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