Pic Of The Moment: Tom Cotton Says Iran Problem Could Be Solved With "Several Days" Of Bombing

[EarlG]

Tom Cotton Suggests We Could Take Care Of Iran With 'Several Days' Of Bombing

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[valerief]

1. When is Cotton enlisting? nt

[msanthrope]

4. Re-enlisting...apparently he didn't get enough in the 101st. nt

[maddiemom]

22. Right. Cotton is a "veteran" of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

He campaigned on it. That was apparently his major "credential." He seems to have played his service experience very wisely.

[msanthrope]

23. He actually saw combat. The fact that he saw actual action, but is still a warmonger makes him

scarier, IMHO.

[riversedge]

31. He has a vindictive vengefullness about him.

[EarlG]

5. "Ideologically insane," "dumb as a stump" -- yes. "Chickenhawk" -- no.

In March 2005, Cotton entered Officer Candidate School, and on June 2005 was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.[16][17][18] As a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Cotton was first stationed at Fort Benning, GA where he entered a 14 week Officer’s Basic Course; completing this in November 2005. Cotton then continued with more military training while he attended both the U.S. Army Airborne School and Ranger School but was not assigned to a Ranger Battalion.[3]

In May 2006, one year and 4 months after enlistement and subsequent officer training, 2LT Cotton deployed to Baghdad as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division. In Iraq, 2LT Cotton was responsible for a 41-man air assault infantry platoon in the 506th Infantry Regiment,[20] who planned and performed daily combat patrols.[14]

In December 2006, Cotton was promoted to 1st Lieutenant after nearly two years as 2LT. After the completion of his first 6 month deployment 1LT Cotton did not return to deployment active combat, instead became a member of the prestigious 3rd US Infantry Regiment's The Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetary; again as a platoon leader.[21] After nearly two years ceremonial duties, 1LT Cotton was allowed to return to his professed passion: active duty deployment.

In October 2008, 1LT Cotton deployed to eastern Afghanistan. 1LT Cotton was stationed within the Regional Command East at its Gamberi Forward operating base located in one of the command's fourteen province locations, Laghman Province. The overall mission at 1LT Cotton's duty station - the Gamberi FOB from April 2008 to June 2009, during Operation Enduring Freedom IX - included military logistics, civil reconstruction engineering, government organization, and training from a Joint Task Force. The Joint Task Force at Gamberi FOB included Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA), the 101st Airborne Division, NATO, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Interagency Partners, and CJTF-101/Regional Command East Forces. These joint forces secured the citizenry governance, and helped reconstruct a sutainable economy in order to extend Afghanistan (GIRoA) authority as the legitimate government of the Afghan people.[22][23][24] According to Cotton's biography, he stated his assigned duty was as a military logistics officer of a Provincial Reconstruction Team, where he also helped plan logistical operations for counter-insurgency.[3][25] Cotton's eleven-month deployment to Gamberi FOB in Laghan province ended when he returned from Afghanistan on July 20, 2009.

In September 2009, Officer Cotton was honorably discharged from Active Duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. One year later in July 2010, according to Cotton's military service record brief, Officer Cotton re-enlisted in the United States Army Reserve.[13] Cotton's military record shows his final discharge from both Active duty and Reserve duty was in May 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cotton#Military_service

[valerief]

7. Thanks. So he just *likes* killing people. He's still another WAR WHORE. nt

[SoapBox]

8. Ohhhhhh....I like that!

War Whore.

They can't ever get enough of killing nor blowing American's tax dollars.

[LeftishBrit]

10. To be fair: unlike most hawkish politicians, he did. He has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Doesn't stop him from being a crazy warmongering nutter, however.

[valerief]

14. Right, but he wants more, more, more. If he joins again, maybe this time

the world will be rid of him via armed conflict. We have NO USE for these monsters.

[erronis]

19. Perhaps he'd like to ride that bomb down to Tehran?

[valerief]

21. Wouldn't that be sweet? Except I hate seeing Tehran bombed. Maybe the bomb could

drop in the Arctic and land on the racing yachts.

[DetlefK]

2. Could be a great line to wrestle the topic "national security" away from Republicans.

[underpants]

3. Out of his cotton pickin' mind

[KansDem]

6. Look at both their expressions!

If any expressions ever exuded total clueless buffoonery, it's these two.

And one is a former POTUS and the other a current US senator!

[Action_Patrol]

9. I'm sure we would be greeted as liberators.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. What part of "threatening a country with war is an international crime" is confusing to him?

[DhhD]

18. The answer: The Isreali Leader who wants to use small nuclear bombs to disrupt the export of oil.

So Big Oil in America can export oil by its new war crimes, GOP Congress, reasoning.

[wordpix]

39. oh, yeah, Israel is the whole problem in the ME (sarcasm)

Have you ever done any research into what these ME leaders (besides Israel) and various IS groups are doing? And how much money the Palestinian leaders have made off their own people by supplying them with weapons, oil and other goods via the Egyptian tunnels? Some of the Palestinian leaders are BILLIONAIRES due to milking their own people who have nothing.

Read about it.

[project_bluebook]

12. Those rich spoiled brats are sure brave

when it comes to sending our young men and women off to fight their wars.

[liberal N proud]

13. Just need to change the rider on that rocket...

[turbinetree]

15. He is a..........

disgrace to the 506Th Infantry Regiment.
This regiment would never and I mean never send a letter in any shape of form to undermine the president of the UNITED STATES.
I am not a war hawk lets make this perfectly clear but this Battalion did the following:

"1st BATTALION,
506th INFANTRY REGIMENT
(CURRAHEE)

Constituted 1 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 506th Parachute Infantry
Activated 20 July 1942 at Camp Toccoa, Georgia
(506th Parachute Infantry assigned 1 March 1945 to the 101st Airborne Division)
Inactivated 30 November 1945 in France
Redesignated 18 June 1948 as Company A, 506th Airborne Infantry
Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army
Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Inactivated 1 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Activated 25 August 1950 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Inactivated 1 December 1953 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Activated 15 May 1954 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Reorganized and redesignated 25 April 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Airborne Battle Group, 506th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1964 as the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry
Inactivated 5 June 1984 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division
Assigned 16 March 1987 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated in Korea
Relieved 30 September 2005 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division and assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II
*Normandy (with arrowhead)
*Rhineland (with arrowhead)
*Ardennes-Alsace
*Central Europe
Vietnam
*Counteroffensive, Phase III
*Tet Counteroffensive
*Counteroffensive, Phase IV
*Counteroffensive, Phase V
*Counteroffensive, Phase VI
*Tet 69/Counteroffensive
*Summer-Fall 1969
*Winter-Spring 1970
*Sanctuary Counteroffensive
*Counteroffensive, Phase VII
*Consolidation I
*Consolidation II
War on Terrorism
Iraq:
*Iraqi Governance
*National Resolution
(Additional campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BASTOGNE
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DONG AP BIA MOUNTAIN
*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF SAIGON
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2008-2009
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
*Netherlands Orange Lanyard
*Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm, Streamer embroidered BASTOGNE; cited in the order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Bastogne
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in France and Belgium
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971
*Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History"


What did Cotton do again-----he sent and signed a letter to undermine the president of the UNITED STATES along with 47 other traitors and that is a violation of the LOGAN ACT and the CONSTITUTION for starters

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. is this the movie poster for Dumb & Dumber III ??

[father founding]

17. Toms away

We can start by strapping some explosives on Tom and throwing him off the plane, Uh, on second thought, forget the explosives.

[FiveGoodMen]

28. !

[packman]

20. And they'll give our troops chocolate and roses

as we march in their streets. Didn't Cheney say something like this a few years back?

[TNNurse]

24. I would rather we first solve the Tom Cotton problem.

How do we make him go away??

[TBF]

37. Send him to war. He wants to go so bad, he's the general.

Suit up Tom. Bon Voyage!

[maddiemom]

25. WTF? We are still raisings kids (I could be Cotton's mom) who think that

bombing the hell of other countries and all the innocent "collateral" damage is the way to go? It should be obvious that negotiation is preferable, and not in the least comparable to Chamberlin/Hitler. The U.S. could bomb Iran off the map and they know it. And then what?

[geretogo]

26. This is a predictable responce from a trained killer for the Corporate State and the treasonous Kock

brothers . He and his kind do not belong in this country . They are death to any civilized society .
People like him has to go for America to thrive .

[Enthusiast]

27. They'll greet us as liberators? Oil will pay for the war?

Fight 'em over there so we don't have to fight 'em here?

Thanks for thinking of us Senator Cotton. You ignorant fuck.

[TRoN33]

29. I'd be more competent senator than Tom Cotton on intelligence term. Why?

I'm aware that Iranian armed forces are far more superior than Saddam-era Iraqi forces. Iranian soldiers are far more well trained, higher moral standards, and more fierce fighters than Iraqi soldiers who fought against American forces. Iranian Air Force pilots are trained three and four times per week in combat, recon, bombing, and intercept training missions. Iraqi pilots barely trained four times per month. Iranian naval power is five times more powerful than Iraqi's former naval forces. Saddam's navy was considered as a joke in Middle East. Kuwaiti navy in post Gulf War are far more superior and formidable than Saddam's. Iranian's marine forces are also no laughing matter. They are oft-trained by Chineses, Russians, and sometimes Brazilians. Their marine forces are considered world class in tactical and fighting terms. Saddam's marines bucked and ran away from the fight.

Tom Cotton is frigging lousy senator and he doesn't care what I, or anyone, says about him. He doesn't give any flying fuck about America. He is all about himself and 1%.

[tclambert]

30. Maybe they'll greet us as liberators, . . . with flowers.

Surely the mullahs are in the last throes of their power.

[hobbit709]

32. The reincarnation of Capt. William J. Fetterman.

[WestSeattle2]

33. Countless generals and other military experts believe otherwise.

I'll trust the knowledgeable grown-ups, thank you.

Why is it that "more bombs" is the Republican response to every foreign policy challenge? They NEVER learn.

Idiots - all of them.

[Liberalagogo]

34. Traitor says what?

n/t

[NCjack]

35. GOP plan for war with Iran

Day 1. We give them Shock and Awe
Day 2. They give us Chocolates, flowers
Day 3. We give the world the Mission Accomplished speech
Day 4. They give our capitalists all their oil.

Simple. Just like GOP says. No need to add resources to VA Dept, as their will be no causalities.

[captainarizona]

36. Mccain didn't learn his lesson either

Most veterans especially draftees abhor war It is usually draft dodging chicken hawks like cheney bolton romney bush who support war. Exceptions are mccain, cotton. By the way 40th anniversary of end of vietnam war coming up april 30th for all anti- vietnam war protesters! Kent state 45th anniversary may 4th.

[Major Hogwash]

38. Colonel Hezza Liar doesn't like Senator Cotton very much.

"I don't like loudmouth punks that talk about dropping bombs on another country to start another war. Shock and Awe didn't work. Maybe this particular young man should learn some history before he speaks out in public again."

[BlueStater]

40. This skinny-necked dipshit just can't keep his mouth shut, can he?

Apparently, the days of freshmen senators learning the ropes of their new job are over.

[C Moon]

41. Looking at that picture of Bush, it's difficult to imagine he was President for 8 years.

[Monk06]

42. In a Democracy you're only as smart as the people you vote for.

Stupid In = Stupid Out

[markpkessinger]

43. Does he seriously think Russia and China would stand idly by in the face of that? n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

44. If they bomb they had better not destroy those lovely oil wells!

[blkmusclmachine]

45. "Mission Accomplished."

[blkmusclmachine]

46. http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BushMA.jpg

[TeamPooka]

47. "War Is Easy" - GOP Philosophy and one of their bumper stickers for 2016

[Initech]

48. Yeah let's solve a problem by blowing the shit out of it.

It's the American way damn it!

[Dont call me Shirley]

49. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.” Maya Angelou

“If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.”

-George H.W. Bush

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“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

― Maya Angelou

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