[THE WHITE HOUSE: IT IS
BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON ARE ASLEEP.]
BC: Honey, the phone’s ringing.
HC: What time is it?
BC: Oh no…it’s 3: A.M.
HC: Probably just the wrong number.
BC: I don’t think so, honey, the red light’s blinking.
HC: O.K. I’ll answer it.
[Bill hands her the phone]
HC: Yes?
Secretary of Defense: Mrs. President, I need to know when we’ll begin the Obliteration.
HC: That was only my campaign tactic to become president. We’re not going to obliterate anyone.
I’m going back to sleep.
IT'S THE OIL STUPID!
To meet that potential nuclear weapons threat from Iran requires a serious, non-rhetorical, multinational response that makes clear that no nation has the right to obliterate the population of another, and that nations, even our own, that claim that right should be challenged as unacceptably barbaric. Instead, Clinton played into the thoughts of fanatics throughout the world who believe that might makes right and who take the United States--which spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined (including many billions on new sophisticated and "usable" nuclear weapons)--as both their enemy and an example to emulate.
What better argument do the ayatollahs need to justify their obtaining a nuclear "deterrent" than that the possible leader of the first nation to develop nuclear weapons, and the only one to ever use them to kill people, now threatens the people of Iran with obliteration?
From The Intemperate Candidate
By Robert Scheer
April 23, 2008
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080505/truthdig
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