Norman Podhoretz on Iran

[edbrown100]

Wolfowitz calls for a 'new Pearl Harbor' on America. He got it.

Kristol, Perle, Feith wish to go after Iraq for 'WMD'. Got it.

Chertoff has a 'gut feeling' America will be attacked this summer, like another 'new Pearl Harbor'.

Podhoretz 'prays' for war on Iran for WMD...

[pixologic]

Amen! They are a bad-ass bunch!

[dluebke1960]

Widsom from the man who believes that Saddam DID have nukes, but that somebody smuggled them into Syria -- Saddam's archenemy and our ally in Gulf War I, let us recall. Yes, he actually believes this. Oh....and he's Rudy Giuiliani's foreign policy advisor. Scared yet?

[beebisbiasedbigtime]

Baby-Boomer fool. Iran is horrifyingly dangerous, yet you are more concerned with looking hip and adopting anti-establishment poses. Try growing up - you're 46 for fucks sake.

ps. The idea that Iraqi WMD's were sent to Syria? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me; what reasons do have to discard this idea with such self-confident contempt?

[dluebke1960]

Let's start with the fact that whatever WMD Saddam didn't destroy himself was dismantled by the UN inspectors. Not surprisingly, there's no credible evidence to suggest that the already-destroyed WMD were moved somewhere else.

I'll pass over in silence your wholly ignorant pronouncements about my motivations.

[beebisbiasedbigtime]

Pearls before swine.

[MrPillowFoot]

gwbushwacker and southCSA, you two discuse me. I can't believe how utterly STUPID you are to agree with this insain man! It's compleatly dispicable to think people actually agree with his point of veiws. How ignorant are you to think you can't speak to another country and the ONLY choice is to bomb them. Compleat ideology of a suppressive person.

[dontbombiran]

Sure, let's nuke Iran and see it escalate within days to a world nuclear war that will destroy Israel AND the United States. NOT!!

[kevind543]

We'll never be safe until these old cold war nutjobs just die off.

[southCSA]

Amen.

[taano71]

i don't understand why iran can not have nuk but isreal can have?

[lumster]

Israel should be the only one who can have the nuclear threat over its neighbors. Anything short of this will threaten Zionist supremacy and hegemeny. This guy and his ideological coharts have been the guiding hand of America's foreign policy since LBJ, Mossad and the CIA killed JFK.

[astanhope]

Definitely! The BEST lesson to take from our Iraq experience is MORE WAR IS GOOD!  Very clever!

[freightmaster2]

let the censorship begin.

[freightmaster2]

live by the bomb and you'll die by the bomb...

[WTFNTZSJ]

The problem is that if psychopaths like this guy are allowed to continue forming our foreign policy by war and imperialism and fascism as replacement governments; the country that will ultimately pay is the USA. Nations of the world would have the right to put a stop to our murderous misadventures... just like we had the right to take out Hitler, they will take us out. Want your OWN nation bombed? Keep this up.

[ReaganHumpedDogs]

A bought and paid Israeli agent.

[kurthanson2005]

Iran's day of reckoning will come. And when it does, they will get a thumpin' that will shock the world.

[ReaganHumpedDogs]

This man is absolutely discredited -- a neo-con of the most vile order.

[blogagog]

At least he's not a liberal though. Bombs away!

[vanzantyt]

This guy is insane. Who the hell is he.

[gidouille]

Podhoretz is one of the patron saints of the Straussians aka neocons. He's a former Trotskyite turned fascist and was the longtime editor of the far right rag Commentary. He and his wife, Midge Decter, it could be argued are among the architects of the current predicament. They helped revitalize the Committee on the Present Danger, further inflating already exaggerated CIA estimations of Soviet power, and advocated the arming of the Mujahideen.

[pixologic]

how come people like to compare jews to nazis?

[DrCruel]

How will bombing Iran stop the Russians from giving nuclear reactors and atomic bomb technology to other psychopathic dictators that hate us?

[wilson3682]

You're right, the Brits should have done it. The EU, like most of Europe is worthless. We all know it's coming and I'm sick and tired of playing nice. Let's force their hand and attack NOW then convert the surviivors to Christianity!

[Executor416]

What about the Iranians that were captured in Iraq by the U.S.? The capture of the British soldiers was rightful justification.

I "pray and hope" you rethink your insane viewpoints, viewpoints that will lead to another World War.

[myfreepress]

What were the Iranians doing in Iraq when they were being captured? Visiting relatives? Vacationing? No, they were invading, they were plotting against the legal, democratically selected government of Iraq.

You seem to believe that the British sailors were in Iran when they were kidnapped. They were not. Now I am sure I cannot convince you, but the idea that you would give the mad Mullahs the benefit of the doubt over England and the USA is hard for me to understand.

[tarafGallo]

Iranian are foct not invadors, they were in there office as Iraq official mentioned as well! Unlike US Iranian are not invadors! You forced a war on Iran through your formerly loyal boy Sadam. However after Iran wins the war and through sadam back where he belonged they DID NOT INVADE IRAQ EVEN ONE INCH when they easily could!

[jaetae2001]

As for the 'pivotal shrug', it's not important how far Iran would've resisted the lesson. They back down, the West wins. They don't back down, the West wins.

[jaetae2001]

Too bad the Brits didn't bomb Iran back then - we'd all be spared the trouble of wondering who's going to do it now. Iran gave the casus belli and the West blinked, missing a chance to show it means business. A big mistake.

[goethean]

The pivotal "shrug" part is from 3:54 to 4:09.