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		By: j.a.m.		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18889&quot;&gt;Heather Hastie&lt;/a&gt;.

The Democrats have come up with a new tactic:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/anguished-liberals-plan-scream-helplessly-sky-anniversary-trump-election/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18889">Heather Hastie</a>.</p>
<p>The Democrats have come up with a new tactic:</p>
<p><a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/anguished-liberals-plan-scream-helplessly-sky-anniversary-trump-election/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://pjmedia.com/trending/anguished-liberals-plan-scream-helplessly-sky-anniversary-trump-election/</a></p>
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		By: Mark R.		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 04:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Humans have caused the vast majority of problems plaguing the earth and continue to cause problems without caring (so it seems in aggregate).
As the current &quot;superior&quot; conscious-sentient mammal on this planet, we all have to take the responsibility that if this world dies, we did it. What a sickening legacy. It seems to decay in our zombie fingertips every day...google it and you can soon fall down the Rabbit Hole. This planet is dying. Is this planet worth saving? Another simple google search proves &#039;YES&#039;. This struggle will and must go on after I&#039;m dead. I hope it does. I never thought I&#039;d live within a tRump Blip of reality when the worst of times are not buffeted by the best of times. Suxxx]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humans have caused the vast majority of problems plaguing the earth and continue to cause problems without caring (so it seems in aggregate).<br />
As the current &#8220;superior&#8221; conscious-sentient mammal on this planet, we all have to take the responsibility that if this world dies, we did it. What a sickening legacy. It seems to decay in our zombie fingertips every day&#8230;google it and you can soon fall down the Rabbit Hole. This planet is dying. Is this planet worth saving? Another simple google search proves &#8216;YES&#8217;. This struggle will and must go on after I&#8217;m dead. I hope it does. I never thought I&#8217;d live within a tRump Blip of reality when the worst of times are not buffeted by the best of times. Suxxx</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18896&quot;&gt;nicky&lt;/a&gt;.

I don&#039;t understand the Obama hate thing either, and that&#039;s what makes me wonder if he really is racist. There doesn&#039;t seem to be any logical reason for him to have this quite irrational reaction to Obama and it makes me think maybe there&#039;s an irrational reason, like that he;s black.

It could also be that Obama is contemptuous of Trump, and Trump can&#039;t handle that. He expects to be treated like someone special, and Obama didn&#039;t do that. He mocked him at that correspondents dinner, and Trump appears unable to laugh at himself. He&#039;s incredibly insecure.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18896">nicky</a>.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t understand the Obama hate thing either, and that&#8217;s what makes me wonder if he really is racist. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any logical reason for him to have this quite irrational reaction to Obama and it makes me think maybe there&#8217;s an irrational reason, like that he;s black.</p>
<p>It could also be that Obama is contemptuous of Trump, and Trump can&#8217;t handle that. He expects to be treated like someone special, and Obama didn&#8217;t do that. He mocked him at that correspondents dinner, and Trump appears unable to laugh at himself. He&#8217;s incredibly insecure.</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18894&quot;&gt;Malgorzata Koraszewska&lt;/a&gt;.

Afaik, 2/3 of the process is getting it to 20%, and another 1/3 to 90%. But they&#039;re only allowed the 3.67% stuff. The information about Iran&#039;s inspections being the toughest of anywhere I think came from Tom Pickering, former US ambassador who was in the negotiations. I watched an IQ squared debate he was a part of. It&#039;s long, but worth the watch if you&#039;re interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1KJnyTAU8]]></description>
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<p>Afaik, 2/3 of the process is getting it to 20%, and another 1/3 to 90%. But they&#8217;re only allowed the 3.67% stuff. The information about Iran&#8217;s inspections being the toughest of anywhere I think came from Tom Pickering, former US ambassador who was in the negotiations. I watched an IQ squared debate he was a part of. It&#8217;s long, but worth the watch if you&#8217;re interested:<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1KJnyTAU8" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1KJnyTAU8</a></p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18901&quot;&gt;Randall Schenck&lt;/a&gt;.

I agree. I think they were thinking of Israel when they made this deal. Israel are at a much bigger risk from Iran than the US.]]></description>
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<p>I agree. I think they were thinking of Israel when they made this deal. Israel are at a much bigger risk from Iran than the US.</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18893&quot;&gt;nicky&lt;/a&gt;.

Yes!]]></description>
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<p>Yes!</p>
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		By: Randall Schenck		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18887&quot;&gt;Heather Hastie&lt;/a&gt;.

Look, I think Obama and the other parties to this deal did the good and only thing that could be done and they did it as much for Israel as anyone else.  Certainly Israel worries about Iran, they worry almost about nothing else.  But as I said, they will not negotiate in faith with Iran or frankly anyone else.  They seem to have the republican party in their back pocket.  However, where will the world be without this deal.  No where good is my theory.]]></description>
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<p>Look, I think Obama and the other parties to this deal did the good and only thing that could be done and they did it as much for Israel as anyone else.  Certainly Israel worries about Iran, they worry almost about nothing else.  But as I said, they will not negotiate in faith with Iran or frankly anyone else.  They seem to have the republican party in their back pocket.  However, where will the world be without this deal.  No where good is my theory.</p>
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		By: nicky		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18894&quot;&gt;Malgorzata Koraszewska&lt;/a&gt;.

Wellyes, if Iran has decided to get nukes, they will get them, even with the best inspections and treaties. The greatest benefits of these kinds of deals is that -we hope- the desire to be &#039;internationally accepted&#039; is greater than the desire for nukes. We need to reinforce that as much as we can.
The whole picture matters, Iran -well, I presume- sees the Gulf Kingdoms (Saud in the first place) as a threat. (Don&#039;t forget they fought a devastating war against a Sunni dominated Iraq for over a decade). The present &#039;treaty&#039; is  as good as it gets.
A distancing of the US from these Gulf Kingdoms would, of course, help a lot too.
Why would we not be more friendly towards Iran? As far as  things like human rights and aggression go, they do not compare unfavourable with, say, our &#039;ally&#039; Saud (talk about a reference????). And I do not think it is Iran behind the problems with Muslim minorities in Europe or the US. And their anti-Israel rethoric appears very, well, &#039;rethorical&#039; to this limited mind.
Maybe I&#039;m biased because I know a few Iranians that are so obviously reasonable, kind and intelligent, they fled the ayatollahs, so they might not be representative, but still. According to them a lot of posturing is going on in Iranian politics.]]></description>
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<p>Wellyes, if Iran has decided to get nukes, they will get them, even with the best inspections and treaties. The greatest benefits of these kinds of deals is that -we hope- the desire to be &#8216;internationally accepted&#8217; is greater than the desire for nukes. We need to reinforce that as much as we can.<br />
The whole picture matters, Iran -well, I presume- sees the Gulf Kingdoms (Saud in the first place) as a threat. (Don&#8217;t forget they fought a devastating war against a Sunni dominated Iraq for over a decade). The present &#8216;treaty&#8217; is  as good as it gets.<br />
A distancing of the US from these Gulf Kingdoms would, of course, help a lot too.<br />
Why would we not be more friendly towards Iran? As far as  things like human rights and aggression go, they do not compare unfavourable with, say, our &#8216;ally&#8217; Saud (talk about a reference????). And I do not think it is Iran behind the problems with Muslim minorities in Europe or the US. And their anti-Israel rethoric appears very, well, &#8216;rethorical&#8217; to this limited mind.<br />
Maybe I&#8217;m biased because I know a few Iranians that are so obviously reasonable, kind and intelligent, they fled the ayatollahs, so they might not be representative, but still. According to them a lot of posturing is going on in Iranian politics.</p>
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		By: nicky		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 19:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18891&quot;&gt;darrelle&lt;/a&gt;.

I&#039;ve wondered too about this hatred of Obama. I mean, objectively he has at the minimum be a reasonably good president, and less objectively the best since Rooseveldt (Teddy, that is).
Is it just racism? Somehow I have difficulty to put it at that. It is not as if he used his position to get acces to females either, so that one is out too. Is it that he&#039;s something of a real intellectual, well educated and an accomplished thinker? Is the hatred of that really that great in the US? I cannot fathom the &#039;Obama-hate&#039;, why is it?]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve wondered too about this hatred of Obama. I mean, objectively he has at the minimum be a reasonably good president, and less objectively the best since Rooseveldt (Teddy, that is).<br />
Is it just racism? Somehow I have difficulty to put it at that. It is not as if he used his position to get acces to females either, so that one is out too. Is it that he&#8217;s something of a real intellectual, well educated and an accomplished thinker? Is the hatred of that really that great in the US? I cannot fathom the &#8216;Obama-hate&#8217;, why is it?</p>
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		By: darrelle		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 19:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/iran-nuclear-agreement-good-deal/#comment-18892&quot;&gt;Heather Hastie&lt;/a&gt;.

I shouldn&#039;t be so rude about Trump supporters, but sometimes I just can&#039;t help it. I&#039;m surrounded by them!]]></description>
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<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be so rude about Trump supporters, but sometimes I just can&#8217;t help it. I&#8217;m surrounded by them!</p>
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