Duncan Hunter, Nuclear War Enthusiast
Andy Cohen, San Diego Free Press
Congratulations, San Diego! We now officially have our very own neo-con nuclear warmonger as one of our five representatives to Congress! As if having Darrell Issa entertain us by wasting tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money on wild conspiracy chases in search of narratives that only exist in the insulated cocoon of right wing Fantasyland wasn’t humiliating enough, now we have our very own member of Congress that wants to start a nuclear war! Well isn’t that special!
That’s right folks! Representative Duncan Hunter (R-50th) has the answer to our country’s Iran problem: Let’s nuke ‘em! Who needs diplomacy when, after all, we’ve got the bombs! (Cue Denis Leary)
Yesterday, in an interview on C-SPAN, speaking on the deal struck recently between the West and Iran, Hunter expressed some opinions that raised some eyebrows, to say the least. As a part of the pact, Iran agrees to stop building new centrifuges for the refinement of nuclear material, caps the amount and type of nuclear material that Iran is allowed to produce, and it halts Iran’s work on the construction of a heavy-water reactor that would eventually allow the country to produce plutonium, which could lead to high yield nuclear weapons. Iran also agrees to increased oversight of their nuclear related activities.
In return, the West will begin to ease some of the crippling sanctions that have decimated the Iranian economy. The deal will be finalized over the next six months.
But good ‘ol Dunc Hunter is having none of it. Diplomacy, he apparently believes, is a waste of time.
Asked if he believes that war with Iran is inevitable: “I sure as hell hope not.” He then went full “nuclear”:
I think a ground war in Iran with American boots on the ground would be a horrible thing. And I think people like to toss around the fact that we have to stop them in some way from getting this nuclear capability. I don’t think it’s inevitable, but I think if you have to hit Iran, you don’t put boots on the ground. You do it with tactical nuclear devices, and you set them back a decade, or two or three. I think that’s the way to do it, with a massive aerial bombardment campaign.
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http://sandiegofreepress.org/2013/12/duncan-hunter-nuclear-war-enthusiast/