++The Imperial Post, which has never met a war it didn't like,has an editorial that President Obama must answer the questions raised by Netanyahu about the number of centrifuges and the short time line for a nuclear bomb. They say President Obama hasn't explained any of this --maybe because the final deal hasn't been finalized.
++David Ignatius said that Bibi's speech was a zero-sum game. He thought that Bibi raised the bar to convince the American public that any deal was good.
++Jennifer Rubin got off a second column that said that Bibi destroyed all of President Obama's talking points and that Democrats and Republicans were more sensible than Obama and would stop the deal.
++Scott Ritter, an arms inspector from the Iraq days,writes in the Huffington Post that the process by which Bibi got to address the Joint Congress on the anniversary of the "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill was dubious and raised the specter of a foreign leader being given carte blanche to criticize the president of the United States.
++Trita Parsi, writes in the Huffington Post, that the whole gist of Bibi's speech was that he never ever wanted a deal with Iran.
++Chris Matthews threw a tantrum about a foreign leader trying to hijack American foreign policy behind or in front of the back of Barack Obama.
++Max Fisher at VOX says wait a minute. Only 5% of Americans now think that Iran is a mortal enemy compared to 25% three years ago. And that Bibi's words do not resonate with the American people.
++The Iranian foreign ministry said Bibi's speech was boring and repetitive.
++The United States Senate is moving to pass a bill that they must approve of any Iranian pact. Do fall for it ,Barack.
++Negative reviews in non-Beltway press and favorable reviews in the Beltway. The danger remains that Bibi will feed the neo-cons thirst for war. The line that war wasn't the only alternative was the one the Beltway bought, including the Washington Post. The problem is that the do nothing plan of Bibi's doesn't get us anywhere but on the road to war.
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