{"id":39886,"date":"2013-12-04T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T23:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/go-nuke-or-go-home.html"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:06:55","slug":"go-nuke-or-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/go-nuke-or-go-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Go nuke or go home!"},"content":{"rendered":"
While admitting that the goal of keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran is a non-trivial task, I find it remarkable that Rep. Hunter (R-CA) can speak so casually of dropping nuclear weapons on Iran ("tactical" ones, to be sure, but that just means Hiroshima-size) as (if I can\u00a0quote another, more fictional nuke-suggester) "the only way to be sure."<\/p>\n

Granted, he's offering that as a better alternative to boot-on-the-ground invasion, which he rightfully recognizes would be extremely costly in US lives (presumably his Marine Corps experience in Afghanistan and Iraq informs him about that).<\/p>\n

But the idea that the US would preemptively use nuclear weapons, and be the first to use them since their solitary, horrifying deployment in\u00a0WWII, would be a moral and geopolitical outrage from which the US would never recover — and rightfully so.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jeffrey Raskin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

GOP House Member Says Attack On Iran\u00a0Should Be Nuclear<\/b><\/p>\n

"I don\u2019t think it\u2019s inevitable but I think if you have to hit Iran, you don\u2019t put boots on the ground, you do it with tactical nuclear devices and you set them back a decade or two or three<\/b>. I think that\u2019s the way to do it with a massive aerial bombardment campaign."<\/p>\n

This is the face of Today's GOP. These people are not "conservative."\u00a0 They are radical reactionaries.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Congressman Says U.S. Should Use Nuclear Weapons If It Attacks Iran<\/a>
\n Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) thinks the United States should use tactical nuclear weapons on Iran if it decides to use military force against its nuclear program. \n <\/p>\n

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While admitting that the goal of keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran is a non-trivial task, I find it remarkable that Rep. Hunter (R-CA) can speak so casually of dropping nuclear weapons on Iran ("tactical" ones, to be sure, but that just means Hiroshima-size) as (if I can\u00a0quote another, more fictional nuke-suggester) … Continue reading “Go nuke or go home!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,10,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26700,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/mullahs-with-nukes.html","url_meta":{"origin":39886,"position":0},"title":"Mullahs with Nukes","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Feb-12 7:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Will Iran get the Bomb? Probably so -- hard to believe how they could not, eventually.And, from a fairness perspective, why not? 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