The
Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, written by Republican Senator Bob Corker,
set up a framework that mandates Congressional review of any arms control
agreement with Iran, but allows the agreement to go into force unless Congress
can override President Obama’s veto of a bill to stop the agreement. Since the agreement seems very tilted in
favor of President Obama, why would Corker write and help pass such legislation?
What
Corker bought us is an on the record vote by every Democrat in Congress on the
Iran agreement. Without the Corker bill, there would have been no vote at all.
Traditionally, Congress does not vote on Executive Agreements. You must measure
Corker’s agreement by the way the Smartest President Ever got the agreement
ratified in the UN before Congress could even vote. Without Corker’s agreement, there would have
been no vote and no debate in Congress on the Iran deal.
Further, once that vote is taken, it
will be a matter of public record that Barry the Brilliant acted without the
advice and consent of anybody beyond his circle of cronies. The Israelis and
Saudis are not going to wait quietly while Iran gathers the strength to kill
them. They will attack first. The situation will quickly deteriorate in the
Middle East to the point that even the Pravda Press can't ignore the general,
perhaps nuclear, war that the agreement triggered. We will have a Democratic
president, Obama, supported by Congressional Democrats who voted on the record,
who made an agreement the majority of both Houses of Congress voted against.
This Chicago Machine Prodigy will carry it out anyway, showing his true colors
as an arrogant aspiring dictator. That will be a great campaign issue against
every Democrat in 2016.
You should note that the Obama
administration feels free to ignore Executive Agreements concerning nuclear
disarmament whenever convenient. In 1994 the US, UK and Russia signed the
Budapest Memorandum with the Ukraine. In return for the Ukraine surrendering
all of the former Soviet nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory, the US, UK and
Russia guaranteed the territorial integrity of the Ukraine. Last year, Russia
seized the Crimean Peninsula from the Ukraine, then invaded the Ukraine from the east. The
Smartest President Ever refused to send any weapons to help the Ukrainians. He
only sent "non-lethal" aid. I know that US field rations are much
better than Soviet era leftovers, but do you really believe that's keeping the
promise of the Budapest Memorandum?
Since the Smartest President Ever has ignored
Executive Agreements he didn’t like, and since the Iran Executive Agreement
will have been put in force after being rejected by a majority in both
houses of Congress, it should be relatively easy for a Republican president to
cancel it in 2017. If a Democrat is
elected in 2016, the country will have so many problems that nuclear war in the Middle East may
seem relatively minor.