transcript: Romney revives Bush "nuclear blackmail" lie

[yurbud]

Baby Bush 2002:

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. And if we allow that to happen, a terrible line would be crossed. Saddam Hussein would be in a position to blackmail anyone who opposes his aggression. ...He would be in a position to threaten America. And Saddam Hussein would be in a position to pass nuclear technology to terrorists.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-524627.html

Mitt 2012:

If I were Iran, and a crazed fanatic, I'd say let's get a little fissile material to Hezbollah, have them carry it to Chicago or some other place, and then if anything goes wrong or if America starts acting up, we'll just say, "Guess what, unless you stand down, why we're gonna let off a dirty bomb." This is where we head, where American can be held up and blackmailed by Iran, by the mullahs, by crazy people. So we really don't have any option but to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/full-transcript-mitt-romney-secret-video

If Saddam then or Iran now threatened us with a nuclear attack, it would deserve about the same response we give North Korea, which is not much, for the same reason: what do they think would happen NEXT if they pulled the trigger?

We have enough nukes to burn Iraq, Iran, AND North Korea off the map AND do the same to the rest of the world.

Several times over.

We are the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons against another nation.

The leaders of every country in the world know this, which is why they would never launch a nuclear attack against us or give a nuke to terrorists to detonate here: before one mushroom cloud cleared here, their country would no longer exist. If we couldn't find a return address on it, we would simply go down our list of countries we don't like and pick one.

I wish Democrats would have to balls to just say this. It would also have the practical advantage of making Romney and other fearmongers look like liars AND cowards.

[nykym]

1. So that's where they get it!

where American can be held up and blackmailed by Teahadists, by the Rebublicons, by crazy people.

[yurbud]

2. another bad idea Democrats borrowed from the right

Republicans pretended to quake at the corpse of al Qaeda and Democrats quake at the corpse of the GOP (instead of giving it a decent burial).