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This happened before he was president, but this is an interesting (and quite hilarious) article to look at.
Obama Says Hell Nuke China If It Helps Him Get Elected The Gore Years
Obama Says Hell Nuke China If It Helps Him Get Elected The Gore Years
Obama Says Hell Nuke China If It Helps Him Get Elected
Senator Barack Obama today said hed nuke China if it would help him get elected. The hawkish statement was said in the aftermath of polls showing he has lost ground to Vice President Hillary Clinton after the recent YouTube debate that many pundits claimed demonstrated Clintons experience over Obama.
If we have actionable intelligence suggesting that, say, China was prepared to launch a strike against Tawain, then, not only would I have to reconsider my former position vis a vis talking to hostile leadership, I would have to seriously consider the possibility of an all out nuclear strike, Obama wrote in a long email to The Gore Years. The American public should get what it wants, and any consequences derived from those desires should be born fully by the electorate.
Imagine, the email continued, a world in which George Bush had won the election instead of Al Gore. Many of the foreign policy heavyweights Bush was considering bringing into his administration, people like Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, were advocating an invasion of Iraq, which of course would have been disastrous. I, and almost all the military and intelligence experts Ive talked to, have felt that such an action would have resulted in possibly a decades-long quagmire. But if, following such a disastrous policy, the American people would have re-elected a President responsible for enacting that policy, then the American people would themselves be culpable. Luckily, of course, that is not the path we went down.
However, he continued in apparent reference to the recent dip in the polls, the American people appear to be engaged in a bit of pro-war sentimental fancy, and Im willing to accommodate that.
Senator Barack Obama today said hed nuke China if it would help him get elected. The hawkish statement was said in the aftermath of polls showing he has lost ground to Vice President Hillary Clinton after the recent YouTube debate that many pundits claimed demonstrated Clintons experience over Obama.
If we have actionable intelligence suggesting that, say, China was prepared to launch a strike against Tawain, then, not only would I have to reconsider my former position vis a vis talking to hostile leadership, I would have to seriously consider the possibility of an all out nuclear strike, Obama wrote in a long email to The Gore Years. The American public should get what it wants, and any consequences derived from those desires should be born fully by the electorate.
Imagine, the email continued, a world in which George Bush had won the election instead of Al Gore. Many of the foreign policy heavyweights Bush was considering bringing into his administration, people like Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, were advocating an invasion of Iraq, which of course would have been disastrous. I, and almost all the military and intelligence experts Ive talked to, have felt that such an action would have resulted in possibly a decades-long quagmire. But if, following such a disastrous policy, the American people would have re-elected a President responsible for enacting that policy, then the American people would themselves be culpable. Luckily, of course, that is not the path we went down.
However, he continued in apparent reference to the recent dip in the polls, the American people appear to be engaged in a bit of pro-war sentimental fancy, and Im willing to accommodate that.
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