Boston Globe Blasts Hillary F/Saying She'd Nuke Iran; Says She Shouldn't Be Answering The 3am phone

[KittyWampus]

Boston Globe blasts Hillary for saying she'd nuke Iran; says she shouldn't be answering the phone at 3am
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/27/2008 02:31:00 PM ET · Link

It's a story that the American media totally ignored. Our wonderful "independent" reporters collectively decided last week that it simply wasn't news that Hillary revealed she'd be nuking Iran if they attacked Israel, and that it wasn't news that she'd like to extend the US nuclear umbrella to Israel's neighbors. That means we'd be nuking Iran if they attacked Jordan, Egypt, maybe even Saudi Arabia. Show of hands: How many Americans are willing to start a nuclear war for the Saudis?

Well, it seems even the Saudis aren't too keen on the idea. They criticized Hillary this week, we learn via a Boston Globe editorial entitled "Hillary Strangelove" (the Globe is one of the few American papers to even write about this issue). They said she was as stupid as Bush: The Saudi paper called Clinton's nuclear threat "the foreign politics of the madhouse," saying, "it demonstrates the same doltish ignorance that has distinguished Bush's foreign relations."

A British Foreign Ministry official wasn't very pleased either:
"While it is reasonable to warn Iran of the consequences of it continuing to develop nuclear weapons and what those real consequences bring to its security, it is probably not prudent in today's world to threaten to obliterate any other country and in many cases civilians resident in such a country."
The Globe says that Hillary has done real damage to the reform effort in Iran:
While Clinton has hammered Obama for supporting military strikes in Pakistan, her comments on Iran are much more far-reaching. She seems not to realize that she undermined Iranian reformists and pragmatists. The Iranian people have been more favorable to America than any other in the Gulf region or the Middle East.

A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Goddesses of Peace tend to be that way.

[Cha]

9. The Saudi Paper called hilary "stupid as bush"..

and our m$$mediawhores won't even report it. Do they think she's as "stupid as bush" and want to cover up her actions like they did bush's in 2000 and 2004? What kinda of a national media sells their country down the river with a bush and a hilarystrangebomb?

[dkf]

2. Hillary will make the world more dangerous, not less with her extreme rhetoric.

If Russia or China kept on announcing they would nuke the US into oblivion if we did something to them, would we be happy? I highly doubt it.

Think people...

I wish Hillary would.

[Window]

11. She's got to show everyone how "tough" she is.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Don't want to see either Hillary "got to prove how tought I am" or McCain answering that phone.

[malletgirl02]

4. Interesting

About Clinton's comment undermining reformist in Iran, didn't the Bush administration do pretty much the same thing with the "axis of evil" comment?

[livetohike]

5. She's five years older than me, so I know she also had to

do the duck and cover drills in school (in case of nuclear attacks). I had nightmares for years after that which I attribute to being scared to death of nuclear destruction.

What is she thinking? Seriously.

[HockeyMom]

6. I am her age

and went through all of that too. Plus, we also learned a great deal about nuclear fallout, which NOBODY in today's world ever talks about. Google Chernobyl and see what has happened to the people there.

I used to work with a woman who has a preteen when it happened. She and her husband have decided never to have children because she is too terrified of genetic mutations on any children she would have.

[livetohike]

7. Oh, that's sad.....

I don't understand why any candidate would make comments like that one.

[merh]

8. Did you see where GWB got a huge laugh at the National Press

dinner when he mocked her 3:00 am phone call bit.

:eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. At 3:00 am the Jack Daniels is seeping out of his spores.

[KittyWampus]

12. gee, this still hasn't been "vetted" by the Mediawhores yet...

[invictus]

13. Hillary does not meet the mental stability threshhold to be Commander-in-Chief. n/t

[KittyWampus]

14. kick