Elliott Abrams: Iranian People Wouldn’t Oppose A Military Attack On Their Country (Wha ?!?!)

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Elliott Abrams: Iranian People Wouldn’t Oppose A Military Attack On Their Country

This afternoon, Elliott Abrams, Deputy National Security Adviser under President Bush, appeared on Fox News to discuss U.S. policy towards Iran. Abrams pled guilty to misleading Congress about the Iran-Contra scandal under Reagan and handled Iran policy under Bush.

When asked if any recent President has had “a successful strategy with Iran,” Abrams implicitly admitted his own decades-long failure. “No, I don’t think we’ve really had any successful strategies with Iran,” Abrams responded. “And you know, meanwhile they’ve been building up their nuclear program and missile program.” But Obama recently established the first high-level diplomatic engagement with Iran in 30 years, which produced results quicker than expected.

But Abrams, “the neocon’s neocon,” still clings to his long-running desire to bomb Iran. And to justify his view that military action against Iran is the prudent course, Abram told Fox News that the Iranian people would accept it:

FOX: 59 percent of respondents to our Fox News poll say that force should be used. How would Tehran react to that?

ABRAMS: It’s a very big question, Alisyn. My own view is that most Iranians now — after June, after the stealing of the election — would not rally around the flag. People used to say that — that if there’s an attack on Iran, you know the population is going to get patriotic. But that’s what Americans would do. I don’t know that it’s what Iranians are going to do, considering the way that regime is hated in Iran.

Watch it: ... http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/02/elliott-abrams-iranian-people-wouldn%e2%80%99t-oppose-a-military-attack-on-their-country/

[SalmonChantedEvening]

1. By all means, let's ask an Utter Failure what we should do next!

He'll show the way! :banghead:

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Ugh.

He and Perle and Wolfowitz and Darth need to go away for good. :puke:

[Jim__]

3. Neocons are clowns - n/t

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. How does someone that stupid reach................

such high levels of government?
I don't care how much someone hates their leaders, once an outside force attacks their soil all eyes and hatred are on the invader.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. HE'S not that stupid, he's hoping WE are.

And given the last ten years of American politics, you can see why he might actually believe this would work.

I hope he's wrong about that.

We are an awfully stupid nation at this point in history.

[dysfunctional press]

5. "they would greet us as liberators, and throw flowers at our feet..."

i've heard that tune before, somewhere...

[gratuitous]

6. Well, you run along and do just that, Mr. Abrams

Unless you don't think Poppy will pardon you again, you felon.

[AllentownJake]

7. The entire Bush Administration

I went to bed every nigh praying that France would bomb us.

:sarcasm: I need to include this because I've been called an American Hater twice today.

[pscot]

8. They'll welcome us with flowers

If they can find any unexploded ordinance to hang them on.

[Thickasabrick]

11. That is exactly what ran through my mind as I read the headline...

it's like deja-vue or the twilight zone.

[busybl]

13. me too. yeah they'll throw flowers.

[htuttle]

9. He needs to quit the sauce

[Alamuti Lotus]

12. well, I wouldn't oppose a military attack on Elliott Abrams, so.......

[TexasObserver]

14. Wasn't he convicted of a felony in Iran Contra?!

[daleo]

15. Sure, people like to be attacked

Bombed, burnt, maimed, their children pounded into bloody pulp.

This guy's a liar and a monster.

[niyad]

16. WHY is anyone paying attention to this delusional, lying SOS

[Flaneur]

17. Abrams is a war criminal for his deeds in Central America.

And he hasn't changed his stripes. He should be in prison.

[alfredo]

18. He started off a socialist, just like Reagan.

[WestSeattle2]

19. For godsakes, the Iranian people would react as any other

people would when they are under attack. Who the hell does this idiot think he's talking to?!

Oh, Fox News. Well, he was talking to idiots. It was a love fest.

If anyone actually believes that the Iranian people would not turn nationalistic and defensive in a heartbeat, following an attack, they haven't studied history.

With characters like Elliott Abrams in the administration, it's easy to see why the Bush/Cheney administration was such a colossal and unparalleled failure.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Absolutely, just like they didn't resist in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan...oh, wait.