Tom Cotton rips Joe Biden: He's been wrong on 'nearly every foreign policy and national security' issue

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last updated 10 March 2015

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Tuesday fired back at Vice President Joe Biden while defending his open letter to Iran suggesting Congress or a future president could scuttle any nuclear deal.

"Joe Biden, as [President] Barack Obama's own secretary of defense has said, has been wrong about nearly every foreign policy and national security decision in the last 40 years," Cotton said.

Signed by 47 GOP Senators, Cotton's letter warned Iran that any agreement not approved by Congress would be "nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei." Cotton's letter drew a furious response from Democrats and the White House, who felt it was a direct attempt to undermine the negotiations, with Biden calling it "beneath the dignity of an institution I revere."

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Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.