Clinton says U.S. could "totally obliterate" Iran

[auditor0007]

We wouldn't need nukes to do that. A squadron of B-52s with large payloads would send them back to the Stone Age, which for them was about 70 years ago.

Iran is the most modern, best educated and developed nation in the region The written history of the Persian civilization stretches back to a time Europeans were still wearing furs, head hunting and worshiping trees.

A squadron of fully loaded B-52s will change that right quick.

They are not the pushover you think they would be. Remember when you all thought Iraq was going to be a quick little walk in the park? It's like that only a whole lot worse. For one there is not a big sectarian divide to exploit like Iraq and they have been preparing for a US invasion for many years. Deciding to bomb Iran into regime change would go down as the most futile war effort in our history. It's all hypothetical though, Iran is not going to attack Israel unless we open hostilities against them. That too has always been part of the balance of terror we have with them.

We crushed the Iraqi Army in no time at all. We could do pretty much the same to Iran.

 

[rhodescholar]

Fuck Israel, they can start their own wars.

Fuck you, and all other low IQ garbage who'd do us all a favor and vanish from this earth sooner rather than later.

 

[rhodescholar]

Iran is the most modern, best educated and developed nation in the region

Which means nothing since the government is likely the worst on earth after north korea. And what does modernity have to do with being enlightened, which the country is clearly not?

The written history of the Persian civilization stretches back to a time Europeans were still wearing furs, head hunting and worshiping trees.

Again, meaningless crud. Stop deflecting from probably the worst shithole on earth with nonsense, who cares.

 

[rhodescholar]

For one there is not a big sectarian divide to exploit like Iraq

For christ's sake, just STFU already, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Iran has significant minorities including baluchis, kurds, azeri, bahai, iranian arabs, etc who despise the current regime and would not lift a pinky to help it. Stop posting BS you have no knowledge of.

and they have been preparing for a US invasion for many years. Deciding to bomb Iran into regime change would go down as the most futile war effort in our history

A full-on US conventional assault with only a modest nod towards the GC would be the end of iran and its 1960s-era military in short order. No one is talking about occupying the country, just destroying the current regime - an act long, long overdue.

It's all hypothetical though, Iran is not going to attack Israel unless we open hostilities against them. That too has always been part of the balance of terror we have with them.

iran through its proxy armies has been attacking Israel for decades. I pray that the next conflict between Israel and the scum hezbollah/hamas will lead to attacks against iran as well.

 

[rhodescholar]

Yeah, they have a word for that and it's harder to wash off than a tattoo. Mass killing of a civilian population is sort of frowned upon.

I'm pretty sure the general population of syria is wondering when the iranians, assad and russia will be brought to heel for doing just that in their country.

 

[rhodescholar]

What is true is that Islamic fighters would indeed stream into Iran by the thousands and we'd find ourselves bogged down as we are right now in Iraq.

Not that many, as most sunnis despise iran, and sunnis are 90% of the worldwide muslim population. Most of them, including the GCC, would be cheering for the US openly.

 

[Grizz]

What is true is that Islamic fighters would indeed stream into Iran by the thousands and we'd find ourselves bogged down as we are right now in Iraq.

Not that many, as most sunnis despise iran, and sunnis are 90% of the worldwide muslim population. Most of them, including the GCC, would be cheering for the US openly.

Shia fighters would flock to Iran. The Iranian leaders are 12'vers.
They believe that only chaos will bring their precious 12th Imam out of hiding.

 

[rhodescholar]

You should really learn more about Iran, it's not like you think. Their people enjoy greater freedoms than our so-called ally Saudi Arabia and all those big threats against the west are mostly for domestic consumption for their own hardliner conservatives. It is clear you picture some dusty primitive place like Afghanistan but they look more like one of the southern European countries.

LOL, look who's talking.

iran is involved in multiple wars and terrorism across the mideast and africa, you keep tossing this ron paul-esque horseshit about what a "misunderstood" country iran is while it mass slaughters almost 1 MM people alone in syria. The countryside is extremely backwards, and the regime is a cancer like no other. Stop posting garbage, to those of us from the ME you are sounding like you're retarded.

 

[rhodescholar]

You are talking mechanized genocide of the Iranian people and I'm the nutter? Damn.

Significant portions of the populace have been mobilized as basiji; know what that is dimwit? That means they are not protected by the GC.

 

[RodISHI]

Iran is the most modern, best educated and developed nation in the region The written history of the Persian civilization stretches back to a time Europeans were still wearing furs, head hunting and worshiping trees.

A squadron of fully loaded B-52s will change that right quick.

They are not the pushover you think they would be. Remember when you all thought Iraq was going to be a quick little walk in the park? It's like that only a whole lot worse. For one there is not a big sectarian divide to exploit like Iraq and they have been preparing for a US invasion for many years. Deciding to bomb Iran into regime change would go down as the most futile war effort in our history. It's all hypothetical though, Iran is not going to attack Israel unless we open hostilities against them. That too has always been part of the balance of terror we have with them.

Yes they are.
In an eight year war with Iraq they fought to a draw.
We took out Iraq's Military in just days, and we'd do the same with Iran's.
What is true is that Islamic fighters would indeed stream into Iran by the thousands and we'd find ourselves bogged down as we are right now in Iraq.

Bogged down lmao...

So how many troops we have in Iraq now genius ?

10 or 10,000 it doesn't matter. You clearly know nothing about War.
This is a "war" that can only be fought on the terms that the enemy dictate.
You can't have those stupid "rules of engagement". You find them, you kill them. They hide in a Mosque you destroy the Mosque. They bide their weapons in a school, you destroy the school.
People like you don't have a damn clue.
We can't win this "war" because our Politicians won't let us fight it.

The most sane post thus far. Politicians and their bullshit messing in military actions get ours killed. They can't have their cake and eat it too!

 

[LeftofLeft]

"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

On the day of a crucial vote in her nomination battle against fellow Democrat Barack Obama, the New York senator said she wanted to make clear to Tehran what she was prepared to do as president in hopes that this warning would deter any Iranian nuclear attack against the Jewish state.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.


Clinton says U.S. could

Clearly, this is not some one we can risk giving the nuclear codes to.

"Could" is the operative word. WOULD Clinton let it happen?

 

[rhodescholar]

Shia fighters would flock to Iran. The Iranian leaders are 12'vers.

So many shia fighters have run to syria to defend assad that they needed russia and china to help bail them out. Shias are an ant on an elephant's asshole as far as power in the mideast is concerned. The real power is in the sunnis, whom have been degraded by interference and division long sown into the region by the West.

They believe that only chaos will bring their precious 12th Imam out of hiding.

I'd be happy to send them to their twelver right away instead of waiting for him.

 

[Kondor3]

...The written history of the Persian civilization stretches back to a time Europeans were still wearing furs, head hunting and worshiping trees.

That was then.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

This is now.

 

[occupied]

...The written history of the Persian civilization stretches back to a time Europeans were still wearing furs, head hunting and worshiping trees.

That was then.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

This is now.

Now you think it's primitive like Afghanistan but it's not, it is a modern, advanced even westernized country that hates the west more because we have fucked them over a bunch of times trying to own their oil than any religious or ideological reason. If you want to continue to treat them as America's great enemy you should learn something about the people. They are educated and actually quite friendly to the few American tourists who happen to visit. A strong case can be made that their fucked up government needs to go but the everyday people are more like us than they are in our "ally" Saudi Arabia.

 

[Kondor3]

...Now you think it's primitive like Afghanistan but it's not...

Didn't say that; nor even implied it. That's strictly your spin-doctoring; not logical deduction.

...it is a modern, advanced even westernized country...

Yeah... right... stringing-up unfaithful wives and homos from crane derricks in public squares.

...that hates the west more because we have fucked them over a bunch of times trying to own their oil than any religious or ideological reason...

OMG... anybody got a hair shirt?... that's OK... we hate 'em back... so it's a wash.

...If you want to continue to treat them as America's great enemy...

When their Neanderthal Theocratic Gubmint stops calling the United States the Great Satan, we'll consider it. Wake us up when that happens.

...you should learn something about the people. They are educated and actually quite friendly to the few American tourists who happen to visit. A strong case can be made that their fucked up government needs to go but the everyday people are more like us than they are in our "ally" Saudi Arabia.

Yeppers... just like 1939... the People of Germany are wonderful... it's just those darned Nazis in power... otherwise, they'd be better friends than the Brits or the French.

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They allowed that Gubmint to gain power... they've allowed that Gubmint to remain in power since 1979... they've had plenty of time to show their 'good' side.

Thirty-seven years is long enough to wait for that to happen... it is NOT forthcoming... phukk 'em.

 

[toomuchtime_]

"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

On the day of a crucial vote in her nomination battle against fellow Democrat Barack Obama, the New York senator said she wanted to make clear to Tehran what she was prepared to do as president in hopes that this warning would deter any Iranian nuclear attack against the Jewish state.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.


Clinton says U.S. could

Clearly, this is not some one we can risk giving the nuclear codes to.

Factually correct.
8 years old
And yes- warning Iran is a good thing.

Threatening a nuclear attack on Iran is a stupid, irresponsible thing to do. Clearly, the US should not have a president who so casually threatens to kill, obliterate, 80,000,000 people, more people than died in all of WWII. It is a mark of her mental instability that she would so casually make such a threat.

 

[Syriusly]

"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

On the day of a crucial vote in her nomination battle against fellow Democrat Barack Obama, the New York senator said she wanted to make clear to Tehran what she was prepared to do as president in hopes that this warning would deter any Iranian nuclear attack against the Jewish state.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.


Clinton says U.S. could

Clearly, this is not some one we can risk giving the nuclear codes to.

Factually correct.
8 years old
And yes- warning Iran is a good thing.

Threatening a nuclear attack on Iran is a stupid, irresponsible thing to do. Clearly, the US should not have a president who so casually threatens to kill, obliterate, 80,000,000 people, more people than died in all of WWII. It is a mark of her mental instability that she would so casually make such a threat.

Clinton didn't threaten an attack on Iran.

She said that IF Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, the United States would respond with a nuclear attack on Iran.

It was a warning to Iran- a warning that American Presidents have been giving to anyone who would launch a nuclear attack on the United States or our allies for decades- and consistent with U.S. policy.

 

[toomuchtime_]

"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

On the day of a crucial vote in her nomination battle against fellow Democrat Barack Obama, the New York senator said she wanted to make clear to Tehran what she was prepared to do as president in hopes that this warning would deter any Iranian nuclear attack against the Jewish state.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.


Clinton says U.S. could

Clearly, this is not some one we can risk giving the nuclear codes to.

We already know that WWIII is a certainty.


There is no way Russia is going to let the US controlled Iran.

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Yes the Right Wing Nut jobs are certain that WW3 is going to be any day now........so sad.....

If anyone can bring the possibility of WWIII closer, it is Hillary. It was the Clintons who turned the newly friendly relations with Russia that Reagan and Bush41 had built into the current adversarial relations we have today by breaking the promise Bush41 had made that if Gorbachev liberated the Soviet satellite states the US would not allow them to join NATO, an organization formed specifically to fight Russia. The world cannot risk making this tension with Russia worse by putting Hillary in the WH.

 

[Syriusly]

...The written history of the Persian civilization stretches back to a time Europeans were still wearing furs, head hunting and worshiping trees.

That was then.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

This is now.

Now you think it's primitive like Afghanistan but it's not, it is a modern, advanced even westernized country that hates the west more because we have fucked them over a bunch of times .

Iran is a modernized country- and frankly from what i have seen, Iranians don't hate the west- Iran's government is an ideological theology- and they do hate the west.

 

[toomuchtime_]

"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

On the day of a crucial vote in her nomination battle against fellow Democrat Barack Obama, the New York senator said she wanted to make clear to Tehran what she was prepared to do as president in hopes that this warning would deter any Iranian nuclear attack against the Jewish state.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.


Clinton says U.S. could

Clearly, this is not some one we can risk giving the nuclear codes to.

WHY must Iran be obliterated?


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In Hillary's mind, to get her the nomination in 2008. How could anyone consider voting for some one who would threaten nuclear war just to get a few more votes?