Hillary Clinton: 'I'd obliterate Iran. Possibly'

What with the anti-war movement forming a huge part of the Democratic voting base, you'd think that both leadership candidates would be keeping the gung-ho mentality to an absolute minimum. Think about it. What would that nice Bill Maher say?

Seems that this internal memo must have slipped Hillary Clinton's grasp, however. After arguing against the notion of political candidates 'dealing with hypotheticals', Mrs C swept that all to one side during an interview with ABC'S Good Morning, America, when she stated that the USA had the ability to 'totally obliterate Iran'. Not so much Good Morning, America, then ... more Chilling Portent Of A Forthcoming Nuclear Holocaust, America.

What would provoke such a statement? We'll let Hillary do the talking. Here's what she said:

“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel). In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. That’s a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic.''

Guess who immediately shared their thoughts on these comments? Well ... apart from millions of cornflake-spluttering Americans? Barack Obama, that's who, dismissing the outburst thus:

“One of the things that we’ve seen over the last several years is a bunch of talk using words like ‘obliterate' .It doesn’t actually produce good results. And so I’m not interested in sabre rattling.”

Obviously Obama doesn't have time to deal with such hyperbole. He's far too busy drawing up plans to clusterbomb North Korea six times over should they even look at him in a funny way.

Maybe.

Written by C J Davies on 23 Apr 2008 1:11 AM. Permalink