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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Obama to US vets: Iran deal could avoid ‘unnecessary wars’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Barack Obama tells a gathering of military veterans Tuesday that hardheaded diplomacy with Iran could avoid the type of “unnecessary wars” for which they have paid the highest price.
Obama traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he urged the 1.9 million member Veterans of Foreign Wars to give the nuclear deal with Tehran a chance.
He denounces those “chest beating” against the deal and said some of those opposed to it were the same ones who said the Iraq war would take months.
“We know the consequences of that choice,” he said. “And what it cost us in blood and treasure.”
“There is a smarter more responsible way to protect our national security,” Obama says, adding that “real leadership” means not being afraid to negotiate.
–AFP
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