Biggest Joke From Republican Debate: Romney Threatening Iran

[Cali_Democrat]

Biggest Joke From Republican Debate: Romney Threatening Iran
Posted: 11/14/11 08:39 AM ET
Paul Abrams

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'The biggest joke in the Republican 'debate' on foreign policy is that tough-guy Mitt Romney will prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. The mullahs must be cowering.

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Romney escaped the Vietnam War draft because daddy -- the Governor of Michigan -- arranged for him to be exempted as a religious missionary for the Mormon Church. Did he serve in some third world country, bringing god to the poor? Hell no, Willard spent two years dining on escargots and soufflés as a missionary in France.

While in France, Mitt claimed a longing to be with his brothers fighting in Vietnam. Oddly, when his French mission was completed and he returned to the US, that longing seemed to have vanished. Well, perhaps not so oddly.

Romney claimed that he was waiting, hoping (dare one say, praying?), to be called, but somehow, dagnabbit, he never received that letter from Uncle Sam. One can only imagine his daily disappointment awaiting that letter that never popped through the mansion's mail slit.

For six years, it just never occurred to macho-Mitt to follow John Kerry's lead and volunteer.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/republican-debate-mitt-romney_b_1091215.html

Chickenhawk!!

[tabatha]

1. from Juan Cole

Then Mitt Romney said he could have done a better job in deterring Iran’s nuclear enrichment program than has Obama. But you will note that the Bush administration could not do anything about it, and there is absolutely no reason to think that Romney could, either. General James Cartwright testified last year that only an invasion and occupation of Iran could stop the program. Romney thinks he could have forced Russia to cooperate with sanctions on Iran, but it is all just hot air. Russia has substantial economic relations with Iran that it is not going to sacrifice to make Mitt Romney happy.

Romney continued,“Fin– finally, the president should have built credible– threat of military action, and made it very clear that the United States of America is willing, in the final analysis, if necessary, to take military action to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Look, one thing you can know– and that is if we reelect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. And if we elect Mitt Romney, if you’d like me as the next president, they will not have a nuclear weapon.”

Romney urges “crippling sanctions.” But the only crippling sanction would be a blockade of Iranian petroleum exports, which would send the price of petroleum through the roof and would be an act of war. Russia and China will not cooperate in “crippling sanctions” at the UN, so they’d be purely American and Western European, and ultimately ineffectual without a military blockade– which would lead to war.

Romney also urges aid to Iranian “insurgents.” But there are no Iranian insurgents. If he means the People’s Jihadis (Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK), they are about as popular in Iran as Mormonism is in Alabama. Nor has the MEK ever shown significant “insurgent” operational ability. And, actively funding an “insurgency” is an act of war.

http://www.juancole.com/

[Enrique]

2. I agree with the last two lines

The biggest risk of Romney as president is that, like George W Bush, he would try to prove "his" toughness by launching a war.

That is no joke.

I don't know who the Mullahs fear, but I'm sure the Iranian people fear a whole bunch of people that skipped Vietnam, not just Romney himself, but all the neocons he's bringing into his campaign as advisors. :scared: