, have
repeatedly said, that staying in the agreement is in the national
security interests of the United States.
This
agreement is supported by an overwhelming consensus of national
security experts around the world and I would note that includes
Israel. Last month, 26 former top ranking Israeli military and
security officials signed a letter, urging the United States to
maintain the agreement, stating unequivocally that the deal is
working and that a US decision to pull out would undermine not just
US security, but Israel's security as well.
Withdrawing
from the agreement could not only free Iran from the limits placed on
its nuclear program. It would seriously harm the United States'
ability to negotiate future non-proliferation agreements such as the
one with North Korea. Why would any country in the world sign such an
agreement with the United States and make the necessary concessions
if they thought that a reckless president might simply discard that
agreement a few years later?
If we
are genuinely concerned with Iran's behavior in the region, as I am,
this is the worst possible course of action. It will make addressing
all of these other problems much more difficult. Unfortunately, I
heard no strategy from President Trump today.
Ultimately,
we must seek a better relationship with the Iranian people and a more
constructive role for Iran in the region. Trump's bellicose rhetoric
today makes achieving those goals more difficult. It will strengthen
the regime's hardliners who are much more comfortable dealing with a
hostile America than with a reasonable, peace-seeking one.
After 17
years of war in Afghanistan, after 15 years of war in Iraq, the
American people do not want to be engaged in never-ending wars in the
Middle East.
I am
deeply concerned that that is exactly where President Trump is taking
us with regard to Iran. And for anyone who tries to dismiss those
concerns, I would remind you, that his newly installed National
Security Advisor, John Bolton, wrote an article a few years ago
entitled “To stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran”. Now, Donald Trump
seems to be creating his own excuse for doing exactly that.
I would
remind my fellow Americans that the road to the war in Iraq did not
simply begin in 2003. It was laid down, brick by brick, over a number
of years, with policy decisions that might have seen relatively small
at the time, but that ultimately led us to the worst foreign policy
blunder in the modern history of our country. The Iraq war has had
enormous, unintended consequences that we are still dealing with
today and will be dealing with for many years to come.
Real
American leadership and real American power is not shown by our
ability to blow things up, but by our ability to bring parties
together, to forge international consensus around shared problems and
then to mobilize that consensus to address those problems. That is
what this agreement did. Unfortunately, today, President Trump put us
on a very different, more dangerous path.
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