text: I think you're missing the point of this article. It's not about who Gardner represents. It's about the fact that he criticized this deal when it was politically advantageous to do so, and now, that his party controls everything, he has gone strangely silent. 
  
  And it's because he knows that tearing the deal up would leave the US with zero leverage with Iraq. Why wouldn't they develop nukes? They see that nuclear weapons protect N. Korea.