If Obama Is Neville Chamberlain, Does That Mean Iranian Hardliners and U.S. Republicans Are The Nazis?

President Obama, in defending the Iran nuclear deal today, launched a brutal attack on those Republican motherfuckers who lied this country into Iraq twelve years ago. It was fun to watch.

After stating that the decision facing Congress next month on the nuclear deal will be the most significant since the vote to invade Iraq, Obama then made repeated reference to that disastrous decision during the rest of his speech. This approach, of course, allowed the President to continually push the GOP's nose into the pile of excrement now known as the Iraq Debacle, the greatest foreign policy blunder in American history. Here's a good example of that:

"I know it's easy to play on people's fears. To magnify threats. To compare any attempt at diplomacy to Munich. But none of these arguments hold up. They didn't back in 2002 or 2003. They shouldn't now. [Applause]  The same mind-set, in many cases offered by the same people who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong, led to a war that did more to strengthen Iran, more to isolate the United States, than anything we have done in the decades before or since. It's a mindset out of step with the traditions of American foreign-policy, where we exhaust diplomacy before war, and based matters of war and peace in the cold light of truth."

I took issue recently with the Republican attempt to re-write the history of the Iraq War. So it was good to hear the President go after those GOP bastards by not only saying the invasion was a huge mistake, but by also pointing out that it actually strengthened Iran's position in the region (i.e., "you assholes caused this mess -- I'm just trying to clean it up.").

One thing that has bothered me about Obama of late was that he really didn't hit back very hard when 47 GOP senators -- in an act of treason -- sent an open letter to Iran's leaders, warning that any agreement reached with Obama without legislative approval could be reversed by the next president. He fixed that problem today when he said:

"Just because Iranian hard-liners chant 'Death to America' does not mean that’s what all Iranians believe. Indeed, it’s those hard-liners who are most comfortable with the status quo, and who have been most opposed to this deal. They're making common cause with the Republican caucus."  

Obama has jokingly used that "common cause" line before, but this one had a bit more bite to it, especially given how many Republicans have recently compared the President to Neville Chamberlain, which was weird because they usually compare Obama to Hitler.