10.1.2004 - Democratic Keynote Speaker Barack Obama Calls for Missile Strikes on Iran

[NashVegas]

I was searching for an Obama thread from early January and instead came up with this nugget.

Bomb Iran? He was for it before he was against it.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x76836

In an interview with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published September 26, Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama said he would favor the use of “surgical” missile strikes against Iran if it failed to bow to Washington’s demand that it eliminate its nuclear energy program. Obama also said that, in the event of a coup that removed the Musharraf regime in Pakistan, the US should attack that nation’s nuclear arsenal.

[MojoMojoMojo]

1. Since when has Obama been against it?

[Double T]

2. Sure don't want this lunatic with his finger on the button. BO is trigger happy.

[thunder rising]

3. Funny there is no record of the interview

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/obam-o01.shtm

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[NashVegas]

5. Wow, I Guess It Never Exsisted Then

and the quotes of it in the 2004 thread were just a mass hallucination.

[NMMNG]

7. Add an "l" to the end of the link

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/obam-o01.shtml


It works just fine.

[mckeown1128]

4. You posted a thread that disagrees with the article in question...

That article's link can't be found. So, we have to assume the article is sound and all we have to go off of it is the criticisms that suggest it isn't sound. Find the original article and then we can have a discussion about it.

[1monster]

8. Here's the link. The article is there...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/obam-o01.shtml

Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran
By Tom Mackaman
1 October 2004

In an interview with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published September 26, Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama said he would favor the use of “surgical” missile strikes against Iran if it failed to bow to Washington’s demand that it eliminate its nuclear energy program. Obama also said that, in the event of a coup that removed the Musharraf regime in Pakistan, the US should attack that nation’s nuclear arsenal.

Obama, the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, is being hailed as a “rising star” in the Democratic Party. In his Tribune interview, he said explicitly what is implicit in repeated statements by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and other party leaders. They have frequently attacked the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq on the grounds that it is diverting attention from supposedly greater threats, in particular Iran and North Korea.

Obama told the Tribune, “he big question is going to be, if Iran is resistant to these pressures, including economic sanctions, which I hope will be imposed if they do not cooperate, at what point are we going to, if any, are we going to take military action?”

Answering his own question, Obama said, “I hope it doesn’t get to that point. But realistically, as I watch how this thing has evolved, I’d be surprised if Iran blinked at this point.” {snip)

[okasha]

Oh my.

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran!

[ecstatic]

6. 3 years later, Hillary votes YES to Iran Authorization

IWR part 2.

[f the letter]

9. That is factual. Bad bad trouble.

Both of the candidates have dangerous attitudes about war. How do Obama supporters explain this?

i sure wish Kucinich were on the ballot........................

[FrenchieCat]

10. Did you read the entire thread that you linked to?

cause the shit was debunked then within the thread, back in 2004. :eyes: