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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:19 PM Apr 2015

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) Suggests We Could Take Care Of Iran With 'Several Days' Of Bombing

Source: Huffington Post

Eliminating Iran's nuclear facilities with U.S. missile strikes would take a matter of days, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a radio interview Tuesday.

"Even if military action were required -- and we certainly should have kept the credible threat of military force on the table throughout which always improves diplomacy -- the president is trying to make you think it would be 150,000 heavy mechanized troops on the ground in the Middle East again as we saw in Iraq. That's simply not the case," Cotton told Tony Perkins on the Family Research Council's Washington Watch program, according to CNN.

"It would be something more along the lines of what President Clinton did in December 1998 during Operation Desert Fox," he added. "Several days of air and naval bombing against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction facilities for exactly the same kind of behavior -- for interfering with weapons inspectors and for disobeying Security Council resolutions. All we're asking is that the president simply be as tough as in the protection of America's national security interest as Bill Clinton was."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/08/tom-cotton-iran-several-days_n_7026180.html?utm_hp_ref=politics



Aren't these the same folks who said the Iraq war would pay for itself and that they would greet us as liberators?
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) Suggests We Could Take Care Of Iran With 'Several Days' Of Bombing (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Apr 2015 OP
Channeling his inner McGeorge Bundy. malthaussen Apr 2015 #1
he looks young--when will he enlist dembotoz Apr 2015 #2
He's a veteran alcibiades_mystery Apr 2015 #7
Then this knucklehead can serve again. BlueStater Apr 2015 #26
Can someone just shut this dumb Gomer Pyle-looking motherfucker up? Arkana Apr 2015 #3
I think he looks MUCH MORE like ... staggerleem Apr 2015 #9
I can hardly wait until Chuckie cheese schemer signs on to this bullshit still_one Apr 2015 #4
Put a gun in the chickenhawks hand workinclasszero Apr 2015 #5
Even Iran doesn't deserve that. onehandle Apr 2015 #6
LOL :) /nt workinclasszero Apr 2015 #31
I don't think we should use Weapons of Massive Dumbassery on another country... Thor_MN Apr 2015 #29
Oh my workinclasszero Apr 2015 #30
I suggest that we could take care of Tom Cotton ... staggerleem Apr 2015 #8
I vote for frozen leg of lamb: freshwest Apr 2015 #19
Anything the US is involved in internationally involves the threat of military force you idiot underpants Apr 2015 #10
Yeah - like that death-dealing beast isn't even there! Plucketeer Apr 2015 #12
Can anybody 2naSalit Apr 2015 #11
what about the people that elected him? BobbyBoring Apr 2015 #22
We is the folks that gave you the Clintons and the Huckleberries. LiberalArkie Apr 2015 #24
I have come to the conclusion, 2naSalit Apr 2015 #36
and americans heaven05 Apr 2015 #13
Wow. Bloodthirsty AND Stupid demwing Apr 2015 #14
We keep electing idiots to high office. n/t cosmicone Apr 2015 #15
Beyond stupid. And, what sites in the US will kiranon Apr 2015 #16
And it would take days, not weeks. We should have asked if it could have til all eternity. Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2015 #17
Yep, just like the Iran war lasted 10 days lark Apr 2015 #18
2015 Iran is not 1998 Iraq, you dumb fuck NickB79 Apr 2015 #20
Bombing nuclear manufacturing facilities and plutonium piles is just nonsensical. truthisfreedom Apr 2015 #21
Shock and awe! Gotta work!!! Helen Borg Apr 2015 #23
In the Beginning: PeoViejo Apr 2015 #25
New Face, SOS again. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #27
He's simply evil. Nothing other. There is nothing he will ever do to benefit the human race. n/t Judi Lynn Apr 2015 #28
I think that he watched too much sadoldgirl Apr 2015 #32
its a shame that morons can get elected samsingh Apr 2015 #33
As I said in another thread Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2015 #34
The same way we fixed the Iraq problem with "several days" of bombing? marble falls Apr 2015 #35
I can't WAIT to see Lieutenant Cotton's officer evaluation reports jmowreader Apr 2015 #37

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
1. Channeling his inner McGeorge Bundy.
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:22 PM
Apr 2015

I daresay, if we turned the entire Mideast into a glass slick, it would sove all our problems there nicely, although it might lead to difficulties in extracting the oil.

-- Mal

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
7. He's a veteran
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:39 PM
Apr 2015

Served in combat roles in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He's also nuts, but that's beside the point.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
26. Then this knucklehead can serve again.
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 05:50 PM
Apr 2015

It's a win-win. He gets his war and we get his stupid ass out of the senate.

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
3. Can someone just shut this dumb Gomer Pyle-looking motherfucker up?
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:23 PM
Apr 2015

Christ alive, every time he opens his stupid mouth he manages to top himself. Go stuff yourself with more plain birthday sheetcake, Tom. Let the grownups run the country.

 

staggerleem

(469 posts)
9. I think he looks MUCH MORE like ...
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:42 PM
Apr 2015

... Mr. Rodgers than Gomer Pyle.

Can you say "reactionary dickhead"? I thought ya could.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. Put a gun in the chickenhawks hand
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:30 PM
Apr 2015

and airdrop him over Iran. Solves alot of problems right there.

One less American traitor,warmonger,paid shill for Bibi and the MIC all rolled into one!

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
6. Even Iran doesn't deserve that.
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:35 PM
Apr 2015

He'd surrender right away and then after they changed his diaper, they would have to listen to his bullshit until they could airdrop him into Israel.

 

staggerleem

(469 posts)
8. I suggest that we could take care of Tom Cotton ...
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:39 PM
Apr 2015

... with "several days" of blows to the head. We just need to figure out which blunt object would be most effective.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
19. I vote for frozen leg of lamb:
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 03:56 PM
Apr 2015


"Lamb to the Slaughter" (1953) is a short story by Roald Dahl.

It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was ultimately published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953.[1]

It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and starred Barbara Bel Geddes. Originally broadcast on April 13, 1958, it was one of only 17 AHP episodes directed by Hitchcock himself. The story was subsequently adapted for Dahl's British TV series Tales of the Unexpected. Dahl included it in his short story compilation Someone like You.

"Lamb to the Slaughter" demonstrates Dahl's fascination with horror (with elements of black comedy), which is seen in both his adult fiction and his stories for children.[2] The story was supposedly suggested to Dahl by his friend Ian Fleming:

"Why don't you have someone murder their husband with a frozen leg of mutton which she then serves to the detectives who come to investigate the murder?"[3]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter

This might be your best method for selecting your blunt object.



underpants

(182,274 posts)
10. Anything the US is involved in internationally involves the threat of military force you idiot
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:42 PM
Apr 2015

There isn't a single issue that we are involved in that doesn't have our massive and technologically advanced military sitting on our shoulder breathing hot breath at the other side of the table.

He throws this out like somehow someway Obama turned off that hulking beast and THEN accuses the President of painting an all-or-nothing-ground force second option.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
12. Yeah - like that death-dealing beast isn't even there!
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:58 PM
Apr 2015

Cotton's JUST the sort we need "approving" the pending agreement - Un-huh!

2naSalit

(86,054 posts)
11. Can anybody
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:54 PM
Apr 2015

]in the Senate possibly call for a an inquiry regarding this guy's sanity?


"Even if military action were required -- and we certainly should have kept the credible threat of military force on the table throughout which always improves diplomacy [/div

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
24. We is the folks that gave you the Clintons and the Huckleberries.
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 05:27 PM
Apr 2015

But in earlier (saner times) we gave you Fulbright and McClellan.

2naSalit

(86,054 posts)
36. I have come to the conclusion,
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 09:00 PM
Apr 2015

since 2000, that election results are arbitrary at best and that whomever the majority votes for isn't necessarily who actually ends up taking office. We like to think that we the people elect these guys but I don't think that's how it works anymore so I can't blame the voters entirely for these shills and nut cases in office anymore either.

kiranon

(1,727 posts)
16. Beyond stupid. And, what sites in the US will
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 02:31 PM
Apr 2015

be taken out in return? Some of the Iranian sites will survive any bombing and we probably do not know all their sites. I would be very surprised if Iran doesn't already have the bomb or easy access to it. I don't cotton to Sen. Cotton's ideas which border on if not insanity. It worked so well in Iraq and I notice Sen. Cotton doesn't mention that adventure as an example of a "successful" bombing.

lark

(23,003 posts)
18. Yep, just like the Iran war lasted 10 days
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 03:20 PM
Apr 2015

and Afghanistan 15. OMG, do these morons ever learn and do they ever quit repeating the same tired lies? Iran has lots of missle defenses so our planes getting through is iffy. Their sites are hardened and buried so the damage we could do even if we did make it through is again iffy at best. Of course, this yahoo probably doesn't even know they are different countries. We bombed Iraq with no problems, so why would Iran be a problem is how these little pee brains think. They and he is beyond stupid and has ventured into dangerous territory.

NickB79

(19,113 posts)
20. 2015 Iran is not 1998 Iraq, you dumb fuck
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 04:11 PM
Apr 2015

In 1998, Iraq's military was still in tatters after the 1991 Gulf War. No air defenses whatsoever.

Iran's air defenses are quite a bit more robust, requiring multiple waves by stealth bombers to soften anti-aircraft missile facilities. Recent aquisitions of top-line Russian missiles make this all the more dicey.

Their anti-ship capabilities are also higher, even up to the possibility of targeting US carriers launching said airstrikes, or Saudi oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

And we then run the risk of Iran using it's influence in the region to topple the Saudi government and throw global oil markets into turmoil. Just look at the Saudi/Iranian proxy wars raging in Iraq and Yemen today.

truthisfreedom

(23,113 posts)
21. Bombing nuclear manufacturing facilities and plutonium piles is just nonsensical.
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 04:45 PM
Apr 2015

You certainly don't want to unleash all of that radioactive stuff into the atmosphere, or worst-case, leave a reactor in meltdown because it's support equipment is destroyed. How do idiots like this ever get into congress?

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)
32. I think that he watched too much
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 06:40 PM
Apr 2015

of Ted Cruz's theater, and just aims to become the
Young Repuglican Hero. "Pay attention to me, I am
the future!"
The problem is that the MSM does oblige him.

samsingh

(17,571 posts)
33. its a shame that morons can get elected
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 06:48 PM
Apr 2015

repugs are almost always wrong and they don't learn from mistakes.

stupid people

jmowreader

(50,451 posts)
37. I can't WAIT to see Lieutenant Cotton's officer evaluation reports
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 01:08 AM
Apr 2015

"Never, under any circumstances, allow this officer access to a radio or a map."

(From his first OER...) "Lieutenant Cotton is a very competent and capable JAG officer. Unfortunately, he was branched Infantry. God help us all."

(From his second...) "I have here a copy of Lieutenant Cotton's OCS yearbook. He won the coveted title of 'most likely to be fragged.'"

(From a copy of a counseling statement given to the colonel's driver...) "PVT Jones, on 5 May at approximately 1400L 2LT Cotton radioed the Battalion (tactical operations center) to report that his vehicle had blown a tire and was surrounded by two enemy companies. This counseling statement is notification that in future if such an incident happens again, your response is to be 'roger, copy, will send help immediately' and NOT 'so fucking what?'"

(From an AR 15-6 investigation report...) "I am investigating a charge of Disrespect Toward a Superior Officer allegedly committed by SSG Green against 2LT Cotton on 19 July at 1100L in the vicinity of Mosul, Iraq. 2LT Cotton ordered SSG Green to lead two squads of soldiers into action against a heavily fortified insurgent stronghold. SSG Green rejected the order with the derisive phrase, 'lieutenant, you are the stupidest fuck in the history of the 101st Airborne Division to come up with a dumb-ass idea like that.' I have decided to drop all allegations against SSG Green because he was right."

(From the OER he got when he was promoted out of his platoon...) "Today, 2LT Cotton departs from our ranks. The Union has been spared."

(Note to his battalion commander from the Counterintelligence Platoon Leader, 311th MI Battalion...) "If you do not confiscate LT Cotton's safe-combination-changing kit right now and send it to us we will not drill any more of your safes open as long as he's here."

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