Posted on 04/14/2010 11:03:10 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Washington - Senator John McCain says the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while that country moves ever closer to having nuclear weapons.McCain opened a Senate hearing Wednesday by saying that Iran will get the bomb unless the United States acts more boldly.
Speaking figuratively, the Arizona Republican says the U.S. keeps pointing a loaded gun at Iran but failing to "pull the trigger."
(Excerpt) Read more at wjla.com ...
It is not likely the US will engage Iran. It is somewhere near zero, that Iran will abort their pursuit of a Nuclear weapon as well. Maybe less than zero. McCain is right on this one..even though he is wrong on so many others. I am working in Amman, Jordan. Many of the Jordanian and Iraqi folks I know have quietly expressed hope the Israelis do the dirty deed. They may, in fact do it. They have significant national security interests that our administration can’t seem to grasp.
McMaverick, you fool, the only trigger 0doofus will pull is the Freddie Mercury type.
He’s one man in bicameral legislature of 535 people. He alone was not responsible for that. Many, many people have been responsible for that failure including by the way JD Hayworth. Did JD sponsor any bills in the House for a border fence or increased border security? Sorry, but this is a failure of wills by many in Washington and among both parties. But that still doesn’t tell me how McCain could have stopped drug trafficking and gangs. Those things aren’t going away just because the border is closed.
Border security and invasion by foreigners is a national security issue is it not?
*In my opinion, President Bush should have declared war on Iran and invaded them (after a heavy bombing, perhaps nuclear, attack) before leaving office.*
Presidents cannot declare war. Congress would have never approved such a declaration after 2006, certainly. Probably not after 2004, either.
Oh please, Juan. You are a SHAMELESS puss in a campaign against an America hating, Marxist, would-be dictator yet now you want to get tough with IRAN!! Ya think it might be an election year and Juan finally has some competition??!!
If Sarah Palin said the exact same thing as McCain, lots of Freepers would be cheering. The rightness of his comments on Iran do NOT depend on his immigration position. The McCain animosity on FR is over the top.
Pure nonsense. McCain has earned every bit of ire aimed at his traitorous arse.
Actually, they do. It's stupid to leave your back door wide open (as McCain has advocated) while attacking foreign States, since such a policy provides a means for those other foreign States to retaliate in an asymmetric manner, i.e., by sending agents across the U.S. border to commit acts that effect death and injury, destruction of public and private property, a general lawlessness, etc.
The cattle ranchers in southern Arizona and their neighbors have already recognized such a dreadful possibility following the murder of Robert Krentz by an unlawfully-present foreign national.
It's about time FReepers like yourself do the same.
“JC must be really kicking butt in the Polls.....”
My thoughts exactly when I read this. JD must be closing the gap.
....who keeps voting for this guy?
I'm no fan of McCain, but I agree with him on this one. We either join up with Israel, and take Ahmajinedad and his crazies and their nuclear facilities out, or we will be faced with a nuclear armed, even more crazy Ahmajinedad very, very soon. Tome for empty talk is long gone.
We can’t protect our own border why we should we attack another country?
He acted boldly on the campaign trail attacking oil company profits and greed. Sounded a lot like a liberal.
Presidents cannot declare war. Congress would have never approved such a declaration after 2006, certainly. Probably not after 2004, either.
Of course you’re right about declaring war. No president can make a formal declaration of war, but he can make an effective one. The last US formal declaration of war was in 1941. All our wars since then have been fought with effective declarations by the president and the approval of congress.
I guess you missed this:
Iran could have uranium for one bomb in year: U.S. official
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100414/wl_nm/us_iran_usa_centrifuges
” Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium with the number of centrifuges it has installed to build one nuclear bomb in as little as a year, the head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said on Wednesday.
“The general consensus — not knowing again the exact number of centrifuges that we actually have visibility into — is we’re talking one year,” Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess told a Senate panel.”
This lunatic Mccain and his weirdo family have got to get out of politics.
He pushes through a narco Islamic parastate - kosovo - and now dare to talk tough.
He is s scoundrel.
Yes Roger, but did MeCain advocate taking out Iran’s nuclear program a long time ago? Hell no. He stood by and watched it get to this point, and now he’s fighting for his political life and wants to make brownie points.
This kind of suggestion right now, will do nothing more than scare people into thinking backing Republicans is a bad idea.
MeCain would sell out every family member if only he stood to gain from it.
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