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Originally Posted by aloysious
What would the outrage on this board be if McCain had mentioned, or even hinted that he would nuke Iran? I'm not sure my computer would survive the onslaught.
Why did the MSM virtually ignore Hillary with her outrageous claim about nuking Iran?
This was headline news all over the world, yet barely mentioned here in America. This should have been enough to completely end her campaign, for all practable purposes.
I listen to German news regularly and they basically thought she had completely lost her mind, the campaign had been too tough on her mental stability, and it was the end for her.
If any Republican candidate, past or present, had stated something this crazy, they'd be tatooed as a right-wing nut case.
Yet what we heard about the most was "bittergate". (?!!??!?) Unbelievable.
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I am glad someone else is outraged.
This is from the
Boston Globe editorial,
Dr. Strangelove,
which I quoted in full yesterday:
This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world.
Responding with understatement to a question in the British House of Lords, the foreign minister responsible for Asia, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, said of Clinton's implication of a mushroom cloud over Iran: "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."
A less restrained reaction came from an editorial in the Saudi-based paper Arab News. Being neighbors of Iran, the Saudis and the other Gulf Arabs have the most to fear from Iran's nuclear program and its drive to become the dominant power in the Gulf.
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."
The Fourth Estate no longer cares about this country.
And I will defend crackers who voted for her in Pennsylvania --
why wouldn't anyone think that Jeremiah Wright is more important
than the Iraqi war or promising to nuke Iran or an Exponential
Surge (as Rachel Maddow termed Hillary's Middle East strategy) when
all the MSM has covered for seven weeks is Jeremiah Wright?