Rick Santorum: I Would Bomb Iran Nuclear Sites
WASHINGTON -- Republican Rick Santorum says that if he's elected president, he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities unless they were opened for international arms inspectors.
Santorum says President Barack Obama hasn't done enough to prevent the Iranian government from building a nuclear weapon and has risked turning the U.S. into a "paper tiger."
Santorum tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that he would tell Iranian leaders that either they open up those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors – or the U.S. would attack them.
The Obama administration, like the Bush administration, has focused primarily on international diplomacy and economic penalties to try to pressure Iran into abandoning its nuclear program. Iran contends its efforts are for peaceful purposes.
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to pay any attention to those facts. And yes, I agree with you - if anyone acts in an insane manner, it is a country that attacks another country thousands of miles away that never posed any realistic threat to it.
But Iran itself is not helping its own cause with the provocative acts and statements of its rulers - and, by doing so, is providing lots of fodder for those who love to hype the "insane mullah" (or "ayatollah"
line and who appear to have learned nothing from our experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. Of course, so long as the pockets of the warmongers keep being lined by the fruits of war, they will keep advocating for war to the tragedy of all others concerned.
Santorum, like all of the clown car GOP candidates with the possible exception of Ron Paul in this matter would be a willing, even eager, tool. Paul's stance on not promoting war with Iran and his advocacy for a policy other than a "war" on drugs are his only redeeming factors, IMO.
