Remember that big disastrous US war in the Middle East and how officials at the time were assuring us it’d only take a few days? Sen. Tom Cotton (R – AR) remembers how popular those quick easy wars were in theory, and is pushing for one again.
The target is obvious for those following Sen. Cotton’s career, he wants the US to “pursue military strikes” against Iran, a war he believes would only take a few days to win outright.
Sen. Cotton is citing the mostly forgotten December 1998 US war on Iraq as the model, saying the US won after several days of attacking Iraq for “disobeying Security Council resolutions.”
The reason the war is mostly forgotten is because it killed a couple thousand people, didn’t resolve anything, and was just a brief escalation amid sanctions that killed far, far more.
The US attacked Iraq falsely in 1998 over WMDs, then kept harping about it for four and a half more years until the 2003 invasion and occupation, which was similarly launched over false claims of WMDs. It hardly seems a model for anything, though Cotton is keen for Obama to follow the example of Bill Clinton and kill a couple thousand people in Iran just to show how serious the US is.
What else can we expect from the state of Arizona??
This guy is from Arkansas. He's clearly disconnected from reality … over 46 million Americans on food stamps and this hick wants to start another war? http://www.trivisonno.com/food-stamps-charts
America had better tell these zio-idiots to shove off and start re-building our country so we can at least feed ourselves!!!!! We had better start re-building good relationships instead of more wars
Arkansas
You mean Arkansas.
Not sure why you mention Arizona. Tom Cotton is from Arkansas.
To be precise, this ass-ole is from Arkansas; Arizona has its own ass-oles – McCain and Jake the Flake. Although they are all different without any distinction.
Dumb evil liar.
Evil is as evil does or has done. Cotton fits the bill perfectly.
I'm assuming the Iranian civilians will be in the streets to greet our troops with flowers and fresh-baked home goods, just like the Iraqis did?
Gee, I just don't get it- I just can't understand why the Iranians would even think about procuring nuclear weapons when all the US leadership wants to do is be friends.
It is obvious.The reason that we were not treated to flowers and candy on the streets of Iraq
was because the candy and flowers were secretly smuggled out of Iraq into Iran. I have looked online and can find multiple florists and confectionaries in Tehran. What more proof do we
need?
WMD = Weapons of Massive Diabetes?
This is the same scoundrel who initiated that dreadful letter ¨to Iran¨¨ clearly stating how untrustworthy the American people are (you elect them, remember?) Now, his dispensationalist nature surfaces again and seeks to do implement the will of his handlers. These are literally dying to bring Doomsday around and use craven such as this political apprentice to further such goals.
All I can say is Tom Cotton is evil….Period.
Most importantly, the regime change that will only take a few minutes must replace the current reluctance to pursue nuclear weapons with attitudes that will prove his conspiracy theory… so that he can then drop the issue as if nothing significant happened …as will the media…
He is just a simple fool trying to burnish his "credentials'.
Donating to politicians — Criminal behavior
Not just uncivilized, but most criminal is the idea that it’s OK to donate to your favorite politician and get privileged treatment from government. For in 1776 the rich nobility created USA to be a rich man’s paradise, knowing full well that humans are criminal by nature and will always take all that the law will allow.
Donating to politicians — Criminal behavior
Not just uncivilized, but most criminal is the idea that it’s OK to donate to your favorite politician and get privileged treatment from government. For in 1776 the rich nobility created USA to be a rich man’s paradise, knowing full well that humans are criminal by nature and will always take all that the law will allow.
For elections funded by taxes is the only fair and just way to go, but never will it happen until society gets moral, as opposed to criminal.
After fighting palookas like Grenada and Panama, the war-hawks think that our military is bullet-proof. From my defense work experience, I believe that for the first time since Viet-Nam, we will suffer serious casualties if we are foolish enough attack Iran. For starters, we can kiss the Navy's Fifth Fleet (in Bahrain), good-bye. Iran has first-class anti-ship missiles.
What a coincidence, the Senator's view mirror those of that American patriot, Sheldon Adelson.
I would support a one-bomb strike on Iran – if Tom Cotton were strapped to that bomb.
Well it would certainly help things if there were an actual casus belli involved in a future dust-up with Iran, but the fact is however, there is not, and at present seems there probably won't be. So all Mr Cotton is doing is warmongering, which makes him a demagogue. Someone Else's kids (surely not his!) will die for his "patriotism" (read"arrogance"). I think he needs a head doctor, and soon.
I have a friend who has a sign hanging in his shop…
" You Can't Fix Stupid !!! "
Seems appropriate in this instance.
They say that Devi or evils don't exist, that might be true but there are plenty look alike out there.
If this is not 'pure evil' it certainly is getting close to it. Johnny Cash sang "I shot a man just to watch him die". Cotton wants to bomb a nation just to watch millions die.
The man is just plain crazy. The problem is there are many just as crazy as he. What has happened to Harvard University. A graduate surgeon now turned snake oil salesman ( Dr. Oz); a business school whose graduates crashed the economy; and now this raving lunatic, a graduate of Harvard Law. But what can you expect; Alan Derschowitiz is there to teach these fools..
This Boy is HIGH on some of that crack cocaine Slick Willie
left over at his airport in Mena Arkansas.
"It'll be a cakewalk!!!"
Calling for the real destruction of Iran is acceptable. Calling for regime change in Israel is anti-Semite.
Lots of wanna-be's in Arizona — wanna-be men.
"R-AR" means Representative from Arkansas. AZ is the abbreviation for Arizona. Not that I'm being defensive; AZ has John McCain, after all.
"AR" is Arkansas – NOT Arizona
I CRY FOR MY NEW COUNTRY FROM BOTTOM OF MY HART COTTON WAS DESIGNED BY ZEEZ AND MADE IN AMERICA
Where he is from, its either join the military or pick cotton for a living.
A War On Congress Would Only Take A Few days.
I guess he was still on drugs during that last adventure.
"The war will pay for itself"
"We will be greeted as liberators"
"They will throw flowers at our feet"
"A few weeks…a month, tops"
Where have we heard this crap before?