Hillary's "obliterate Iran" comment actually kept me up last night. Surely this represents a new low, even down here in the gutter Clinton is trying to claw her way out of. The ugliness of the Clinton campaign is now to the point where it is damaging not only Obama, the Democratic Party, and Clinton herself. This comment will have an impact on the view of America all over the world, and even possibly on the course of world events.
"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," she said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them." - Hillary on ABC on Tuesday
Today's news quiz:
1. When was the last time you heard an American political figure talk about obliterating another country?
2. When was the last time you heard any political leader in the world talk about obliterating another country?
What did you get for #1? I would be interested to hear your answer in a comment to this post. For #2, I get Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
Many voices in American politics responded by saying that Ahmadinejad should be ostracized from the community of responsible world leadership (sic), and that such statements coming from a head of state place a country in the category of "rogue state."
What ensued in the Middle East was a debate about whether Ahmadinejad's comment had been mistranslated. What precisely did it mean to wipe Israel off the map? Did it mean ending the particular Constitution of Israel as a state which constitutionally raises Jews to be first class citizens and others to be second class? Or did it mean killing every last Jew in Israel? Or something else? In my view, Jews in Israel may be forgiven if they find such splitting of hairs to be offensive.
So, what precisely did Clinton mean when she said, "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran... We would be able to totally obliterate them"?
Obliterate: a: to remove utterly from recognition or memory. b: to remove from existence : destroy utterly all trace, indication, or significance of.
Does she mean annihilating Iranian military capability? Or killing every last Iranian in Iran? In my view, Iranians in Iran may be forgiven if they find such splitting of hairs to be offensive.
The fact of the matter is that both Ahmadinejad and Clinton made their incendiary statements for calculated domestic electoral advantage. (Many Americans don't realize that the Iranian president is elected too.) In Clinton's case, she was hoping that her statement might add a half a percentage point or so to her total in a single state in a primary election.
There you have it. Clinton lobbed a time bomb into the Middle East tinderbox, on the off chance that it might win her a half a percentage point or so to her total in a single state in a primary election.
This from a candidate whose mantra for months has been that she, as opposed to her opponent, is experienced in world affairs and is ready to be Commander-in-Chief from day one.
Take a look at the pictures of elderly white women in PA hugging Hillary. When undecided (and uninformed) whites see that picture, they feel good about Hillary and forget about the awfulness we went through on account of Bill's antics in the oval office. They trust and admire her. They'll forgive her mistake about Bosnia because they see it more as an embellishment than an outright lie. They've never seen the bizarre imagery like the Hillary cackle videos or the "angry bitch" Hillary stuff that the right wing will bring out next fall. Those videos will make our side give up in despair while energizing their conservative base. McSame will beat Hillary easily.
Hillary says she wants to obliterate Iran with nukes, but she'd never do it. She may attack Iran but nobody's stupid enough to use nukes on oil and natural gas rich Iran while we are paying almost $4.00 for gas (at least in California). But it looks like talk about Genocide against Muslims (in this case Persians), seems be acceptable now.
Obama doesn't think enough people in the world are starving -- he wants to burn more corn..., and if that weren't insane enough, he blames high gas prices on Washington, despite that fact that worldwide demand for oil is going up and supply has remained relatively flat since 2005.
Either he lied or he's ignorant.
McCain wants a gas tax holiday. Money for mass transportation (the only real answer), comes from that minimal gas tax. We need to rebuild cities based on the foot, and build light rail.
All we can do is vote for the lesser of the evils. Mrs. Genocidal maniac claims to want to destroy oil and gas wells to protect a country that can defend itself. We have a man who thinks more people need to starve. And an idiot who thinks mass transportation is not the answer despite the fact Mexican, North Sea oil production are in terminal decline.
I'm hoping Al Gore will save us from these idiots.
If you can’t figure out that Barack Obama doesn’t want people to starve, you’re not paying attention to his words and actions.
http://irannegah.com/Video.aspx?id=629
The world is freaking out over this. Please spread this. Hillary Clinton CANNOT BE TRUSTED to be Commander-in-Chief, her comments about obliterating Iran, her proposal for Middle East nuclear umbrella, her unwillingness to negotiate with Iran. She is a danger to this nation. She has already hurt us.
Some quotes from world papers:
The Standard, Hong Kong: Hillary would be willing to `obliterate' Iran
TV3 News, New Zealand: Clinton: US could ‘obliterate’ Iran, if it attacked Israel
BBC News, UK: Clinton's poll day threat to Iran
The Province, Canada: Clinton would nuke Iran if Israel attacked
The Observer, UK: Incendiary talk
Bombay News, India: Clinton threatens Iran during TV interview
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy: HILLARY CLINTON: WE'LL WIPE OUT IRAN IF IT ATTACKS ISRAEL
Antara, Indonesia: CIDES protests Hillary`s anti-Iran statement
Australian IT, Australia: Clinton resorts to fear tactics
UK minister Lord Mark Malloch-Brown has spoken out against her comments:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jEp2ukq1nzsx5QXn7Khdn7AqDPmg
Please, if you care about this country - get this out there.
If it is done with NUCLEAR WEAPONS that will be the end for us all. Trace8089 is part of the madness.
And we certainly don't have any scientific literature suggesting that there might be long term ecological damage, world wide, from a limited nuclear strike, let alone a nuclear holocaust.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uoca-rnw121106.php
"With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine. By God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future,"
He did not elaborate.
YES just the way our own MSM does. You really can't trust the MSM anymore, not at all. Today they just put out propaganda.
But, truthfully, ladies - did you EVER think you would hear a DEMOCRATIC WOMAN RUNNING FOR POTUS THREATEN TO OBLITERATE ANOTHER COUNTRY WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR POLITICAL GAIN?
"We ain't in Kansas anymore, Toto".....
~The OTHER Dorothy~