Members of Trump’s own party have lined up to condemn the deal, which pledges to help fund Iran and scrap sanctions

Republicans have turned on Donald Trump over his plan to end the war with Iran, accusing him of making the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades”.

The U.S. released the 14-point interim agreement on Wednesday as Trump signed the documents in Versailles, France. The terms included stopping the conflict and reopening the vital shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz, but also financing Iran’s recovery with a $300bn fund and scrapping sanctions.

“Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” said Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy on Wednesday, referring to the former president Trump admires.

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    Hey republicans: you know that idiot that everyone said was an idiot and that we all warned you was an idiot? Turns out he’s an idiot.

    And a liar. And a diddler.

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    The blunder was getting involved at all. This MOU is about as “good” a deal as possible, under the circumstances.

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      And it really isn’t even a “deal.” The MOU is just a promise to talk about specific things during the actual negotiations later on. And a lot of those things are non-starters for either Trump or Iran.

      And Israel can come along and fark the whole thing up at any time.

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    What if it’s not a blunder. What if Trump is purposefully trying to destroy the country?

    If you look at every action he’s taken in that light, it all makes sense.

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    They’ve turned on Trump so many times now they could be generating electricity.

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    Decades? No, this is the worst blunder ever. This is worse than Vietnam and Iraq because it’s more stupid and incompetent.

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      What? How? Cutting and running makes this much less of a blunder than either of those cases.

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    Bill Cassidy (primaried by trump), Nikki Hayley (ousted by trump), and some fox news sewer rat.

    That’s the “members of trumps own party!”

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    Ronnie Raygun’s “legacy” is far overblown (how quickly people want to brush aside Iran/Contra, which was worse than Watergate), most especially by the “liberal media” and the conservatives, but yeah, PEDOnald’s debacle here managed to look even stupider than Vietnam, Ronnie Raygun and W.

    Hopefully this keeps him from doing stupid shit with Panama, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and ___ and even more stupid shit with Venezuela…

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      Hopefully this keeps him from doing stupid shit with Panama, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and ___ and even more stupid shit with Venezuela…

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    Republicans have turned on Donald Trump over his plan to end start the war with Iran, accusing him of making the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades”.

    Fixed it for them.

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      No? Those warmongering psychos were perfectly fine with bombing schoolchildren, they’re just upset that he stopped bombing schoolchildren:

      Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence also issued a rare criticism of his former boss, arguing the Memorandum of Understanding “does smack of the kind of appeasement that our administration rejected in the Obama-Iran nuclear deal”.

      “I would urge the President to take a step back, continue the blockade and pursue a negotiated settlement that commits Iran to dismantling their nuclear program, dismantling this missile program, ends support for terrorist proxies and opens the strait.

      “Failing that, we should let our Armed Forces finish the job on our terms,” he wrote on social media.

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    I agree with them, the entire war was a good idea, but Trump should’ve waited until US forces have major advantage, before peace talks.

    I also like the idea of targeting iranian leaders one by one.

    It doesn’t matter anymore since Iran doesn’t want peace anymore.

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      Worst possible take. “Personally, I think we should have kept bombing schoolchildren longer.” I bet you think pulling out of Afghanistan was a mistake too. Just as psychotic as the people in power want you to be.

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        I don’t want to bomb schools, but attack Iranian leaders one by one.

        I don’t remember what Afghanistan war was all about, so I can’t help you with that.

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          I don’t remember what Afghanistan war was all about, so I can’t help you with that.

          Apparently! Because the strategy you’re advocating is literally how we created a power vacuum in Afghanistan that created ISIS and utterly failed to improve anything even after decades of occupation!

          Those that refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it, and by God, do Americans refuse to learn anything from history!