"NUKE Syria!" - Republican Congressman Sam Johnson

[liberalpragmatist]

Any DU'ers the constituents of this asshole?

If ever there were any doubt that there are worse Republicans than even Bush, this just blows it away. It's hard to believe there could people out there in positions of power that are THIS bad (especially when Bush is as bad as he is).

Check this out. Posted on this blog, linked to Washington Monthly. Actual story comes from Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call -

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/003628.html

Not content with one venture into Mess O' Potamia, at least one Republican lawmaker seems anxious to start another – this time, with nukes.

(excerpt from Roll Call)

Now we know where Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) thinks the weapons of mass destruction are buried: in Syria, which he said he'd like to nuke to smithereens.

Speaking at a veterans' celebration at Suncreek United Methodist Church in Allen, Texas, on Feb. 19, Johnson told the crowd that he explained his theory to President Bush and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) on the porch of the White House one night.

Johnson said he told the president that night, "Syria is the problem. Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my view. You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on 'em and I'll make one pass. We won't have to worry about Syria anymore."

The crowd roared with applause.

(end of excerpt)

This is so twisted, it's hard to know where to start. Which of these is the most outrageous part of this story?

* That a sitting member of Congress is bragging about his desire to drop nuclear weapons?

* That Johnson has shared this idea with the president?

* That Johnson's favored approach to non-proliferation is an unprovoked nuclear attack?

* That this speech was delivered in a church?

* That Johnson's audience "roared with applause"?

Carpetbagger reports, you decide.

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[NoPasaran]

2. What a fuckwit! n/t

[parsifal_e]

3. WTF??

:puke:

people applauded?

[Aegis]

4. this seems like another purposeful overreach.

This puts it out there so Bush can come out and dismiss the idea and say that "if" Syria were to be attacked it would be with conventional weapons.

The sleepwalkers will sigh with relief that the nukes will remain in their holsters and be acclimatized to accept an attack on Syria

It’s all happening again.

[Mr_Spock]

13. I hear ya - just blowin smoke again

I mean, the people who applauded must be related to Satan in some way, but this blow-hard ass hole was doing exactly as you said - just sayin' crazy shit to make Dumbya look sane. It ain't happenin' rawhide breath. We all know your act and we are tired of it. We couldn't attack a wet tissue now and the rest of the world know it. Nuke my ass hole - they ain't gonna do shit.

[meganmonkey]

20. No fricking way

I checked the profile after posting a polite Welcome to DU toast

ALREADY TS'ed!!!!!

:eyes:

[clydefrand]

5. All of the above are totally outrageous.

[stepnw1f]

6. Time To Resign!!

No excuses for such a statement. These Republicans are dangerously stupid!

[Renew Deal]

14. Nuke Texas!

:nuke::evilgrin:

OK, seriously... He shouldn't resign for one reason. We don't want to censor our elected officials.

[flaminbats]

7. at least Nazis didn't have nukes..

Johnson would murder 12 million men, women, and children yet his audience finds this Christian? :puke:

[YankeyMCC]

8. WTF

This is what I don't get. Even if as a nation we came to the conclusion we must go to war, let alone nuke people, why in the Universe would people f-ing applaud that!? No matter the threat why be happy and enthusiastic about killing people?!?

Of course we live in times where people get this happy and enthusiastic even when the threat is made up.

[shraby]

9. It wouldn't be out of line to demand his resignation.

[shadowknows69]

32. No it wouldn't

One of our elected officials openly threatening another sovereign nation with nuclear destruction? This is what we call responsible foreign policy in this country?

[frictionlessO]

10. Warmongering fools!! Just like we've always said.

They want oil and they want to kill millions of people just to satisfy their own inner demons. Perversions of liberty and freedom everywhere you look these days, but this by a member of our government is just sick!!

Our political mullahs are starting to show their true colors. Racist hate filled megalomaniacs, I see no difference between this man and every other terrorist out there.

Harder and harder to tell the pigs from the humans.

[chelsea0011]

11. Any of these repukes like Limbaugh, Coulter, and this clown

who are all for nuking should be subjected to radiation poisoning so they can suffer the many years Japanese civilians did during and after WWII

[chlamor]

12. Microwaving the World

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Gee, nuke Syria

Take out Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon all at the same time.

I don't think even Bush is that stupid.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

16. The man should be immediately relieved of duty, examined, full body

cavity search, psych eval, and monitored for further signs of insanity.

Furthermore, his statements rank him up there with some of the worst terrorists in existence. Take him to Guantanamo and find out what he know, where he learnt it, and what he plans to do with it. Ooops, we already know what he plans to do... take him to the Hague, they know how to deal with war criminals, even if they are only war criminals in their minds.

[AgadorSparticus]

17. wonder what his handle is on free republic. what a f*cked up dumbshit.

ARRRRRGH!!!! i just can't take this nonsense anymore.

[arwalden]

18. What Is Wrong With These People?... They Are Truly INSANE!!

[Rapcw]

19. i think that the scariest part

is not what he said, because he can't do shit. What is scary though, is that the audience approved. That scares me shitless.

[Todd B]

21. Absolutely sickening!

Absolutely sickening.

Now should we nuke Syria before or after we go to war with them because they possess nuclear weapons. :rolleyes:

Don't you just love the hypocrisy of these guys?!

[oasis]

22. And the church crowd "roared with applause".

[sellitman]

23. More Compassionate Republicans

How lovely!

[elshiva]

24. To death with this RW anti-Arab crap!

Delivered within the same week that Ann Coulter called the Lebanese-American Helen Thomas "that old Arab." That is NOT a coincidence!

[beanball]

25. Sam the menace

Sam and Shrub the Texas terrorist,we the people sure do elect and select some real dumb fucks.

[seabeyond]

26. i have already shared with four people today

and i just heard it today. i am going around astonished, simply astonished one of our senators would say this and i am letting all know. spread it around. it is so stupid and even a person that would agree, wont agree if you say it in disgust............and

it feels good

[Mr_Spock]

27. Mmmm, microwaved syrian bread for the whole world

Yummmm! :D

[FM Arouet666]

28. I wonder which is worse

WMDs in the hands of despots like Hussein or in the hands or hawkish right-wing nut jobs. Either way, the world is the loser.

[Justitia]

29. He was my rep until 6 mo ago. Here's his website...

http://www.samjohnson.house.gov/

He is a COMPLETE BUSH LACKEY.

He is the rep for the reddest repub district in TX - Collin County.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that his "church going" obnoxious brown shirt audience would "cheer" at the mass death thought.
I used to hear crap like that all the time when I lived there.

Scary, scary freaks.

[paineinthearse]

30. Rep. Sam Johnson - in the running for #1 conservative idiot of the week.

[Blue_Tires]

31. the irony of it is

90 percent of the clowns in that audience couldn't pick out syria on a map

[Swamp Rat]

34. HAHAHA!!!! Good point! n/t

[Starlight]

33. Nuke Republican Congressman Sam Johnson

:grr: :nuke:

[donheld]

35. A real sad excuse for government nowadays.

So they nuke Syria. How many israelis would die from radiation poisoning?

[jburton]

36. Yosemite Sam Johnson is my Congressman

He is just nutty.

Thanks to DeLay's redistricting scheme, I am now blessed with Sam as my voice in DC.

I'm in the southern-most precinct of his district. I'm actually one of the few who are not only in Dallas County but the (Democratic)city of Dallas as well.

The vast majority of the district is in Collin County (Plano, Allen, etc.) and extremely repug.

In other words, he doesn't hold his town hall meetings anywhere near my home.

[tanyev]

37. Oh dear Lord.

That church is just a few blocks away from me. I was thinking of applying for a part-time music job there. I knew it was bad here, but this is worse than I imagined. In fairness to the church, the veterans may have just been using the building; the audience may not have contained many members of the church. But still.

Gotta get back to Austin one of these days.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

38. I would say the crowd cheering (in a church) is the worst part

obviously these people are not true Christians, much as they would like to believe they are.

[DinahMoeHum]

39. Understand where this guy Johnson is coming from, folks. . .

He's a former fighter pilot, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars who was shot down and held as a POW in Hanoi for about 7 years. He was known in prison circles as a hard-ass resister.

He has a book out titled "Captive Warriors"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/089096496...


Although he was not one of the "Swifties" and former POWs involved in the smearing of John Kerry last year, this guy is, IMO, little more than a butt-boy for Bush, representing one of the richer districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area (I believe). What a waste.

:evilfrown:

[JackRiddler]

40. Time to realize where we live, folks...

To your list you can add, that he thinks two nukes on Syria will solve the alleged WMD problem.

I wish this was a product solely of Republicans and Texas and the Bush admin and the times we live in... but it has been coming for a long time and is a very logical product of nuclear empire.

I saw a 1950s clip of a Texan senator* calling for an ultimatum to the Chinese and North Koreans to surrender immediately, or be hit with nukes until they do. The gentleman in question was Democrat Lloyd Bentsen.

(* ON EDIT: Correction: At the time it was Cong. Bentsen)

This insanity is very widespread and the real miracle is that far as we know no nukes have been used in combat with enemies (except indirectly as "tests," which is a sort of proxy actually) since the two cities bombed in 1945.

Unfortunately he ain't no new phenomenon, this guy, and I can believe that there are many audiences who would roar in applause.

Jesus H, indeed.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

41. Well this audience obviously never saw "Dr. Strangelove"

...oh the irony.

[Deja Q]

42. In his view? Well then. Ship him over. Let him view. And nuke Syria.

Oh yea. Make sure he stays in Syria so he can verify firsthand he got what he wished.

Well, anyone else think that that twerp would change his mind in a hurry?