President Obama Suggests Romney Wants to Take U.S. to War Over Iran

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

President Barack Obama called on Mitt Romney to clarify his position on Iran and Syria, raising the prospect that his Republican presidential challenger might want to start another war in the Middle East.

“If Governor Romney is suggesting that we should start another war, he should say so,” Obama said in an interview for CBS’s “60 Minutes” program broadcast yesterday as world leaders, including Obama, prepare to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York today.

“I’ve executed on my foreign policy,” Obama said, citing accomplishments in Iraq and in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a transcript released by the network.

In a session taped separately for the show, Romney said his threshold for committing combat troops for any conflict was a “high hurdle.” The former Massachusetts governor criticized Obama for not scheduling a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week and said he would demand greater accountability from the new leadership in Egypt.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-23/obama-suggests-romney-wants-to-take-u-s-to-war-over-iran.html

[AAO]

1. You just go and make demands to the new Egyptian government, Mitt. Good luck with that, you moron.

What a dick!

[tartan2]

2. Anybody who takes on Iran

is a fool. Standing behind Iran is China and Russia!! Duh!

[JDPriestly]

3. I've been gradually reading the book, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchmann. (It's a long, long book

and great to read). She describes knights in the 14th century still deluding themselves into thinking they were living in the age of chivalry. They ventured into all kinds of situations in which they were doomed to failure or chimeric success. The outcome was the formation and strengthening of nation states and eventually disciplined armies and diplomacy -- quite the opposite of a bunch of disorganized knights each pursuing his own chivalric ideal.

The would-be heroes in the Republican Party remind me of those knights. They are imitating some heroes they read about in books. But the books are describing the world of the past, a world that no longer exists. What fools!

We cannot afford another Republican administration and its foolish wars.

[DCBob]

4. The situation in Iran has not changed for decades.

There are good reasons we have not gone to war with them and those reasons are the same regardless if a Dem or Repub is in the WH.

[Xolodno]

5. Interesting Political Ploy...

Romney now needs to fess up that yes he wants war and alienate more voters or say no and alienate some of his war hawk base.