Jindal to Biden: Apologize to Cotton over Iran letter

Joe Biden owes Tom Cotton an apology, Bobby Jindal says.

In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the Republican governor of Louisiana blasted the vice president’s response to the letter that Cotton and 46 other Republican senators sent to the Iranian government. Jindal, who is also a potential 2016 Republican candidate for president, said he supports the letter that the freshman Arkansas senator wrote.


Later in the afternoon, Cotton’s office announced that the governor had signed on to the updated open letter.

” [email protected] Biden owes @SenTomCotton an apology. He wore the boots in Iraq,” Jindal tweeted, referencing Cotton’s status as a U.S. Army veteran. “He’s earned our attention, not your insults.”

Jindal said any presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat, should sign on to the letter “to make clear” that Iran is negotiating with a lame-duck president.

The Republican governor continued, focusing then on President Barack Obama.

. @BarackObama's obsession to cut a deal with Iran, regardless of the cost, is the reason we are where we are today. — Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) March 10, 2015

It’s time for the President to focus on the real enemy – Radical Islam and a nuclear Iran. — Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) March 10, 2015

Cotton himself fired back at Biden’s comments on Tuesday morning, calling into question the vice president’s foreign policy acumen.