>>>> for a pathetic agreement with Iran.
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>>I couldn't disagree more.
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>Let me ask you something. I'm not even going to go into the flaws of the deal (which are numerous). Going to ask a more basic question.
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>Late in the Bush presidency, and then early in the Obama presidency, many Republicans expressed strong concern that Iran was just a few years away from nuclear weaponry. At that time, many Democrats brushed off that kind of talking as hawkish war-mongering, and also reminded the country about the Bush error regarding Iraq and WMDs. Essentially, they thought the Republicans were overstating Iran's threat.
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>Fast-forward to the last two years - Obama and those Dems who support the Iran deal keep talking about how we need this deal, "because Iran is so close to getting a weapon"
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>You can probably guess my next question. What happened in between? What happened to that warning from the Rs, which so many Ds dismissed at the time???

Can't speak about many D's and many R's or why people changed their minds.
Obama challenged the basic notion that we have permanent adversaries.
In some cases, as with Russia, he extended a hand and got back a pile of ****
In the cases of Iran and Cuba, the jury is out.