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excon
Dec 5, 2013, 07:15 AM
Hello:

Republican congressman Duncan Hunter, (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/12/04/3018431/duncan-hunter-iran-nukes/)said on Wednesday that if the United States ends up using military force against Iran's nuclear program, it should do so with nuclear weapons.

I think a ground war in Iran with American boots on the ground would be a horrible thing and I think people like to toss around the fact that we have to stop them in some way from gaining this nuclear capability. I don't think it's inevitable but I think if you have to hit Iran, you don't put boots on the ground, you do it with tactical nuclear devices and you set them back a decade or two or three. I think that's the way to do it with a massive aerial bombardment campaign. It's only a teeny, tiny nuclear bomb. What could possibly go wrong?

excon

tomder55
Dec 5, 2013, 07:37 AM
Aint gonna happen . The emperor in defiance of international law is making a separate deal with the 12ers that legitimizes over a decade of UNSC sanction violations .

paraclete
Dec 5, 2013, 01:56 PM
Simple question Ex, ARE YOU STARK RAVING MAD? Just thought I'd ask

speechlesstx
Dec 16, 2013, 03:43 PM
The best Secretary of State ever is on top of things...

Kerry: N. Korea 'Potentially' Having Nuke Would Be 'Unacceptable' (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kerry-n-korea-potentially-having-nuke-would-be-unacceptable_770924.html)

"To have a nuclear weapon, potentially, in the hands of somebody like Kim Jong In — Jun — just becomes even more unacceptable."

As Weekly Standard noted, the "first successful nuclear test was more than four years ago." Maybe Dennis Rodman can clue him in on his buddy's name, too. Does Kerry even know where Iran is?

talaniman
Dec 16, 2013, 03:52 PM
He (Kerry) immediately asked to be connected with counterparts, his Republic of Korea counterpart, his Japanese, his Chinese, and his Russian counterparts."

What else should we be doing?

speechlesstx
Dec 16, 2013, 04:00 PM
You don't think our chief diplomat, the one making deals with Iran should know the Norks already had nukes? Wow, and you guys called Bush a dufus.

talaniman
Dec 16, 2013, 04:02 PM
Don't be silly, he knew, everybody knows. What to do about it is and always has been the question.

tomder55
Dec 16, 2013, 04:16 PM
The horse is already out of the barn . Now we are making the same mistake with the 12'ers in Tehran.

paraclete
Dec 16, 2013, 05:11 PM
Ah MAD it is such a useful policy, and what has it got you? more people who think they need nuclear bombs to keep you away. This is the is the only reason anyone wants nuclear weapons, it is because the bully on the block has them, and yet you deny anyone else to defend themselves from your bull and your bluster.

Kim having a bomb is indeed bad news, but I understand NK paranoia. If you were truely serious about world peace you would invade that place and take the bomb away, but it is too late.. You can't do it by conventional means and you won't contemplate the alternative, so why don't you stop bleaing