Marco Rubio quickly corrects verbal slip over 'nuclear' option against Iran

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Marco Rubio quickly corrects verbal slip over 'nuclear' option against Iran

Tom McCarthy and Ana Terra Athayde in New York
Monday 30 March 2015 23.40 BST

In a slip-up of speech on Fox News on Monday, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida nearly raised the specter of a “nuclear strike” on Iran, before correcting himself.

Rubio went on Fox’s The Five to attack President Barack Obama for “aggressively seeking a deal with Iran”, as negotiators in Switzerland raced to reach a framework agreement on the country’s nuclear program in advance of a deadline Tuesday.

“We should never, ever take off the table the notion that it may be necessary to conduct some sort of nucle – uh, military strike against their nuclear ambition,” Rubio said. “I’m not cheering for that. I’m not asking for that today. But I am saying that is a real option, because that is how serious the Iranian nuclear threat is.”

Rubio has signalled strong interest in joining the 2016 presidential race, based in part on his purported foreign policy expertise. He has promised a major announcement about his future to be made on 13 April.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/30/marco-rubio-fox-news-iran-negotiations

[BeyondGeography]

1. Oops happens

[mindem]

2. GOP is full of 'em -

mouthy little know it all punks.

[jberryhill]

3. Instant Disqualification

There are really only two questions I ask myself before voting for president. In no particular order:

1. Who will be appointing Supreme Court justices?

2. Who will have sole authority to launch nuclear weapons?

The rest is less important.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Give that man a drink of water!

[lpbk2713]

5. But he still denies global climate change is a man made catastrophe.