Can you imagine Romney in an international crisis and John Bolton advising him ...

[RKP5637]

where we would end up ... say, in a crisis with Iran.

[longship]

1. Coo-coo-cachook!

He is the walrus!

And a coo-coo-chachook to you, too.

[Blue Meany]

2. Some neocons want to go to war with Iran, but the "real men" want to go to

war with China. That's what was reported after the Iraq invastion. Small problem, however: they might not loan us the money to buy the compeonents from them that we need to attack them.

[JohnnyRingo]

32. I've had a couple wing-nuts mention this to me.

It calms them down a bit when I point out China's armed forces numbers the same as every man, woman, and child in the US. They have over 300 million soldiers ready to go from what I understand.

I guess that means there won't be many deferments to the draft.

[Blue Owl]

3. Who wouldn't want to toss the nuclear football to "shoot first-look later" Romney?

[LunaSea]

4. Yes

[RKP5637]

7. I heard voices!!! n/t

[burrowowl]

20. Lovely!

[BumRushDaShow]

29. OMG

My eyes! My eyes!

[HopeHoops]

5. Yeah. We'd call that "WW-III".

[RKP5637]

6. Exactly!!! In fact in a 2nd term he'd go for WW-IV. n/t

[HopeHoops]

12. Like we'd (meaning the entire earth) survive another WW?

[RKP5637]

14. More profits for them if they drag it out. With all the kill power today, they'd probably

split earth in half or more. I can't remember what the kill power ratio is, but it seems like at one time it was 50:1 - to kill everything on earth 50 times. Don't quote me on that, could've been 3:1.

[HopeHoops]

15. 1:1 is sufficient. We'd never have to launch a single missile.

If Russia fired enough at us to disable our response capacity, the earth would die within a year from the fallout. They'd kill us first, but simultaneously be committing suicide. That's been true since at least 1960. rMoney doesn't have a clue about world history or political diplomacy. He just considers himself to be the anointed king of the USA. He's wrong.

[JHB]

22. Einstein said he didn't know what weapons would be used for WW3, but for WW4 it'd be...

...sticks and stones.

[HopeHoops]

24. That's probably correct. I'm not even sure what from of mutant would fight WW IV.

Nice icon by the way...

[onecent]

16. You took the words right out of my mouth! n/t

[HopeHoops]

17. Thanks for the ear worm. Now I've got to listen to the Meatloaf album tonight.

[coalition_unwilling]

8. Or hop into my time machine and take a quick trip back to

August 1962. Only problem is that Romney and his Junta would have triggered Armageddon then and there would be no DU 2 or 3 (or even a Skinner , thereby setting off one of those crazy time-travel paradoxes

[RKP5637]

11. Yep, I really think so. No way would he have the cool mindset of JFK or Obama. n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

18. I shudder every time I remember that it was JFK and RFK who stood alone against

the combined weight of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of whom advocated invading Cuba, thereby precipitating World War III (nuclear). Would Romney have the moral fiber to stand against his Joint Chiefs of Staff??? I highly doubt it.

[Volaris]

19. One of the reasons that went down the way it did,

was because both John and brother Bobby knew full well that the JCoS took orders from The President, and NOT the other fucking way around. It took the Chief's (and the CIA) a while to get that through their heads. This whole, "Listen to the Generals on the ground.."
nonsense belies the power of the President to both know that the hell is going on, and then to make COMMAND decisions. Mostly, modern Presidents just want the damn "win" for political purposes (see Jr. and Iraq) and are content to let the ground commanders figure out how to execute. And that ain't the way it was intended to be, as far as I can tell. Obama knows this, and by all reports, his Generals and ground commanders all not only obey him, but like, respect and trust him because of it.

Just thinking about Kennedy kicking his Generals in the balls the way he did makes me smile, and I needed that today. Thanks, coalition-unwilling=)

[RKP5637]

23. I haven't looked it up, but I think many presidents way back were war

heroes, generals, etc. that knew what happened in combat and could make the calls directly as president.

[HopeHoops]

25. Not to mention that the president is the only five star general. That should say enough.

[sadbear]

9. Yep

[JHB]

10. There'd be a few scenarios like this...

Yosemite Sam: This town ain't big enough fer the two of us!
Bugs Bunny: It ain't?
Yosemite Sam: No it ain't!
Bugs Bunny: I'll fix that.
(Builds a bigger city)
Bugs Bunny: Now is it big enough?
Yosemite Sam: No, still not big enough!

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13. Yep! Excellent comparison! Bolton as Yosemite Sam! n/t

[burrowowl]

21. WWIII

and the war to end the world.

[HopeHoops]

27. The earth would survive. It would just have to be rebooted. We're just a blip in time.

For all of the time our preceding species existed, all of our known history, and all of what we will become, the sum of that period is nothing compared to how long the earth has been around and harbored life. It can start again from the same essentially unchanged creatures that produced what we became. Hopefully it will be a more intelligent dominant species next time.

[Xipe Totec]

26. We'd be like oysters going up against the Walrus and the Carpenter nt

[liberal N proud]

28. Can you say BOOM!

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31. Yep, that's the bottomline of it all. If, Romney, then I think the Mayans were really right! n/t

[spanone]

30. the right is pushing bolton for secretary of state if romney wins....ww3