The Iran deal

[GMDino]

(05-09-2018, 10:39 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Head back in time, Obama could have went the long term way and convinced the Congress the deal was in the best interests of America. But, Schumer, and other Democrats spoke publicly stating it was a bad deal so no shot at getting the votes needed.. This meant the deal was just inked by  President and had no long term guarantees, Obama was told that repeatedly as were the allies. Obama probably figured it was safe projecting HRC to be next POTUS so deal would never be dismantled.

I am no expert, but I will use words of Schumer and other Democrats on foreign relation committee. This is a bad deal, we have no power to inspect Iran to insure compliance.

It was a deal Obama chose to circumvent Congress, a risk he took and now he lost. But we lost as he gave Iran billions of dollars in the process. What did we (US) get? Nothing really, our allies gained financially, we did not.

The thing I love about President Trump is understands negotiate through strength, this deal the US had zero strength. But, I have a hunch the Trump team will trigger a better long term deal for the US, be patient,

Despite Schumer's misgivings with the deal he understood the importance of working a deal with our allies and the diplomacy it took to get Iran to agree to it.  He also saw after just two years that the deal was in deed working better than he thought it would.

Allow me to add that even if Schumer had voted for it the GOP controlled congress would not have ratified it.  Period.

So citing a democrat who didn't like it doesn't really mean anything other than a democrat didn't like it.