(Expatriate @ Jul. 19 2015,8:00 am)

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It’s time to amend the Constitution, all acts of war (with the exception of if we’re attacked first) should be put to a national vote. Anyone voting yes would automatically be conscripted as a volunteer for service in the United States Army. NO deferments no age restriction. NO war profiteering, all corporations would be nationalized, profit going to the war effort, corporate salaries reduced to that of an enlisted man in the service.

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“If Congress rejects this, Iran goes back to its enrichment. The Ayatollah will not come back to the table ... the sanctions regime completely falls apart,” he said.


“We will have set ourselves back. I don’t know how I go out to another country if that happens and say: ‘Hey, you ought to negotiate with us,’ because they will say: ‘Well, you have 535 secretaries of state in the United States. We don’t know who we are negotiating with. Whatever deal we make always risks being overturned.’”

Asked why the White House did not seek to ratify the deal as a treaty through the Senate alone, Kerry was scathing about its oversight function.

“I spent quite a few years trying to get treaties through the US Senate, and frankly, it’s become physically impossible,” he said. “You can’t pass a treaty anymore.”