McCainiac: I'd say, 'How can I help you develop nuclear weapons...'

[NNN0LHI]

http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.ViewInterview&Content_id=734

MCCAIN INTERVIEW ON CNBC "CAPITOL REPORT"

March 04, 2003 - CNBC - CNBC News Transcripts



<snip>MURRAY: They are out there begging us--begging us with these acts to take them seriously. Don't we just play into their hands if we call it a crisis and get more worked up about it?

Sen. McCAIN: Well if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck, and this is a crisis. I would send Mr. Kelly to Japan--Se--Secretary of State to Japan. I'd say, 'How can I help you develop nuclear weapons because you are faced with the threat of nuclear weapons from North Korea?' I wou--you need to get the attention of the Chinese. The Chinese have to understand it's not in their interest to see a nuclear armed North Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc. And then I would go to the UN and sa--and ask for sanctions because they're in violation of the Nonproliferation Treaty.

I would take every measure necessary, and I would certainly stop giving them food and oil, which--with which they have propped up their military while they starve two million of their people to death. Look, it offended us when 500,000 people died in Rwanda. Isn't it offensive when the United States aid, the largest recipient of aid in Asia, North Korea--we give them I think close to $1 billion ourselves and our allies, and meanwhile, they starve two million of their people to death and they've got 2,000 people in a gulag, reminiscent of Josef Stalin?

[rurallib]

1. I have come to believe that what this admin really wants is

an armed Japan with a standing army and nuclear weapons. Such a Japan could be used in China strategies. It should come as no shock that no one in this administration has any idea what a armed Japan can mean or at least has meant in the past.
There were rumors out last year that Japan had already developed nuclear capability.
And of course Japanese leadership is jumping into this very willingly. Their current government is on the same lines as ours. O God.
So for those who can't seem to wait for the rapture, the Bushies seem to be ready willing and able to deliver it. It is just a matter of where to light the fuse. China? Iran? Israel? Indonesia? North Korea?
So many fires to start, so little time.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Japan is the last country in the world I would want to own nuclear weapons

Between their own aggressive and violent past (Pearl Harbor, China, Korea, etc.) and the fact that we did use the atom bomb on them twice already the thought of them having nukes would make me more than a little uneasy.

Don

[rurallib]

4. Exactly

I asked my rep (Jim Leach 'Mr.Moderate repuke') about Japan getting nukes. Leach's big assignment these days is on the Asian Affairs committee, so he's considered an 'expert' in this area. So I asked him if this was something congress should be at least investigating? He said he wasn't surprised they were getting nukes. Could have knocked me over with a feather.

[lectrobyte]

2. Insane. But nothing surprises me, it's probably all a matter of who can

make some money by selling Japan some technology.

[Javaman]

5. Everytime I see mclame, I think he's going to explode...

or is that just me?

I mean the guy looks like he has the shortest fuse ever.

A recent exchange between mclame and some fellow senators...

Senator #1: so john, you play a mean game of golf I hear?

mclame: oh yeah, just who the fuck told you that??!!!!

Senator #2: whoa, whoa, john back off, we were just talking golf here...

mclame: whoa? whoa? who the fuck are you? Fucking goddamn, john fucking wayne?

Senator #3: John, what's wrong with you? are you alrii....

mclame: fuck you, you dumb fuck. are you trying to tell me I have a fucking problem? I tell you this you little turd, you will have the problem, that's right, I will make your life fucking miserable!!

Senator #4: Look, we are just asking you about golf, okay?

mclame: no, it's not okay, you guys love to attack me and this is a set up, you all are after me. fuck you!

Senator #5: Ssshhh, here comes the prez...

moron*: what goes on here? Hey john!

mclame bear hugs moron* and sticks his tongue out at the other Senators.

moron*: Ummm, john, you can let go now...

John continues to hold on.

moron*: can someone scrape this guy off of me?

The other Senators try to pull mclame off the prez*. mclame holds on like grim death. Several other Senators pile on to dislocate mclame from moron*.

moron*: get this idiot off of me!!!

Like the sound a popping cork, mclame breaks free. the prez* straightens his tie, the other Senators smooth down their rumpled cloths. Everyone catches their breath in the awkward moment.

Silence falls upon the group. Each eying the other nervously. Finally the prez* breaks the silence...

moron*: John McLame! your next president!!