>>>How dare those Iranians have an opinion and not toe the Saudi USA line.
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>You and I can say that, but when senior Congresspeople go on public news to sabotage national strategy, seems to me it encourages defiance and grandstanding by the other side too. To what effect?

Are you serious?
Please tell me one thing that Obama did that was not roundly condemned by the Repubs.

How about these apples?
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/03/01/netanyahu-invite-is-a-symptom-of-boehners-grudge-match-against-the-u-s-constitution/