Gingrich Says Israel Should Set A Deadline For Attack On Iran

[ProfessorPlum]

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Wow, generously this warmonger gives Iran until next Fall!! Then, they'll be attacked.

That's clearly the way to make the world a better place. Let's hope Obama takes a pass on this helpful piece of advice.


Via ThinkProgress

Last night on Fox News, co-host Alan Colmes asked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about a Jerusalem Post article yesterday reporting that Israel is preparing options to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. At first Gingrich gave a measured response, saying “I don’t think we’re prepared to sanction an attack on Iran.” Yet just moments later, Gingrich said the Israelis should set a deadline for an attack on Iran:

GINGRICH: I think that the Israeli government probably would be best served if they created a deadline of sometime next fall and basically told the new American president that they’re willing to do anything they can to help him achieve a non-nuclear Iran prior, say, to September or October, but that there is a point at which they will not run the risk.

Naturally, Sean Hannity concurred. “I agree with that wholeheartedly, Mr. Speaker.”

It seems that Gingrich has suddenly changed his tune on “deadlines” involving war and peace. In fact, he was one of many conservatives who were strictly opposed to any timeline to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq:

– “I am not for any precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, and I think Senator Kerry was advocating a policy of absolute defeat when he suggested he would set a date, which I think he said could be as early as May.” <4/13/06, Fox News>

– MR. RUSSERT: Senator Dodd, should the United States set a firm deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq? SEN. DODD: I, I believe we should, Tim. <…> GINGRICH: I disagree deeply with, with Senator Dodd. <5/20/07, NBC>

So it appears that Gingrich is against deadlines for peace and for deadlines for war.

[FLAprogressive]

1. What a turd. I worry about what will happen if Israel unilaterally attacks Iran

All the AIPACers would probably have a conflict of interest.....

[aquart]

7. Yet they haven't done it, have they.

So maybe this attack is in YOUR mind, not theirs. Which would, perhaps, make it lonely.

[jrockford]

14. Because they haven't done it means they won't? You certainly know nothing about Israel...sad. nt

[Chisox08]

10. You apologize for that comment

Don't compare Turds to that racist, lying scumbag.

[AndyA]

2. What a piece of shit this man is.

Someone flush the toilet and close the lid, OK? This turd needs to take his final swirling trip to his destiny: the sewer, which is where he belongs.

[Idealism]

3. Isn't Mahmoud NOT going to win re-election??

Hes just a figurehead anyways, whatever bullshit hes spouting about is meaningless. The Ayatollah and the mullah have all the power in Iran.

There is no threat to Israel just because one uppity little man has a napoleon complex and wants attention says there is.

[jrockford]

17. They know this. It has nothing to do with their national security or fear.

Israel has done more to cause problems in that region than anyone else could ever dream. The idea they are a "stable" and "democracy" in the mid-east is just a pathetic fiction.

Lebanon was a pretty great place until Israel got its claws in.

[BunkerHill24]

4. Frankly am tired of Israel wormongering...lets get it on baby

Lets get it on, lets go....stop talking and just do it.

Maybe a second Hizbullah lesson will teach them.

[aquart]

6. Your non-knowledge of international relations is impressive.

So you identify with Hezbullah, do you? Want to kick the nasty Jews right where it hurts, huh?

Ain't you sweet.

[razors edge]

11. When did the Jews expell all the Christians and Muslims

from Israel? BH24 said nothing about Jews, you however made it an issue, so tell us when the Jews became the sole occupants of the state of Israel.

[AlbertCat]

12. Play that anti-semite card!

[jrockford]

16. No kidding. It's quite sickening, old, and doesn't work among the sane and free thinking.

Even various groups of Jews are sick of it. How about those rabbis protesting the Zionists at the UN when Iran came to speak? Of course, they are labeled "Jew haters" too...

[jrockford]

15. You're obviously a Zionist apologist. Nice way to try and bait.

One can be sick of Israel's human rights violations, war mongering, spying on allies, etc....and not identify with Hezbullah.

So what, since Israel does a lot of fascist things, do these Zionist murderers identify with nazis? Like that analogy?

And don't bother with the tripe over how they are defending themselves or this fiction they are a "democracy". A state sets an example. You don't act "barbaric" in the interest of self preservation.

[vinylsolution]

5. Maybe reality will set its own deadline...

... for taking out Gingrich. It can't happen soon enough.

[Enthusiast]

32. Gingrich is a truely dispicable man.

This guy is THE VERY WORST right wrong asshole, Hannity and Limbaugh included. And this is saying something about a man and an ideology where being a big asshole is an artform.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. An Obama priority will be Israeli-Palestinian peace. Times running out for the NeoCons

[jrockford]

18. I was hopeful. Then came HRC. Then Israel was happy and the Arab states less optimistic.

I don't expect change.

Though I think it be better for the region if Iran had nuclear weapons. Why should Israel only have them? Perhaps they would end their despotic terror over the land and actually treat other humans with dignity.

They are worse than apartheid South Africa.

[The Wizard]

9. When is someone

going to sucker punch that asshole?

[jrockford]

19. Why doesn't he tell the story of the preemptive strike he did on his dying ex wife? nt

[AlbertCat]

13. Oh...little Newty....

Take your meds and just go to bed.

Your "revolution" was squandered by your own party and is finally over. Bye-bye....

I mean.... he's Soooooooo 20th century!

[Turbineguy]

20. Just jawboning

the price of oil back up.

[jdadd]

21. I say Gingrich should set a deadline for

getting his enormous head off of my television screen.....

[bjobotts]

22. Israel has all kinds of nukes AND rockets to deliver them.

[bjobotts]

23. Ahkmadinejad does not make foreign policy decisions, the Aytollah does

[bjobotts]

24. The Aytollah has condemned nuclear weapons and refused to use WMD as they were being used on Iran

[bjobotts]

25. Funny that Iran is surrounded by nuclear armed countries but does not have a nuclear arms program

[bjobotts]

26. This was confirmed by our own intelligence. Gigrich is fear mongering again

[bjobotts]

27. Only Fox keeps allowing these republican goobers to bullshit the nation.

[bjobotts]

28. Gingrich wants Israel to nuke Iran to prevent Iran from getting nukes

[bjobotts]

29. because Iran would be mean enough to use it's 2-4 nukes on Israel

[bjobotts]

30. which would be suicide for Iran. DUH! Gingrich is so stupid he's offensive.

[eringer]

31. What a Bunch of Crap

Unbelievable. This guy is dumber than McCain. Someone needs to remind the guards at the Pentagon that his DoD badge expires with the Bush administration on January 20, 2009. No more wandering alone on the e-ring or hawking his books in the concourse. Obama needs to keep this kind of poison out of the building. And how about Sean. He never lets an opportunity pass where he can show his "love" of his favorite Mr. Speaker -- second only to his love of his ratings for his hate radio/TV broadcasts. Sickening.

[HopeHoops]

33. And we thought Newt was a wacko when he was in Congress!

[pjt7]

34. Honestly, I've seen Newt speak crazier

The world will get a lot more interesting if Israel attacks Iran. I wouldn't want to be living in Israel for some of the retaliation.

[HopeHoops]

35. "Interesting" isn't exactly the word I would have picked, but it is certainly correct.

[jetphixer]

36. HUH?

This guy goes over almost as great as a turd in the punch bowl!! Is he also one of the gof balls who is waiting 4 the big war so ole JC can swoop in an rapture him up to the space ship Kill off all the poor jews than the 144 come back to jesus land? Now that one realy makes sense to me. What happens to all the others are they the fuel 4 the antimatter engines? Or are they evening meal for the 144? i never had that part splained 2 me.

[OwnedByFerrets]

37. And you, asshole, should STFU.

[Downtown Hound]

38. This fascist turd is looking to reposition himself

as the savior of the Republican Party. Newt, we've been down your road before, and this is how we've ended up. Crawl into a hole somewhere and try and live the rest of your life in peace and die like a man, if that's even possible.