Gingrinch goes on Faux and plays the role of tough guy. "I would've disabled missile."

[jefferson_dem]

Gingrich: I would've disabled missile
By MIKE ALLEN | 4/5/09 9:40 AM EDT Text Size:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “Fox News Sunday” that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people “do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet.”

“One morning, just like 9/11, there’s going to be a disaster,” Gingrich said. “I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.”

Reacting to President Barack Obama’s speech in Prague, Gingrich called the plan for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security a “wonderful fantasy idea,” saying Russia and other nations can’t be trusted.

“What are they going to promise, and why would we believe them?” Gingrich said. “It’s very dangerous to have a fantasy foreign policy, and it can get you in enormous trouble.”

Host Chris Wallace asked Gingrich: “So you’re saying that President Gingrich would have taken out that” missile?

Gingrich replied: “There are three or four techniques that could have been used, from unconventional forces to standoff capabilities, to say: ‘We’re not going to tolerate a North Korean missile launch, period.’ I mean, the world’s either got to decide that North Korea is utterly dangerous … I’d recommend, look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes every … equation about how risky these weapons are.”

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20903.html

[saltpoint]

1. He's a hell of a man, that Newt Gingrich.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Yep. He-Man Newtie would've snuck right over to that missile

dressed like a ninja, with a pliers in his teeth, and disabled the thing his very own self.

[saltpoint]

6. LOL!

[cliffordu]

21. I'm surprised he can walk with those

ginormous testicles dragging around behind him.....

[saltpoint]

33. Hi, cliffordu. Yep. Ol' Newt thinks he's the cock of the walk. He's got far less charm

than Huckabee and far less money than Mittens, and I'm still not seeing him wading through the pig shit in Iowa a few weeks before the caucus extolling the virtues of ethanol.

Maybe he has more cards up his sleeve than I think. But I just don't feel that he has a clear shot at the GOP nomination.

Also he looks like a Pokemon character.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Blah blah blah

Anyone can talk tough when he or she is standing on the outside looking in.
And why is Gingrich even relevant anymore? Screw him.

[Happyhippychick]

3. Words from the side that is the loser: I would have. n/t

[Political Heretic]

5. If this guy is the 2012 nominee I am going to be so pissed. I loathe him!!

I don't even love to hate him. I just hate him.

[Champion Jack]

9. Aw C'mon a Newtie /Moosilini ticket would be sweet!

and just too damn easy

[SpiralHawk]

7. Spoken like a typical Republicon Homelander Chickenhawk

Republicon Chickenhawks like to talk tough -- witness Commander AWOL Buh, Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck, and Hannity.

But when it comes to actually serving America, they are kicking back by the pool with a Long Island Ice Tea swilling down Viagra.

[spanone]

8. fuck off newt, you are an irrelevant blowhard

[Lasher]

10. Yeah right, just like his boy Dubya shut them down.

What a surprise they're still around shooting off missiles after 8 years of brilliant foreign policy from Newt's party.

[Webster Green]

11. “It’s very dangerous to have a fantasy foreign policy,..

...and it can get you in enormous trouble.”

That would very accurately describe the chimp/GOP foreign policy.

Project much, Newt? :rofl:

[burning rain]

31. If ditzboy Gingrich has any innovation to make to that mix....

it would be an addition of sci fi / futurism.

A college sophomore should be embarrassed to adopt absurd new fancies all the time the way Newton does.

[AzDar]

12. And then once it was disabled, Newt would have told it he wants a divorce.

:rofl:

[LynnTheDem]

15. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

DUzy Award big time!!! :rofl:

[Monk06]

18. DUzy DUzy DUzy DUzy !!!!!!!!

[Joe the Revelator]

20. Bravo

:handclap:

[Ilsa]

23. Ohhh Yeah! ROTFLMAO! nt

[PBS Poll-435]

25. Winnah!

:thumbsup:

[DangerousRhythm]

30. HAHAHA. I have never called for one before, but DUzy for sure.

:toast:

[saltpoint]

34. -- --

:thumbsup: :rofl:

[FSogol]

13. Newt would have voted "NO" on Korean missiles.

That's his one gimmick. :shrug:

[LynnTheDem]

14. "fantasy foreign policy". Such as "we'll be greeted as liberators"?

Such as " And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."?

Or perhaps "There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money" ..."We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."

Maybe "fantasy foreign policy" would include "Well, the Office of Management and Budget, has come up come up with a number that's something under $50 billion for the cost." and this; "The American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this."

[JayMusgrove]

16. I have a fantasy of Newt riding on the missile itself, as in Dr Strangelove...

Shooting up into the skies, and falling into the Pacific.

But I don't want to pollute the Pacific Ocean.

[Barack_America]

17. I didn't realize that Newt had such stealth, super-secret operative training.

To be able to sneak into N. Korea do such a thing.

Let's parachute him into N. Korea so he can do it!

[zbdent]

19. super-impose Newt's (the crybaby tantrum thrower) head on Slim Pickens'

body in "Dr. Strangelove" ...

[LiberalFighter]

22. Before or after he called in Dobson, Oral Roberts Jr, Pat Robertson and others for a prayer vigil?

Before or after he begs and cries for them to not deploy their test missle?

[Butch350]

24. "Stupid is as stupid does."

[Jennicut]

26. With what? Our missile defense systems are pathetic and don't really work

"All the trials run so far - successful or otherwise - have been rigged. The target, its type, trajectory and destination, are known before the test begins. Only one enemy missile is used, as the system doesn't have a hope in hell of knocking down two or more. If decoy missiles are deployed, they bear no resemblance to the target and they are identified as decoys in advance. In order to try to enhance the appearance of success, recent flight tests have become even less realistic: the agency has now stopped using decoys altogether when testing its GMD system.

This points to one of the intractable weaknesses of missile defence: it is hard to see how the interceptors could ever outwit enemy attempts to confuse them. As Philip Coyle - formerly a senior official at the Pentagon with responsibility for missile defence - points out, there are endless means by which another state could fool the system. For every real missile it launched, it could dispatch a host of dummies with the same radar and infra-red signatures. Even balloons or bits of metal foil would render anything resembling the current system inoperable. You can reduce a missile's susceptibility to laser penetration by 90% by painting it white. This sophisticated avoidance technology, available from your local hardware shop, makes another multibillion component of the programme obsolete. Or you could simply forget about ballistic missiles and attack using cruise missiles, against which the system is useless."
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/19/11068

Its ridiculous to think otherwise. Newt = stupid.

[Vinca]

27. And then North Korea would have taken out South Korea and

the American troops in between would be dead. Then Japan might get in the game to stop a pre-emptive strike and China would be pissed at Japan and next thing you know it's WWIII. Good idea, Newtie.

[Sheltiemama]

28. "President Gingrich." *Shudder.*

[high density]

29. Yes Newt, we definitely want to get involved in a third war now

Great idea.

[MarjorieG]

32. How many times will they address him as President Gingrich?

[jenmito]

35. Everything old is apparently new again with the Repub. party. I bet he runs

for president in '12.

[Enrique]

36. Obama is actually a leader on nuclear proliferation

the first thing he did as senator is ask to be part of Richard Lugar's proliferation work.

And he has gotten significant antiproliferation legislation passed.

Gingrich is just talking.

[Political Tiger]

37. I wonder how he would have disabled it?

Served it divorce papers like he did his cancer stricken wife?