Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) on Tuesday bashed the “fear-mongering tactics” in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.
Yarmuth, who did not attend the speech, said on Fox News that it was inappropriate for Netanyahu to deliver a speech “aimed at his own political dilemma” and one that raised fears about Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
“What I objected to was the fact that he pulled out the Dick Cheney playbook and made statements that are unsupportable,” he said.
The congressman criticized Netanyahu for claiming that the nuclear deal the U.S. is currently negotiating with Iran “would pave the way to a bomb and nuclear war is inevitable.”
“They are, again, fear-mongering tactics that don’t advance the dialogue. And I knew he would do that, and I objected to the the speech,” Yarmuth said.
The (real) South shall rise again!
The “Speech” by Bibi was nothing more than a minor re-write of the George W. Bush speech in 2003 demanding war with Iraq.
Same fear-mongering, same “mushroom clouds over New York” imagery, same demand for impossible concessions by “the enemy” or war will happen. Lose-Lose politics.
and on top of that, Israeli TV can’t broadcast it because it may “influence the elections” and he has the GALL to claim it isn’t about politics…
Bibi is a reflection of Dick Cheney in a mirror.
How refreshing - a politician from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
Impossible - neither is capable of producing a reflection in a mirror!
He’s gulled the Israeli voters, hopefully one time too many.
Doesn’t help that truly stupid people like Rubio are claiming Iran is on ISIS’s side, does it?
Oh, and by the way, just what does Bibi know about negotiating? Has he ever had a successful negotiation on anything in his many terms in office?
Or does he think blustering like a CEO or a Bain takeover specialist does the trick with international affairs as well as it does with his duped voters?