One of the Republican Senators railing against the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, Sen. Tom Cotton spoke to Israeli reporters today endorsing the idea of a US military strike, saying he believes the US could easily “send Iran back to day one” on its civilian nuclear program by wiping everything out.
Since both the US and Israel have been threatening to attack Iran non-stop for decades, parts of Iran’s civilian nuclear program are in underground bunkers, meant to be all but impossible to attack militarily. Cotton dismissed the concerns, insisting no one who knows anything would doubt the US military’s ability to wipe those buildings out.
Sen. Cotton went on to downplay the seriousness of a war with Iran, saying he believes it would be quick and easy, likening it to the 1998 US attack on neighboring Iraq, a four-day bombing campaign based on faulty US claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Cotton is one of several US Senators touting the 1998 strike as a model, despite that attack resting on faulty claims, and the US turning around just five years later and launching a much bigger, and much more disastrous war on Iraq on the exact same pretext.
This moron needs to shut the hell up. He's an embarrassment to the country and his state.
Come on Rick – he's from Arkansas…embarrassment is not an option.
No reason to insult the whole state for this traitor's actions.
just the ones who voted for him.
May he burn in hell
And this is what passes for a "pro-life" candidate http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Tom_Cotton_Abort…
Post-partum abortion is cool, though.
Ignorant people who don't know they are ignorant, wear their ignorance as a badge of honor. Sen.Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham are prime examples.
Senator Cotton reflects the American dream of absolute security which leads many to the logic that if we kill everyone who might harm us we will be safe, or at least the last man standing will feel safe.
Problem is, with full authority does Senator Cotton speak, for so low an opinion of anyone who is not white has our white voting majority, that to nuke or drone kill those of a different race is the preferred weapon of choice in their wars of expansion and conquest.
Proponents of mass murder should NOT be in the US Congress, but unfortunately that now seems to be a prerequisite to get elected, thanks to the power of AIPAC in either supporting or ruining candidates chances at election! This "man" must be soundly defeated and removed from power before he has a chance to start another world war! he should move to Israel and spout his hateful crap there.
Hank is so right. This moron in the U.S. senate and represents all the treasonous members of congress who servilely follow the Israeli lead. He never should have been elected to the senate, and if the U.S. had any independent investigative reporters left, they would root out all the info about why Sen Cotton ran in the first place, who advised him, and who financed him. I will not hold my breath waiting for this information because the U.S. no longer has an independent press. The U.S. congress is a cesspool of corrupt creeps, cowards, fools, and lapdogs for Israel. I am not optimistic about the future of the U.S.
This idiot needs to send his money and his kids. Have your kids on the front line
What the hell did the kids do? They didn't choose an idiot for a father.
Nothing, but it would put things in perspective for the idiot father.
Now that kind of idiot lip-flapping is just downright embarrassing. And using Iraq as an example of doing it right? It's just laughable. I trust the good people of Arkansas will laugh him directly out of office. Then he can move overseas and run for office in the country of his true loyalty.
Cotton is a product of one of most corrupt States and is a prime example of what generations of “GOOD-OL-BOY” cronyism is all about.
Throughout the south you have a loosely affiliated group called the Southern or Dixie Mafia that sprang up through oil and military contracts and later the coke trade, it goes as far back as Smedley butlets time and granfpappy Bush with Louisuana being its most blatant example during Huey Longs Godfathership.
FOR CLINTONS A BLOODY TRAIL OF OVER 100 PLAIN BLATANT WITH JUSTICE COVERUPS “ACCIDENTAL AND UNEXPLAINABLE DEATHS.
You do not remain in office with such blatantidiocyas expressed by GOP and pseudo democrats as the actions from below Mason Dixon line, unless there are huge coverups of vast corruption so that they use buffoons such as Cotton and
Bush to make rest of citizens think tbey are harmless comedians or excentrics.
They are not but they play the game well and are richley compensated for doing so.
When a viper comes to enter your home only a fool would ignore its entrance, we are a nation of damned fools.