Reply #18: McCain said selling cigarettes to Iran may be ''a way of killing 'em.''

[Octafish]

Cake is too good for them.



Senator McCain and wife Cindy. Photo: AP

McCain sends Iran a smoke bomb

Pittsburgh
July 10, 2008

JOHN McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, has reacted to a report of rising US cigarette exports to the Islamic republic by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em".

While Senator McCain waited for a cheese steak at Pittsburgh restaurant Primanti Brothers, famous for its thick sandwiches piled high not only with meat but french fries, a reporter on Tuesday asked him to comment on the report that US exports to Iran had increased tenfold in the past seven years — with cigarettes ranking as the top export.

"Maybe that's a way of killing 'em," Senator McCain said. His wife, Cindy, sitting next to him, poked him in the back, and he added: "I meant that as a joke, as a person who hasn't had a cigarette in 28 years."

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http://www.theage.com.au/world/mccain-sends-iran-a-smoke-bomb-20080709-3ck2.html

This disturbed fellow is the best the GOP has to offer.