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?
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)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
dembotoz
(16,738 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Served in combat roles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He's also nuts, but that's beside the point.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)It's a win-win. He gets his war and we get his stupid ass out of the senate.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)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)... Mr. Rodgers than Gomer Pyle.
Can you say "reactionary dickhead"? I thought ya could.
still_one
(91,949 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)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)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.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)staggerleem
(469 posts)... 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)"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)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)Cotton's JUST the sort we need "approving" the pending agreement - Un-huh!
2naSalit
(86,054 posts)]in the Senate possibly call for a an inquiry regarding this guy's sanity?
BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)Those are the true insane!
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)But in earlier (saner times) we gave you Fulbright and McClellan.
2naSalit
(86,054 posts)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.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)voted this cow pie into office.....geez
demwing
(16,916 posts)The two prime directives for Republicans!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)kiranon
(1,727 posts)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.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)lark
(23,003 posts)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)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)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?
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)RKP5637
(67,031 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)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)repugs are almost always wrong and they don't learn from mistakes.
stupid people
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,085 posts)Only if you ride the first bomb down Tom.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)a
jmowreader
(50,451 posts)"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."