The Iowa Republican President Debate spent much of its time, predictably, meandering ever so close to issues of substance, before quick and dramatic retreat from serious stances and back to the safety of sloganeering.
After an hour, or so, the topic of foreign policy finally came up when Newt Gingrich was asked about the war in Libya. Gingrich’s answer, when he was finally done berating the questioner, was to rail on about Iran, insisting the nation had “gone on the offensive” against the US and needed to be confronted.
This set the table for a round of questions during which the assorted candidates tried to outhawk one another on Iran, while railing against Rep. Ron Paul (R – TX), the only dissenting candidate on the matter, for not supporting the war.
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty went hard and fast on the question of Iran, not just supporting the notion of attacking the nation but praising the “good works” of the US government in assassinating Iranian scientists and the “good work” of creating the Stuxnet computer virus, which threatens to do massive damage to industrial computers far beyond Iran.
Not to be outdone, former Sen. Rick Santorum condemned Rep. Paul as identical to Barack Obama on foreign policy and insisted that if the Iranian govenrment acquired a single nuclear weapon “the world will be no more!”
Little discussion was had on Afghanistan, with the handful of candidates addressing the matter declaring that they would do whatever the generals wanted. Iraq was not mentioned in any substantive way, nor were Yemen or Pakistan.
"Iran is not in breach of international law. There is no evidence that the country is building nuclear weapons" – Five former EU ambassadors to Iran. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/…
Multiple polls by US organizations found that the people of Iran did in fact vote for Ahmadinejad, and there was no election fraud. http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/b…
The GOP, and the Democrats are in collusions behind closed doors. They care nothing about the security, or well being of Americans. They only care about the rich, wall street, and propping up the imperial war machine. We have not attacked Iran, because Iran can fight back, and instill maximum damage to US, and Israeli interests. One must never forget that the Pentagon, and Whitehouse always want a "sure thing"…that is why they ALWAYS go after countries with little or no defense. What is surprising is that these countries..Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan always send the US packing with its tail between it legs!! No victory!!!
"Little discussion was had on Afghanistan, with the handful of candidates addressing the matter declaring that they would do whatever the generals wanted."
If the generals can do whatever they want, we've had a military coup in this country.
We have already had a military coup in this country. It occured years ago. What group do you think was in charge at the Pentagon on 9/11 and arranged for the stand-down of our entire air defense? Due to the mass media, which is owned by the same group that did 9/11, the American people remain ignorant of the fact that their govenment was taken over by a foreign power at least 20 years.
They are condemind Iran that has done nothing illegal.The only none smart canidate thats not a NEOCON ZIONISTS is DR Paul.He is the only constitutional canidate.Iran is wrong in there eyes for not l;istenuing to anything the US tells them.It was the same with Afganistan ,Iraq and all the other illegal wars now being waged.There are American special ops in 160 country doing GOD nows what.If Ron Paul don't become President Americans are stupid or the election was riged like at least 2 of the Presidential elections in the last 12 years and it almost happened 3 times.Please educate youselfs and wake up.
And their AEPIC handlers smiled with glee.
Here's dumb Goliath shooting himself in the foot for David, again, because David has his fingers up Goliath's bum in the first place!
The US Should act in its own best interests and normalize relations with Iran. Get over what happened in 1979 and apologize for 1953 already. Show some humility and respect and support Iran in its efforts to combat drug trade and stop MEK attacks. Both have so much to gain from cooperating on trade and regional security, this behavior caused a foolishly missed opportunity.
US will do so many stupid things and act against itself, for all the wrong reasons; it is a sick, spoiled child, and with whiny snot-nosed jewish punk Israel working in tandem, its proving to be a fruitless and counterproductive effort.
If US was smart, long term No. 1 partner in the region would be Iran definitely.
Everyone would benefit from good relations between Iran and America. Everyone but Israel that is.
Indeed everyone! A shame the cost of being on good terms with 9/10ths of the Muslim ME is the slavish support of a nuclear armed supremacist state of blood-thirsty fanatics on the eastern Mediterranean.
By bloodthirsty I mean for the blood of Arabs – sacrificed by the blood of young Americans. Their own blood is too important to shed
I liked how Ron Paul compared the pre-war Iran propaganda with the pre-war propaganda on Iraq. Also the history lesson he gave to Santorum was priceless concerning who started the feud between the US and Iran.
If people don't want another 4 more years of Bush they should avoid anyone who is hawkish on Iran. Obama was hawkish on Iran and he turned out just like Bush. Hawkishness on Iran is a sign that they have sold their souls to lobbyist.
Friday evening, Wolf Biitzer's "Situation Room" reported the Iran exchange between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. They played Santorum saying the U.S. ". . . has been at war with Iran since 1979." They then played Paul's rejoinder that Santorum "doesn't know his history. We've been at war with Iran for a lot longer than 1979 . . ." But CNN cut out the continuation of Paul's statement, ". . . We've been at war with Iran since 1952 when we sent in a coup to overthrow their government." I almost have to use Sarah Palin's "lamestream media" to describe how the corporate media blatantly distorts the facts to hide the history of U.S. imperialistic abuse.
War with Iran is inevitabel. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) talked in his prophycies about Iraq war. He then prophesiized " Sunni Muslims will ally with the Romans (Americans &Europeans) to fight an enemy from behind. After defeating this enemy the Romans will back stab the Muslims then the Armageddon will start between Muslims & Christians. Al-Mehdi will be leading Muslim armies. One Muslim man will be left out of 1000 men. Three muslim armies will be crushed, then the fouth army will defeat the Romans". Israel is behind every mishap and they will be behinf the fall of Europe and US. Syria will be attacked & destroyed to make the way for Israel to get rid of the last Arabic power against them. After Syria the n the war with Iran which will cause WWIII. Read my words and remember this is the real senario. This is the plan of the Globalist Zionist.
ZE J00Z AR TAKING OVUR ZE VURLD!!!
By Galee, I think AntiWar has finally acquired a resident Zionist troll! Kewl!
Im not a troll, I like most of the articles here, but Raimondo and Ditz are either antisemitic or too sucked up by Arab propaganda. On the other hand, at least they beat on everyone, so I give them credit for being fairly even against all war, but they need to do more against Hamas and the PLO/Fatah/PA.
Nope. You're not a troll. You just get paid by AIPAC or the Israeli Foreign Ministry to spew Hasbara on the internet and accuse everybody who is critical of Israel's crimes with "anti-semitism(tm)". But that doesn't mean you're a troll or anything, of course.
lol its hard to resist feeding the troll, isn't it. like a KICK ME sign
What a bunch of pathetic dorks! Only Ron Paul dares to go against the Zionist grain.
It goes to show who/what rules America's bizarre 'democratic' process. These men are little more than traitors to the people they hope to lead. Disgusting. They must be loving this spectacle in Tel Aviv. A hard rain is gonna fall….
Ron Paul would be the most pro-Israel president ever. He would cut the aid that keeps Israel on a leash, he would leave the antisemitic UN and cause it to collapse, and he wouldnt tell Israel that Jews cant live in certain areas.
ZIONISTS FOR RON PAUL
It's the US that is on the leash, not Israel.
The candidates seem more worried about Iran than Israel is. Israel doesnt need American help in fighting Iran. If Israel feels threatened enough by Iran, it will take the necessary action, regardless of the US.
Juvanya. You are free to open your big Zionist mouth and talk bla bla bla. I dare you if you are an educated Zionist to read the Talmoud. Israel is nearing its end. You are real ignorant servant. 2009 Israeli foreign misinter crossed eyed lizard Mr. Avdigor Leiberman was dining in Amman with the Iranian foreign minsiter at King Abdallah II palace. When I talked about propfecy I get my information from your crooked satanic Talmoud and from the truth teller Muhammad (PBUH). Iran & Israel allied together to control the middle east. Your religion & the Shia are the same which is full of satanic rituals. If it was not for US your country would have been gone long time ago. When the great empire collapse your nukes would not stop 1.5 billion Muslims.
I'm ecstatic someone finally put it so clearly. Now I know exactly what to think.
Yeah, just like it did with Iraq.
did I mention I just love the great little Shield of the Knights of the Order of Zion, Are you a level 10 troll Shrewvanya? Do you wear that on your shirt pocket? No wait, a die-hard Hasbarat like yourself probably has it tattooed over his heart.
No one cares about Israel unless they are paid to do so. Like yourself. And if they aren't paid, then they are misguided supporters of terrorism.
The negativity against Israel is 1000 -1, from NYT and WSJ down to the smallest blogs.
You got your work cut out for you
Yes I agree with you 1000000% the Media is in favoe of Israel. Why not. All MSM owned by Zionist Jews. Shall I name them for you.
Good, then you don't mind if the US stops shooting itself in the foot by supporting Israel financially, militarily and diplomatically at the expense of the entire Middle East. I hope it's not too anti-semetic to condemn Israel's gov't for stirring the pot, and occupation-by-proxy by supporting the so-called settler movement?
Since things are going so well in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, they have to move to the next target: Iran. Heavens forbid they run out of oil-rich countries to invade and brown people to kill.
This is bloody frightening. The most powerful country in the world run by uneducated and uninformed idiots being trolls for Israel.
It’s been a long hard slog to the bottom, but the US establishment and media ownership has finally managed it. How the fuck can anyone seriously consider putting nuclear weapons in the hands of these complete incompetents?
We should all be very scared. It’s the end of the Roman Empire revisited, but with nuclear weapons this time.
Actually, if you consider the lifespan of other empires before this one, the slog to the bottom has been incredibly fast. The US was invaded by the European genocidal maniacs in 1621 and by 2011, it's all but done already. Compare that to the Romans, the Persians or even the Brits, the French or the Spanish and you'll realize what a short stint it has been. If anything, the USan Empire holds the record for rising and falling in the shortest amount of time in history.
iran is not afghanistan or iraq or …. that us ould bully
us and nato had the plan to atack iran in 2001 but they didnt as britain(the wise enemy) warned them of the results
one day this war will provoke, as its mentioned in holy quran, but that day iran crushes the army of the anticrist.” this will happen after the atack on iraq” with the leadership of imam hadi( peace be upon him) and we iranians will be proud of ourselves!
iran is not afghanistan or iraq or …. that us could bully
us and nato had the plan to atack iran in 2001 but they didnt as britain(the wise enemy) warned them of the results
one day this war will provoke, as its mentioned in holy quran, but that day iran crushes the army of the anticrist.” this will happen after the atack on iraq” with the leadership of imam hadi( peace be upon him) and we iranians will be proud of ourselves!
When is Texas big oil going to stop running the country behind the scenes?
Gingrich is the "intellectual" that is so smart he is stupid