Gingrich urges the UK to use military force to destroy Iran’s petrol production company

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1596816.ece

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Newt Gingrich, the former Republican congressman who is considering a presidential bid, urged Britain to use military force to destroy Iran’s petrol production company. If a lack of petrol for their cars forced Iranians to “go back to walking and using oxen to pull carts”, the people might rise against the ayatollahs, Gingrich said.

[bdamomma]

1. can these despicable people crawl under their rocks please?

[demosincebirth]

2. ...and see the price of gas go to 5 or 6 bucks a gallon.

[indepat]

3. That's extremely right, Newtie, so it's bomb 'em back into the stone age

:mad:

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Give newt a rifle and drop him into Iran.

[jwirr]

13. Don't wait for Iran send him to Iraq.

[Raven]

5. My dear God! What an ignorant, reckless, pompous, philandering,pile

of pond scum. I'm sure the Brits just love getting advice from the likes of this guy.

[InternalDialogue]

6. Yeah, Newt, that might work.

If a lack of petrol for their cars forced Iranians to “go back to walking and using oxen to pull carts”, the people might rise against the ayatollahs, Gingrich said.

Or they might have risen against the ayatollahs and voted in a more moderate regime if we hadn't threatened them with destruction by labeling them part of the "Axis of Evil" in 2002. I think they were ready to rise on their own; too bad we f*ed it up. Ah, well, it's just one more generation of defensive, radicalized Persians. We'll have another shot at doing it right in 20 years. If we haven't alienated and radicalized their children by that time, too.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Republicans to a man are unfit to rule.

Their answer to everything is start a war. Apparently Newt doesn't realize that we'll be using oxcarts right along with them.

[Pathwalker]

8. Funny how all these Non-War Vets wanna play war

with this nation's military. Too bad he didn't serve when he had the chance, the chickenhawk.

[wordpix]

9. this guy is another dangerous moron. I hope he runs for pres. so we can bring his private life

out in the open for the sheeple to scrutinize.

[jwirr]

16. Why wait? We can open the pages now. He thinks he is a world

leader.

[DemoTex]

10. Newt sounds like General Curtis "Bombs-Away" Lemay.

Gingrich spews more gasoline on the Mid-East fire.

[jwirr]

11. That is real savvy advice to a country that gets much of their oil from

the country they are supposed to bomb. Gingrich has never been much of a thinker.

[rodeodance]

12. I wish i had the power to put a Gag Order in effect for him!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Isn't that the same thing...

as urging Iran to launch chemical weapons at Tel Aviv?

[jmowreader]

30. Worse

There's no guarantee that Iranian chemical warfare would even hit Tel Aviv--I would not imagine that Iran's missilemen have had a lot of recent practice in firing a mission of that range.

OTOH, if the British blow up Iran's gasoline company, Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz (the mouth of the Persian Gulf) to shipping traffic. That's all they have to do to completely fuck up the whole world. The world is dependent on Middle Eastern oil, and that's the only way to get it out.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. If they dropped his fat ass in the middle of Tehran, I wonder how much

damage that might cause to their infrastructure.

[Initech]

17. Yup, he's beginning to sound more and more like the moral values crowd's ideal candidate.

Let's see - he spearheaded Clinton's impeachment, openly wants to suppress the first amendment, and now he wants to bomb Iran back to the stone age. He's the ideal candidate for Dobson and Falwell, all right.

[Old and In the Way]

18. Hard to take these guys seriously anymore.

Bush, McCain, Newt, Guiliani, Tancendo....they all seem to be trying to out-delusion each other. Is this a race to the bottom of the stupid barrel for the Republican Party?

[NNN0LHI]

19. If Newt was ten years younger and a foot taller I would personally kick his ass n/t

[gatorboy]

20. Gingrich must think America loves $6 gas.

[Virginia Dare]

21. More tough talk from another pansy ass chicken hawk...

STFU already Newty.

[lpbk2713]

22. Tough talk for such a chickenhawk.

It's OK with him as long as someone (anyone?) else does the fighting. :shrug:

[xchrom]

23. so the serial adulterer has another stupid idea?

quelle surprise.

[Forkboy]

24. I urge the UK to bomb Newt.

[walldude]

25. Newt's first day as President:

[SpiralHawk]

26. Another republicon chickenhawk calls for our sons and daughters to die

in a far away land, to boost WAR PROFITS for corrupt republicon cronies.

Sorry, Newtie. You and Dickie 'Five Military' Deferments, and Hannity, O'Liely and Limbaugh will have to fight this one.

Oh, you are TERRIFIED of that? I thought so.

Crawl back in your republicon chickenhawk bunker.

[IDemo]

27. DU'ers should celebrate statements like this

Because it's playback time on The Daily Show, YouTube and elsewhere in '08 for Newtie and other Republic candidates who open their mouths too often. Macaca Moment #113.3....

[Zenlitened]

28. So much of what's wrong in the world today can be laid directly at Gingrich's feet.

He truly is a shit-stain on our nation's history.

[Nickster]

29. And all the big oil companies cheered and wrote a check to Newties campaign fund. n/t