Ted Cruz Says Obama Should Threaten Iran

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

[upchuck]

Hussein IS IRAN!!

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

You'll search far and wide to find someone who dislikes Valerie Jarrett more than I do.

But, she is American as much as you and I. Granted, she was born in Iran, but her parents were Americans working there, her father as a scientist and her mother as a teacher. Source.

[grania]

That's just it. I really don't care if Iran's a theocracy, or if Khadaffi was a bully, or if Saddam Hussein didn't like us or if Afghani girls can't read. etc

I'm more concerned that we're supporting muslim terrorists in Syria and that we're still Saudi Arabia's friend. Some of these governments we helped overthrow were in countries that need thugs in control, not CIA inspired Arab Springs.

[Twotone]

I’ve forgotten the name of the Polish lady president (or premier) who commented how devastated they were that the Americans didn’t rescue them from the Soviets. Those suffering under the thumb of tyrants do look to us for salvation.

On the other hand, we are not omniscient nor omnipotent, & there’s no knowing what any action will result in. Certainly the situation in the Middle East isn’t better for our actions, although it was certainly bad enough before. The Muslim Brotherhood has been working for years towards the goal of a caliphate. Maybe the tyrants were keeping them down, or maybe they were aiding and abetting them.

I’m certainly concerned that the abject idiots now running the country seem inclined to help the terrorists. Time for our own revolution!

[Alberta's Child]

Largesse shouldn't have to work both ways. It shouldn't be there at all.

In the case of Egypt (of all the countries over there), at least the U.S. can make the case that it's not really giving "aid" at all. In fact, it's buying favor from the Egyptian government -- in the form of: (1) access to Egyptian airspace for U.S. military aircraft, and (2) priority scheduling for U.S. warships for transits through the Suez Canal.

P.S. Item (2) is important to understand because it explains why the U.S. was adamant about Israel giving up the Sinai Peninsula as part of the Camp David accords during the Carter administration. It would have been far more difficult for the U.S. to buy this kind of concession if the Suez Canal was the border between two countries instead of being situated entirely within the borders of one.

[ffrog]

2017

President Cruz leads a US - Israeli attack on Iran wiping out the government! My wish.

[stevie_d_64]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAN_US_NAVY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-08-10-14-18

So the Iranians want to project power???

hehehe

Lets do some targeting and overflights right over their heads...And see who blinks if they get within 60 miles of our beaches...

I hated those deployments in the Gulf back in the 80’s...I lost a couple of friends back in the day...I would love to return the white knuckles in spades back to these shmups...

[ex-snook]

Right

[PieterCasparzen]

Pieter, Alberta’s Child.

Just curious - what is your position on NK and their WMD program?

Should we allow it to go ahead to the point of having ready to launch nukes aimed at the USA? 5,10,20,50?

At what point, if any, would you support military action to prevent that from happening?

This "threat" is not real. It's quite nonsensical when you think about it, because NK is so weak - and it would provoke a response. It's only if that response was desired, and a war was been planned, that NK leadership would be goaded into any sort of real attack on the US.

Economy of North Korea.

American companies aren't allowed to do business with NK, but many other countries do business with them. So new world order does business with NK, just not through US companies. New world order did a ton of business with every regime in the 20th century that was made an enemy of the US. New world order is transnational, and their UK and European interests operate where their US entities can't, not to mention all the offshore things going on with covert CIA businesses and accounts, non-profit groups, drugs and money laundering, counterfeiting, etc.

NK functions too well for new world order as a black market area and a military "threat" for NWO to want to see much fast change there.

[PieterCasparzen]

But, she is American as much as you and I. Granted, she was born in Iran, but her parents were Americans working there, her father as a scientist and her mother as a teacher. Source.

Based on various things I've seen, her father was working for the Company in Iran.

[RKBA Democrat]

The thought of dear leader issuing a credible threat to iran is laughable. They know he’s a nancy boy.

I like Ted but he’s wrong on this. Best not to issue a completely hollow threat to our enemies.

[RedMDer]

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[County Agent Hank Kimball]

"Or is it that you are one of the wacky Libertarians like Ron Paul who thinks we didn't need to fight either the Civil War or WWII?"

WWI, no. We needed to do that one. War of Northern Aggression, though, yes.

Or are you one of those wacky statists who think Lincoln was a hero?

Hank

[PieterCasparzen]

WWI was before TV, when everyone was a low information voter.

It was engineered by new world order financial elites.

A horrific scam foisted on humanity.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Sorry....that was a typo. Meant to say WWII, which is the war he asked about.

Hank

[rmlew]

Back in the real world, the trazis oppose any action on Iran.
Just how broke do you think we will be when Iran and multiple Sunni nations have nukes inevitably leading to the nuking of at least one American city?

Neoconservatives and John McCain are lunatics. But that doesn't mean that we should allow a country that has promised to destroy America and which uses suicide bombers to get nukes.

[PieterCasparzen]

I recommend this documentary...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVWXmZB1wc

[Alberta's Child]

Nuclear science is exactly that: science. Trying to contain the spread of knowledge and the proliferation of technology that was developed years ago is like telling China that they can't use anything more advanced than a Texas Instruments calculator in their military programs. In a recent article posted here on FreeRepublic, for example, it was suggested that a country like Japan could develop a working nuclear weapon in no more than six months, if it wanted to.

And this doesn't even take into account the purchase of nuclear weapons by one country from another that already has them.

[rmlew]

The technology is not easy to impliment. But according to your thinking, Al Qaeda should have nukes too.