Tom Cotton Suggests We Could Take Care Of Iran With 'Several Days' Of Bombing

[CanonRay]

Eliminating Iran's nuclear facilities with U.S. missile strikes would take a matter of days, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a radio interview Tuesday.

"Even if military action were required -- and we certainly should have kept the credible threat of military force on the table throughout which always improves diplomacy -- the president is trying to make you think it would be 150,000 heavy mechanized troops on the ground in the Middle East again as we saw in Iraq. That's simply not the case," Cotton told Tony Perkins on the Family Research Council's Washington Watch program, according to CNN.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/08/tom-cotton-iran-several-days_n_7026180.html


This man is a bona fide idiot.

[WillTwain]

1. Why are all the "tough guys" pencil-necked geeks?

[MisterP]

9. this kept happening before WWI: all the warmongers were hardly He-Men

Lord Northcliffe's penny-dreadful tales of Manchester under the Russian boot and the South pillaged by murderous Frenchies was written to serve a Commons campaign
Wells was the ultimate Surrey "liberal," rebelling against his parents into his 60s and forcing houseguests to play with model soldiers, hoping that Fritz would jump the Channel so litterateurs would have a chance to pick them off from the privets wearing plus-fours
Kipling was ill-sighted, afraid afraid of horses, and physically incapable of lifting a fieldstone
G.A Henty was a schoolmaster, William Henry Hudson an affable ornithologist, Frederic Farrar a liberal cleric and reformer, Robert Brooke wrote lilting poems about the joy of dying

back then they were so sponge-brained they favored the Hebrews in Palestine literally because they thought the British were the Lost Tribes (and the Germans of course Assyrians)

[world wide wally]

2. Is Rummy ventriloquist now?

Or was it Cheney that said "six days maybe. I doubt six months"

Do you ever listen America?

[Johonny]

3. threat of military force on the table throughout which always improves diplomacy

In magic fantasy land that exists only in my mind, he added later.

The threat of random constant bombing is why THEY WANT THE NUCLEAR BOMB. They are morons.

[SpankMe]

4. Cotton was actualy born yesterday. n/t

[ronnie624]

5. Attacking Iran would be a violation of international law.

The only legally binding agreement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it forbids coercing other signatories to our will, in very clear, concise language. Any agreements beyond that, are strictly voluntary and non-binding.

I have always found it fascinating (since I became politically aware, anyway) how Americans believe that International law does not apply to us, even though our constitution, unequivocally, say that it does.

[Orsino]

6. He just wants to put the tip in.

Just for a minute, to see how it feels.

[2naSalit]

7. I wouldn't be sad if

he fell into a well and nobody knew it until waaaaay later.

[Trillo]

8. Having a war is one way to distract from police killings. NT

[Rex]

10. Fuck him! Is he trying to start a war!? Maybe we need to censor his dumbass.

Does that even happen anymore or is Congress full of clowns now with no sense of responsibility?

[ecdab]

11. Religious War - it's what some of the folks that pay for the campaigns of clowns like Cotton want.

One of the best ways to sell war is by telling the public it'll be a walk in the park and hoping enough have short enough memories to not register what a astronomical liar you are.