Iran will not nuke Israel and Clinton will not nuke Iran.

[rug]

Did this really have to be said?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. No.

Which is why it was really stupid for her to say it.

[rug]

2. Clean your ears.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Quit making dumb excuses for Clinton's stupid comments.

Frankly, you should be embarrassed.

[rug]

11. Stop attempting cheap, inaccurate political points over nuclear war.

Are you capable of embarassment?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. Tell it to the BBC.

They recognize cheap, intellectually offensive, election day saber rattling when they see it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

"Are you capable of embarassment?"

If I ever make as much a fool of myself as Clinton has, I'll let you know.

[JVS]

27. Isn't that what she's doing? Unless she's serious, in which case we have a big problem

[rug]

Not quite. All 3 of them would launch nukes if Israel was attacked with nukes.

That being said, her alacrity in stating it was completely political.

But neither event will occur.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. You Should Be Embar(r)assed You Misspelled Embarrased

~

[rug]

37. I should but I'm not.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. I Meant To Correct BornAgainHooligan

I'm embarrassed I corrected the wrong person...As Winston Churchill said about misplacing prepositional clauses, :This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

40. Why, it's just a typo?

It's easy to fix a typo.

You can't fix stupid.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

51. There's A Difference Between A Typ(i) And A Misspelled Word

You misspelled "embarrassed"... It's not the end of the world...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

58. Exactly. It's not the end of the world. So why be embarrassed?

It's not like I'm a spelling nazi who has to capitalize every word in the subject sentence and every sentence with an ellipsis.

[libnnc]

10. then what is your interpretation of what she said?

[rug]

14. She said, If Iran nuked Israel, she'd nuke Iran. Neither will happen.

[libnnc]

20. then why did she feel compelled to build such a ginormous straw man?

to get attention?

Mission accomplished.

[rug]

38. She answered a straw question.

[libnnc]

41. which was a stupid fucking thing to do, no?

[rug]

46. Definitely. But I think the reaction in GDP is stupider.

[endarkenment]

21. So then Clinton was making cheap, inaccurate political points

over nuclear war. Shouldn't she stop that?

[John Q. Citizen]

25. Since neither will happen, why did she say it? She could have said "If the Martians

attack Earth, I will vaporize them with my gamma ray machine.

It would make as much sense, since that's not going to happen either.

It makes me wonder about Hill's grip on reality.

[rug]

43. She should have said, "It won't happen, moron."

BTW, What is Obama's position on Martians and gamma rays?

[John Q. Citizen]

50. He has wisely

declined to offer the voters his opinion on that.

Hill should follow his lead.

[mkultra]

52. Im sure he would find the time to think first

And answer that question with appropriate deflection. Much like Hillary should have.

positions like this are best left unstated if the net result is simple bravado. her tendency to over-react shows lack of strength.

[flpoljunkie]

48. Can you image the media furor if Obama had said this-he would have been uncalled unfit to be C-in-C!

[Buzz Clik]

3. Yeah, it needs to be said. By Hillary Clinton when she's asked if that is really what she meant.

She affirming that's what she meant.

[uponit7771]

6. yeap

[rug]

7. Rinse. Iran will not nuke Israel and Clinton will not nuke Iran. Repeat.

[Buzz Clik]

13. It seems this has you in quite a lather. Rinse. She said it. Repeat. Asked again, she Repeated.

[rug]

17. If I'm in a lather, it's not foaming from my mouth. Look around.

[Buzz Clik]

35. Okay....

Now what?

[uponit7771]

4. I don't believe you when it comes to Clinton, her character has been reThug like.

[rug]

9. Call her Republican all you want but she's not Ming the Merciless.

[doublethink]

30. She's also not "The Goddess Of Peace" that some would have you believe. n.t

[rug]

45. He's not the God of Hope and Change either. I guess we both have to live with that.

[doublethink]

49. Plenty of Hillary DU'ers have called Hillary "The Goddess Of Peace" .....

maybe I'm wrong but I can't recall ONE DUer calling Obama "The God Of Hope and Change" .... please enlighten me .... only over-zealous Hillary supporters throwing out that accusation at anyone in the Obama camp. Yeah live with it.

[rodeodance]

31. Many BHO fans here sound just like the RWer's --they learned well from Rove.

[libnnc]

39. You are out of your freaking mind.

Dorothea Dix Hospital is that-a-way ------------->

[JVS]

55. I love this. HRC threatens to blow a country up, we object, and WE are the ones who sound like...

Right Wingers.

Attention dumbfucks: The political spectrum is not based on liking the Clintons or not.

[berni_mccoy]

8. So why does she even need to say she will then? To Display Her Bush-like Diplomacy?

[kenny blankenship]

12. Which would have been a perfectly valid, responsible thing for her to have said

instead of trying to impress xenophobes in Pennsylvania with the size of her war boner like she did.

[libnnc]

15. "war boner"....

:spray:

I'm stealing that.

[kenny blankenship]

22. I stole it from someone else!

[rug]

28. I agree completely. It was a stupid answer to an equally stupid question.

It doesn't change the fact that neither will happen.

[EFerrari]

18. I think you're talking to the wrong people. Hillary doesn't seem to know this.

[Straight Shooter]

19. Hyperbole has become the new opiate of the masses. n/t

[rodeodance]

57. in this cass the BHO hyperbole is in full swing

[yardwork]

23. But McCain could easily nuke them both.

[JVS]

24. Then why does she say things that give the opposite impression?

I guess we should know better than to take her at her word anymore.

[rodeodance]

26. It needed to be said but many Obama folks are RWer's these days. They do not care

if they distort or lie.

[pdxmom]

29. But it sure is indicative of her lack of diplomatic ability that she felt

compelled to saber-rattle in the context of a presidential primary.

[olkaz]

32. She said it. Ask her.

Your girl used the word "obliterate". That's not exactly being subtle.

[rug]

47. She wanted to make sure you understood.

[olkaz]

54. And I did understand.

So what was your OP about again?

[beezlebum]

34. just like

bush was not going to attack iraq because iraq wasn't going to attack the US or its neighbors, or should we go with NKorea, even though there has been no attack, there was a great deal of sabre-rattlery, non-diplomacy- does this mean i should trust that bush will not attack iran, even though he's rattled?...AH! i'm comfusing myself...

it doesn't matter if she is actually "going" to attack iran. i know she won't because she is not going to be president, for one thing, and for another, iran, as you said, is not going to nuke israel, but third, that she used the same same-ole-washington-tough-talk as mccain and boosch (come to think of it, i don't recall ever hearing anyone say they were going to obliterate anybody even on that side, except for perhaps the likes of bill kristol...) is enough to put me off. where i barely trusted her before (as she outright said no to diplomacy, and voted for kyl-lieb, after the mistake that was iraq), i no longer trust her at all.

[Occam Bandage]

36. Iran will not nuke Israel. Which is why Clinton is a dolt for dick-waving about it.

[newmajority]

42. You're right, actually.

Because Iran doesn't have nukes, and Hillary will never be President.

[stillcool]

53. With Israels Nuclear Arsenal...

why would the US have to nuke anyone? Another delusional reality picture painted by the US Government. Be afraid, be very afraid. Nuclear War is imminent...vote for Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey

[grantcart]

56. but Hillary will sabre rattle with issues of thermonuclear war

in a way that no candidate republican or democrat has.


Escalating the rhetoric is what George Bush does and it has had a disastarous effect.


Beyond all of the diplomatic, military, and ethical reasons it ads a 'fear charge' to the speculative cost of oil. Everytime Bush threatens war with Iran speculators drive up future costs of oil by $ 15 to 20 per gallon.

Since no one actually thinks Hillary will be the nominee it probably will not have any impact - it is still a completely stupid and republicanesque thing to say.

[pompano]

59. I found her remarks....

to be childish at best and irresponsible at worst.

Strong countries don't tip their hat at hypothetical situations. Thats why they have secret war rooms and mocked situations. If one wants to guess a plot to a war or an action taken given this or that then go see a Steven Segal or Rambo movie.

There could very easily be other players starring in her nocturnal fantasies that may or may not have an influence like: China, Russia, N. Korea, Pakistan just to name a few.

A two year old would know better than to say something so assinine. Mutual deterrence is one thing, discussing a plan or method with world implications to get votes on a domestic fkng. party nomination, two elections before a Presidency even doesn't make sense to me.

She'll get votes anyway she can I suppose. If that takes rattling the cages of the armchair, toothless, hairy backed, mentally challenged, beer guzzling war mongers (Leiberman voters) nothing is beyond her I suppose?

But this is just my opinion.