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Romney Says He’s Open to Iran ‘Bombardment’
I apologize for the incendiary headline, because I don’t really think this is much of a story. I think it was Mitt Romney’s choice of words that is the bigger story.
Romney said Thursday he would be willing to use a military blockade or “bombardment of some kind” to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.
I took that to mean he would be willing to bomb Iran to prevent them from acquiring nukes. Almost everybody on the Republican side is prepared to do that with the exception of Ron Paul.
The former Massachusetts governor’s comments came as the Bush administration announced new sanctions designed to isolate the government in Tehran.
John Edwards used the occasion to remind people that Hillary Clinton voted to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, and he would never do anything like that.
“I learned a clear lesson from the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2002: If you give this president an inch, he will take a mile and launch a war. Senator Clinton apparently learned a different lesson.”
Edwards went on to reassure worried voters that he is far too big a pussy to ever go to war with Iran or anyone else for that matter.
In a statement Thursday, presidential rival Chris Dodd echoed Edwards’ argument.
“The aggressive actions taken today by the administration absent any corresponding diplomatic action is exactly what we all should have known was coming when we considered our vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, and smacks, frankly, of a dangerous step toward armed confrontation with Iran,” Dodd said.
Dodd said he wanted all Progressive voters to know that he is quite possibly an even bigger pussy than Edwards, and would certainly never threaten to drop bombs on anyone.
-Chris Jones
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