Obama Calls Trump's Withdrawal From Iran Deal A 'Serious Mistake'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Matt Shuham | May 8, 2018 3:45 pm

In a statement Tuesday following President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would withdraw from the Iran deal and re-instate sanctions on Iran, former President Barack Obama called the decision a “serious mistake.”

“Without the JCPOA,” Obama wrote, “the United States could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East.”

Read the statement below, posted online by Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur:

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. It's no "mistake". This is pure fuckery for the sake of it. I still haven't

figure out the profit motive. But I wouldn't be surprised if there is one.

[mwooldri]

4. If I believe the BBC, and I generally do...

The reasons why Trump abandoned the Iran Nuclear Deal are:

1. Undoing Obama's work,
2. Pandering to Benjamin Netanyahu,
3. Pompeii and Bolton told him it would be a good idea.

But #1 seems to be key here. After all Trump has put sanctions back on Cuba, exited Paris, tried to dump the ACA... The thing here is if Obama did it, Trump is against it and will want to undo it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43902372

[Civic Justice]

6. A racist and bigoted fool..only knows foolishness and the evil his bigotry dictates to him

[eggplant]

7. Crazy high oil prices, benefitting Putin (along with all the other reasons) n/t

[thegoose]

2. Dump IS a mistake

Here goes the usual Repuke modus operandi. Treasury drained, gas prices skyrocketing and a new war. Jesus.

[nikki haley]

3. war is good for business

war is good for business

[uppityperson]

8. Only a very specific business. Most businesses it's bad for.

[Civic Justice]

5. When....

....at some point a member of the Right Wing will wake up and realize how they have been hoodwinked, deceived and misled and made a fool of, and when it comes to the point they find their benefits are cut and the things they so long relied upon , comes to light that Republican have stripped it all away... One or more of them will put an end to all this craziness.

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. I thought the same thing about W.

That eventually they’d figure out how bad they’re getting screwed and who is screwing them but they never did and they never will. Nor will it happen this time. These people are lost in an alternate reality.

[Utah Grizzlee]

10. Trump is the Ultimate Mistake.....

...of an archaic electoral system that needs to be scrapped in favor of real democracy.