Notes Tagged ‘iran’

So this is the kind of person you want answering the phone at 3am?

April 28th, 2008
195. 

Hilary Clinton on the morning of the PA primary:

…she told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that, if she were president, she would “totally obliterate” Iran if Iran attacked Israel.

And…

This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world.

Boston Globe

So why wasn’t this made into a bigger issue? You think it would have swayed some votes if it was given the same press and Obama’s lapel pin, Rev Wright, or some other minor, trivial topic?

And why still isn’t is a big deal?

The Boston Globe article concludes:

While Clinton has hammered Obama for supporting military strikes in Pakistan, her comments on Iran are much more far-reaching. She seems not to realize that she undermined Iranian reformists and pragmatists. The Iranian people have been more favorable to America than any other in the Gulf region or the Middle East.

And…

A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran – and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran – should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night.

Totally concur. I don’t want someone like here, with this kind of reaction, leading our country. In fact, this is the same kind of thinking the Bushies have made famous. And look where it’s gotten us. We need change in Washington, not Bush the Third. And McCain and Clinton seem to want to make that a reality.

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More on Iran; 2008 election tidbits

December 5th, 2007
159. 

Lots of news lately, so here’s a round up of the most interesting stories:

* One year ago (“wow!”:http://www.end-on-end.com/txp/2007/12/03/hmm-why-is-bush-so-hot-and-bothered-over-iran), Seymour Hersh wrote in the New Yorker that the Bush Administration was holding up the “release of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that had failed to find any evidence of an ongoing nuclear weapons program. “:http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/27/061127fa_fact

* Surprise of the day! “Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan want hearings over the Iran NIE.”:http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/05/morning-joe-scarborough-and-buchanan-want-hearings-over-nie/ Bush is either “lying” or “stupid”? Wow. Bush can even alienate his closest allies!

* Rising Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee “had a role in releasing a serial rapist who went on to rape and murder at least one other woman”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html

* Not to mention Huckabee doesn’t seem to be up on current events. He recently claimed he “didn’t know about the Iran NIE or what it said.”:http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/huckabee-clueless-on-iran-nie/
And this guy wants to be president? “I agree with Krugman.”:http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/why-hate-huckabee/

* And “Barack finally has a small lead in Iowa!”:http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22863769-2703,00.html Yes.

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Hmm. Why is Bush so hot and bothered over Iran?

December 3rd, 2007
158. 

Seems they ended their nuclear arms program in 2003 — over four years ago. ["NY Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-iran.html?ex=1354424400&en=db7cde09fe490f20&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg]

So why are the Bushies so gung-ho on starting another war? Don’t they have two others they need to finish first? I mean, last I checked, Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t going all that well.

Not to mention that Iran already holds the foundation of democracy – a large youth population that likes Western culture. So, we bomb their country and piss these young people off? Sounds like an ingenious plan! Well, ingenious if you want to insure the “war on terror” never ends.

Seriously, when is this administration going to be impeached?

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