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"The Boston Globe, yesterday Sunday April 27, 2008, dropped the bomb :
No one who talks about "obliterating", incinerating this is, millions of innocent children, women and men with nuclear weapons should be answering the Red Phone "at any time of day or night".
Period.
This is huge.
On Saturday April 19th, 2008, a few days after Clinton's "obliterate" remarks I wrote a Daily Kos post entitled MoveOn Bashing, Nuclear WarTalk... CLINTON is a NEOCON and I seem to have been right on the money : I guess uber-NeoCon Bill Kristol really liked Clinton's talk on obliterating millions with nuclear weapons, because Kristol just wrote a glowing op-ed in support of Hilary Clinton's candidacy
Boston Globe editorial, April 27 2008
...there are some red lines that should never be crossed. Clinton did so Tuesday morning, the day of the Pennsylvania primary, when she told ABC's "Good Morning America" that, if she were president, she would "totally obliterate" Iran if Iran attacked Israel.
This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world...
Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, said... 'it is probably not prudent in today's world to threaten to obliterate any other country and in many cases civilians resident in such a country'...
...A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night."
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"Meet The Press" Crowd Aghast at Clinton's "Nuclear Umbrella"
My post that day, on the one I wrote the previous day, were inspired and informed by conversations with George E. Lowe...
George Lowe, has told me it was his lot to gaurd one of the "Red Phones", in Paris during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis - perhaps the closest brush the world has had yet with Nuclear War. Lowe thought Clinton's statements were bizzarre. After the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, George Lowe [pronounced one would "Cow"] went off to write a book on nuclear deterrence ("Nuclear Deterrence", Little Brown 1964) and he also wrote several award winning papers on the subject.
Lowe has told me that he stopped writing on nuclear deterrence decades ago but now he's horrified that the same sorts of ideas that nearly led to nuclear obliteration decades ago have now recrudesced...
And, those ideas are coming from the mouth of a Democrat."
- from the mouth of a Democrat... mistake to frame as partisan issue. its bad judgement period.********
- from the mouth of a Democrat... mistake to frame as partisan issue. its bad judgement period.