(CNN) – Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that her comments that the United States could “totally obliterate” Iran if it made a nuclear attack on Israel had been an attempt to return the United States to Cold War style deterrence.
Responding to accusations from Barack Obama's campaign that she was engaging in the sort of hypothetical thinking she had criticized him for, Clinton said the situations were not equivalent, since the threat from Iran was all too real. “I think in this particular instance of Iran it's a question not of what might be on or off the table concerning a tactical or strategic decision but an effort on my part to get back to what worked during the Cold War which was deterrence,” she told reporters in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
“…Iran is feeling quite powerful. They have been empowered by the actions of the last seven years and they must know there are lines that the world will not let them cross.”
Earlier Tuesday, Clinton told ABC’s Good Morning America that "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran [if it attacked 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," she said. "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."
At last week’s presidential debate, she said an attack on Israel would bring "massive retaliation" from the United States.
On Tuesday, Obama told ABC that her latest comments amounted to “saber rattling” on the day of the crucial Pennsylvania primary.
His campaign said her comments contradicted her statement at a summer debate, when she criticized Obama for saying he might take unilateral action in Pakistan if there was solid intelligence about the location of al Qaeda members.
Clinton had said then that it was unhelpful for candidates to “engage in hypotheticals” or to signal strategic possibilities as Pakistan was potentially in upheaval.
On Tuesday in Conshohocken, she said her statements were intended to send a strong message of intent. “I want Iran to know, number one, it is not in their interest to obtain nuclear weapons and number two, we will work to deter them from using such weapons by making it clear that there would be a very high price to pay,” she said.
She added that it was vital for Iran to “understand unequivocally” continued U.S. opposition to their desire to attain nuclear weapons, and that if they were to attack Israel or the United States “any way to destabilize the world, that they would have to take the consequences.”
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Sure... With as much leadership and commitment as her husband had in Somalia...
Dear Bill Clinton,
I’ll tell you why Barack can’t close the deal. It’s because he's up against a former president and his wife, who play dirty tricks 24/7. He can’t close the deal because he tells the truth, and he's battling notorious liars. He can't close the deal because this is America, not Russia. He can't close the deal because if he does people will say he's cheating, and that matters to some people. He can't close the deal because if he really attacks Hillary, people will say he's beating up on a woman (as you have said in this campaign). But none of this matters to you, because you are the lowest scumbag of the earth. You won't be happy until you've sucked all the blood out of this process, because you know in your heart, that your wife in not the CHOICE of decent people.
Got it? Good.
God this woman scares me!!!!!!
MEET THE NEW BOSS! SAME AS THE OLD BOSS!
Hillary Clinton 2008!!!!
Obama would have NO clue!
Wow, like Bush– like Hillary!! Another war-monger in disguise! I guess the draft would be re-introduced.
AGREED
this is why we need Clinton – she is realistic and pragmatic.
we need a moderate – not a die hard liberal like obama that just wants to "talk" to iran
Took you long enough CNN to get this up. Come on, there was a time you were 1st with all or most news. At any rate, even if this were true, Clinton should not be saying this publicly.
republican in disguise..way to go Hill.
cannot stand you any longer.
Hillary takes a tough stand, BHO wimps out, no surprise there.
So McCain and Clinton want to bomb Iran. I think instead I'll take choice C, but thanks for playing.
More sabre-rattling for political gain. If we spent just 10% of the military budget on diplomat efforts, we could solve so many of the world's conflicts. Thank God for brave men like former President Carter. He, like Obama, understands that conflict resolution begins with talking to you neighbors Multi-millionaire Hillary doesn't get it.
Dear god she is nuke happy, she is going to start WW3.
Be very careful!
HRC has imagined sniper fire! She just might imagine a nuclear attack and launch another war!
Would she read the NIE this time before going to war?
And doesn't the NIE already say Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons?
Is Hillary illiterate?
bush=Clinton
Obama 08
Hey Hillary, it is not time to beat the war drumms... you know we are all sick and tired of war ...plus there is no proof Iran has nuclear bomb plus there is no evidence they are preparing any kind of wars...so stop playing Bush like of games. I can't wait until you are defeated defeated and goneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....
DO WE REALLY NEED THE FEMALE VERSION OF BUSH???C'MON PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leave the button to Johnny. They KNOW he'll push it!!!
What a hypocrite. Have you ever even been to Iran you idiot? Most of the people in Iran are exactly like you and me. A nuclear strike on Iran would be RIDICULOUS. Do even know how many innocent people you would kill? Suppose Iran did attack Israel with nuclear weapons, you can't just retaliate against the powerful elite of Iran by attacking its innocent citizens back! Hillary doesnt understand anything!
This is the same person who has refused to answer very simple questions because she doesn't believe in hypothetical questions. Now, she is talking about obliterating a country?! The many faces of Hillary Clinton continue to rear their ugly heads!!!
OK. I get. You have an election to comeback on but there is pandering and then there is downright craziness. This comment clearly falls into the latter and would come back to haunt her if she ever was to become President of the Free World.
Good for her, shows she would be tough.
Before any of you bleeding heart liberals AKA Obama supporter's attack my comment... This doesn't mean she would be like Bush. She's basically saying we're not going tolerate any nuclear attacks on our allies.
The thought of Obama being our president and something like this happening, scares me. He would be EXTREMELY laxed on foreign policy issues and let one of our allies or the US get attacked.
Big talk from a little woman. She is no Margret Thatcher.
Anything to get your husband race comment off the headline news, huh Hillary. You're a piece of work.
Obama 08
The last thing we need is a nuclear war. She should not be president. I wonder what gas would cost if we nuked an oil rich country. Would China and Russia be happy that the US nuked their respective oil supply?
Would China enter the fray and nuke the US?
Oh..and in order for Iran to nuke someone..dont they need a nuclear weapon. They are no where near such a weapon.
Politics as usual..but the dangerous kind.
Sound like a republican slogan. BOMB, BOMB, BOMB IRAN. This is the same politican that said she was going to end the present war. Now she wants to start another one before she gets into office. If she calls this a fighter, God help us. These people have been fighting each other for over 3000. They are use to fighting. What is the biggest joke on us is Iran beat them and we can even beat the loser. Now we see the real HRC.
This woman is so confuse she does not know what she is talking about. She is saying anything that contradicts her past stance. He problem is she will say any thing and do any thing to fullfil her ambition. I am not worried about what clintons do or say, my only concern is they can pursuade those who are less educated like people in Ohio and Pennsylania which very danger thing. They did it in electing Bush for two terms, I just hope they do not do it again, we will see tonight.
Threats, threaths, threats. Your husband was busy with Monica in the White House when the millitant forces in the middle east were planning their evil attack on America. We don't need you (at any time of day or night) to repeat history.
Clintons talk big, and act small.
Day by day, Hillary sounds more and more like a Republican. She should do the Dems a favor, and go join McBush.
Hillary is BETTER than her campaign, having said that
go Obama
HOW WOULD SHE KNOW WHAT IRAN IS DOING?
SHE DOESN'T READ THE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS.
NEWS PAPERS MAYBE?
Not even in the White house and already declaring war!.. gheez...more and more everyday she sounds she's working for the repubs..yeah yeah ok.. i get it.. u are trying to sound tough.. and tougher than Obama.. but dont write a check that your azz can't cash!!!
CNN ,
IN MODERATION EVERYDAY?
oh, what should any president if Iran attacked Israel, just say, oh my
jees
I'm not attacking Clinton's view on this situation, but I think Obama is correct. He was attacked by Clinton's campaign for his remarks concerning Pakistan. Yet, in a similar hypothetical, Clinton has no problem stating what she would do. This is a fine example of her being hypocritical.
She can attempt to distinguish the two things, but there really is no distinction. Clinton apparently believes that she is the only one that is permitted to plan for potential threats and to suggest solutions. Ironically, she regularly attacks Obama for only having words, but no solutions. This is another example of her being hypocritical.
SOUNDS JUST LIKE BUSH & MCCAIN.
Hillary please, please go back to the Republican party. The Democratic party deserves better than you.
Great Hillary, send us to another war. It's not your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters off to get killed !
I think YOU HILLARY needs to be on the front line so you know what it's like. So you can see our people getting killed that you sent there. You're a murderer Hillary and you make me Sick !
...But I thought she said she was AGAINST the war. Well, she did vote for it. For the war, against the war, no one knows where she really stands, on this or anything else.
This is an insanely wild and reckless way to conduct foreign policy. Making pronouncements like this only makes matters worse. There is nothing worse than threatening innocent people for the will and deeds of the leadership. She hasn't even spoken of diplomatic efforts to avoid things getting to this level. I suppose this is supposed to make her look tough. It makes her look foolish.
ELECT HILLARY AND THE PRICE OF GAS $6.00 A GALLON.
"Obama would have NO clue!"
Oh yeah, it takes real brains to say we would totally obliterate Iran! A real thinker, she!
Silly Hilly is almost as crazzzy as Silly Billy!!!!
The Democrats are paying a high price for Hillary Clinton....time for her to go....please....maybe we need a woman...not this one....never this one....we need one who knows the truth...and was not attacked by invisible snipers....wait...she misspoke
agreed,
Why is talking to somebody a bad thing.
Threats only work for so long, and then they don't.
Talking always works when both parties have something to gain, and threats don't work when you have nothing to lose.
Think about it.
Are you trying to stir Iran to attack Isreal? Would we rather be in Peace and convince Iran through Dialogue to sheat their sword or do we want to threaten and dare them? What do we gain in daring them seeiing how our troops have fared in Afghanistan and Iraq? Hillary should be careful with her fear mongering. All this say anything to win should not be interpreted by other countries as animosty from America. She should remember she was a first lady. First she threatened China; now it is Iran!
Please Hillary, we are not interested in more wars.
That is just what we need to do is piss off Iran, the way our Military is so wore out WE WOULD BE SCREWED if they decided to do something That is what a presidential candidate needs to do is to talk like a no brain bonehead.
Then she can pick up where George McBush leaves off killing our service members.GOD BLESS THEM
WHAT AN IDIOT !!!!!
GO HILLARY !!!!!!!
why is she saying this. why is she talking up war war war? has america not learn't anything from the last 8 years. what is she going to gain out of this now, republican war monger votes? NO WAR MONGERS in the white house anymore please. Vote AGAINST WAR. Vote for Peace!
All of the money and all of the negativity in this campaign will be completely wasted if we get this woman in the White House!! Talk about Homeland Security??? NONE OF US WILL BE ON THIS PLANET IF SHE IS ELECTED PRESIDENT!! Even a "CAVE MAN" had better common sense than she does!! LIFE IS PRECIOUS - WHEN YOU ARE DEAD, YOU ARE DEAD!! TALK ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION - SHE WILL BE AN EXTENSION OF BUSH, AND MORE OF THE SAME POLITICS!! I BELIEVE IT WOULD BE TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND AMERICA IF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON CROSSED OVER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!! THAT WAY, SHE AND MCCAIN CAN GET THE JOB DONE IN IRAN!! BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, THEM SAYS MCCAIN - AND HILLARY WILL SAY "YES, YES, YES – AND WHEN, WHEN, WHEN!! YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE IF YOU VOTE FOR EITHER HILLARY CLINTON OR JOHN MCCAIN!!
I think Israel should and can defend itself, I don't think we should start wars for other countries.
Boy she sounds presidential... PA is in your hands.
Now back to blaming Hillary for Obama's inability to get this wrapped up. YAKA,,YAKA WEE, WEE.... let's get the crying baby's call for Hillary to drop out again instead of calling your great leader OBAMA to close the deal... it’s pathetic.
OBAMA is not so great... empty words of HOPE to let you down fast.... JUST SAY NO!!! We can get this country back in track... GWB weakened this country and it can go down fast….
Obama is ready to lead day one. If we have to go to war with Iran we will use wise tatics in that situation. Hillary Clinton knows she can't win she is simply weaking the democratic party. She is trying to weaken Obama for John McCain so she can run for president in 2012 hoping he won't run. Sneak Hillary lol
Scary. 2 out of 3 presidential candidates are warmongers.
I believe some therapy sessions are in order.
OBAMA 08.
Israel is not defenseless, they have all the weapons the United States has, we supplied them. Make no mistake Mrs. Clinton, Israel is in a better position to obliterate Iran than the U.S. is and I'm sure Israel won't be waiting on us while we're in Iraq. I don't think Jordan Government, who are our good friends, want to hear our president talking that, geographically they are in the middle, or do you care Mrs. Clinton. Desperation is one thing, but speaking carelessly without thought is very dangerous.
Sounds just like Bush. Time for change, OBAMA 08'
WOW!!!
Way to start working on our international Image there Mrs. Clinton.
No wonder the world also supports Obama. The WORLD wants Peace. Clinton and Mc Cain are already planning to Invade Iran or NUKE it outright and they are not even elected yet.
What about our Soldiers?
Hillary has cause the death of many with one vote and now she using FEAR to generate votes. Fear was use to start the IRAQ WAR. FEAR was use to elect Bush.
Fear cause the death of many
Fear was used to try to prevent Women and Blacks from voting.
Fear was the tool that people use to sway people in the wrong direction.
Don't let Hillary Use Fear to Scare You to Vote For Her.
Let me get this straight.........1)she wants to call out Iran but doesn't understand that Iran may have much influence in Iraq, 2) Iran has already acknowledged that is probably our fault to be there, 3) Iran has not listened to us in the last couple of years, 4) Iran doesn't care what we think, and 5) last time I checked, Iran is crazy...
So yeah, Hillary has every reason to call out Iran........
The thought of her as President make me sick. OBAMA 08'
Hillary is a true Republican, and speaking of Republicans...I thought it was so funny to watch Jenna and her mother, Laura this morning. Anne from the Today Show asked why Jenna didn't want a White House wedding. And Laura had this nervous laugh, and weird body language. But Jenna said, that Washington was never her home, and she really wanted a private wedding, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
What she meant to say was she really wanted a peaceful wedding, and there is no way in heck Americans would allow her to have a peaceful wedding in our White House. While thousands of young Americans are dying in Iraq, she's planning a private wedding. Some of those brave Americans will never have any kind of wedding because of her father, and his henchmen.
So Jenna you are doing the right thing, hide your private wedding behind the gates of the Crawford Ranch, because that's the only way it's going to be private.
I would say good luck, but why bother, the brave Americans in Iraq didn't have good luck when your dad stole the 2000 election.
Would the U.S. have any friends/allies under HRC's administration? Let's see, she's against trade with other countries unless everything in the trade agreement is in the U.S.'s favor (way to compromise and show how you can cross the aisle, Hil), she's spoken out against Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Columbia, China, and Iran. All but one of those countries is a U.S. Ally! 85% of U.S. exports go to NAFTA countries and right now exports is the only thing keeping the economy from plunging into a very deep recession. She caused an international incident with Columbia where the Columbian government (an ally who is vital to the U.S. given the situation in Venezuela) where the Columbian government felt compelled to interject itself into the presidential primary to question HRCs campaign and the conflict between her campaign and the message her campaign is sending to them. HRC, leadership on day 1 = sparking conflict with our allies during your campaign. Way to gain our confidence Hil!
So is Barack Obama (minus middle name) paying out the "street money" to get votes in PA?
Let me see if I'm clear on this.... pull out of Iraq with a big sucking vacum and then declare NUCLEAR war against iran with what?
Uh...Hillary, this isn't the good ole days. This isn't the "cold war" days. You can't use "cold war" strategies in 2008!!!!! Are you serious? Good God PA, get us out of the past.
We have enemies who really want to destroy us, who have attacked us, and with all the China free trade and technological give aways probably are real close to being able to launch nuclear weapons against us.
With Bill's term in office, defense spending was slashed, troop levels seriously diminished and we outsourced our industrial capabilities. As far as Bin Laden goes...Bill didn't go after him when he had the chance. He didn't even respond when the USS Cole was bombed or the Trade Centers were attacked the first time.
Be careful Lady...be very careful with your war threats. You sure can't blame Bush anymore with this kind of talk and your voting record backs it up. You are just crazy!!!!!!!!
Before any of you critics of Clinton speak, are you aware of the kind of brazen threats that have come out of Iran lately? The Iranians are saying they would "wipe Israel off the map." Our current President has not even responded to these kinds of threats.
It is not that she is a warmonger, read the article. It is about deterrence. We have to speak up and address these threats. She is acting they way a President should. She is speaking out and taking a stand on the issue. I haven't heard a peep from Obama !!
No one wants to bomb Iran, which is why she stated this DETERENT. If you liberal WEENIES got your way, we would destroy all our nukes, Iran would do whatever it wants and we would be at their mercy. Giving them a deterent to obliterating Israel is a good thing. But go ahead liberal weenies and vote for Obama, who already made it clear that he would stand by as Iran nukes the world and do nothing. How did this country becomes so empty between the legs? Maybe we should just sit back sing songs and hold hands, while roasting mushrooms over a fire and just hope for the best. Idiots
HEADLINE : Clinton courts Jewish vote by threatening to destroy Iran.
Sounds like Bush tactics!
Why is clinton talking like she already the president of United States? Where is everybody??????
This is outrageous and maddening! Isn't this the kind of foreign policy we are trying to leave behind? Why does the U.S. have to go around threatening everyone with whom we disagree with war? Clinton should be ashamed. She sounds exactly like the Republicans. Isn't there a better way to keep us safe but still not have to resort to threats of nuclear war? Geez! What about respecting the sovereignty of other nations? How about we stop trying to force them to be like us? How about changing our financial and trade policies toward them to be more fair? How about we get out of their countries and stop desecrating their homelands? How about talking to them respectfully? It's not our place to try to run the world just so things go in our favor! Call me an idealist, a wimp, a whatever, I don't care. This is just stupid. This kind of thinking is what got us into the mess in Iraq in the first place, this idea that we could enforce our will on others without being attacked (the Bush Doctrine of the pre-emptive strike), that we were able to nation-build and "create" democracy through force, that having an adversarial relationship with other countries with whom we disagree is good for the U.S. economy. It's Neoconservatism, and it's dead wrong. It goes against the fundamental principles upon which this country was founded, stated in the Preamble and the Constitution. Leave them alone Hillary! She is just trying to look strong, and she does—just like Bush did. And look where it got us.
Hillary Says
"we would be able to totally obliterate them,"
Is she saying she would nuke the country? Please tell me she would not nuke innocent woman and childeren. Has she really lost it like her husband?
This woman totally scares me!
THIS WOMAN'S MOUTH IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Ha.. mushrooms... LOL.. I meant marshmellows. But the liberal weenies can always stick to the magic mushrooms they seem to eat every day...
latest exit polls say that Clinton down 3%... maybe we won't have her threats to worry about after all! ! !
Hillary is going to get us into a nuclear war.... she's 'da bomb' and I don't mean that in a good way!
There are those amongst us that believe that by 9/12/01 mushroom clouds should have went up over Afganistan,no one had the nerve to do it then ,I really don't think she would do anything now.
Now that is leadership, threatening a nation who hates the US to get votes. She has no tact. Hey, there is still McCain with his bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran song. No thanks, I will stick with Barack, like the majority of this country who is paying close attention.
hillary
just crawl in a hole and get lost
Didn't we just catch a guy spying our weapons secrets for Israel?
Are we going to do anything about that?
Sanctions? Less aid?
Or is espionage an OK thing now?
anybody?
anybody?
CNN?
anybody?
So, people who are saying Obama would be weak on foreign policy – where is your evidence? No, really, come on, put it forward. You can tell he'd be weak, how, exactly? Because he would open dialogue? I mean, really, talking scares you that much? Can't imagine how you are with your spouses.
Just because someone "talks tough" doesn't mean they'll have either an effective or strong foreign policy. Besides, the world is tired of bully talk. We're tired of sending our sons and daughters to die because someone got a burr in their saddle.
Obama '08. The sooner the better.
This kind of warmongering, this blatant disregard for any method of diplomacy is terrifying. I have said again and again that democrats have to stand behind their party no matter what come the general election. But the more I hear about her view on Iran (not just from these comments), the more I think I may have to write in a candidate or simply not vote. And I am ashamed of that thought, but I am more ashamed and frightened of the idea of this philosophy leading the democratic party, of the damage it could do to the world.
Too bad she showed her true warmongering Republican face on the day of election. I hope those who have not voted in PA yet take note of her comments.
Hillary is a Republican in disguise. Now that Richard Melon Scaife, the evilest of all Republicans, has endorsed Hillary, Dems must be on high alert about Hillary's new direction into WW3.
Remember, Scaife spent millions of dollors in the 90s to try and discredit Bill Clinton. Whitewater was Scaife's brainchild. Now he endorses Hillary. This endorsement is as much Scaife's racist reaction to Obama, as it is his brilliant chess move to mate Clinton in November. Every Republican wants Hillary to win the nomination. It is transparantly obvious that McCane will beat Hillary in November.
If Hillary wins in PA, it will be interesting to see how many converted Republicans voted for her. Her win in PA can be nothing more than Republicans' effort in trying to get her nominated, so that Reublicans can beat her easily in November.
Her we go again in another war we don't belong. Hillary, Israel is a big and powerful country, militarily. and can take care of themselves when it comes to Iran. We don't need to be interfering in their war. Bad judgment, again
She does scare me too! All she wants is power and she will do anything to get it and she will do anything to demonstrate it- even to start a war!!!
And it also scares me how people can still belive her even though we know she lies quit a lot. How can you belive anything she says? No wonder her base is not among the educated people, who actualy can think on their own.
Hillary just does not get it . Once the people cast their votes in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, it will be on like "Donky Con". Barack will put a sign on Hillary's eye "Closed for the Weekend"....
Keeping nukes out of Iran WON'T help me keep my home, find a decent job, educate my children, bring me closer to realizing the American Dream, or endear us to our neighbors, who at one time respected us throughout the world. Keeping nukes out of Iran WILL raise gas prices to unbearable levels, make it next to impossible to travel freely throughout the world, put a strain on the economy so tight that NO ONE will be able to find ANY jobs, and most importantly, it will portray us to be the villains and tyrants that many people throughout the world believe that the United States is. We only have one chance to get this right and it has to be a collective effort. End the wars, end the taunts and threats, end the conflicts that are ravaging this once respected country before it is too late and we are literally forced to watch the most powerful nation in the world's history crumble and burn right before our very eyes. Wake up sleepers, OBAMA '08, OBAMA '08, OBAMA '08........................
... but this isn't spin, this is a candidate spouting off where she shouldn't go – she makes 'bomb bomb bomb' McCain sound more restrained with her threat to obliterate Iran – love or hate Obama's desire for negotiation first; THIS by Clinton just goes over the top...
not to mention her recent, convenient attacks on china as the real problem – did anyone notice she lost a well-respected China adviser over her attacks?
she's just losing it and grasping at dangerous straws with this obliterate Iran threat – hopefully voters will recoil from this and her, who's the warmonger? NOT McCain!
I AM STILL CONVINCED THAT'S BUSH IN DRAG.
NO WONDER THE REPUBLICANS LOVE WARHILLIE.
I'LL BET YOU A $1.00 TO YOUR $.01 SHE HAS A WHOLE BUNCH
OF HER LOBBYISTS READY TO PAY, IF SHE CAN GET US
INTO ANOTHER WAR.
OBAMA – Rev... Iran just nuked Israel
WRIGHT – So
OBAMA – You're the Sec of State... what should I do
WRIGHT – Ask them to not do it again... but let the Sec of Defense know you are calling them because he'll get mad if you don't
OBAMA – OK... I'll call Louis
Yet another example of Clinton double speak just like she did on sanctions for Fl and MI, agreed to the rules then change them. Its ok for her to threaten nuclear war with Iran but it was irresponsible for Obama to say he would strike al-Qaeda in Pakistan if he had actionable intelligence.
It is amazing to me how you people can support her double standards and constant changing of the rules of the game. All you "bring it on" cowboys who mistake this kind of bravado as being tough obviously dont look at where that mind-set got us.....a five year war in Iraq maybe you've heard of it.
OMG! The look in her eyes when she said that scared me. This women is even willing to say that she will OBLITERATE lives in hopes of becoming the next president. She truly will do ANYTHING to become president. She seems unusually desperate to become president, makes me think there is secret agenda she needs to accomplish and can only do so through the presidency. We do not need a women trying to be a man in office. I feel there is an added danger in that.
DETERRENCE......READ THE ARTICLE, EDUCATED OBAMA SUPPORTERS.
SOMETIMES I THINK YOU GUYS POST ON HERE JUST TO READ YOUR OWN COMMENTS AND BE PLEASED WITH YOURSELVES AND YOUR MESSIAH. REMEBER THE EIGHTIES??? WHEN ALL OF RUSSIAS MISSLES WHERE AIMED AT US? SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA PLAY HARDBALL.
SHE IS POSITIONING HERSELF AS TOUGH ON FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE GENERAL.
WAY AHEAD OF YOU FOLKS.
What happened to her not speaking about "hypotheticals"?
There is no way to promise specific action based on something this extreme. A response to any attack, conventional or nuclear, could only be made after careful consideration of all the facts and options available AT THE TIME!
Statements like HC's are incendiary, and not indicative of the judgement and level-headednes we need in our President and CIC!
Hillary sounds like a warmonger.
What if Israel attacks first and then Iran counters? Do we get involved? Do we use nukes if they only use conventional weapons? Anyway, I think it is right to send a strong message of deterrence. On the other hand I think it is quite stupid to pound your chest like a professional wrestler and say that we will could “totally obliterate” Iran. This would be wrost case senario of monumental proportions. It would also mean the death of tens of millions persons - many of whom would be innocent. I would prefer a President who when talking about such situations in public uses more measured language.
She wants WAR????
Use this in Oregon, Obama will win
PENNSYLVANIA ITS UP TO YOU VOTE OBAMA
and get Billary McClinton Bush off her high horse.
Wow, Hillary just gained a little respect from this conservative.
Maybe she could be McCain's running mate. The sooner she leaves the better.
YOU OBAMA SUPPORTERS BLOW EVERYTHING OUT OF PROPORTION. THIS IS REALITY IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T LIKE YOU YOU HAVE TO LET THEM KNOW WHATS REALLY AT STAKE.
Ohh Billary: blah blah blah
while you take money from the Saudis, i know you would not do athing you have promised.
you are a shame
OMG!!! I could vote for this woman! I must do some soul searching......
UP DATE !!!
ELECT HILLARY AND THE PRICE OF GAS $8.00 A GALLON.
MOST OF US WILL BE THIN. FOOD GOES UP WITH GAS.
THANK GOD THE
BUSHES
CLINTONS
& MCCAINS WILL BE OK.
Hillary, we trust you and like you very much. In fact we love you and Bill and Chelsea. God Bless You. People who are in any way normal will say the same.
The Obama supporters are getting extremely desperate because they are loosing PA. Just listen to some of these blogs and you will get a good look into the souls of the Rev. Wright followers. Sarcastic, Caustic, Juvenile, Uninformed, I could go on and on but your moderators wouldn't print it all, they're too busy plastering the internet blogs with anti-Clinton rehtoric.
This is an incredibly reckless, chest pounding statement. Israel has all the nukes it needs to defend itself, even via submarine, against an Iranian attack. That threat is sufficent without our saying that we are happy to use our nukes too and start blowing up small countries. I'm sure Russia and China would not look to kindly on that and then we could have an all around threat leading to a potential arms race or worse.
How about trying some diplomacy first and discouragement from obtaining the nukes in the first place instead of threatening and creating the type of fear that leads to development of these weapons in the first place.
I wonder which demographic she is trying to appeal to with this?
Open mouth, insert hoof. Hillary is an idiot and out to destroy the Democrats and the United States. We want to get out of the wars – not into more. What part of that don't you understand!!!! Any one that votes for her may as well vote for McBush.
I thought we tried Shock and Awe already?
"Let's have a discussion, let's have a dialogue, let's nuke'em!"
What about all the American troops their killing right now Hillary?
Run away, run away??
Good for you Hillary!
You go girl!!!
More endless war.
Yipee. I sure am excited to vote for Clinton now.
what happen here, every body is agaist Clinton, 30 years and nobody left the economy like Bill Clinton, check in the library this was history and good history, is easy to forget the good ones no?
The Clinton campaign has made a pact with the devil and are now sleeping with the Republicans. They want to run against her and she believes she can win if she runs against them. It is an uneven and distasteful union of disparaging parties both hell bent against the one honest and inspirational candidate who can trounce them both. For me....it isnt that Hillary wants to stay in the race that I find offensive, or that she has turned to nasty politics but that she has made this pact with the Republicans. That, is inexcusable.
Yeah ! That what we need! MORE WAR!
FOUR WAR YEARS ! Vote Clinton for the Nuclear Holocaust !
Why is she running against OBAMA? She is a republican and on the BUSH doctrain. More war! Thought she was bringing the troops home within the first 60 days from Iraq? Is that to just turn around and send our heros who've already endured 2,3 or 4 tours of duty to IRAN. She is CRAZY!!! with a K... KRAZY!!
When I vote today its definately for OBAMA -Hope is better than War. She's going to wipe us all out!
Has "Nuke'Em" HilLIARy considered that Russia could obliterate the USA if we a used nuclear solution against Iran? This woman is dangerous.
All these people in this panicking about something that amounts to nothing more than Lie #238,596,471.
Relax, everyone.
Yeah but what if they attack at 11:05PM when she's fast asleep?We already know she makes bad decisions after 11:01PM per her husband's account. (Thanks Bill for that info! You just saved us from another war)
What if she gets that call at 3:01AM? Will she give the order to bomb New England in error due to her inability to tell the truth past 11:01PM?
What if Hillary misspeaks and demands Sadaam get up out his wet grave and make Iran stop it!
What if Hillary just forgets to do anything because she needs her rest at 11:01PM?
What is Isreal strikes Iran first? What then?
Hilary seems as if she doesn't know what to do or say next. It is sad because she is or was my state's senatorhowever this campaign has really shows me how she deals with pressure. I feel that Hil thought she was going to be the clear front runner since none of the other democratic nominees had any real "star" power. She must have not heard or forgot Barack 2004 speech, he seemed inspiriational then and today 4 years later he still seems inspirational. However you went from a clear progressive member of the US Senate and now after this presidential race, there are many bad things that comes to mind when thinking of you ( hypocritical, exaggerator, and back stabber) I guess if you were pres then there will be reasons to not be able to sleep @ 3AM but if Barack's unorthodox diplomatic solutions are in office then I will be sound asllep at that time. Vote Barack
I don't think that would be prudent at this juncture...
Hillary a former Republican is going back to her roots the Republican Party why President Bush must be saying in the oval office saying maybe Hillary would like to be McCains VP .
Afterall the truth comes out Hillary is not Presidential but a War Monger.
Remember Hillary you voted to enable Bush to attack and go to War with Iraq over lies which you supported.
Your not a Democrat Hillary but a liar and a Republican just like Joe Lieberman.
Go join the Republican Party we don't need you around anymore.
Pennsylvanians vote for Obama vote for Progressive Change .
Hill and Bill have to go .
Oh the Republicans will have a field day with this one. Glad she will not be our nominee!!!!
Obama 08!!!
If U.S. can content with 8~12 U.S. dollars per gallon of gas, sure, U.S. can obliterate Iran.
Childish international games!
That would be the easy thing to do!
It's time that Hillary the Democratic party and join the Republicans where she belongs.
hey did you guys at cnn change this headline just to scare the hell out of people, would you please just quote what people say and stop your terror, you are worse than all the candidates put together
She voted for war once, she will do it again in a heartbeat and then lie to us in another breath! She is no future president! PA do not be taken in by the lion in sheep's clothing. She is worse than her husband, she just told you we would go to war!
Way to go Hillary. Paid Obamabots stop spamming these comment sections.
Dear fellow American:Men who think a women shouldn't be a President. You know it took a women to get you into this world.She changeg your diapers.taught you about half off what you know about this world.So why a women can't be a President.You think your mother would be praud of you the way you think?Times have change an the men aren't doing such a good job.Lets give this smart women a chance Mrs. Hillary Clinton.She also has a smart husben he kept us mostly in peace, an the world liked us better.
You nuke 'em, girl!
Wow! So now Hillary is feeling nostalgic for the "cold war" days???? That's why this 50 year old college educated white Texan is for Obama.
hillary dosen't know what bill is doing while he was ias in the wht house plus other countries. no more war more peace
we need a strong leader like Hillary! No Hillary...no vote from many democrats!
If you obliterate Iran, all that nuclear radiation would spread into Iraq potentially causing the sickness and deaths of 100,000+ American troops. So, when does Clinton plan to obliterate Iran, before or after the troops are withdrawn from Iraq? What about the troops and NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan, they would have to be evacuated before the obliterating bomb is dropped on Tehran as well? Could someone ask Clinton about 'the timing' on her obliteration strategy?
GO Hillary, Obama will probably nuke the US!!!
This recklessness more than anything else disqualifies her for Commander in Chief. Hillary, you have no one to blame but yourself for the horrible campaign you have run.
her remarks concerning iran are the only remarks she has made that sound like a president. if mccain doesn't win the election and we end up with obama or clinton (god help us) i guess i would have to pull for clinton just because she has had the guts to tell iran where she stands.
SO YOU THOUGHT MCCAIN WAS CRAZY.
Wow, this is a new negotiation tactic. Hillary would go to war with Iran not on nuclear threats but to prove as a women she can wage a war
This is an easy question and Obama missed it in the debate - even though, I support Obama, I have to admit Hillary addressed it much better in the debate. This is not warmongering - there is absolutely no question that if Israel were attacked - particularly via nuclear weapon - from Iran - that the U.S. and other major powers would retaliate in a military fashion. That is the just and only realistic response. Our most important ally is the England - Israel is among the runner-ups. We have to protect our allies, and I wish Obama would have been more unequivocal to that end. I don't think Hillary needs to keep rattling this saber, though, after her concise debate answer, as that actually weakens our image.
Hey guys, I don't know but I found this interesting....
"On Tuesday in Conshohocken, she said her statements were intended to send a strong message of intent. “I want Iran to know, number one, it is not in their interest to obtain nuclear weapons and number two, we will work to deter them from using such weapons by making it clear that there would be a very high price to pay,” she said.
She added that it was vital for Iran to “understand unequivocally” continued U.S. opposition to their desire to attain nuclear weapons, and that if they were to attack Israel or the United States “any way to destabilize the world, that they would have to take the consequences.”
Hmmm, you know, since I hardly hear Hillary talk about the Middle East, I guess you could say this gives me a little info about her stance. I gotta say, I may have to re-consider writing my article about Hillary.....
Obama would probably sit down and have milk and cookies at the white house with ahmedinejad if iran attacked isreal.
If Iran ever attacked ISRAEL it would be because they had good reason to... like stopping all of the recent bombing raids into Iran by ISRAEL, supported by the USA, our satellites and full military apparatus, not to mention our covert if not overt approval.
The media and no one is talking about this!
I think we made a fundamental policy mistake many years ago when we allied America with ISRAEL; that has made us and continues to do so, an easy target for all Arab Terrorist/Freedom Fighters: you folks can parse the differences to your own persuasion.
ISRAEL has a right to exist for sure, however, so do the Arab states, without the USA covertly backing attacks upon Iran by ISRAEL.
I doubt if any sane person would want to “obliterate Iran” and neighboring Middle East countries because they have two-thirds of the world’s oil – not a very intelligent choice.
Furthermore, anyone who would serious contemplate using a nuclear option in this day and age should really be locked up in the same cell with Charlie Manson…
Hillary ... IF WE WANTED ANOTHER WAR-MONGER in the White House ... WE COULD ELECT MCRELIC to Bush's third term ... BUT that's not what we want!! No matter how hard you try ... you are not the MAN for the job, so quit acting like a testosterone driven wad! I would have thought menopause would have helped you mellow out!! PLEASE take Bill and just go back to the fools of NY that voted you into the office as their Senator ... the rest of us didn't vote you into any leadership position!!
big deal hillary. you won't be in office to deal with iran.
We need a democrat with backbone. Not someone that goes on vacation when things get just a little rough.
Is she George W. Bush on steroids or what? She is doing the exact PR build-up that Bush did to prepare the unsuspecting public for the Iraq fiasco.
She should run as the candidate for the neo-conservative arm of the republican party.
Some of you who think she is taking a good "tough stand" and the Obama's diplomacy is somehow weak need to realize something...IN A NUCLEAR WAR THERE ARE NO WINNERS. Even if we flattened Iran and killed millions if innocent people, Russia, China, and others would be cut off from the oil engine that runs their economies. They would surely take some sort of action in retaliation. Also, if Iran had a nuclear weapons, it would only take one in our country to kill millions, destroy whatever economy we have left, and create millions more terrorists. Great future for our kids.
Nice to hear your views Senator McCain...I mean, Clinton.
Just what we need- a return to the Cold War.
You liberal/Obama supporter's are just too much!
She's not saying she's going to start WWIII with anyone. She's saying she won't tolerate an attack by Iran!!!!! So we (the US) should just sit back and watch a NUCLEAR attack on one of our allies and not do anything about it????? Oh my God, the Obama supporter's are REALLY starting to scare me now. WOW!
Wow...she says should would not tolerate Iran attacking Isreal with nuclear weapons, and everyone begins commenting how Hillary is going to bomb Iran with nuclear weapons. Ridiculous.
And Obama's church would not have a problem if Iran did attack Isreal with nuclear weapons.
She has lost it
So when McBush wants us to keep getting screwed in Iraq, Billary "no! we need to get out" ... to be screwed in Iran?
So Billary is also a war monger like McBush, just wants a different ground, to be her own legacy of yet another screw up.
Bill, it's not a game reporters are playing. The situation is that you got caught with your pants down. But then that's happened to you before!
Obama '08
Why all these articles on election day? Don't panic.. she didn't say will bomb Iran! Anyway Hillary understands things better than Obama. Period.
Hiullary'08!
Besides the fact that we simply don't have the military or financial resources to go to war with Iran. If Iran initiated a nuclear attack of any kind, Israel would respond with a nuclear attack of their own. Being that they are currently technologically ahead of Iran as far as nuclear technology goes, Iran would become a nuclear wasteland.
So in essence what she said was FUD. Its sad that some voters respond to it on face value instead of actually understanding the issue.
there she is rattling her sabre like a neo-con. what's the difference then? she's all talk about bringing troops hope, but make no mistake, those who pull her strings have other ideas and she will do as they say..
Iran has called for the destruction of Israel countless times. Sooner or later they are going to go through with this, as well as Hamas. I don't think Obama's plan of dialogue is going to work with a regime that has already made up their mind. Hilary has a point, if Iran tries something stupid, they will pay for their mistake.
Obama's plan of talking and diplomacy won't work in the middle east, nor does he have the experience to pull off a military offensive if it had to come to that. He's right about something, if he wins "change" will happen, and I bet America is not going to like the results...
You think Obama tells the truth? LOL you must be delusional. He is the same say-anything to win democrat as Hillary, Gore, Kerry and Bill. No real choice here.
She sounds like that nutcase Ahmadinejad. The world has been Bushwacked for 8 years now and now HRC is offering a nuclear war...
How can any thinking individual vote for her?
"A return to the Cold War?" Did I really read that?
Remember this? "Duck and Cover!"
Senseless then and senseless now.
What is she thinking (or is she?)
Len in Washington
i see the experience hillary is bringing to the white house
the experience of war america has been engaged in for 20 years
the experience of killing innocent civillians
the experience of fear mongering
the experience of violence
the experience that has depleted the economy and made america the most hated country in the world
vote for her if u want this experience
Something BO said a while back stuck in my mind: "If I become president, I will take nuclear options off the table." This is something no democrat or republican president should ever do, and scared the heck out of me. If our country is attacked by a nuclear weapon, what would he do? Try to TALK to the enemy?
Nothing more dangerous that a person who has something to prove...
I wanted Hillary to win in the beginning thinking she would bring a woman's touch to the oval office,.. however when she unveiled her inferiority complex on how tough she is,... she lost my vote...
She is not the Woman we need,...
Israel has nuclear weapons and can take care of themselves! Hillary needs to stop the war mongering. The US destablized the region bby taking Sadam out, who kept the persians (Iran vs Iraq) in check, now that Sadam is out Iran is a problem. We are not the world police there are currently people in the military that are serving 3+ tours in Iraq (what ever happened to afghan and Osama Bin Liden) and some can't get out research the governments "stop loss" program.
Obama 08'
America needs to back out of the worlds business and just monitor what is happening. Bring our money home, secure our borders and our ports. Get the ilegels under control here, close teh doors for a couple of years. If Iran want to nuke another country other than us, that is there business. I would suggest they think long and hard of the after effects of a nuke strike.
This is an example of why we are in debt and a recession. We the good old USA can't stand to stay out of other countries business. Everybody doen't have to live as we do.
Hillary is a anti Christ similar to Bush!
Obama is the candidate of the hour!!! Hillary is trying just to destroy the Hope of the American People. Pennsylvanians, please remember that we have to start getting ready for general election. Hillary is fighting for herself not for the American people, that's why she is looking so bad for a bloodbath in November!! It's too late for her we cannot ressucitate her.
Thank you smart Pennsylvanians!!!
Obama wants to bomb Pakistan an ally that already is a nuclear power. iran is behind Hamas, Hezbolla and many other organizations targeting the US and Israel.
You remember Hamas right, the group that happens to support Obama.
A complete IDIOT! Anyone who voted for her and doesn't regret it, anyone that still supports her...all the same IDIOTS!
What happened to her quote in one of the first debates..."I don't think people running for president should put all the cards on the table r 'show their hand'"
What happened to aggressive diplomacy? ... Oh, yeah, drop the diplomacy part and simply be aggressive. I crossed party lines earlier this year and voted Obama, not because I wholly support him (although he still has a chance for my vote in the general) but it was to try and put the final nail in this witch's coffin. Sort of a Limbaugh Operation Chaos in reverse. PA, do us a favor!
Obama has been endorsed by the extremists, why is he even opening his big mouth
The Obamaniacs seem not to see beyond empty speeches. Have they reflected upon the present and the future of our nation. This election is not about having a good preacher but a Commander-in-Chief in the White House. Otherwise we can have Mr. Wright as Obama's VP
Vote Democrat- Vote for Hillary
That's tough talk. Sounds like something GWB would say.
And some Democrats are talking about having her become their leader in the senate????
She will lie about anything to further her personal goals. I can easily see her invade another country to deflect from another one of the Clinton scandels and feel quite comfortable with it.
The Harvard prof was right...Hillary is a monster.
Yes and how many posters here really know what the issues & threats are with Iran? And how many of you voted Bush in for a second term?
Case closed.
Operation Chaos marches on.....
She wouldn't answer hypothetical questions all campaign and now all of a sudden she's happy to. But she didn't answer the orginal question of what she meant by her "umbrella" statement in the debate. She only gave her scripted answer and avoided the question once again.
Just about the time I think Hillary can't say anything more ridiculous, SHE DOES! Obama has said some ridiculous things too but nothing he has never advocated wiping out a country (that is what obliterate means, right?)
I had no idea she could be so destructive. She may want to get someone else's opinion when Iran attacks Isreal at 3:00 AM. After all, she tends to be forgetful.
Oh. My. God. It's like John McCain running in a female bodysuit. If she gets the nomination, it'll be one warmonger running against another. Perhaps before launching a few bombs she should consider that REAL children and babies die in pointless flipping wars. She is NO BETTER than McCain!!
I'm just baffled how anyone can find any redeeming qualities in this woman. I've tried to be open-minded, but I just don't see any.
Our leaders are too stupid.
Instead of helping a needy country like Iran with their infrastructure and goodwill we rather wait on their desperation from their oppressed society to explode and attack like a hungry dog so we can turn around and kill it.
We really need to jail and execute all American politicians and start over or re-found the new US with better laid out plans for the 21st century. Way too many politicians stuck in medieval times... unfortunately you can't teach these old dogs new tricks so maybe putting them to sleep is our only option as nation tired of them...
I maybe a dreamer but I'm not the only one...
Obama supporters are clearly too young to remember the presidency of Jimmy Carter. But they have seen his recklessness in the last week. That's exactly what they want to elect with their candidate. The comparisons between the two are astonishing. They may want to do some reading, which up to now they've proved the inability to do.
BUSH=MCCAIN=HILLARY
SHE IS A REPUBLICAN WARMONGER !!!
HELP US ALL !!!
Does she not know the quickest way to drive up the drive for a non-nuclear country to become nuclear is to threaten to obliterate them with nuclear weapons?
This is not Reagan and Russia who already had stockpiles of weapons.
This was a stupid move on her part.
So what's the problem?
Great so now she wants to continue with George Bush thiinking.. OMG Hillary are you insane.. No wonder I made a good judgement call when I voted for Obama..
Obama 08
Now this is what I call Leadership. Way to go Hillary. Way to go for actually taking a stand. People don't have to agree with you but at least they know you have the courage to discuss this issue.
Shame Obama has not spoken to the media for 11 days now. Must be terrified that the ABC debate raised questions about him. Good strategy. I would stay out of the media spotlight if I did not have answers to their questions. Too bad that won't work with Republicans.
Hillary and common sense 2008
I know she is just trying to get the conservatives (How can a CONSERVATIVE be FOR war, anyway???) but I don't like this. War is never the solution. Never.
she has let Iran in to a pre-emptive stick against the US ! The clintoons and their stupid mouths...Gawd, I want this over....
Great quick grab your nukes?! Lets get involved in another pointless war that does not concern us. Are you kidding me???? Seriously Pennsylvania please come to YOUR SENSES! Do not put this woman in Office!
key speakers for RNC Convention
2004: Zell Miller
2008: Joe Lieberman
2012: Hillary Clinton
You're our gal, Hillary
I think most here are missing the point here....I'm still
trying to reconcile why I should care a rat's *ss about
"Israel"........goodness, let's at last get our nose and neck out
of this part of the world......drive less, and live in smaller homes...
and tell the mid-east where to stick the oil........could it be
I'm the only one who's beyond fed up with this fixation these
idiots consistently have us roped into ? I'm on NOBODY'S
side over there, and couldn't care any less about the whole
lot of them.....they're NOTHING to DO WITH ME.......
If Hillary were to declare a nuclear strike, she must lead the offensive herself....and by her side...Bill...then Chelsea can come right behind them...afterwards...her entire family...then the US Forces can follow their commander-in-Thief!...
She must be so dumb making that statement...those guys don't care if they died and they all perished...look at what war has caused for the past years so far...they are not scared to die (violently)...but Hillary would never want to die that way seeing she will do anything...no matter how low to be president...America beware!!
Well heren we go again with Hillary. This morning she said "she will do ANYTHING to win". That statement itself is enought to scare anyone. Doing anything to win, including saying you will drop nuclear weapon on a country is absurd. Imagine how many innocent people will die, including women and children. The use of Nuclear weapon should be a last resort, even then caution is in order.
For so long we have allowed our elected officials to say and do anything to get elected. When are we as a people going to say enough is enough and start holding them accountable. Wake up America, Hillary and old man Mccain are not the answers to our 21st century sets of problem, we need young minds and critical thinkers like Obama.
DEAR BILLYBOB
YOUR WIFE IS ONE SCARRY BIT–CH
Obama Supporters–Just remember, you need Hillary's supporters to win the general election. If even a few percent of them vote McCain, it's over for Barak. I'd start being more positive about Hillary, wouldn't you?
Lord have mercy...PA, end this today so we can move to the General.
Obama 08
We would obliterate an entire nation for Israel? What is going on here???????
A scorched earth policy in a presidential race is sick. But a scorched earth policy for a president is crazy!!!! If she has another Bosnia moment in the White House (thinks Iran has attacked Israel, when no attack has occurred), we are in trouble.
Meanwhile, Outkast comes out with their latest single, Bombs over Terhan...
Go Hill !!!!!! Tell it like it is! Iran needs to be kept in check. Anybody that disagrees with that isn't American! Yes, Hill will try every avenue to be diplomatic and work things out between countries and their leaders,but bully countries,such as Iran, need to be aware that if they cross the humanitarian line,they will be held accountable, without question,and that the consequences will be dire! Iran , you have been forwarned..........don't go there!!!
Only one question, Would she extend the same nuclear deterrent to iran should israel pakistan or another regional nuclear power attack them in the same situation.
Keeping in mind the taliban and iran are enemies and the taliban fanaticism does have the potential to gain power in islamabad.
THANK YOU SENATOR FOR DEFENDING THE U.S & ISRAEL....
...THAT "WIMP" OBAMA CANNOT DO IT.
INDIANA
4
HILLARY
Republican's (including McCain) make me sick to the stomach! cowards. end this nightmare already and lets get a Democrat once again in Office to fix this monumental mess your friendly republicans are going to leave this nation. Obama or Hillary '08!
I don't trust Hillary. She is starting to sound republican.
Don't worry, I'm sure she'll read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran before starting a nuclear winter...
She's not calling for war but she is drawing a line in the sand! Good for her.
I think its hilarious how comedians and women in general say that if there was a woman president there would be no war. I'll be waiting for the feminist reply...
No diplomacy. No warning. Just Nuke em. No wonder she's losing support.
It amazes me how shallow most of these comments are.. PLEASE read the text or listen to the interview ,"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran [if it attacked Israel].”"
then say what you have to say – learn the geography of the world, the politics of the middle east, where Israel is and the US interest in the region.
Dont just follow the retric from BHO team. we do need to send a strong message to the world out there that the US will protect Israel and its interets in the region no matter what. but how can I say that about the Obama followers.. ? do they know where Iran or Iraq is in the map??
GO HILLARY
Well. Let's all just hope she doesn't have her finger on the nuke trigger button while she's under imaginary sniper fire.
(Oh wait... she's not going to be president anyway. Whew)
Hillary has become desperate with threatening comments and personal attacks. I had voted for her but am supporting Obama now as a voice of reason.
As much as I'd like Obama to win, I can get into this nuke Iran idea. There's a reason we won the Cold War. The strategy works.
Her comment can not be taken lightly. This Pre- War statement that can lead to an actual War. There will be more live who will die in a Clinton War with IRAN.
This Lady is waving a threat of War at a time that America has lost over 4050 US Military personal.
This commit comes from the same lady that was under "Sniper Fire".
She will cause WWIII.
We need a candidate who is strong and has conviction about other countries threatening nuclear attacks. That candidate is Hillary Clinton. I don't believe Senator Obama would really know what to do in these types of situations. He can't even answer tough questions during a simple debate. Come on people. He is not worthy being President of our country. So the choice is HILLARY CLINTON. We will keep supporting her 100%. She should be our nominee and I can't wait to see her in the White House. GO HILLARY 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hillary sounds more like Repulbication.
U.S. should make an effort to "prevent" wars, engaging in talks.
Instead, she choose to put "Nuke" on table on the primary day.
You know why! She thinks PA has enough people who will listen to her, get scared, and vote for her.
Can PA stop her? That's my question.
They all do have speeches only... No one has Actions. Action can only occur in the WHITE HOUSE... Hillary is the Liar... so once in the WHITE HOUSE ... NO SOLUTIONS..
So this is an example of her superior, nuanced foreign policy experience she and her supporters have been promoting?
Sounds more like a poor impersonation of gun-slinger George in a last ditch attempt to engage in fear-mongering.
Hillary and her supporters need "attention."
How can a fighter be a "solutions" person? Hillary supporter simply do not question the "facts" of life. I guess they lack simple logical reasoning abilities. Other nations laugh at how most folks in this nation are so ill-informed, given the technological advances.
Talk to people; no one wants war– no one wants to be abused, "threatened" or neglected either. Like Obama, people will "learn" to fight back.
Pre-emptively threatening another country is stupid. And when is the US going to wake up to how Iran continues to play us? Their economy is in trouble, they don't have any nukes (read the NIE!), etc., etc. And yet we so easily get into a pissing match over them.
Hillary is just like Bill ... say anything, do anything, to get elected. Watch the polls, blow in the wind ... We need a leader – we need Obama!
I don't want this lady's (and I use the term lady loosely) finger anywhere near "the button!"
I'm so glad when her and her 50 different personalities go back to New York or Arkansas or Illinois or Pennsylvania or whereever it is she claims to have come from this week!
Israel has nukes and delivery systems, they can take care of themselves.
Of course Hillary is ready to go to war with Iran, she voted for the war in Iraq. As a 'Commander in Chief' she has a lot in common with Bush.
...and while the nukes are in the air Obama will HOPE that they will go away...
Obama can HOPE that nothing bad will happen in the next 4 years, I cant wait for the US to be poor and have a bad time under Obama. Obama and Obama Americans will get off the high horse, because Obama cant do anything for the US... its going to happen.
SO VOTE OBAMA, waste him on the next 4 years then we will get republicans in for the next 20+ years
A wolf disguising herself in sheepskin.... and she's not really doing a good job at it! America, wake up and bring back integrity and trustworthiness in Washington.
Sounds like Hillary and McCain are singing the same tune...
Obama is so naive to believe that Iran can just be reasoned with. Even Hillary, whose no foreign policy expert, can realize that.
More disquieting however was her expansion of the offer of protection to the Arab countries in the region who actively support anti-Israel movements.
Hers continues to be a question of character.
Obama's just plain foolish.
Which is worse Hillary Clinton standing up to Iran or Obama going bowling with Hamas and Iran. Where does Obama stand? The fact is Obama has no policy and Iran will continue to build nuclear weapons. The media needs to get serious. Hillary is putting her mind to the task and Obama has nothing but hope and change and Blackeyed Peas videos.
GOD I LOVE THIS WOMAN. SHE'S GOT COJONES!
This is insane. Please, Pennsylvania, end this woman's campaign! We can't have a general election between two war-mongering hawks!
Iraq = Oil 120 $
Iran = Oil 200 $
Vote Hillary
These are exactly the type of comments that lead us into an unplanned, disrespectful and completely personal war on Iraq. Hillary Clintons comments seem as if she is responding to this issue personally. I for one, dont have any problem with her but I feel that if she is going to present herself as a President, she needs to understand that she would be representing the entire free world and personal opinions are not important or useful.
As I have said commented many time on this ticker, Hillary is George W. Bush of a different stripe. Just listen to some of the comments coming out of this demented, power mad, psychopath. She recently even went as far as using Osama Bin Laden in one of her political attack ads, just like Bush did while he pushed for this senseless war and again in the 2004 in his last campaign. Is Carl Rove on her payroll? You deceived Hillary lovers better get a grip.
Hillary is a product of the Cold War and cannot change her thinking about the military industrial complex in this country. Wrong thinking, wrong candidate, wrong for this country at this time.
Someone please end her presidential run...Pennsylvanians, you better vote properly...don't make the same dumb mistake Ohio and Texas made...
I am curious, would Israel jump to our defense if we were attacked again? Did they the first time?????? What are the odds that any of us survive once Nukes come into play?
Yawn.
This is so boring.
They try to draw it out and make it dramatic...but the fact is that there is nothing in the world that can stop Hillary Clinton from being the next president. This is all just smoke and mirrors...the entire campaign....just like 2004 was with Kerry, and 2000 with Gore.
We don't have elections anymore in this country. What you are seeing is infotainment....a stage show....a production. Presidents are chosen, they are not elected. The Bush/Clinton dynasty is not prepared to let go of their power, and the global cabal that supports them will never allow that to happen. So, in the end, it will look so close....it will look like Obama and then McCain can almost do it......but it is a game, people. It's all for show.....it's fixed.
Shock shock, surprise surprise. Clinton making another impromptu and unsettlingly hawkish remark about how she would drop the hammer of justice on all who dare oppose us and yadda yadda, look how tough I am, yadda yadda.
Just another war president in disguise.
Obliteration? Sounds like Genocide to me. She might "misspeak" and cause World War III. Keep this person out of office, please.
What ELSE would you do if Iran nuked an ally? Slap their wrists?
She's not advocating going to war, but just stating the obvious.
"OMG, she said NUKE...that's bad, people will hate us"
...WAKE UP you bleeding heart liberals. REALITY is that way -->
Reagan had it right...Strength through deterence.
unbelievable, it makes john mccain's comment on staying in iraq for a hundred years look like a good alternative. If this happens we will be thrown into a world wide depression if we ever to attacked iran. Can any one say twenty dollars a gallon! By the way hillary go ahead a defect to the republican party just like your good friend mr. all for isreal liberman.
At least she has a plan. All I have heard from Obama is what he wants to do but nothing about HOW he will do it. Anyone can talk about peace, love, and helping others, but when you don't know how to do it, you are just as much of a liar as you say Hillary is. But hey, go ahead and vote for a dreamer who will talk and talk and you will see nothing.
I always believed she was a little emotionally unstable, but now she is starting to scare me! If she answer that 3 AM phone call, she may just start World War III, using nuclear weapons. Way to start a new Cold War and arms race...
Who will you obliterate? All Iranians or Iranian rulers – the Ayatollahs? Will you spare the thousand Jews who live in Iran? The last time I checked America, through Condi Rice, told us its anger isn't with Iranians but with the rulers.
Clinton's threat to "obliterate" Iran is probably the most disgusting thing that I have ever heard a politician say. For this statement alone, she has shown why Hillary Clinton must never ever become president.
Nothing more than HRC trying to get 'cajones'. Well at least she's trying unlike Barry that has no cajones since Day 1.
Obama voted for Dick Cheyney's energy bill and Hillary opposed the bill and we pay $3.50 for gas now. Obama has too many friends in oil industry and the price will go up only if Obama is elected. Vote for Hillary and bring the glorious Clinton years back.
The only thing more dangerous than having Hillary as president, is having Obama as president.
God help us if either of these two get to the Presidency!
She is such a Hawk in Dove clothes.
It is utterly idiotic to even be discussing such things. You don't air your grievances about a nation in public like this. And you certainly don't get into hypotheticals about NUCLEAR WAR in public. Pay attention Clinton supporters... this is what you are asking for... 4 more years of Bush's "tough but dumb talk" policy. Your candidate is a fruitcake. Better get out while you can.
The beast has gone crazy!
So her plan is to bring home our soldiers from Iraq (who would not have been there in the first place without her help) only to re-deploy them to Iran?
i will only make one more comment and that is it is time for a change
go mr.obama
Obliterate Iran, and then what? What happens next? Millions killed; destroyed country; we occupy. This sounds familiar. We've heard these threats before but now (after Bush) we know what it means to have a president that actually executes such threats without a plan or policy. Hillary + McCain=Dream Ticket to continue the Bush travesty.
It is utterly idiotic to even be discussing such things. You don't air your grievances about a nation in public like this. And you certainly don't get into hypotheticals about NUCLEAR WAR in public.
Notwithstanding the fact that her "Iran solution" foregoes the concept of preventative measures and that retaliation would require the support of rational thinkers, how naive to think that "we could obliterate Iran". With what? Nukes would be the only way to achieve widespread death tolls and what other countries would allow that to take place. Her comment is so silly it defies logic. But as Carl Berstein noted, Hillary loves being on the offensive and when given the choice, would rather fight than anything else.
Wow, Sybil strikes again.
It is utterly idiotic to even be discussing such things. You don't air your grievances about a nation in public like this. And you certainly don't get into hypotheticals about NUCLEAR WAR in public. Pay attention Clinton supporters... this is what you are asking for...
I suppose Makeshift and everyone else who feels this way was against the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which ended WWII. How many innocent people died 63 years ago? More importantly how many MORE innocent people lived because of that. It would be sad if it came down to the US obliterating any country but sometimes the needs of the many (world) will outweigh the needs of the the few (people stuck in Iran).
so, all you people criticizing her are saying that if Iran (a goverment that for all intensive purposes is an enemy of the US) nuked Israel ( which is a close ally of the US) that if you were president you would just sit by as Iran became the only other country in history to use nuclear weapons in anger, creating a global instability that would result in World War III?
If you just sat by, the US would be criticized for being the only ones who DIDNT act
stow the warmonger bull, you all know youd have to do the same thing. That being said, Clinton shouldn't limit to Israel.
others we should step in for:
*Insert Country Name Here*
Clinton you really take the cake. You are pathetic. Nothing that comes out your mouth is believable. You make up things as you go and for the moment. You talk more out the side of your neck then you lips. You want this so bad that you will do anything and for that you are a total looser. I wouldn't vote for you if you were the only choice I had. I hope Obama cleans your clock in PA.
My God, this is the same woman who is so determined to pull our soldiers out of Iraq just to put them in war with Iran. Lord Jesus, please help us! I can't call on no man ; Jesus you are the only one. I know wars are suppose to take place in the last days but don't let FOOLS like this have our soldiers exaulted to the point they will be Slaughtered. They are being worn out in Iraq. This world is coming to an end get your souls in order America. THE ANTICHRIST IS HERE!!!!! WE DON'T KNOW GOOD FROM BAD ANYMORE.
***PJ, New York***
What do you base your comments about Obama being "laxed" (sic) on foreign policy. A couple of months ago, he was getting flack for saying he would bomb Pakistan if he got actionable intelligence on Osama Bin Laden. Doesn't sound lax to me.
The most sensible thing she has ever said.
She is coming off tougher than "BUSH", we had a fighter we need a thinker, and not a stinker. Even though Obama has out spent Hillary three to one, Who do you see on free main stream and cable news more ( she got Media frenzy on her side) also Hillary seems to change forms right before our eyes, fascinating, scary though, even though I am a Obama supporter, Hillary's tactics is like a street fight, cruel and vicious, watching Hillary is like being charmed by a snake you know it might bite but I can't take my eyes off it....Both are good choices
Way to go, Hillary!! Tell it like it is.....America needs respect in the world again and, unfortunately, the Iranians need to know that "We the People" will not roll over and play dead.
That's it. She's lost my vote.
Vote for Hillary if you want more of the same... a campaign of fear.
I will not vote for that woman if she is the nominee.
I always had a feeling that she was "dangling some tackle" under those pantsuits. Now I believe it. This woman has balls.
DARTH VADIK...This is not a foreign policy ticker...Its called political ticker...We are in an election season.. I'm sure CNN has reports on foreign policy another page...
Obama 08
Her lust for power truly scares the bejesus out of me!!!
This is terrifying insanity. More imperialism? More fear? Haven't we had enough the last eight years? Another cold war? My God, before I just didn't think she was the best for the job. Now I realize she is the absolute worst for the job. We cannot afford to have this woman in power.
Bomb-Bomb-Bomb Iran, where is the difference between McCain and Hillary
The smart thing to say would have been is "If Iran attempts to use nuclear weapons against Israel, we would wholeheartedly support Israel's preemptively striking Iran if evidence supports the allegation" We as a 3rd party don't need to go around threatening to use our strategic deterrents, when the threatened nation has their own significant 1st strike capability. This is not evidence of a person who is ready on "Day 1". Frankly it scares the hell out of me to know that this woman could conceivably have her finger on the trigger so to speak. I hope PA has the sensibility to put an end to this tonight!
This lady is scary! She is prepared to annihilate kids lives just for the sake of the presidency. By the way, Israel can defend itself. What if Israel strikes first? This election season has brought the demons out of the Billaries.
What the hell is she doing??? That statement was just plain provocative and dangerous. Does she plan on bringing our troops home to regroup and start a bigger war? She is dangerous. I pray today is the end of America worrying about her as a possible President.
Hillary is obviously in the pocket of the powerful Israeli lobby. The U.S. is in Iraq because of Israel. We suffered 9/11 because of Israel. Our gas prices are out of sight because of Israel. Now, Hillary seems willing to destroy another people, the Iranians, for the benefit of Israel. Because of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the ongoing slow but certain Palestinian genocide at the hands of the Israeli IDF, there will never be peace in the Middle East. When is the U.S. going to wake up and realize that our support of the current Israeli government is detrimental to the wellbeing of our own country.
Hey Bill and Hill, watch your language, quit insulting people!!
Dear Hillary,
Wasn't it your coward husband that critized Vietnam and the military in general?
When will Chelsea be signing up for military service....?
Why is it that the actions of the Commander in Chief are personal issues, but any military member can be charged under the UCMJ for aldultery?
The only phone calls you will ever get at 3am will be asking if you know where your husband is.
Suggest you, your family, Jimmy Carter, Madeliene Albright, Al & Tipper just fade away a let real Americans handle the important issues.
Talk about "All Talk"...Doesn't it sound like she blows which ever the direction the wind blows? I don't think that's a quality of a good president or a great one. I think that's characteristic of a chronic liar!!!
Guess she's solidified her support from Israel (a/k/a the U.S. media) with that threat. With their money and propaganda machines, what else could she possibly need to win?
Diplomacy and more Diplomacy.
Not the BUSH talk that brought us into a ditch.
Looks like CLINTON is the same OLD OLD Washington talk.
Help us LORD. Deliver us from evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hillary is not only dangerous,she is unaware of the facts. Israel is a nuclear nation and not a signatory to the NNPT. Iran is developing nuclear technology for peaceful means as they are entitled to under the NNPT which they signed. So Israel is in a better position to use nukes on Iran than they other way around( I hope they never try that crap). Finally,the only reason they have not used it on lebanon,the palestenians and syria is they will also perish from the fall out. So Ms. Nuke get you facts straight befrore you obliterate us all. Even though I am in Canada, I definitely don't want you answering the phone at 3:00 am sloshed to the gills.
Obama 08 and 12 so we can all live beyond those years.
"Cold War style deterrence"!!! Is this the direction we want this country to go? Backwards?
Possible directions for this country:
Clinton = Backwards
McCain = No where
Obama = Forward
I don't know if Obama's way is the RIGHT way, but at least it is a NEW way.
I am glad that Senator Clinton is willing to defend our allies in the Middle East.
"If Iran attacks Israel, we will attack Iran"....When did Americans decide that Israel is the 51 st state? If we attack Iran, that wont be the end of the matter, not by a long shot. We will truly be involved in an 'endless war". When did we Americans decide that we are willing to risk the physical future of our country and our children for Israel? And if we didnt, then WHO did?
Checkmate Hillary!
What a commitment. We'll be sitting ducks if she wins. I don't think I've ever heard Israel make the that big of a commitment. You don't let the enemy know what you might do.... Unreal!!
I'm definitely voting Obama!!
...and the difference between Hillary and Bush is?????
Once again nimrods, you can thank Bush for most of Bill's 1st four years. If you really understood politics (like you think you do) you would realize that the incomming president is left with what is left over from the previous one. Bill did some good, but he had a good start thanks to Bush. Oh, I am not a republican. I just undertand how it works.
Has Hillary Clinton lost it. She has turned on the Democratic Party, Turned on the people of this great country and now she is starting a war before she even has a chance to be elected. Well it's her loss and Obama's gain. I truly believe that because of her lies and Obama bashing she will lose this race and Obama will be the nominee. She has just about distroyed the Democratic Party and the people that support that party. Senator Clinton and her Husband Bill have truly put us and let us down.
Rochelle
Redan, GA
First, Iran does not have a nuclear weapon. Second, the latest concensus report from the U.S. intelligence community states that Iran stopped a weapons-oriented nuclear program. If Iran decided to develop a nuclear weapons program and build a nuclear weapon, it would take several years. Third, Iran hasn't attacked a neighbor for hundreds of years. Forth, Israel has nuclear weapons and can defend itself.
Clinton is being reckless on foreign policy and with U.S. commitments abroad. Why would she be voicing something so hypothetical at this point–because she is all about politics and her campaign is on its last breath. Good riddance.
A vote for Hillary is a vote for backroom politics, we must stop this not just here but all of Washington.
PA, please stop this democratic demolition machine today!
Is Obama going to give Clinton a position in his cabinet?
What is she - Secretary of War
McCain/ Hillary 08
Is this the first time a potential Presidential candidate has tried to drum up votes by invoking images of Nuclear War?
Must be the WWE appearance last night went to her head.
HillaRambo or HillaRocky?
She's finally right about something. For all you vegertarian pacifists who fill this blog, there is something worse than war. It's called acquiesence in slavery.
that came out if her mouth thats as bad as mc cain , i think she wants to be his vp.
If Iran ever attempted a nuclear attack on Israel (God forbid), Iran would need to be obliterated. After all, as you sow, so shall you reap. As long as the mullahs in Iran know this for sure, they wouldn't dare try wiping-out other countries, as they have threatened. What would deter them if they thought they could get away with it, with nothing but sanctions, a guilty conscience and some stern words from Obama as the price to pay? The problem (main one) with ultra-liberals is that they can never say exactly what they would do in the face of aggression (let alone nuclear) except talk, which won't very well deter Islamic terrorists like the Iranian government. Good for Hilary that she's not so liberal as BHO. She's got a pair!
What else can Hillary say? She has screwed up every strategy, every talking point, every issue she has tried to address to this point. It's been one disaster after another for Hillary! She can't seem to tell the truth, Her Hypocrisy is astounding, (See Gov. Rendell's Praise of Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam in '97) she still hasn't asked Rendell to Renounce or Reject those who he Praised! Hillary's constant Whining of being picked on is way beyond played out! All she has left is to play the Fear Card and hope it buys her a little more time in order to save her Political Life!
That is not what she said, just what CNN reports. If Iran uses nuclear weapons they would have to be punished. CNN really gets it all hyped up for the Obama supporters. They have nothing to do except sit at home on their computers.
Dear CNN,
Did Ed Rendell really call the PA college scholors Kool Aid drinking???
Lets report the truth.
Hey Demobrat:
If you know anything about the policy of deterrence, than you know that, that's part of the policy that led us into the Vietnam War and then you'd see how terribly short-sighted her comment about Iran is.
Obama '08
Gee, now we have Hillary playing the fear card. I thought that was only reserved for Bush and Cheney.
And let's be honest, Israel stole the land from the Palestine's and in defending that, they've done some very terroristic things over the years.
Much of the middle east hates Israel for these very reasons. Why is it up to us to defend a terrorist nation like Israel?
Hillary is the only one in the race that can be trusted with the security of our country. Obama is just a young guy who has no clue how to command our country. He would stutter and mumble when confronted with tough decisions against Iran or any other country. If Hillary is knocked out of the democratic nomination then McCain is our best hope. Obama's change is not a change for the better.
Show Obummer he can't BUY the election!
ELECT PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON!!
Her comments and analysis of Iran, Iranian politics and foreign policy is absolutely ignorant. Has this woman ever been to Iran? Has she ever studied their politics, history, religion, people and foreign policy?
I have.
This woman is unwilling to meet with Iranian officials, twists the Farsi language and meaning around to suit her ill will and hostile needs to appease the Jewish vote and disregards the facts.
She says she will nuke the Iranians. When she groups everyone in Iran under the same umbrella as the government who desires nuclear energy she is acting and thinking the same way that Osama Bin Laden does. Destroy the Americans. Same think as obliterate the Iranians.
I consider her one of the most ignorant and dangerous policy makers that has ever existed. Even John McCain show more dignity than this foreign policy moron.
This is definetly dissappointing. First she insulted Putin and said he doesnt have a soul a year ago. Now she wants US to get into another war. Hey. lets just attack the whole middle east: Syria, Lebanon, maybe even Turkey, Egypt, and all the Arab countries.
Barack Obama has not taken questions from his traveling press corps in the form of a media availability for ten days now. While we don’t expect to have one prior to when polls close tomorrow in Pennsylvania, Senior Advisor David Axelrod told reporters today, “I’m sure that he’ll be spending time with you sometime soon.”
For the past three days the travelers have been clamoring for an “avail.” On Saturday, Obama campaign staffers promised the group there would be a chance to question the senator on board his train during his “On Track for Change” tour, but it mysteriously went away. The campaign informed us they’d try to reschedule it for Sunday, but later said they couldn’t fit it into Obama’s schedule. Perhaps today, Monday? The campaign said they could add one at any time, but as of 9:30pm, not yet.
Obama notoriously holds fewer media avails than the other two candidates left in the race, so reporters covering the Democrat often resort to lobbing questions to him on the fly – on a ropeline following an event, on the tarmac at the airport, or while the candidate is pressing the flesh at a retail stop along the trail – at a Dunkin’ Donuts in New Hampshire or a Iowa supermarket, for example. This way of questioning the candidate comes with mixed results, however.
Last Friday a reporter threw Obama a question on a Pennsylvania tarmac as he deplaned and the candidate obliged with a two sentence response. He made a blip of news, but Obama’s senior aides were none too happy and admonished press wranglers for not loading the press buses sooner. Other times, however, Obama will scold the reporter – usually with a smile or a wink – or just ignore the question all together. Just today, when asked about former President Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas, Obama replied, “Why is it that I can’t just eat my waffle?” The reporter responded, “I’m just asking…” Obama put an end to question period by winking and saying, “I’m just gonna eat my waffle right now.” Later when Obama taped an appearance on “The Daily Show,” the print pool reporter allowed to witness the interview attempted and failed to get a comment from the candidate. Here’s her dispatch: “On the way into the studio, I asked Obama why he felt it important to respond to the late-breaking Clinton ad with an ad of his own and what he thought of her ad. “Are you supposed to be doing this with the pool?” he asked, and laughed. Then he sat down and had the earpiece put in. I asked him if he’d give us a comment after the taping and he said, “Maybe, it depends on how well behaved you are.” But then after the taping, I was whisked off ahead of him and didn’t get to bug him again.”
Hillary you have nothing else to prove , we already know you have mental problems.
This is getting a bit scary. Before you are even in office you are threatning to bomb a country. Iran is not Iraq and if we attack them then we truly have a battle on our hands. Because if nothing else unites the middle east this will. But not in the way we think. This would unite them against us and Israel. This is just foolish too even say something like this.
I see why the people who are backing Hilary say they will back McCain it is one in the same. Let's see if Hilary will send her daughter to die in the middle east. She is so quick to want to send someone elses kids.
How on one side of your neck are you going to stop the war in Iraq and then on the other side say you want to blow Iran up. Wake up people.
I beleive that Hillary must win and that Obama does not have enough experence. If Obama wins, I will not vote for him. I pray to God that Hillary wins.
Has she read the recent NIA ? After NOT reading the NIA on Iraq before the war, she should have learned that she has to get some information before she wants to bring the Nuclear Holocaust to the Middle East.
Clinton – FOUR WAR YEARS !
Obama – For a stronger America !
Hillary or McCain 08!!
please someone shut her up – she will say anthing to get the votes but never answer a question directly especially during a debate
Hillary is off her rocker with the Iran comment. Maybe she and McCain can record a new single duet of Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran? She tells such lofty tales like the sniper fire "incident" in Bosnia, and then Bubba tells more lies to cover it up???? The Clintons are grasping at straws in PA. They will say and do anything to get elected. Obama is a breath of fresh air. Lets hope he delivers a knockout punch so we can be rid of her. The Clintons are old and stale and downright nasty. They are doing more damage to the Democrats than McCain is. Hilary should go back home and bake some cookies in the heat of the kitchen. Even she said she's quite comfortable there. Thats where she belongs.
I'm sure one of Barack's inspiring – LOL – speeches will be the answer to peace on the entire planet – or he may think that he, Israel, and the Middle Eastern countries could all just hug and sing the Barney "I Love You" song with a few changes, and then Iran wouldn't be a threat anymore.
Come on, Middle East –
I love you,
You love me,
Hope and change and unity!
LOLOLOL!!!!
Sing along with Obama!
Good LORD help us, this woman would put us into another WAR with her lack of judgement on all levels.
Sen. Clinton has proven time and time again that she is NOT to be trusted on anything she states. One minute she stated that she doesn't do "hypotheticals".
NOW here she is engaging in the sort of hypothetical thinking she had criticized Sen. Obama for AND make excuses that it's NOT the same thing and the situations were not equivalent, since the threat from Iran was all too real. WHAT?
Can you say BI-POLAR? I mean is this seriously WACKY. Sen. Clinton is truly starting to scare me like no other. The levels to which this woman would stoop is just a NIGHTMARE!!!
She is JASON, FREDDIE CRUGER, SAW I, II AND III all wrapped up in one!
Having both Hillary and Bill in the White House again would just be American's NIGHTMARE all over again! Uggggggghhhhhhh
PLEASE VOTE OBAMA PENN! PLEASE, I'M BEGGING NOW!
Yeah – right Hillary! You CAN'T do anything other than blow wind!
I guess you are getting all the news you can get!
It's going to be nice not to see and hear about you and Bill!
It's going to be great to see you working for us in Nov.
Go Obama!
Hilary Clinton is a Republican and she should be addresed as one. Hilary is stupid Iran doesn't have the capablity to launch a nuclear weapon and if thay did that is none of our business who the hit with it if it is not us
I love it!! You libs keep taking shots at each other.
Tick-Tock - Get rid of her Now!
I don't to wait until June 3rd here in Montana to have to knock her
out of the stratosphere!
Not one word of dealing with our enemies with diplomacy. Shouldn't we attempt to deal with our enemies peacefully before tensions are allowed to reach the point of no return? Typical comment from the "old" establishment and the Clintons.
This is just hypothetical drivel. Israel is well equipped to destroy Iran in a heartbeat. Iran knows this despite haughty rhetoric. While they will continue to support Hizbollah and possibly even Hamas, they are not a serious threat to attack Israel because Israel's arsenal is a huge deterrent.
Seriously, people, when are we going to get a clue with Iran? They can be dealt with. Threatening them doesn't get us anywhere. Invading Iraq has given them much more regional power. But they can and have worked with us in the past and have even had democracy. Of course, most Americans don't know much about world history so they buy into the fear mongering and continue to wallow in ignorance.
Why does everyone paint republicans as war mongers? A democrat has been president at the start of every war of the 20th century, except for Desert Storm. WWI- Woodrow Wilson, WWII- Roosevelt, and Truman. Korea- Truman, Vietnam- Johnson.
So now Hillary talking about going to war with Iran makes her a republican? Nope, sounds like it makes her a democrat.
Dan in CO, thank you. I needed that laugh.
Good point armchair adviser.
Russia would not be too happy to have that nuclear fallout so close to them and a BITTER war fought that will extend over to them as well.
China will most likely get into the action as well. They have no allegiance to Israel and more so to Iran. They practically own us.
here we go again....bring em on...
This is why America is loosing its place in the world...or is it that this tactic only applies to the Middle Eastern countries...
In the axis of evil, North Korea, was never told this...ah, yes Nothe Korea never threatened Israel .. I get it. Its not about America, its about the other country in the Middle east? Whew!
A Strategic Defence! Is not War... She's Tough... That's what America Needs... Deep thinker's.. No Dreamers...
Billary and McCain singing : BOMB, BOMB, BOMB IRAN !
WOW. First she was blasting China , now Iran . She was a Republican and always be one . She should run on the ticket with Mc Caine . Why now she is sayinf i have to win . Why? What has she promised other countries Bill had dealings with .. HillBilly and Slick Willy should be put away for a long time in a nurseing home . The DNC should see what they are doing and call a halt to it . Come November , no one will vote for a Democrat after the Clintons damage the party like they are doing . God Help Us .
Just a question for you ultra-wimpy-liberals out there, ready to hide from reality when it gets too real: How would you have the U.S. respond to a nuclear attack against Israel (God forbid)?
Mrs Clinton, this is howt the Merrian-Webster On Line dictionary defines diplomacy:
"Main Entry: di·plo·ma·cy
Pronunciation: \də-ˈplō-mə-sē\
Function: noun
Date: 1796
1 : the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations
2 : skill in handling affairs without arousing hostility "
You really need a crash course on diplomacy. You are a very dangerous woman!
YOU JUST LOST MY VOTE....WE ARE SICK OF WAR
She is trying to get Repuclicans who don't like McCain, so sound like a Republican.
Maybe some of you war-mongers should watch the documentary on the after-effects of dropping the bomb on Japan. There are so many people scarred physically and mentally from that – yes, innocent people who had no say in Pearl Harbor. What we need is diplomacy and talk by someone who has lived somewhere else in the WORLD.
Are we going to NUKE everybody. Will the pigeons come home to roast?
CINTON / MC CAIN 2008
This is a scary woman. Does she really think that Russia and China would just sit back while the U.S. "oliterated" Iran?
She scares me more than McCain.
Fools for Hillary...she is just a typical liberal democratic warmonger.
thank you for giving me another reason for not wanting you in the white house sen. clinton.
Heidi
Charlotte, NC
You guys are all nuts. Some one up there is talking about Jenna's wedding like she shouldn't have a wedding because we have troops in Iraq.
News flash everyone, it has been the US's policy for decades to retaliate with Nukes if any one uses Nukes against one of our allies. It is what has prevented nuclear war for 60 years. She isn't stating any new policy that hasn't been the US policy since WWII. Would you rather her say "if Iran nukes Isreal, we'll just go talk to them..." like that would deter anything.
News Flash #2, there are people out there that want to kill Americans and our allies just because we exist, and they have wanted to do it long before GWB got into office. Obama getting elected won't stop the hate from the radical islamists, it will only embolden them because they will think he is soft. His "talk" will only get more american soldiers and possibly civilians here in the US killed.
VOTING OBAMA X PRESIDENT
IS LIKE WHEN ONE GETS SICK
INSTAED OF GOING TO A CERTEFIED PHYSICIAN
ONE GOES TO A MEDICAL STUDENT
They say Bush comes out with some crazy stuff. This is worse than him. Overall, no more Bushes, no more Clintons.
Vote for change, vote for Obama 08!!!
Luckily, Billary will not be the next president of the United States. I can't think of a more naive view of the world. This is even worse than preemptive George (at least he used conventional weapons). I, like Billary, grew up during the age of hide-under-your-school-desk-in-case-of-attack. I personally don't want to return to that age. Why don't we let Obama have a chance to at least try to talk to these countries that don't agree with our view of the world? Does our only option consist of nuking those that have a different view?
Hillary is right! The Obama nuts on this discussion board are idiots.
Deterrence is the only policy available. Iran is going to get the bomb because the US cannot take out Iran's nuclear facilities without incurring huge military, political, and economic consequences. When they do get the bomb, how do you stop them from using it? – Cold war style deterrence.
What would all you Obama nuts suggest in the alternative? Maybe when Obama rewards Iran with a Presidential audience, he can ask the Mullahs if they will give up their nukes? If that's your plan you and your candidate are naive indeed. In fact, if Obama doesn't adopt the Clinton stragety, he will be toast in the general election.
She's going to bring the troops home from IRAQ so they can be re-deployed over to IRAN!!!
Crazy nut case! She wants to start WW III
Yeah, good job Hillary! Not EVERYONE in Iran is evil!!
You just admitted that you would wipe out a country because of its leaders........well if other countries did the same thing..........would America still be here because of Bush?
Think before you speak......as a lawyer and a Presidential Candidate............you should know better!
1 – She doesn't have access to the 'buttons'.
2- If you think that talking to STUPID people gets you anywhere, maybe you ought to join them.
3- She continues to play both sides because she just said she will do anything to win PA.
4- If you are a democrat, why are you SURPRISED??? Hello, weak people continue to act like 2 year olds.
5-Get a job and quit blaming others!
please don't speak of war, please!
Dear, Dear, Dear Bubba April 22nd, 2008 2:32 pm ET
AMEN!!!!
Do you really want this person's finger on the button?
Rosetta Stone has found a new target audience who would like to learn how to speak Arabic. If that nut case in Iran and Bin Laden and his Umbrella network had their way it would come in handy. Don't worry boys and girls, Israel can take care of themselves.
Hillary is crazy! Using nuclear weapons on other countries?? Even Bush had a little heart. He didnt just nuke Iraq, he invaded. But oh no, if Hillary wants to wage a war, she wont use our troops, she'll just kill innocent Iranians by the millions.
Shes talking about Nuking a country?! ...Even in the height of the cold war politicians didnt openly state such things.
HOw can we even be considering this person!?
Dang - this interview on Good Morning America ran on the west coast around 7:30am - not exactly big news by now.
Scary woman. I really supported her at one time, but it seems that every time she opens her mouth, that support goes a little further south.
All we need is one more war in the middle east - or anywhere else, for that matter.
Eugene, OR
GO FOR IT, GUYS !!! VOTE OBAMA, NOW AND HAND IT TO MCCAIN IN NOVEMBER....WHEN THE REPS START BRINGING UP OBAMA'S HISTORICAL POOR JUDGMENT, REGARDING DRUGS, RELATIONSHIPS WITH CRIMINAL BUISNESSMEN AND FANATIC RELIOUS LEADERS....
At the beginning of April, she mentioned that everyone should get ready for some surprises...and sure enough there have been plenty. She's gone out of her way to provoke some negative response to Obama, because every attempt she makes to provoke a positive response to her and her policies, it falls flat in the polls. So this is the result. She's willing to threaten a third-world country in an attempt to portray herself as a hard-bitten leader...and the result? She looks absurd. Please PA, enough of this cynical drama queen...go positive, go Obama...
The day america puts a woman in the white house is the day america will begin it's dissent into no longer being a world power. Not for nothing...if one country attacks another with a nuclear weapon and the attacked country responds.....NOBODY WINS! See, woman are anything but logical and this one is more dangerous than most.
I am so very scared of this woman being anywhere near the red button, I can't belive she just said that.
NO MORE WAR!!!!
My vote in Oregon will be for Obama on May 20th
dEMOBRAT April 22nd, 2008 2:58 pm ET wrote........................
"DETERRENCE……READ THE ARTICLE, EDUCATED OBAMA SUPPORTERS.
SOMETIMES I THINK YOU GUYS POST ON HERE JUST TO READ YOUR OWN COMMENTS AND BE PLEASED WITH YOURSELVES AND YOUR MESSIAH. REMEBER THE EIGHTIES??? WHEN ALL OF RUSSIAS MISSLES WHERE AIMED AT US? SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA PLAY HARDBALL.
SHE IS POSITIONING HERSELF AS TOUGH ON FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE GENERAL.
WAY AHEAD OF YOU FOLKS."
americans are known to the rest of the world as bullies and arrogant SOBs. With the war in Iraq going on, no one wants someone who is starting to 'threaten' other countries even before she becomes the president. She is going to do exactly what Bush did, not listen to people and go into war. America cannot afford any war even if she wanted. So it is upto you to choose a warmonger in the name of fighter or a leader willing to sit down with other countries and not treat them like little kids.
Wow. Talk about being a cowgirl.
.....hope is better then WAR.....
people......Obama will win....new way....new life.....4 America....
Hillary and Cowboy are hypocrites......
Let Obama lead this time.....because he moving in the right direction....
OPEN your eyes......next generations needs your right decision....
AMEN or AMEEN
Attack Iran how? With a few errant guided missles that blew up nothing like "Bill" did and then retire to the Whitehouse for pizza and an intern! What a joke these two are!
Mrs. clinton should know better to make such comments. first of all, Iran currently does not have any nuclear weapon. for a person at her position to such comments tells all of us that she's not qualify to be head of this nation. A person that qualify to be the head of this nation need alot more maturalty and respect for the world. as for Israel is a useless little nation that has done Zero good for the US and the people of the united states any way. Israel has wasted billions of the good people in the US money every year for zero return to the people of this country. A nation that receive and received billions of dollar every year and can not even help like Israel is useless nation. Mrs. Clinto, you're not qualify to be the president of this country so go back to Arkansa.
...any notions that this gal has "experience" is illusionary. A REAL leader doesn't have to saber-rattle. A real leader works with the international community, not in spite of it. She has all the ear-marks of Bush, with NONE of the humor...
I had no idea the threat of a Iranian nuclear missles was real. Where is the evidence of these missles, Mrs. Clinton?
Oh, yeah...vote Obama, now and hand it to the reps in November....great...wait until the reps bring out Obama's history of poor judgment (drugs, friends who are criminal businessmen, fanatic religious leaders, bad mouthing a grnadmother who raised him only because she is white)...oh yes go for it!!!!...
So how would Hillary negotiate with Iran when she uses incendiary language like that? She will have little foreign credibility when she goes off on a tirade like that and we would never get out of Iraq because Iran would make sure Iraq will bleed us dry of dollars and soldiers. Bad, bad move, Hillary.
If Hillary attacks Iran, will Bill and Chelsea go fight for America? They help her by talking a lot.
This is not tough?! Tough is dealing with the grueling campaign. Tough is getting up each day to fight lobbyists and special interests.
IT IS NOT TOUGH TO THREATEN TO NUKE AN ENTIRE COUNTRY THAT IS FULL OF INNOCENT PEOPLE JUST LIKE AMERICANS.
HILLARY CLINTON MUST BE STOPPED.
I hope she is not trying to prove that she is more macho than Bush.
I think she is a dangerous hot head, not fit for a president.
WWW III is awaiting the US, if she is elected president..
In the playground...I'll tell the big kids that I'll punch the dumb kid....just so they'll vote me into the group.
Israel, not Iran, is the country that has invaded neighbors and taken vast swaths of their land (hence the perennial Palestinian tragedy those poor people never asked for or deserve) and that refuses to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty and has built a huge nuclear arsenal. Iran has attacked NO nation in 400 years...so who is the aggressor here? And why should nuclear war be raged in order to protect them? The resulting vast cloud of nuclear fallout would endanger the whole world. Time to rethink our blind slavish loyalty to Israel until they abide by Resolution 242!
This is insane. I have no idea why people still believe in Hillary she is such a Chamelion. She changes colors, accents, attitudes, according to whose vote she is trying to snag. I just am not getting why people are not seeing through her. I agree it would be great to have a woman president, one who thought more like a woman and less like a woman trying to act like a MADMAN!!
I could not believe what I heard coming out of her mouth, to "OBLITERATE" Iran. Kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, she is just another Bush only more manipulative.