Clinton’s Iran Threat Contradicts Previous Position on Making Such Comments

Lets go back to Stone age … People have to change based on circumstances and evidence presented.
This is part of life.
Do not compare Pakistan to Iran. Iran is the one which is saying it will wipe out Israel.

Anyone get the feeling that her finger should kept far away from The Button?
Ya, I do.

what i dont understand is the attitude that it is athreat,its called deterance and please tell me if iran launched a nucular attack against israel what we should do.this policy of warning iran of the consequences as i cannot see any other option other than deterance should iran get the bomb.please enlighten me of other options if iran should use a nuke against israel.

Obama’s response. “who cares about Israel? go away and let me eat my waffle in peace”

Shattered say – “Hmmmmm….58% of Americans do not believe Hillary is trustworthy or honest”
That poll may have been 58% of DEMOCRATS believe Hillary is not Trustworth or Honest.
May be wrong, but that’s my recollection.

when you taunt and tease a DOG THE DOG MUST TIMES WILL BITE YOU!!
WITH THE WORDS SHE USED I THINK SHE TAUNTED THE DOG.
SHE NEEDS TO GO AWAY FAST.

If she changed her mind…great Rick…what else is she going to change her mind on if she so easily moves from that position to this one?
This is a HUGE issue and now the media (after all this crap that matters SOOOO much less being covered) finally may touch on the fact that Hillary is looking at the world in a stance that is almost identical to the one that got us here.
She is more of a hawk than her husband. She is at the least as much of a hawk as McCain.
Well guess what just like Vietnam…strong hawks are wrong. These problems can’t be resolved with Iran if you are threatening the nuclear card. This is not Russia and Reagan. You don’t threaten someone who does not have nuclear power with nuclear power…that just makes them want to get nuclear power more.
duh.
this woman is horribly wrong…and just like many of us said with GW …this candidate is going to destroy our nation. if this is her view.

again what would all of you on the far left have us do if iran aquired nukes and then used them first strike against israel?

Jake you’re totally right of course that the statement IS a direct contradiction to what she said earlier. But the contradictory aspect of it is not the most serious part.
It has amazed me that after the ABC debate only a few journalists (you among them) seem to have picked up her line about the expansion of a nuclear umbrella for the Middle East. I’m pretty sure a large majority of Americans would NOT be supportive of that idea, if they would take into account the positions of Russia and China for instance (among MANY other objections to be made).
Clinton’s incredibly bold statement about “totally obliteraing” a country with nukes, even though that country does NOT attack the USA, is shocking. She positions herself to the right of neocons and McCain, and portrays herself as the opposite of another still running candidate, Ron Paul. I’m afraid this is not the place to discuss the issue at length, but it SHOULD be discussed at length in MSM, for this is serious stuff and I think Hillary is very much on the wrong track here.
It sends a strange and confusing message to the world, both to our NATO allies who will be unpleasantly surprised, and to Russia and China who will be furious about such imperial dreams from a Democratic prez candidate.
Wouldn’t it be much wiser to stress diplomacy and building alliences after everything Bush did wrong after 9/11? Yes, no doubt.
To me, Hillary again has proven that she’s not ready for the Presidency, and I even doubt her readiness now to draw our troups back from Iraq. If she wants to control the Middle East, they’d better stay there. And let’s provide them with the necessary nukes to fulfill their mission…
Hillary has been VERY foolish and reckless. I’m glad she will never win the nomination.

Is anyone really shocked she is saying 2 different things? If it’s one thing we have learned in this primary election is that Hillary will do anything and say anything to win. She’s gonna take the whole party down with her. Come on PA, boot her out before it’s too late!

This Woman HRC is really confused. YOU CAN VISUALIZE CLEARLY. She is at the position of confusing Americans too due to her big lies. One French philosopher said that ‘…you need to be extra intelligent, with extra memory if you are are a liar…else you must be caught…’!
This candidate HRC, is just spatting anything to get elected! Its very dangerous to America. Suppose she get that presidency and America faces the crossroad of president who has always been a liar, flip flops to woo her political admirers and let America into chaotic reactions unforechecked, this will lead into horrible end!
She is a failure, whom all backers should skip away and let it out for new America, a changed America which can consistently sustain any danger persistently and intelligently and not flip flopping politics which have no direction and vision.
America can view all consistent policy and visionary change advocated by OBAMA. This shows that the future of America needs more intelligent president, caring, cautious, and not abrupt ideological reactionists.

to lauren it would depend on the weather conditions at the time of detonation and i dont think that would mean anything to the leaders in iran.

remember this nut in charge of Iran was involved in taking our people hostage. It is not a stretch to imagine what he would do with Carter II (Obama) in office.

I would not drop a nuke just cause they did! you have been watching too many movies, go read up on some history!

Obama said his plans are to take care of it before it reaches this point. I feel with a good cabinet behind him he can solve a lot of our problems. Who in their right mind would say they would just hit them back… Hillary and a nuclear war…. OMG…

Pls. tell me what is the difference between Hillary and McCain??

the bottom line before any of the other problems with ehr statements on this issue (i.e. umbrella on the us’s dime that would subjegate the congress on the discussion – yes, thank you for voting to take away congressional oversight…makes more sense now)
the bottom line is…
This is not an arms war with Russia like Reagan.
You do not threaten outwardly nuclear retaliation to a government that does not have nuclear weapons. It is a stupid…yes “stupid” move.
Anyone with half a political brain knows that is just going to give them not only more of the drive to get them…but the soundbite excuse in their argument for why they need them.
This was not only dangerous , counter to her stance to the voters she has been pitching in every other state but
STUPID… this was “GW Bush stupid”, aggressive and dangerous.
Get our eyes back on the ball with this election…or we get what we deserve. Our economy, this war, and our present foreign policy stance (which we now see is the same as Hillary’s) will destroy us. Period.
Learn something from the last 7 years.

WITH HILLARY IN CHRGE NO ONE IS SAFE.
BOY I HOPE Pa. VOTERS GO ON LINE BEFORE THEY VOTE!!
THE LADY..SHOULD NOT HAVE THE POWER TO RUIN THIS PLANET.
WELL IT LOOKS LIKE WE (AMERICANS WILL BE BUILDING BOMB SHELTERS AGAIN ).
BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE WILL NOT HAVE HER IN OFFICE. SHE SOUNDS LIKE A WAR MONGER.

lauren if we dont assure israel’s safety and tell them their on their own they will take out irans nucular sites before they can get the bomb and with the leader of irans statements i really would not blame them.now the only way to stop this madness is to assure irans neighbors that they will be safe NO MATTER WHAT! and to use a carrot and stick approach to iran to get them to suspend their nucular program.

The idea that any country would engage in nuclear war and expect to win at this point is nonsense. All nuclear weapons are at this point is simply providing deterrence and political bargaining chips.

the funny thing is this plays ionto her whole picture…
Playing…literally playing with the ideas behind sniper fire…her unrepentant non-apologies for the war and her decision to leave the presidency without congressional oversight…leaving the presidency to do as it wants.
She is what everyone is afraid of…she’s playing “war” to show her power. Whe she started at the debate and no one picked up on this…I staretd to ask people about this Iran thing. Now…after seeing her interviews for the past couple of days…
This is horrible…and for the first time in this election. I am really scared.

Jurymaker
No this is not a small issue as much as Clinto supporters have taken the eyes off the ball with your stupid side issues…
Nuclear weapons and nuclear war is not a small issue…
this is the story that should have been covered a long time ago …if Hillary had been forthright.
Hopefully this gets the attention it should have last week. So Pennsylvanians could have actually addressed the REAL issues of the Presidency.

Hilary is truly scary. You never know which position or new personality she will take on a given day to suit her needs. Reminds me of the rap on Bill Clinton- he would routinely stick his finger in the air, see which way the wind was blowing, run some self-serving polls, and then say what ever he needed to say to make himself look smarter than the rest of us. The end always justified the means, and he found that sometimes adopting Republican ideas like support for anti-gay legislation, or welfare reform, although against his principles, would be politically rewarding. He had no convictions, only caring about his own selfish needs and getting re-elected. Sounds like our ultra-candidate, the New Republican, Hillary Clinton.

Every Threat ain’t equal to 1938 and the Nazis. This is a Standard Neocon tactic.
My response would both to continue to deter Iran and engage Iran.
This is also partially Isreal’s position to as it has nuclear armed subs that may be sitting off the coast of Iran right now locked and loaded.

Hillary Contradicts herself – really – wow never heard that before except for NAFTA, Sniper fire, Lobbiest (she siad they are good for this country), Farrakan and association by guilt (have not heard her reject and denounce Ed),……..

When you’re president you have to be flexible and adapt your response to changing conditions. That is not flip-flopping, it’s called adapting and responding. There has been a recent exchange in which Ahmadinejhad has again stated his country’s readiness to incinerate Israel. Israel has countered that if Israel were so attacked it would devastate Iran. It was time for the president of America (or one who would be) to let Iran know that if Iran used nukes against Israel it would face them from the U.S. It’s called deterrence and it’s the only thing that madmen can understand. It’s important that the Iranian nutjob have no question in his mind about how the US would respond. Hillary acted as a strong president would in a fluid international crisis.

Jake, actually its not surprising. Clinton is famous for flip-flopping on her positions.
Her history states that. One day she’s for that, the other day she isn’t. And then she will claim that she has never supported it(…and then the old videos from the archives come out to silence her, forcing her to “misspeak”)
The fact is she flip-flops because its politically convenient. She think it will help to win more voters, and that’s why her positions shift with the sand.
You know, she’s a fine woman. I respect Sen. Clinton. But whenever she does that, some of that respect can and will deflate the balloon. I wish she could still keep some of her principles and stop all these inconsistencies. Its no wonder her negatives are going up; people are calling her bluff.

“I did -not- nuke that nation!”

Hillary is willing to obliterate all the innocent women and children of Iran for the reckless actions of Iran’s dictatorship?? That will show them! I didn’t realize she was such a warmonger. This is more hawkish than George W. Of course, she would never do it. she is just saying and doing anything and everything she can to get elected. It is the Clinton way. We should see it for what it is. You can always count on the Clintons for one scandalous statement or action after another. Another proven Clinton way. Of course, the whole time they blame it on the right wing republicans and a biased media.

Hillary has lied since she started the New York Senate campaign. She has taken over a million dollars from criminals and lied that she didn’t when they went to jail. Hillary has also had fraudulent campaigning with money as well. She and Bill made over $110 million dollars and lets not forget that they had tax cuts for the wealthy (including she and Bill). Barack has made some bad decisions and at least he is not lying about his decisions and I can accept the fact that he is willing to admit to wrong doing and Hillary have lie after lie after lie. If it wasn’t for Sinbad being on that plane in Bosnia, we would have fallen for the OkeyDoke. Check these links out. story and voters will know that Hillary and Bill are in the illegal drug game and much more and will do anything to get back in. And that is destroy the Dem Party. Let’s go PA, NC, IN. We need you! We all love you! We are in this crisis together we can make it out together. I think Barack isn’t perfect but he offers the BEST proposal for us. It is whats best for us, we have to start somewhere. BUSH have torn our nation apart and now WE must put it back together. It takes a VILLAGE to get through tough, rough obstacles. So let’s give our man a chance to prove himself in the White House and maybe we will realize that we need each other in order to get beyond all the dept we have encountered, even our loved ones in IRAQ. We love you guys and we know you want to come home. We all appreciate you militants for protecting us and our country. YOU ARE THE BADDEST MILITANTS IN THE WORLD!
A Strong Barack Supporter!

Psst….
The is the same US policy we’ve always had.
The US will protect Israel, and if some country sends nukes, we send them back.
Even on Keith Olbermann last night she said that she didn’t think Iran would attack Israel.
The people who are trying to float this stuff probably don’t even know when the last time Iran attacked any country.
Which makes the whole point moot, they are not like Saddam or Israel for that matter, who have attacked their neighbors repeatedly.

Nuclear deterrance worked during the cold war. Clinton’s strategy is a hell of a lot better than Obama’s plan. BO is going to sit down and chat with Holocaust-denying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Maybe he can invite his friends Jimmy Carter and Michael Moore. I’m sure they will have a heart-warming conversation. Maybe Barack will even believe what Ahmadinejad tells him. Then we can all sing kumbaya.
Wake up America! Obama will be the second Carter administration. He is weak and completely unfit for the job.

Cali girl
There is no such formal U.S. policy. A nuclear attack on Israel by anyone in the region would certainly put the commander in chief in the position to request from congress the authorization to a measured response. There are no treaties or guarantees that this response would or should be a counter attack with nuclear weapons. The Israeli’s have their own nukes with which to respond. HRC’s comments on this subject are irresponsible and stupid.
NJH
Your knowledge of Middle East history is astounding. While I do not support all of the thinks that Carter has done recently, he is the president most responsible for offering Israel real peace through the Camp David accord. Nuclear deterrence led to run away defense spending until the Soviet Union went bust.
Sounds allot like the path this country is on right now.

Hillary seems to be unpredictable. Her positions change so frequently and create a lot of contradictions. The problem with Hillary is that she wants to prove that she is tougher than her male conterparts. This can lead to irrational decisions like her vote to invade Iraq, or her recent vote to give Bush the green light to attack Iran.

All joking aside, Senator Clinton’s foreign policy scares the h*ll out of me . . . her penchant for “shading the truth” coupled with her obsession with appearing “strong” could well prove a lethal combination for this nation. Yet the media continues to whistle by the grave yard talking about flag pins and bitterness. I have seen the enemy, and it is the media.
P.S. When is Senator Clinton going to denounce and reject Ed Rendell for his glowing praise of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam? Oh yeah, that’s just a phony issue that only applies to the black candidate with the funny name . . . my bad.

She did not say if I am president I will attack Iran. Only if Iran attacked Israel world she approve of it. I am sure and I would hope Senator Obama would do the same.

Hillary is quite familiar with obliteration…seeing how she does that quite often with the truth.

List all the people who’ve been involved in such an exchange who have later said: “Wow. It’s a REALLY good idea to engage in hypotheticals. Totally win-win. If only I had thought of this before.”
Answers on a postcard.

This Woman HRC is really confused. YOU CAN VISUALIZE CLEARLY. She is at the position of confusing Americans too due to her big lies. One French philosopher said that ‘…you need to be extra intelligent, with extra memory if you are are a liar…else you must be caught…’!
This candidate HRC, is just spatting anything to get elected! Its very dangerous to America. Suppose she get that presidency and America faces the crossroad of president who has always been a liar, flip flops to woo her political admirers and let America into chaotic reactions unforechecked, this will lead into horrible end!
She is a failure, whom all backers should skip away and let it out for new America, a changed America which can consistently sustain any danger persistently and intelligently and not flip flopping politics which have no direction and vision.
America can view all consistent policy and visionary change advocated by OBAMA. This shows that the future of America needs more intelligent president, caring, cautious, and not abrupt ideological reactionists.
She’s RECKLESS, AWKWARD AND POORLY UNPREDICTABLE. She proves to be a really a bad omen for America now and then!…lets keep watching.
ITS OBAMA 2008!

I really believe Bill and Hillary simply love to hear themselves talk and themselves don’t even believe the stuff coming out of their mouths..

Some American politicians never miss any chance to create hatred. They just wish to brainwash the American people for their personal interests.

Does “totally obliterate” mean kill all 65 million people including 40 million women and children?
Such words from a US President would only built support in Iran for Ahmadenajad’s worst ambitions including restarting the nuclear weapons program that our own intelligence says was stopped.

She should be in a straitjacket, and tried for treason for not supporting America’s interests first.

Hillary is a warmonger. I honestly think she lays awake at night daydreaming about being the first woman president who started a war and carried it to a dramatic win. She scares the heck out of me. what is wrong with this woman?

proudamerican2008,
please seek help
you are so wrong and so full of hatred that I can not even dignify you with an answer. I am voting for Nader. However, I have great respect for Senator Obama.

Now Hillary is talking about “obliterating Iran.” Doesn”t she realize that she it talking about killing millions of innocent men, women and children? She is already partly responsible for the death of about a million Iraqis and the dispossession of millions more. Has she no humanity in her at all? I won’t let her send my son to die in Iran.
The only war she has seen is her fictional account of her “corkscrew landing in Bosnia and dodging bullets as she ran across the tarmac.” I believe this woman is truly sick.
GO OBAMA

Sorry for democracy and democratic party to have a member like Hillary with such an idea belongs to middle ages. Sorry

lets say that iran does somehow get the nuke and attack isreal…how do u go about obliterating over 70 million ppl because about 8 million isrealis were killed??
SAY NO TO WAR…