200 Retired Generals Write President and Congress urging NO vote on treaty with Iran

I saw in the news that 200 retired generals are urging congress to vote NO on the treaty with Iran: -- see this link   Here is a link to the content of their letter.  This sounds like "Big News" -- but there are now about 4700 retired generals (see this link) so that only represents a little more than 4% of  the retired US generals, so, from that standpoint, it isn't all that significant.  It is interesting that the Iranians aren't advertising "in favor" of the agreement.  Does our "free press" inhibit those advertisements from appearing?  I'd also like to hear the opinions of the other 4500 retired generals, wouldn't you?
The letter sounded like the Israeli propaganda and paid advertising that Israel and various associated organizations have been pushing, so it is likely that the actual text of the letter was written by a few "pro-Israeli" organizations, or a retired general or two, and then they "arm twisted" the others to become signatories to the letter.
The Los Angeles Times editors this morning had a more reasonable, and well thought out argument in favor of the treaty: See this link  I think I agree with their position, in this case.
I believe the Iran treaty could have put even more constraints on Iran, if we had insisted that Israel undergo the same sort of inspection and controls on their Nuclear and other WMD.  Israel has threatened attacks on Iran many times, and has assassinated Iran's citizens and scientists when out of the country.  Israel has shown aggressive and "first strike" military maneuvers many times throughout their history, so Iran has good reason to feel threatened.  I think if I were an Iranian citizen, that I would certainly want my country to be armed to defend, in some way, against Israel.  If I were in Iran's government, I believe I would try to make sure that my citizens were fully aware of the threats. I remember the "duck and cover" exercises we did in school during the 1950's and 60s in case of a nuclear attack.  Do Iranian citizens do that now?  In hindsight, I doubt if that exercise would have done much to save the lives of children in schools.  However, I'm sure it did a lot to help form public opinion against the Soviet Union, and help justify expenditures of immense amounts of resources in defense.

What Happens if Senate Rejects the Iran Nuclear Treaty?

I saw this Op-Ed by Joseph Cirincione in today's LA Times, and I think I agree with his convincing arguments. What do you think?   I believe the world needs this treaty.  My feeling is reinforced when I see that the "big money" right-wingers are spending millions of dollars on paid advertising against the treaty and distorting the facts. (see this link or this one).  I suspect that Israel or their supporters are behind the paid advertising, using, in some way, some of the billions of dollars that US taxpayers have "donated" to their country.  Meanwhile, Israel maintains their own WMD including nuclear, chemical and possibly biological weapons, and is the only Middle East country who has attacked US naval ships (see this link) and routinely spies on the US (John Pollard, for example). Israel likes to say they are our friend and ally, but never provided any serious support when we needed help in Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, or Afghanistan. Why should the US demand inspection of Iran's nuclear processing and weapons, when we don't do the same for Israel's?
Of course Iran should be angry with the US, we have severly mistreated Iran throughout history.  Of course Iran should want nuclear weapons.  All of their neighbors (Pakistan, India, Russia) as well as Israel have them.  Also Israel has assassinated Iranian scientists and their family when traveling outside of Iran (I don't know of any case when Iran has done the same to any Israeli scientists), and Israel launched an unprovoked cyber attack against Iran's nuclear processing industry.  I don't know of any case where Iran has launched any attack of any sort against Israel.  Those were clearly terrorist acts done by Israel, but Israel claims that Iran sponsors "state terrorism"...