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Vice president's blaming the US and Bush administration for previous lack of international pressure on Iran continues to spark outrage
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McCain blasting vice president Joseph Biden yesterday the vice president blamed the bush administration for the United States rocky dealings with Iran.
Only took office remind.
There was virtually no international pressure.
On a race.
We -- the problem.
We work diplomatically isolated in the world in the region.
In Europe.
The international pressure on Iran was stuck in neutral.
Stephen Hadley is a former national security advice for president George W.
Bush and he joins -- -- -- Smear.
The vice president says so when it took office virtually no international pressure.
On Iran.
Look my idea have a lot of respect for the vice president I like him.
On this one he's just got it wrong the United States was leading.
The institutions that they are using now we're actually -- you put together in the Bush Administration.
We work through the IEA board of governors this is the international atomic energy agency.
We got the over forty members of that group to routinely condemn Iran call for the suspension of its enrichment.
We work through UN Security Council we got three UN Security Council resolutions on Iran sanctions one of them after that very difficult.
2007.
National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had stopped their weapon is -- nation are suspended their weapons nation activities.
We were able to put the consensus back together.
This.
Of the Bush Administration.
That's the bush secretary treasury Paulson went around to the banks in Europe and said you know you -- -- not deal with these Iranian -- agent.
That banks because there -- likely be be laundering money to terror.
And proliferation Stuart Levy the poster child for the sanctions effort was a Bush Administration -- poignant.
Kept on by the Obama administration.
So -- the truth is we left them tools I've been the first to say they've done a good job with those tools they've really done a lot of mileage out of the sanctions.
They can take credit for that they don't need to read write write history and tell them tell the heart hold until the country they weren't left -- is simply not.
True.
I don't think there were telling the world in this was a median of 16100.
Rabbis.
And I think this was a statement because.
The administration really wants to look like it's walking hand in hand with Israel and I think -- was trying to make itself this trying to distinguish itself and falsely.
Because I -- I mean an end and Vice President Biden was on the senate foreign relations committee for years he knows what the United States was doing foreign policy.
I think this was a political statement -- I I would think that he would regret saying that and blaming and blaming us is the problem.
I bet tonight a he regrets and I was there.
-- -- well I would I would hope so look they hit that is there are a lot of problems that we worked on they have worked on as well there's no doubt about that.
We tried to leave them a lot of tools to deal with those problems I don't I think -- they can be gracious and acknowledge it.
Even though they can then say the good things they've done -- those.
Tools and how they've good gone past what the Bush Administration did you know there's a little.
-- kept secret in Washington is that there.
It happens every administration that -- -- on foreign policy does not ride on a blank sheet of Paper that there's actually a lot of continuity.
In policy and foreign policy between administrations that's not a bad thing that's a good thing.
And I think the administration ought to be.
Gracious about it acknowledge it and stop bashing the former president specially since the former president.
Has made it very clear he's not to criticize the Obama administration I think the Obama administration.
Should start giving him the same -- And especially something so serious as Iran Iraq should be part of the political.
China not should not.
Nice to see a nice to be here.
