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Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania (AFP) — Democratic presidential hopeful
Hillary Clinton threatened to "totally obliterate" Iran if the Islamic
Republic was ever "reckless" enough to launch a nuclear attack on
Israel.

She later said her remark was an attempt to lay out a rationale for a
Cold War-style system of deterrence with Iran, but her rival Barack
Obama accused her of saber-rattling, as Pennsylvania held its crucial
presidential primary.

Clinton took her hawkish line in an interview with ABC television,
when she was asked what she would do as president if the Islamic
Republic were to launch a nuclear strike on Israel.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack
Iran," Clinton said.

"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider
launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate
them."

Later, Clinton told reporters at a polling station in Conshohocken,
outside Philadelphia, that Iran must be made aware of the "high price"
it would have to pay for any nuclear strike.

If Iran were so "reckless to use them against the United States or an
ally in a way that would destablize the world, they would have to take
the consequences," she said.

The New York senator said as president, she would first do whatever
she could to prevent Iran manufacturing nuclear weapons in the first
place.

Clinton's tough talk came as she was trying to portray Obama, a first-
term senator, as too inexperienced to shoulder the heavy
responsibilities of the US president and commander in chief of the
armed forces.

But he said Tehran needed to know he would also respond forcefully to
any such attack, but took issue with Clinton's approach.

"I think that one of the things that we've seen over the last several
years is a bunch of, you know, talk. Using words like obliterate
doesn't actually produce good results. And so I'm not interested in
saber rattling."

Implying that Clinton was now using national security arguments for
political advantage, the Obama campaign pointed out that she declined
in a debate last October to speculate on such military action.

But the former first lady denied her remarks were politically
motivated.

"Iran is feeling quite powerful, they have been empowered by the
actions of the last seven years and they must know there are lines
that the world will not let them cross," Clinton said.

The State Department would not comment on Clinton's remarks, in line
with its policy of keeping out of partisan politics, but deputy
spokesman Tom Casey pledged Washington would pursue a peaceful path
out of the nuclear showdown with Iran.

"Our approach on this is to prevent Iran from ever getting a nuclear
weapon so that no one will ever be faced with the scenario of Iran
being able to threaten its use or use it against any neighboring
state."

Obama's camp Monday accused Clinton of trying to scare voters, as she
rocked their White House race with a dark campaign ad featuring images
of Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.

The ad uses pictures of Pearl Harbor, bin Laden and the devastating
2005 hurricane that swamped New Orleans, mirroring the "3:00 am phone
call" spot credited with helping Clinton to win in Texas and Ohio last
month.

"You need to be ready for anything -- especially now, with two wars,
oil prices skyrocketing and an economy in crisis," the male narrator
intones. "Who do you think has what it takes?"

Both Democrats have vowed to defend Israel against any Iranian attack,
but they differ on how to engage the Islamic republic over its nuclear
ambitions.

Both call for diplomacy, but Obama has gone further, renewing a
promise of "direct talks" at a leaders' level with Tehran and others
the United States regards as foes, at a candidate debate here last
week.

Iran should be presented with "carrots and sticks," the Illinois
senator said, while stressing "they should also know that I will take
no options off the table when it comes to preventing them from using
nuclear weapons or obtaining nuclear weapons."

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uncle wally

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Mahmood Ahmanutjob is probably stupid enough to bring the US down on
him. He's determined to **** his own country up it seems.

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True, but if nuclear war breaks out in the Middle East, no only will
the Middle East
become uninhabitable for Millennia, but the rest of us will suffer in
an Global Depression
on unprecidented magnitude that will make World War I, the 1929 Great
Depression
& World War II look like frickin' Sunday School Picnics ~!

HOOROO

UNCLE WALLY

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