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Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 03:29 AM Mar 2012

Romney: Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon if Obama is reelected

Republican presidential hopeful says U.S. president has failed to communicate that military options are on the table, promises that he would deliver military options on Iran, AFP reports.

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"Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Sunday that if U.S. President Obama would be reelected to a second term in the White House, then Iran would surely become nuclear, AFP reported.

"It's pretty straightforward in my view. If Barack Obama is re-elected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon and the world will change if that's the case," AFP quoted Romney as saying to supporters in Atlanta, Georgia.

"This is a president who has failed to put into place crippling sanctions against Iran. And that it's unacceptable to America for Iran to have a nuclear weapon," he said.

Romney promised his supporters that he will speak out about military options on Iran, saying that Obama had "failed to communicate that military options are on the table."

"I will have those military options, I will take those crippling sanctions and put them into place, and I will speak out to the Iranian people of the peril of them becoming nuclear," AFP quoted Romney as saying."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/romney-iran-will-obtain-a-nuclear-weapon-if-obama-is-reelected-1.416578

Eh?

Iran Suffers 'Crippling Effect' of Trade, Banking Sanctions

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/02/29/bloomberg_articlesM066KC1A1I4I01-M06IE.DTL#ixzz1oE0mOumb

Obama: Diplomacy Still Best Way To Stop Iran Nukes, But Military Option On Table

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/breaking_news/obama_diplomacy_still_best_way_stop_iran_nukes_military_option_table
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Romney: Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon if Obama is reelected (Original Post) Scurrilous Mar 2012 OP
Mittens is full of bird poop. n/t ellisonz Mar 2012 #1
Mitt shouldn't mince words. no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #2
Not True King_David Mar 2012 #3
mittens is 'behind' on his intell 'cause supposedly N Korea has been testing Iranian nukes azurnoir Mar 2012 #4
half truth Mammone Mar 2012 #5

no_hypocrisy

(45,774 posts)
2. Mitt shouldn't mince words.
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 08:24 AM
Mar 2012

He should come out and say explicitly that his platform is that if elected, he will start a war with Iran.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
3. Not True
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 07:28 PM
Mar 2012

From The OP :

'Obama: Diplomacy Still Best Way To Stop Iran Nukes, But Military Option On Table '


azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
4. mittens is 'behind' on his intell 'cause supposedly N Korea has been testing Iranian nukes
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 07:33 PM
Mar 2012

A German nuclear proliferation expert claims Pyongyang performed two tests in 2010 on Iran’s behalf, contradicting assertions by the US

“By now, several intelligence agencies assume that North Korea in 2010 indeed performed one nuclear test for Iran,” Hans Rühle, formerly a senior official in the German Defense Ministry, asserted Sunday in the daily Die Welt. Rühle said a second North Korean test was also carried out that year on Iran’s behalf.

On the same day, US President Barack Obama, speaking at the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, said that the United States and Israel “both assess that Iran does not yet have a nuclear weapon.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/report-iran-tested-nuclear-bombs-in-north-korea/

Mittens will have to get with the program

 

Mammone

(23 posts)
5. half truth
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 10:53 PM
Mar 2012

Iran will get bomb wether Obama is elected or not. They are determined to get nuclear immunity and won't be deterred by any gopper either.

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