Bachmann at it again: claiming that Hezbollah is giving Castro missles

[RyanPsych]

GOP presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN) has a history of flubbing basic foreign policy facts, like when she claimed that Americans still live in fear of the Soviet Union. She made another whopper yesterday when she claimed that Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim political and military organization, is equipping communist Cuba with missiles. It would be “foolish” to normalize trade relations with Cuba, Bachmann told a crowd in Iowa, because Hezbollah could soon have “missile sites” there:

BACHMANN: Why would you normalize trading with a country that sponsors terror? There’s reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you’re 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don’t want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. This would be foolish.

There is absolutely no evidence to support her claim, which seems to be based on spurious reports in an Italian publication that did not even mention missiles.

Bachmann doesn’t appear to be too pleased that the United States has made significant strides toward normalizing relations with Cuba in the past few years

keep reading at: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/27/329507/bachmann-imagines-a-new-cuban-missile-crisis-worries-hezbollah-is-giving-castro-missiles/

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

1. There is no limits to bat shit crazy - is she stoned ?

DRUG TEST HER !

[avaistheone1]

18. Good idea.

Bachmann is batshit, scarey crazy.

[LeftinOH]

2. When was the last time we found authentic missile sites? Maybe it doesn't

matter to Repubs like her.. just claim that some country has "missile sites" & invade. Repeat.

[hifiguy]

3. Why on earth would the Cubans want

missiles, much less a Hezbollah presence? They're trying to refloat their economy by encouraging tourism.

Crazy is as crazy rants.... :crazy:

[Scuba]

4. Yeah, the embargo of Cuba just needs a little more time. That's it.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. oh is this the Cuban Missile crisis? I heard someone mention that once.

[Botany]

6. Crazy as a loon

Hezbollah in Lebanon is sending missiles and missiles launchers to Cuba?

Hello Ms. Bachmann? ..... I have already seen that movie .... it was called the Cuban Crisis and it happened 49 years ago.

[geardaddy]

16. Ironically, that's our State Bird.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Hezbollah hs "missile sites" now?!! Holy shit, this fucking moron doesn't know

her ass from her elbow.

[Botany]

8. They sure do .....

:crazy: ..... The Israeli Military would let them be built in Lebanon w/out any problems.

I bet she couldn't find Lebanon on a world map that wasn't titled.

[customerserviceguy]

9. Like Hezbollah would give even a single bullet to Cuba

Or that Cuba would like to make itself a target for US retaliation. Even Castro isn't as senile as Bachmann is ape shit.

[louslobbs]

10. Michelle Bachmann needs a thorough psychiatric examination, STAT! And placed on psychotropic drugs

asap as I am almost positive she is in dire and urgent need of them.
Lou

[cyglet]

11. "There is absolutely no evidence to support her claim"

Cut and paste for everything this woman says. I should know, I'm a Minnesotan.

[War Horse]

12. Commienazimuslimatheists!

They're coming to get us.

Bachmann's 1000 soul stare knows no bounds.

[gratuitous]

13. Look for a clarification of her remarks

In which she will lament how closely she has to watch every little thing she says and how the liberal media are out to get her and it's not really her fault that she passed on spurious information because she's not a defense analyst or an intelligence operative that in fact she has no intelligence at all and that she merely repeated something she thought she heard and just quit it you meanies!

[KamaAina]

14. The Castro has missiles?!

Oh, the hugh manatee!!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. K&R. Bachman is such a F liar. If hair fell out each time she told a lie, she'd be Mr. Clean nt

[gordianot]

17. Her position on the House Intelligence Committee leaves two disturbing possibility

She receives regular intelligence briefings of Top Secret nature and is bound by strict non disclosure so my possibilities are:

1. The house committee is a total joke and there is not really any really any oversight by that committee. It is very curious that she would discuss any information of a threat to the United States given that position.

2. She is so delusional that she actually believes what she says.

I tend to lean toward the second thesis. That such a loon sits on this committee and appears to be loose in her speculation is frightening.

[Glimmer of Hope]

19. My first response was to laugh but this very scary!

[Octafish]

20. Hey! It worked for Bush and Cheney.

And lookit all their illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars have done to fatten their cronies' wallets.