McCain: Time To 'Pull The Trigger' With Iran

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(04-14) 08:02 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Senator John McCain says the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while that country moves ever closer to having nuclear weapons.

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Speaking figuratively, the Arizona Republican says the U.S. keeps pointing a loaded gun at Iran but failing to "pull the trigger."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/14/national/w080240D14.DTL

[liberal N proud]

1. Him and Sarah would have already nuked them

What an idiot.

[JackRiddler]

49. I actually believe that...

bombings last June, anyway. That and Sotomayor are two of the few reasons I knew I wouldn't regret voting for Obama.

[roguevalley]

52. Okay. I've seen .38's that are pink and lavendar at Fred Meyer's

a while ago. Give him one and send him to Iran. He can pull the trigger all he wants and they can too, back at him. Problem solved.

[wordpix]

57. the same repukes who want to bomb Iran want "smaller gov" and no taxes

Just WTF do they think funds these wars?

[liberal N proud]

59. They cannot equate the two at the same time

They also don't understand that those public spaces where they are holding teabag rallies are socialist or the road they traveled to their protests.

[tularetom]

2. Can't he find a cloud to yell at?

McCain has achieved utter irrelevancy.

And yet the press continues to seek his opinions on practically everything.

[yava]

47. The idea is to use...

neutron bombs: nuclear weapons that will kill all the operating staff by ionizing irradiation. No need for bunker buster bombs and city bombings, just kills all the staff and folks within a few miles only.
With say 10 sites, 1000 staff per site and 1000 guards/site, they will put the nuc activity in Iran to zero with only about 20,000 deaths, almost all pro-regime and leave the bulk of Iran wondering what happened as neutron bombs don't explode, no mushroom clouds, no sound. Surgical!

[wordpix]

58. enterprising reporters should ask him how much his tech war will cost in Iran

that might shut his senile mouth for awhile

[sharp_stick]

3. And the pukes really wanted

this guy and mooselini to run the country. We dodged a bullet by nominating someone a lot smarter and a lot better.

Imagine the economic mess and toxic foreign relations if they had of pulled it off?

[DCBob]

4. God help us if this senile warmonger had won in 2008.

Much of the planet would likely be irradiated scorched earth by now.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. He should take his fighter jet over there and tech 'em a thing or two. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. If he could fly it that far without crashing

he wasn't too good at that flying stuff.

:hi:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

33. Apparently the whole written test thing wasn't his "forte" either. Makes one wonder.

WTF was he good at?

[Michigan-Arizona]

34. Marrying into money, lol n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

39. That, and being born son of an admiral

Born to privilege. A natural-born frat party animal barely getting passed through the Naval Academy. And daddy's rank got him a pass when he wrecked the first few airplanes.

And, yes, ditching the first wife after she got disfigured in an auto wreck, and after hooking up with the heiress babe. That'd be none of our business, of course, except when he preaches family values.

:hi:

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Pull the trigger on Hayworth and then to yourself.

Arizona does not need any more wingnuts. They need less.

[denverbill]

24. I hope Hayworth wins the primary, cause McCain won't stop running.

He'll pull a Lieberman and run as an independent old codger and split the Republican vote.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. "Get off my lawn!!" NOT pulling the trigger is called diplomacy. McCain thinks

starting another illegal, preemptive war with Iran 'because something MIGHT happen...'???!!!???

Dumb (and old) as dirt.

[bemildred]

8. Time to pull the plug on McCain is more like it.

"Yeehaw" is not a foreign policy. (*)

* -- (anonymous quote from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City")

[DavidDvorkin]

9. He knows all about bombing civilians.

[grantcart]

10. Time for John to visit a death panel

[Sherman A1]

11. Go Right Ahead John....Get things started and We will be along in a bit

or perhaps not.

[Buenaventura]

12. Pull my finger John

[tridim]

13. Speaking figuratively, we really dodged a bullet by not electing McPain/Palin.

[Jefferson23]

14. The man loves war, and I hope he loses his seat. He is a fraud, he said so

himself...I am no maverick, blah, blah, blah.

[Proletariatprincess]

20. McCain is either nuts or pandering to the Jewish lobby.

maybe both.

[nyy1998]

15. Thank god we have a smart President instead of this moron.

[BattyDem]

16. And then what?

Go ahead. Start another war in the Middle East. Yeah, that's just what we need because the two wars we're currently fighting there are working out soooo well for us.

:sarcasm:

[rbixby]

21. But see, we could wrap it all up

into one big war....Iran is the one thing keeping Afghanistan and Iraq apart. We could just declare war on all three and create a mega country Afraqistan!

[BattyDem]

26. "Afraqistan"

:rofl:

[rbixby]

35. I'm always excited when someone replies to one of my posts

Being a relative newbie to posting here at DU (but a member since before the 2004 elections), I'm always afraid someone is going to think I'm some kind of freeper troll, but rest assured, I'm blue as blue can get.

[Posteritatis]

44. And then freedom and puppies and rainbows, of course! (nt)

[DinahMoeHum]

17. McCain and Iran's president deserve each other . . .

They both think with their c**ks instead of with their brains.

Folks, Iranian/Persian posturing is nothing new. They've been swaggering their c**ks around their neighborhood ever since the days when they used to worship the sun and fire as Zoroastrians/Mazdaists.

[Arkana]

18. I am more and more thankful every day that this old, senile loon did not win in 2008.

[Crowman1979]

19. Oh s***! He's off his meds again.

[louis-t]

22. So, the AP deemed that McNuts was being "figurative"?

Why do they 'assume' that?

[fascisthunter]

23. Time to Take a Nap

[MUAD_DIB]

25. John McClown is not the President. President Obama wants a diplomatic solution.

Why does McClown want to start another war?

[treestar]

48. He wins wars, remember?

:rofl:

Still waiting for us to tell us where bin Laden is. He knows how to get him. Still waiting. :rofl:

[MUAD_DIB]

51. I believe that his idea had something to do with carpet bombing the Mid East

then sifting through the wreckage to look for remains...

Or saying "Well, Osama is one of those 600 million dead guys in the pile over there."

[liberation]

28. Now imagine if the same rhetoric was coming out of the Iranian leadership...

We're so morally corrupt (and not in the wacko religious BS sense) we don't even pretend to even try to make sense.

[Downtown Hound]

29. Remember to take your meds John n/t

[Submariner]

30. Time to retire and go "Drifting" with Cindy...her favorite past time

go away crash.

[tomm2thumbs]

31. just as long as he is the one directing things himself

Dr. Strangelove-style.

[AzNick]

32. If Obama does call a strike on Iran, watch the right and Fox news denounce it...

And call it "wag the dog tactics" as well as claim that Obama should have tried talking to Ahmadinejad.

Just like when Obama called for the Somali pirates to be shot so that we could free that merchant captain, remember?

They were all over the place defending those poor Somali pirates.

[GreenStormCloud]

37. The RW didn't defend the pirates. They complained the Obama waited so long.

They wanted the pirates shot sooner.

Other than that, I agree with you that if Obama attacks Iran, the RW will gripe. Likely they will gripe that the strike wasn't strong enough.

With the new technology that has been perfected in the past few years, we could obliterate the Iranian military in one day with conventional strikes. No nukes needed. I am referring to the JDAM precision GPS targeting coupled with the SDB (Small Diameter Bomb)or it can use a smart seeker head that can find tanks and vehicles. The bomb can glide up to 60 miles from it release point which keeps the launching aircraft outside of most ground based air defense envelopes. (Of course the first wave of attacks would take out the air defenses.) The SDB weighs only 285 lbs so one plane can carry lots of them. A B-2 can carry up to 216 of them on one mission, each programmed to a different target that the plane only has to pass within 60 miles distance to attack the target.

Due to the small size of each bomb and the extreme accuracy of the bomb, collateral damage is greatly reduced.

There is a reason why Obama took the recent action that he did regarding nukes. Basically, we don't really need nukes so much.

So if Obama should strike Iran the RW will complain that the strike was too weak.

[Cheap_Trick]

36. STFU gramps. Your input has been heard and disregarded.

Get a high colonic and chill.

We got this.

[bamacrat]

38. Because that would cause our economy to tank and the price of gas to skyrocket.

What a dumbass, a war with Iran wouldn't be like Iraq or Afghanistan, they have an army, one we could defeat but at what cost seems not to matter to him.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

40. We already got a gun in each hand ...

... one aimed at Iraq, the other at Afghanistan.

What will we use to pick up and shoot a third one? Or maybe I shouldn't ask.

:hi:

[Betty]

41. no one cares what you think

you irrelevant senile asshole.

[Blue Owl]

42. Hey John remember your "cone of silence?"

Step back into it -- we the people aren't buying your warmongering ramblings.

[Zorra]

43. Sen. McCain should retire. He sounds more like Zell Miller every day. nt

[Posteritatis]

45. If that's figuratively I'd hate to see him being literal-minded. (nt)

[chrisa]

46. Imagine if he got elected.

Seems as though we have dodged a bullet.

Someone should tell John that when you're going to pull the trigger, you should ensure that the gun isn't pointed at yourself.

[Strelnikov_]

50. April 1914

The Germans have the Schlieffen Plan, a desire to annex more of France, and to become the dominant European power.

France has Plan 17 and a desire to reclaim territory lost to Prussia in 1870.

Austro-Hungary is a fading empire trying to reclaim lost glory.

Russia wants to erase the military disaster of 1905 and prove that they are still a great power.


The common thread, they were all prepared for conflict and fully expected it to occur.

[Delphinus]

53. Go away, Mr. McCain.

Or go into battle, man to man.

[sufrommich]

54. Is there nobody this man will not pander to? nt

[Democat]

55. McCain is senile.

Sad.

[wordpix]

56. also super rich & out of touch with working citizens who don't want endless war

ass :puke:

[AngryOldDem]

60. And he wonders why he didn't win the election. n./t

[atomic-fly]

61. anyone got a link that explains who sells them the technology

in the first place. I think we need to start there.