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Adam Blickstein: GOP Uses Iran Resolution to Slam Obama, Undermine Iranian People

Adam Blickstein: GOP Uses Iran Resolution to Slam Obama, Undermine Iranian People: Via huffingtonpost.

Dave Weigel has a good round-up of the debate that just transpired on the House floor over Iran. No one should be surprised that while the language of the resolution is fairly innocuous, the GOP is going to use it as a wedge against the Administration, and utilize the optics that the House acted on behalf of the Iranian people while Obama remains silent as a calculated strategy to hammer the President's approach towards Iran, which has been supported by Henry Kissinger, Pat Buchanan, Nick Burns, and Dick Lugar, amongst other. Just look at the statements Republicans just made on the floor (from Weigel):
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