You losers are taking one word as if he said "lets start the bombardment of Iran today".

It is an option that should be used as a last resort, last resort, last resort, there, that feels better.

But it should be put out there, so that they understand there will be conseqeunces to any dumb-ass actions by them.

Nothing "off the table" said out loud even with NO intent on actually doing it, acts as more of a deterrent than holding hands and singing Kumbya and sticking your heads in the sand (pun intended).

To all yall fired up liberals mad at Romney… Here are a few quotes for you:

HILLARY CLINTON – October 16, 2007

"Clinton said she would use unspecified incentives to encourage Iran to renounce sponsorship of terrorism and its desire for nuclear weapons, and to play a constructive role in stabilizing Iraq.

But she made clear she would use military action as a last resort to prevent Iran from obtaining atomic weapons."

BARACK OBAMA – October 13, 2007

"I think Iran understands what military threats we pose. You know, they're not surprised that we could strike them, and strike them hard," Obama said. "What we haven't suggested in any way is what advantages they would have in acting more responsibly in the region. That's been the missing ingredient."

Hell – we could quote every candidate (except for Kucinich and Rob Paul) with the SAME CNN headline. Yall libs just want to pile on Romney.

It's one of them fancy words… hypocrisy.

Henry
The left will not research the truth…afterall – they saw the Michael Moore and Al Gore movies….and they were all "accurate" – one side of the story is all thats ever needed…liberals…please use this as an example to research for yourself….

Hmmm… I'm currently a supporter of Fred Thompson… but perhaps I need to consider giving Gov. Romney a chance, since it seems he would be willing to do what needs to be done to protect America from Iran.

dear republicans,

Please choose Romney as your nominee.

Pixie (and others):

If you don't mind Iran having Nuclear Weapons you are missing something. Do you know what a Nuclear Weapon is or what it does?

You haven't heard Ahmadinejad's railing against the U.S.?

Who are we to tell Iran they cannot have Nukes? We are a people intent on protecting our families and children from Madmen with Nukes.

Any candidate who is not willing to consider stopping Iran from getting Nukes, including a military option if necessary must not be President.

ThirstyJon

Pixie (and others):

If you don't mind Iran having Nuclear Weapons you are missing something. Do you know what a Nuclear Weapon is or what it does?

You haven't heard Ahmadinejad's railing against the U.S.?

Who are we to tell Iran they cannot have Nukes? We are a people intent on protecting our families and children from Madmen with Nukes.

Any candidate who is not willing to consider stopping Iran from getting Nukes, including a military option if necessary must not be President.

I wonder how gung ho Mitt Romney would be to take military action if his five sons were in the military. Mitt Romney said his sons are serving the country by helping him run for the Presidency.

Mitt Romney has no experience in geopolitical issues. He "really can't lay it out exactly", not because he isn't trying, it is because he simply does not know what to do. It is called a lack of experience geopolitically and militarily! May be he should ask his bishop for advice, or the Prophet of his church?

New post so maybe CNN will post it?

Mitt Romney has no experience in geopolitical issues. He "really can't lay it out exactly", not because he isn't trying, it is because he simply does not know what to do. It is called a lack of experience geopolitically and militarily! May be he should ask his bishop for advice, or the Prophet of his church?

Mitt Romney has no experience in geopolitical issues. He "really can't lay it out exactly", not because he isn't trying, it is because he simply does not know what to do. It is called a lack of experience geopolitically and militarily! May be he should ask his bishop for advice, or the Prophet of his church?

Why do comments disappear from CNN blogs? I have notice on more than one occasion (however ironically on Mitt Romney blogs) that comments are there. Then within a few hours they are gone – this is strange

Well, at least the Romney fans know what they're voting for-MORE money down the tubes…and probably the start of WW111, just what Bushites want. Stop the madness! For a Christian country, we sure skip over the part that says "Love You Enemy," "treat others as you would be treated'" and turn the other cheek." As one of my Brethren bumper stickers reads "When Jesus said 'Love your Enemy, I don't think he meant to kill them."

it's get them before they get us. we're waaaaaaaaaaaaay too nice in this country. why, we even let Isalmic terrorist camps exist in the New York countryside (Islamburg). Of course we need to keep an eye on that little man in the members' only jacket. We may even need to invade his little world

Maybe we should just send a bunch of door-knockers over there to spread the word first.

First your kids to enlist in the army then we talk of war with Iran! Untill then, Romney just shut up and sit down coz you are not gonna be the president of united states!

I'll bombard your ass if you touch Iran. You need to present yourself and show proof. I DO NOT give you permission to attack Iran with OUR tax dollars. Period.

The American people should be very afraid.
These morons are starting the campaign to invade Iran, and possible Cuba. They have obviously received word from God that they are to lead a new crusade of regime changes of all the worrisome countries. Before they finish we will need a draft and, God forbid, a tax increase.
Maybe some country will decide that the U.S. has WMDs and needs a regime change.

Hey Henry Tucker, Ga,

As if Fox News doesn't have your agenda.

Keep whining.

What's the genocide that Iran's committed exactly?
This is frankly ridiculous. The republican primary race has become a contest to see who could issue the most threats. Meanwhile, this Iran that we're so busy demonizing hasn't attacked anyone in centuries, while we have invaded 2 countries unprovoked twice in the past 6 years.
Who's the bigger threat again?

Didn't we learn anything from WWI and WWII? [Adolf] Ahmadinejad needs to know we won't stand idly by while he acquires nukes.

All options must be left on the table.

Romney is right.

Romney, Romney, Romney,

Do you know what the Book of Mormon says about starting wars, or taking "the first offense" by invading countries. Yeah, it's not good. Just, you know, one Mormon to another.

Romney is no better than Bush. Anyone who wants to start WW111 now that we have nuclear weapons is crazy. No one will win and we will wipe ourselves off the planet.

I don't think it's nice diplomacy to threaten other counties by telling them we will bomb them.

Bush the Christian
"I will kill you in the mane of GOD"

Bin Laden the Islamic
" I will kill you in the name of Allah"

Romney the Mormon
" I will kill you in the name of God"

Me the agnostic
" I'm not killing nobody"

Maybe we get rid of religion we get rid of war.

If these morons want to fight, put them in boxing gloves, put them in a cage, put it on pay per view and let them beat themselves to death. The winner can then go to church or synagoge and pray for the loser.

here´s a suggestion: mitt put about 20 grenades in your vest and fly to teheran, there´s your "bombardment".

Well it's hard to determine what Mitt will do since he changes his mind on positions on a daily basis. But, if the Mittster decides to attack yet another country (Iran) perhaps he could round up all those illegals put them in uniform and promise them citizenship if they fight the war for us. No problem about them actually getting citizenship, Mitt will simply change his mind!

And Henry the headlines don't change the message! The right wingnut does it all the time!

It's our nation that is a pariah thnks to Bush and it is Bush who should be indicted as a war criminal.

This guy just insulted Obama the other day! I could not imagine he can do that while he is at the peak of his campaign and that is enough reason not to vote for him. I will vote for Obama, he has what I need!

I say Go Obama!

my kids and grandkids your right they will not see there middle age life,with this nut.another war if hes elected,also all these repubbs are for war jumping to pull the trigger once there in office.

I don't understand how someone could NOT have these options on the table. That is what Romney is saying. The options are on the table. He is not trigger-happy. "strict economic and diplomatic sanctions" Please someone explain why military options should not be on the table???

In keeping with Republican values, Mitt Romney suggests that we illegally attack yet another sovereign nation because they don’t do exactly as the Republicans say. That’s nice. Thank God that he has no chance of being elected…What a sad little clown.

But don’t worry Mr. Romney; as soon as we dump our failed President, failed Secretary of State and the rest of this tragic, failed administration along with our failed Republican mindset, we can get on with the business of diplomacy. Diplomacy is our only hope with Iran and it is the correct path to take. We, as Americans, should be a guiding light of progress for the world and not, as Republicans believe, a flame thrower of destruction.

Hey Henry:
What's inaccurate about the headline?
"..open to bombardment"
+ his quote:
"…number of options from blockade to bombardment."

Keep on fighting the good fight against "liberal" CNN (the Multi-billion $ corp that airs Glenn Beck everynight.)

People can criticize CNN for lots of things: particularly, unsubstantive + sensationis news. Liberal? uh.

But hey, if perpetuating the myth of the "liberal media" helps feed your self-righteousness, keep it up buddy. Obviously you have nothing better to do.

As for Romney + the rest of the Bomb Iran Now Candidates (R-All, except RP), I pray they're just pandering to the big contingent of social/political conservatives who apparently think it's very Christ-like to wage unprovoked attacks on foreign countries.

The more this guy opens his mouth, the more ridiculous he sounds. He never makes sense. He says whatever he thinks will appeal to the base. It is very insincere and frankly, quite unnerving. I am so tired of Mitt Romney and his flip-flopping.

In response to Henry- "Romney against Iran having nuclear weapons" is not a headline. Is anyone FOR Iran having nuclear weapons? CNN is pointing out something important in the headline. When someone just casually suggests "bombardment" of Iran, it should be noticed.

The US Government is so corrupt and hell bent on military action for oil, Israel and war profiteering that it doesn't matter what the general population think. There is NO IMMINENT THREAT to the USA so WHY ARE WE INVADING OTHER NATIONS? Iraq was BS. Afghanistan was BS. We know this now so the only question is why do we put up with this crap any more?

The US Government has become the enemy. The media is useless. We The People need to band together and form our own independent government that adheres to the Constitution and not the interests of powerful lobby groups.

Get informed. Get politically active. Don't listen to the biased media.

The US Government is so corrupt and hell bent on military action for oil, Israel and war profiteering that it doesn't matter what the general population think. There is NO IMMINENT THREAT to the USA so WHY ARE WE INVADING OTHER NATIONS? Iraq was BS. Afghanistan was BS. We know this now so the only question is why do we put up with this crap any more?

The US Government has become the enemy. The media is useless. We The People need to band together and form our own independent government that adheres to the Constitution and not the interests of powerful lobby groups.

Get informed. Get politically active. Don't listen to the biased media.

ya, and you put your sons in the military first. I remember one of his sons getting arrogant when being interviewed that he is happy he is not in IraQ. Now the father want military actions against Iran. So who is gonna go there?

now I know who NOT TO VOTE FOR

At the 10/19 Detroit debate, moderator Chris Matthews asked the contenders if they believed a future president possessed the the authority to attack Iran without Congressional approval.

Apparently unaware that the Constitution gives only Congress the power to declare war, the GOP candidates answered, by and large, yes. They could attack Iran, if it posed an imminent threat, without consulting the Congress.

Mitt Romney said he'd have to check with his lawyers. But he vowed to "take action necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons." By my recollection, all the rest of the candidates said pretty much the same thing.

Only Ron Paul, as has so often been the case in the debates, forcefully dissented. "Why don't we just open up the Constitution and read it!" said an exasperated Paul. "The idea that Iran is on the verge of an imminent attack is just preposterous!"

He summed up the foreign policy views of his competitors thusly: "This is just war propaganda!"

That is exactly what this ticker is regarding Iran, PROPAGANDA.

Ron Paul will start brining the troops home immediately.

We cannot go around the world forcing ourselves on the next enemy.

Come to your senses people.

War is Bad.
Your brother, sister, father, mother, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa, neice, nephew, husband and wife will DIE in war.

Ron Paul is the only hope for us…..

http://www.ronpaul2008.com

Lest we forget.. the Iran of today is a product of US policy. Take some time and learn some history. The US had a direct hand in overthrowing Iran's leadership. Iran rebelled and overthrew that goon squad, and was replaced by an even stronger set of religious zealots. Then came the hostages. Then came the US, overthrowing the leadership of Iraq, sticking Saddam in power. Saddam then started a lengthy was with Iran, funded and backed by the USA.. including supplying chemical weapons technology to Iraq. Saddam then went wacko. Invaded Kuwait after the US was not clear to him that they would retribute (they likely wanted an excuse to take him out and let him invade). Then comes Iraq Gulf War #1. Bush#1 castrates Saddam, but leaves him in charge. Then comes 9/11. Here comes the fake intelligence. The invasion and occupation of Iraq. Now we wonder why Iran is pissed off, feels insecure, and has active weapons programs?

Pixie, It is nice to know that everyone in the south is not a igornant warmonger. Maybe one day the poorest part of the country will evenually come out of the deer woods and educate themselves on the republican party and figure out they just hide behind religion to get the votes from the people of the south. The republicans have only the wealthiest Americans interest in mind so that leaves a majority of the people in the south out.

And this the the "values" guy who critized Hiliary Clinton? What army is he planning on using? Bet it won't be one with his children in it, it never is.

Why don't they just send out teams of Mormon missionaries on bicycles? They seemed to have Las Vegas pretty well-covered when I lived there in 1994-95.

Romney has a problem … he has to pander to the religous right and now seems to have decided to pander to the neocons as well. The interesting question is: what can be believed about anything he says? A social moderate when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts, a liberal state, he has now positioned himself as hardcore religious right and hardcore neocon. If he really believes what he is now saying, he is very dangerous man … a Bush with slicked back hair. Or if, as is more likely, he is just another political opportunist, we can recall the punch line of joke every man has heard: "We've already established what you are, we are just haggling over the price." Small wonder so many of us dipair over our politics.

Pixie, Please make informed comments. Romney is not a "warmonger." Do a little research into his platform. I doubt you know little about him, besides what your hippy friends (hence your name Pixie) have said or what political pundits say on tv.

Winning the minds and hearts,one bomb at a time.Iraq should just be further proof that this credo will NEVER work.
There's no need for open,empty threats.Al that serves is to further fuel hatred of the United States and continue the "fear mongering" republican agenda that has been a catastrophic failure.Iran knows that option is always on the table.This is just a repeat of the Bush/Cheney legacy of death and destruction while our children don't get the education they deserve,our elderly are warehoused,our bridges,tunnels and roads collapse and health care is unaffordable.
This tactic can only work when the rest of the global community believes the threat is imminent and unites to stop it.This is just more fear mongering by republicans.9/11 campaigning under another guise.
The damage that our country and our people have suffered from the neglect is tantamount to a form of genocide.Bush should be indicted for homicidal neglect!

The Mittster oughta stick his saber somewhere where it can't rattle.

Wow Romney the plastic man speaks again. What an idiot

this nut is just another dick cheney george bush tied together.he needs to go back to salt lake city and join his other wives.

Clicking on video take you to unrelated video. Please correct.

Mr. America supports bombardment of course, however Values Voters have said that they will never vote for someone that would let law "stop a beating heart." So if Mitt is willing to bomb, then the Values Voters won't vote for him, correct? Or do some beating hearts not count?

Get a clue Pixie.

We can't exactly stop Pakistan and Israel from getting nukes because they already have them. The point is to stop them. Once they get one, then they can do what they want.

Iran has threatened the US and our allies on a number of occasions.

The man isn't 'warmongering', he's being a realist. Saying we won't ever consider military action is just stupid.

Iran not threatening us, Pixie!? They've found Iranian materials used in IED's. They may not threaten us as a nation, but they sure have threatened Israel who is our ally and helped kill our soldiers.

Controlling nuclear weapons is our responsibility. We can't allow everyone to have them or we'd have nuclear holocausts occuring. Wouldn't Saddam have used them against Iran in the Iran/Iraq war? What if Sudan had them and rebels got a hold of them? How about Hezbollah? Maybe a palestinian extremist using it against Israel? What if the bomb in the twin towers back in the 90's had been nuclear rather than conventional?

We have the right to protect ourselves from them and control the proliferation of a weapon so terrible it could kill hundreds of thousands and render the land completely useless. You think global warming is bad? Try a nuclear winter….

What WON'T someone say to get elected President if they think it will help them.

As desperate as the world is right now for energy I think there should be a world wide ban on nuclear weapons and that all existing weapons should be used to make fuel for nuclear power plants.

One has to wonder why we are so loathe to have countries like Iran attain a nuclear weapon when they have not even threatened us (threatening Israel does not count), but we do assist other countries attain nuclear weapons that aren't democracies, or are explicity communist. And for those countries that DO have nuclear weapons and DO harbor terrorists, we GIVE them money. Whoever is president from this point forward can bomb Iran all they want, and it won't be called 'war', because we branded basically their whole army a terrorist organization.

Henry Tucker, Ga

Are you serious? The bottom line is that he is open to bombing Iran.

Why do you insist on "softening the blow" to try to hide the facts. That's one of the main issues in American politics today, not to mention the media but you seem to encourage it.

Transparency is a good thing, especially if we're talking about going to war and making a preemptive strike.

Wallace

Lets nuke em, and mecca too while we're at it!

http://romneyfacts.com/redblue.php

Go Huckabee!!!

I support a Nuclear free Iran. Tough talk must be used against Iran before it's too late (and they blow themselves up with Isreal). I think Romney has the strength and wisom to handle the situation as it comes up. Stop being so mean to him CNN!!!!! He's the best candidate out there. I'm voting for Mitt 2008!

Mr. Romney you are ridiculous! Mr. Ahmadinejad has not killed anybody that anybody is aware of and certainly if he killed while in the Iranian military not enough to be genocide. United States on the other hand continues to kill in large numbers…

Romney oughta ram that saber up his body part where the sun doesn't shine

No wonder the rest of the world hates us; no comment.

Typical MittSpeak.

He has five able-bodied sons and not one has ever served in the military.

Amazing how these tough-talking warhawks are so ready to send someone elses kid off to war.

This man is BAD news.

“I really can't lay out exactly how that would be done, but we have a number of options, from blockade to bombardment of some kind…"

Romeny can't really lay it out, because he has ZERO military experience.

In addition he has ZERO international experience. He may be good at building a bank account, but what good is money, if it is nuked?

Sorry, should have included the phrase: {[Iran's] "exploratory nuclear weapons program"}, in my comment.

Hey, Pixie…here's a good chance to put several million illegals to good use.

"bombardment of some kind"…that doesn't sound too encouraging…

Until Romney has at least 3 of his son's in Iraq-he should be the last person talking about going to war. Who is the US to dictate to other countries?

I'm privately glad that he offered his opinion to help with my voting decisions. One more person to cross off presidential candidate list. For the sake of the United States' and its welfare, I do wish that he hadn't tried to irritate another Middle East country. There are enough other countries' leaders and citizens who are opposed to the United States attempt to "make a difference".

Iran is threatinging us with the possible-likely-almost certain- gathering threat of a covert military-terrorist-against our 1% of U.S. families' legacy interests.

Pakistan, India, Israel, Russia, France, Brazil, our "superfund" waste-sites we'd rather not have to worry our little heads about those possibilities!

Is it me or has Mitt Romney received a disproportionate amount of coverage on the Ticker this week?

to clarify i meant a parade while in iran, getting ready to come over here.

Pixie, Murfreesboro, TN

dont be stupid. when ahmadenajajajadjajd came to speak at columbia, there was a parade and on a missile were the words "death to america." Im by no means the smartest man on the block, but that sounds like a threat to me. Cant be said enough if the "islamo extremist political party" have it their way we in the west who dont want to practice islam will be killed, right after the athiests, and gays.

How ironic (and hypocritical) that Romney wants to try Ahmadinejad under the UN Genocide convention -when he stated last week that he wants to disband the UN! I guess, for the moment, it suits his agenda. At least the UN had it right when they said Iraq had no WMDs -but that didn't fit with any Republican agenda, either.

Romney is supported by both parties in Congress. Clinton is said all options are on the table as well as majority leaders in both chambers of congress.

Did I miss an election? When did the world decide that the United States was the sole decider in who gets to lead a country, whole gets to develop nuclear power and who gets to develop weapons of total destruction as the US is. As in the lead up to the Iraq war, the United Nations is questioning the US intelligence and conclusions.

You have become a very dangerous country!!

OH, JUST GREAT. ANOTHER TRIGGER HAPPY WANNA BE WAR LORD. THIS KIND OF TALK SURE HELPS WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE??

If Iran was intereseted in peaceful nuclear power they wouldn't be so insistent on enriching their own fuel.
Israel will deal with Iran before we do, they can't afford to let Iran have a nuke.

Romney should stop watching FOX news, maybe then he'll think for himself instead of following propoganda

Completely ridiculous.

With the Clinton surplus spent and billions added to our national debt, exactly what we don't need to yet another theatre of war. Isn't Iraq and Afganistan enough without yet another war? Romney is an idiot.

A friend of mine from High School, a jewish scholar, one told me that according to judaic scripture, the end of the world will come after the bear and the eagle make peace, and it will happen in the middle east. Well, the Bear, i.e., the USSR, and the Eagle, i.e, the USA, have made peace. Now, we are seeing this powerderkeg happen in the middle east…and now its let's bomb bomb bomb Iran! Guess my friend was right. God help us all.

"Who are we to dictate who and who does not have a nuclear weapon? "

—

Perhaps your neighbor in Murfreesboro, TN will start stock piling assault rifles, grenades, and other weaponry. And perhaps they'll tell you and others to keep off their land and how they hate the "Jewish" neighbor down the street.

Yeah – you just keep quiet and don't complain or do anything about it. Better to not get involved. In fact, plant a garden so you will have flowers to lay at the doorstep when your Jewish neighbor is murdered.

What a great neighbor and friend, you are Pixie!

Can we just 'bombard' Romney instead? And all the other warmongerers while we're at it.

Once again, this is getting so old. Who are we to dictate who and who does not have a nuclear weapon? I don't hear Romney getting shrill about Pakistan's nukes, or Israel's for that matter. Just because the right has officially sanctioned Iran as an enemy of the USA does not make it so. You never hear about Iran threatening the USA, we're the ones doing all the threatening. Maybe Romney could also explain what military we will be attacking Iran with, since ours is currently stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Are we going to start hiring foreign conscripts to fight in new wars for us?

It's sad to know that with talk like this, my kids probably won't see their adult years.

Nice headline CNN!

Romney said, "“I really can't lay out exactly how that would be done, but we have a number of options, from blockade to bombardment of some kind….[F]rankly, I think it's unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons."

A more responsible headline: "Romney against Iran having nuclear weapons"

No – that might be too fair-handed. "Romney to bomb Iran" – yeah that better pushes your agenda, CNN.