Ted Cruz Says Obama Should Threaten Iran

HispanicBusiness.com ^ | February 7, 2014 | Paul Bedard

[SoConPubbie]

Expanding his attack on the administration's nuclear deal with Iran, Sen. Ted Cruz Thursday said that President Obama should end talks, demand Tehran give up its nuclear program immediately and use military force if the terrorist nation doesn't give in.

A "responsible president," the Texas Republican told a conference on Iran's grab for a nuclear weapon, "would stand up and say unequivocally, in terms that allow no confusion, 'Under no circumstances will the nation of Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapon capability, and they will either halt now or we will use every step necessary including direct military force to stop them.'"

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Cruz, one of the Senate's harshest critics of the U.S. deal to trade sanctions on Iran in exchange for drawing down its nuclear weapons program, also said that the United States should arm Israel with so-called "bunker buster" bombs capable of destroying Iran's bomb plants deep below the surface of the earth.

"At a very minimum," the first-term senator said, "we should be making available bunker busters to Israel. That if Israel is going to be forced to defend itself, it should have the tools to effectively eliminate this program."

Cruz also called for swift approval of new and broader economic sanctions in Iran.

He called the deal being discussed in Geneva and pushed by Secretary of State John Kerry "a very very bad deal and an historic mistake" and a lethal threat to Israel.

Instead of "appeasement," Cruz said, "we should act against an enemy of the United States."

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[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[Blue Collar Christian]

The One doesn’t bluff.

[Olog-hai]

Only in the case of Syria, right?

[Blue Collar Christian]

Well, I guess, since he said he doesn’t bluff, we can assume he always will bluff.

Maybe he was just bluffing when he said “I don’t bluff”?

[Twotone]

OMG! What a maniac! Threatening Iran!

I guess we had to expect that Cruz would get the Goldwater treatment. Can’t elect him cuz he’s a warmonger!

[Signalman]

Cruz is absolutely correct.

[SoConPubbie]

Only in the case of Syria, right?

Why would think he bluffed on Syria?

[Olog-hai]

Red lines?

[SoConPubbie]

Red lines?

Ok, what am I, a mind-reader?

try using complete sentences.

[I_Like_Spam]

A threat from Obama is sort of pointless, the Iranian government would just call his bluff.

Cruz is wrong, a threat from Obama first would just give him a chance to back down and reduce America’s credibility even further.

[SoConPubbie]

Cruz is wrong, a threat from Obama first would just give him a chance to back down and reduce America’s credibility even further.

No, Ted Cruz is not wrong, you are.

What a knuckle-head.

[ConradofMontferrat]

HEY, YO! Teddy Boy!!

Hussein IS IRAN!!

What the F*** part about Valery Jarret DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!!!

After a legitimate trial, they both need to be HUNG for treason, from a lamp post on Pennsylvania avenue.

[Blue Collar Christian]

He was talked down, the way the story goes, but there is no telling. He has supplied our enemy with the means to persecute Christians, so I guess he has SOME success. And the Syrians are handing over their gas, right?

[SoConPubbie]

He was talked down, the way the story goes, but there is no telling. He has supplied our enemy with the means to persecute Christians, so I guess he has SOME success. And the Syrians are handing over their gas, right?

I still have no clue as to what you and Olog-hai are talking about. Please provide me with a link to an article that gives me, and hopefully others, some context on this issue.

[American Constitutionalist]

We could use a new word in the language to build upon a whole new word vocabulary and dictionary for this administration and Obama.
It's not bluffing, but, fluffing
As in letting America's enemies walk all over us.
A paper tiger.
Fluffies....

[Alberta's Child]

Right. Go hitch your wagon to John McCain and ride that one down into the dust in 2016.

This country is broke, and we don't need one more Ivy League jack@ss who'd convert to Islam before he ever put on a military uniform to tell us what kind of ideas he has for using this country's military forces to support his globalist agenda.

[SoConPubbie]

Are we talking about Obama or Ted Cruz?