Obama Says He’ll Nuke China If It Helps Him Get Elected August 1, 2007
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Senator Barack Obama today said he’d nuke China if it would help him get elected. The hawkish statement was said in the aftermath of polls showing he has lost ground to Vice President Hillary Clinton after the recent YouTube debate that many pundits claimed demonstrated Clinton’s experience over Obama.
“If we have actionable intelligence suggesting that, say, China was prepared to launch a strike against Tawain, then, not only would I have to reconsider my former position vis a vis talking to hostile leadership, I would have to seriously consider the possibility of an all out nuclear strike,” Obama wrote in a long email to The Gore Years. “The American public should get what it wants, and any consequences derived from those desires should be born fully by the electorate.”
“Imagine,” the email continued, “a world in which George Bush had won the election instead of Al Gore. Many of the foreign policy heavyweights Bush was considering bringing into his administration, people like Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, were advocating an invasion of Iraq, which of course would have been disastrous. I, and almost all the military and intelligence experts I’ve talked to, have felt that such an action would have resulted in possibly a decades-long quagmire. But if, following such a disastrous policy, the American people would have re-elected a President responsible for enacting that policy, then the American people would themselves be culpable. Luckily, of course, that is not the path we went down.”
“However,” he continued in apparent reference to the recent dip in the polls, “the American people appear to be engaged in a bit of pro-war sentimental fancy, and I’m willing to accommodate that.”
It really doesn’t matter. He has to play second fiddle to Ms. Hillary pantsuit Clinton. Obmama’s on the ticket. You have to get the big block of Democrats who vote on skin color.
People are very ignorant in the USA, mostly because they are too lazy to note that USA “news” is largely propaganda, and always tell to slim the reality of a story. Take China for example. Human Rights Abuser? What about USA? Kent State Massacre where it is now a fact that the soldiers were ordered to shoot the students? Where there was a War in Detroit 1967 AND a War in Chicago 1968, all but ignored by the amerikkkan people, and the Attica Prison Massacre where the N.Y. Storm Troopers slaughtered 50 to 60 people after there was a peace agreement to let the hostages go free unharmed and fly the Black Panthers to Cuba? And the Tian en men square Massacre? Where the Americans are ALWAYS shown the tanks trying to run over the One student (who walks away unharmed by the way), but are never shown the soldiers who were hung and slain by the mob of rioting students? USA has largest prison population percentage wise in the world, and they are going to tell China about human rights??? HYPOCRITES, is the word you can’t shout too loudly here.
Number 2, there has always been resentment against America since WW2, even in Europe, and in spite of (or perhaps because of) the Marshall Plan, which helped in no insignificant way lead to the European welfare states we see today.
And I would offer that any nation as large and diverse as the US will have its occasional Atticas, its Liberty and Watts and Haymarket riots, and even odd idiosyncrasies like refusing to be neighborly to places like Cuba.
What is unique about the current regime is the sudden determination that invading another nation without direct provocation is somehow legitimate foreign policy.
That Obama is basically endorsing this by suggesting we should ignore Pakistan’s sovereignty is highly disturbing, not so much because it comes from Obama’s mouth, but because it represents how extreme to the right America has gone since the Reagan years.
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I live in China, nuking China is something I would fully support regardless of what Taiwan does.