Dave Lindorff: Hillary Clinton's Monstrous Threat

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14201


Hillary Clinton's Monstrous Threat
by Dave Lindorff | April 23, 2008


Tough guy Hillary Clinton, on the morning of a critical primary vote in Pennsylvania, uttered a monstrous threat, saying on ABC's "Good Morning America program today that if Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel while she was president, "we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Think about that a moment! A country that we view as a theocracy, run dictatorially by a bunch of self-appointed religious fanatics, whose rule is enforced by an army of equally fanatic quasi-military thugs and enforcers, launches an attack on America's ally Israel, and Clinton says her response would be to incinerate the people of that country--people who are as powerless to stop such an attack as would be the people of Israel or the United States.

Is this the way we want the world the work? Is this the way we want our government to act?

Granted that if Iran's leaders were, for some crazy reason, to decide to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack on Israel, it would require some kind of response by the US and other nations, but is the appropriate response the slaughter of tens of millions of innocent Iranian citizens?

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Folks, if you haven't already got reason enough to reject this woman--her lies about her support for NAFTA, her red-baiting of Barack Obama, her lies about her visit "under fire" to Bosnia, her corrupt financial history, etc., etc.--this latest statement about her readiness to incinerate a nation of 70 million people for the actions of their leaders ought to do the trick.

Hillary Clinton is the Democratic answer to John McCain.

They both belong where they are, in the Senate, where they can do no harm.
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[cliffordu]

1. Kickin'

Thanks, babylonsister. She needs to be stopped....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. I disagree. After statements like that, she no longer deserves a senate seat

She is too out of control, dangerous and irrational.

[LakeSamish706]

3. Sorry but I disagree with your final line.....

"They both belong where they are, in the Senate, where they can do no harm." I don't think that either of them belong there either.... This is where the laws of the land originate and people like these two are a very serious detriment to passing good laws.

Sorry baby.... not referring to you personally, just the information in the post.

[southern_belle]

4. Hillary Clinton = Dick Cheney

k & r

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Thuggish whore

She'll do anything, say anything, to nail down the American Jewish vote. That's what I think.

This is on a par with Fuckface's "Bring it on."

She's no better than Fuckface.

[cap]

6. so what are you going to do after the primary?

Hillary will either be the nominee or she will still be one of the leading Democrats in the Senate. I support Obama but Hillary has backed a lot of progressive legislation such as the recent pay equity act. This is the Democratic Underground after all.

I really object to the use of the word whore. I dont like hearing it. As a woman I find it offensive. You've gotta draw the line somewhere in terms of respecting the rest of us women. There has to be some language that you won't use regardless of how annoying any particular woman can be.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Woman?

There's nothing about the word "whore" that devotes itself exclusively to women. Men can be whores just as readily. As a woman, I find the word applicable when I hear Senator Clinton talking about "annihilating Iran" as she panders to the Jewish vote. There's no call for that kind of thinking or that kind of language. In that respect, she's a George W. Bush clone, and he's the biggest whore of all.

She's still the junior Senator from New York, and hardly one of the "leading" Democrats in the Senate. If she weren't the former First Lady, I seriously doubt that she'd have any kind of clout, let alone the kind that would have lead her into the race for the White House.

Yes, this is the Democratic Underground, I'm well aware of that, and my opinions about Democrats are just as valid as anyone else's. I don't expect anyone to agree with me, and that's part of the process, but when statements are made that are not quite on target, I really am duty-bound to respond.

Senator Clinton also voted for the war in Iraq. I think it's most important to remember that. She did so at a time when so many Americans, myself included, were screaming for the United States not to do it, to let Hans Blix do his job, to foreswear such an invasion when everyone knew that Iraq had had nothing to do with September 11, 2001. Hillary Clinton ignored all that, and voted for "war." She joined the majority of thuggish whores in the Congress when she did that.

[cap]

8. women take offensive at the use of the word whore

regardless of how you spin it.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. I don't

So, I don't take offense at a properly-used word. And I'm a woman.

I prefer a wide-open world, where words are properly used.

[roseBudd]

10. Anyone who thinks nuking another country with all we know about the effects of radiation

is NOT fit to be POTUS.