Hillary: We’re totally going to stop Iran from getting the bomb, I swear
posted at 6:41 pm on July 27, 2009 by Allahpundit
Bookmark this now because when the day comes that Iran rattles its nuclear saber, the only grim consolation we’ll have will be compiling past statements of moronic false bravado like this. And no, Bush won’t be spared.
A case of Hillary going rogue and making threats The One’s not prepared to support? If you believe Jim Hoagland, no:
The president believes that Iran is developing a nuclear-weapons capability through its current U.N.-opposed uranium enrichment program, a senior official told me this month, and he will not accept Iran achieving the ability to make a bomb quickly from the stockpile it is accumulating.
The apparent solution: Stick and carrot, with the stick coming in the form of a U.S. “defense umbrella” over the entire Persian Gulf — which theoretically would involve us in a nuclear war to defend, er, Saudi Arabia — and the carrot in the form of the U.S. military releasing people like Mahmud Farhadi, one of the Quds Force’s top commanders in Iraq and therefore a man with the blood of possibly hundreds of American soldiers on his hands. And so we learn a hard lesson here: When The One told us he was ready to negotiate with Iran without preconditions, he evidently didn’t mean preconditions Iran might demand of the U.S.
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will be the day Israel jams it down their throats.
JiangxiDad on July 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Can Hillary share her balls with President Obama, because Michelle took his.
Mr. Joe on July 27, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Is saying “I swear” like Obama saying “I mean it”?
myrenovations on July 27, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Diversion.
the_nile on July 27, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Obama will do nothing about Iran, and there is nothing he can do, short of invading and occupying, and that is not an option. Bush did nothing, Obama will do nothing, and Israel has done nothing and will continue to do nothing. Iran will get the bomb, just like Pakistan has it. And the world will go on. Unless, of course, you believe in Revelations, in which case, everything is already preordained, so nothing can be done. Either way, Iran gets the bomb.
keep the change on July 27, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Appeasement is polling badly?
myrenovations on July 27, 2009 at 6:46 PM
We can only hope they do, ‘cuz we know for sure that Barry doesn’t have the ‘nads to do it (no matter what Hillary says).
AZCoyote on July 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM
So this is all predicated on Iran “going along with the international consensus”? Really, that is a plan? Well, now I am reassured.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on July 27, 2009 at 6:50 PM
i think it safe to say that both Hillary and slo Joe’s mouth doesn’t connect to anything, it just flops in the breeze.
So what happened to the ‘it’s OK for Iran to have nukes’, same place as Russia is too weak, huh.
ZERO must be getting tired of these aces.
tarpon on July 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Reminds me of this………….
Seven Percent Solution on July 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM
What some people here may not understand is that if Israel perceives an existential threat, it’s a threat to the survival of Judaism itself. After what happened in WWII, “never again” is not just a slogan. Never again will Jews put their survival in the hands of non-jews. So that is why Iran and Obama are playing with fire imo. Although frankly, I would have expected the Iranians to understand that.
JiangxiDad on July 27, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Soooooo what you’re saying is you will interfere in the internal affairs of a country in the middle east?
How very Bush like of you Madam Secretary.
angryed on July 27, 2009 at 6:53 PM
It’s amazing what sliding poll numbers will do.
JohnJ on July 27, 2009 at 6:54 PM
how long before somebody comes around to clarify what hillary meant? this administration is way too busy making statements and then clarifying them.
Russia has no idea who to believe: Obama (we love you) or Biden (you’re going to collapse)
http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-07-27/biden-s-bloopers-complicating-us-russia–relations.html
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-07-27/-obama-wants-reconciliation-with-russia-.html
Phoenician on July 27, 2009 at 6:54 PM
We can all hope that Iran will screw up and blow themselves up at some point.
izoneguy on July 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM
*giggle*
Lehosh on July 27, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Pinky swear??
thirteen28 on July 27, 2009 at 6:58 PM
UGH!
HilRod seems to be just as effective as Madeliene Albright!
I’m wondering,who delivers the first EMP Strike,Iran or
North Korea!
canopfor on July 27, 2009 at 6:58 PM
We’re super serious this time! We just triple-dog dared Iran to keep working towards building nuclear weapons so there is no way they’d dare do it now.
gwelf on July 27, 2009 at 6:58 PM
And if the Iranians do build a bomb, by gosh Obama is going to send them a really nasty note!
GarandFan on July 27, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Nailed it. We’re badly off enough trying to rebuild two nations formerly run by Islamist dictators and their cronies…trying to do “Iraq 2″ would have been a total disaster, even under Bush, as he at least would’ve had the spine to consider it.
Now, about the best we can hope for is for a rogue asteroid to flatten that bunch of bloodthirsty camel jockeys. Israel’s very survival is already in a precarious situation thanks to that halfrican loon and the crowds of anti-Semetic nutcases crawling out of the woodwork. Even a successful strike would bring a horde of filth charging the front gates to make Helms Deep look favorable.
And – need it be said? – under this administration, there is practically nothing that would make them speak the language of brute force, the only one that Iran listens to.
Dark-Star on July 27, 2009 at 6:59 PM
So now it’s OK to believe that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons without being called a neocon. Alright then.
Seixon on July 27, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Obama is stoking the Iranian delusion of granduer.
myrenovations on July 27, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Team Hopey/Changey has sent mixed signals!
I know what Israel wants to do!
canopfor on July 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Until I hear Talkin’ Joe Biden say it, I won’t believe it.
Cicero43 on July 27, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Meanwhile in Israel…
daesleeper on July 27, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Hillary secretly threatened to give Ahmadinejad “cankles” if Iran doesn’t comply. He’s scared … really scared.
darwin on July 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM
And what happens if it does, Madam Secretary? What will the Big O do, tell the Iranians they acted stupidly? Or will he not want to meddle in the affairs of a sovereign nation?
Or maybe the wise son-of-a-Kenyan will not accept them making a bomb quickly, but let them do it slowly, so the next President can deal with it.
Election 2012: Who wants a nuclear war with Iran?
Steve Z on July 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Can you really blame him? Could you handle being married to Lt. Worf?
Daggett on July 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM
The Commander and chief said himself,
“As I have always said, and let me make this perfectly clear, Iran will have to go through me to get nuclear weapons. Well through Hillary. And she pinky swears, so there.”
Lily on July 27, 2009 at 7:10 PM
The truth is, the USA would be better off letting Hillary handle this herself, with pillow-talk advice from Bill.
Obama: A’jad is so uncool, he won’t jive with me, he plays with nasty bang-bangs. Aunt Hillawy, save me. Pwitty please!
Steve Z on July 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Amateur hour continues.
“Another cup of tea, Mr. Dinner Jacket?”
bradley11 on July 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Obama: Let me be clear. We never promised that we’d prevent Iran from getting the bomb.
lorien1973 on July 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM
“No one could have guessed”
the_nile on July 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM
She should have calibrated her words differently…
right2bright on July 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Obama is so wretched that I now look forward to hearing from Hillary.
Chuck Schick on July 27, 2009 at 7:14 PM
All of her bullshit aside, that’s the nicest picture of this witch I might have ever seen… This photo actually makes her look like a woman.
Keemo on July 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM
……..Nurse Ratched is a freakin idiot!
try again later on July 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM
“Let me be perfectly clear- I have always been in favor of a Persian nuke program.”
Chuck Schick on July 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Or go to the United Nations and ask them to issue a resolution condemning Iran’s actions.
That’ll teach ‘em.
AZCoyote on July 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I suspect the Iranian nuke issue will be resolved by then. If Israel attacks before Iran has the bomb, I assume they will use conventional weapons. If Iran tests a nuke, I anticipate Israel will use one of their own first. This is pretty serious stuff and it scares the bejabbers out of me to have Obama as CiC right now.
a capella on July 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Reminds me of this………….
Seven Percent Solution on July 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Seven Percent Solution:Good memory,and Nancy raising her
hand,is one step away from,putting
it on the bible!!
And once again,a Liberal on parade,
she is a liar,and even at that mom
ent,on video,she know’s she’s lying!
–:)
canopfor on July 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM
I don’t believe for one second that Obama has the balls (in fact I’m not convinced he doesn’t actually WANT Iran to get the bomb) to attack Iran. Which leaves Israel to do it. After which all hell would break loose.
We’re reduced to hoping IRAN isn’t stupid enough …
I can’t see a good outcome to this.
Hope on July 27, 2009 at 7:17 PM
That’s where you went wrong. Israel knows that as soon as the kooks in Iran get the bomb working it will soon be deployed against them. Those preaching genocide and holding the means to effect it – will do so. Olmert did nothing but Bibi will do something. At this point Israel is alone but she will defend herself.
johnnybgood on July 27, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Given the results of Team Fail so far, not only will Iran get the bomb, they’ll have bigger ones than we have.
wildcat84 on July 27, 2009 at 7:26 PM
So true, and another reminder why Israel doesn’t want Iran to have an atomic bomb………………
………… they are the ones standing in white.
Seven Percent Solution on July 27, 2009 at 7:26 PM
NEWS FLASH! President Obama calls Iranian mullahs “poopy-heads” for developing nuclear weapon. President hails his ‘smart diplomacy’ programs that insure world safety and stability.
GarandFan on July 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Yep…they let Israel handle the problem for everybody….the US, Saudi Arabia, Iraq…then join the chorus condemning Israel for their bloodlust.
genso on July 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Carter’s lame presidency was brought to it’s knees by Iran.
It would be wickedly ironic if The One, Carter’s replacement as the lamest Democrat president evah, was also brought crashing down with Iran to thank for his fall.
DrW on July 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Don’t bet on it. He is very much a realpolitik leader.
keep the change on July 27, 2009 at 7:31 PM
I agree she looks younger and prettier somehow.
And Obama is looking older and more ragged, and making all these unforced errors. It’s almost as if someone were sapping his life-force in some way.
Say… you don’t suppose.
Lily on July 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Btw,didn’t Team Liberal say the same thing
about NK during the Clinton Administration!
canopfor on July 27, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Upon further reflection, I have to wonder…is this just another libtard flip-flop…or does Shrillary & Co. happen to know something we don’t? Like, maybe, a nuclear threat against the USA that’s this close from resulting in a mushroom cloud? The imminent threat of death is a surefire way of yanking people’s heads out of the sand – could that be the case here?
Dark-Star on July 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM
She was a liar on the campaign trail (“coming under fire landing in Sarjevo“) and has Zero credibility now.
profitsbeard on July 27, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Funny lady.
Hardly a laughing matter, though.
Sign of the Dollar on July 27, 2009 at 7:53 PM
No, the Obama admin is engaging in tough talk because Obama’s poll numbers are starting to slide.
JohnJ on July 27, 2009 at 7:56 PM
In related news, PM Neville Chamberlain has returned from Germany with a piece of paper!!
TugboatPhil on July 27, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Super serial? I’ll believe it when I see it. $100 says the Israeli’s beat you to it.
Geronimo on July 27, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Yeah, real confidence inspiring comment Hillary…
therightwinger on July 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Throw a little more sand on the floor Hillary . . . your soft she is beginning to fail you.
rplat on July 27, 2009 at 8:05 PM
rplat said: Throw a little more sand on the floor Hillary . . . your soft she is beginning to fail you.rplat on July 27, 2009 at 8:05 PM
OK dummy . . . the word is “shoe” not “she”. Sorry folks, I’ll keep a closer eye on my fingers.
rplat on July 27, 2009 at 8:07 PM
I know Obama thought bringing her on would keep her out of the loop politically, but I doubt he’ll keep her leash out too far since she’s already showing she’s wearing the mom jeans better than he can when it comes to foreign policy…and that’s not saying much with these donkeys.
Give me a cowboy who is hated but respected any day.
StevefromMKE on July 27, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Mayby a little less close?
JohnJ on July 27, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Oh thank goodness. I was so worried that something might happen to that great bastion of freedom and human achievement. Truly a load off my mind.
Grayson on July 27, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I’m one who believes in real action. All the talk during the Clinton and Obama administrations and most of the Bush administration has been counter productive. Doing nothing including not talking would have been better than what we did do.
We should have prevented them from importing petroleum products to shut down their economy and shut down their electricity production to truncate uranium refining.
burt on July 27, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Dumb. No you’re not.
Dash on July 27, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Her husband had a bombshell under his desk for all those years. Whats to stop IRAN from having theirs?
johnnyU on July 27, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Prediction:
Iran gets the bomb…
Hillary resigns from State in protest…
She begins a challenge to Obama for Dem nomination…
Crap hits fan.
RobCon on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM
WHat technology are we going to pee away now? North Korea isnt supposed to have nukes either after all the butt-kissing we did.
johnnyU on July 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Ummm…no! Your prediction assumes she stands for something other than her own interests. She doesn’t.
AUINSC on July 27, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Obumbler is going to fire her before the year’s end.
This is so not the policy he wants.
jukin on July 27, 2009 at 9:08 PM
We are so screwed.
Hog Wild on July 27, 2009 at 9:13 PM
America can’t get enough of Saudi smegma scented single malts at their horse palaces and library planning seminars. They will defend Saudis to the death….again.
BL@KBIRD on July 27, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Yeah, yeah, Iran, blah blah blah.
But on a serious note. Hillary’s looking pretty good here. Way to step up your game girl! Bill might even hit that.
Sugar Land on July 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM
When El-Al flights are curtailed, when ships and ferry’s move Israeli children and elderly to Morocco, when the Israeli navy moves most of its assets through the Suez, when the Israeli air force is no longer parked in the usual revetments and aprons, and when Israel suddenly gets real silent about anything…it means two things.
One, Iran has a deliverable weapon.
Two, Israel has made the decision that Iran will not deliver that weapon.
Oh, and third…the rest of the world can piss off.
coldwarrior on July 27, 2009 at 9:28 PM
If you’re trying to “change the calculus” in Iran, you have to do more than make vague, “it’s unacceptable” threats. Whatever she thinks her threat was previously, she completely undercut it with statements that demonstrate that the administration HAS NO PLAN.
It’s like watching a junior varsity co-ed trying to play in the major leagues. Face-in-palm. We’re all f*ck’d.
PersonalLiberty on July 27, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Is this happening right now?!
Dark-Star on July 27, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Not yet. Give it time.
“Smart diplomacy” doesn’t seem to be working so well.
coldwarrior on July 27, 2009 at 9:48 PM
You know? Bill Clinton was the architect of the wonderful wonderful program that allowed American Companies and the US Defense Dept to hand off the launch of rockets with classified technology to China … because it was cheaper, or so they said. China happily crashed the rockets with their satellite payloads on teh launch pads where they roped off access until they had stripped them of every useful piece of advanced technology. I was much younger then, but I clearly remember throwing up when I read the news that we were GOING to allow this and then again when China “botched” the launch and the American companies were prevented from recovering the equipment. The Clintons and I have never been on good terms since.
So. When Hillary Clinton says anything pretending to sound like she gives a rat’s ass about our defense or that keeps us at a technological advantage over our enemies – no offense to China – love that Kung Pao chicken, k? – I want to throw up. She is a liar. Her boss is a liar. Her husband is a liar.
No really. Don’t hold back. Tell us how you ACTUALLY feel.
I honestly believe that if it were up to Clinton she would sell Iran our own Nukes calling them surplus and she’d spin it as a brilliant move to pay down our deficit. Part of me cringes at every cruelty Obama heaps on her because he’s a misogynistic ass doing it for his own personal pleasure and part of me knows she deserves it. I imagine this is what hell must be like.
BrideOfRove on July 27, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Earth to Hillary:
Does it look like Iran gives a sh!t what you,Obama,the UN,or anybody else has to say.
They have been slaughtering there own people in the streets on a daily basis for the mere fact that they want their vote to count.
They rape their women before they execute them.
They hang people for being gay (even though dinner jacket said they had no gay people in Iran).
They have made it clear that they want to destroy Israel.
The coming of the 12th Iman is what there leadership cares about,not blabbering faux tough talk from a liberal administration that’s sole foreign policy is to apologize to everybody.
The fact that Hillary is starting to sound like Bush now is not going to mean squat to the mullah’s.
Yea,we can keep a record of what Hillary is saying now.
The MSM will just ignore it like they did the 10 years of democrats like Hillary,Biden,Kerry and the rest of the liberals that told America how dangerous Saddam was with his WMD’s/ties to al-qaeda then accused Bush of lying to the Nation for saying the same thing.
One of the main priorities of being a democrat is never being held responsible for the position you held the day before.
Baxter Greene on July 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Ahmadinejad ejected hot tea through his nose when he heard Shrillary say that. He’s probably still chuckling.
Dr. ZhivBlago on July 27, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Get ready for a heavy dose of “tough talk” from the executive branch, considering recess for House/Senate is right around the corner.
I am surprised Biden’s Russia remarks didn’t make it in the headlines on HotAir.
There will be finger wagging, posturing and oodles of pressers to help Obama’s tanking numbers, failure to ram through a Healthcare reform and overall stalled, depressed economy.
“21st century China relations” is out of the box.
Should be an interesting August. All hat, no cattle.
Odie1941 on July 27, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I guess meddling in Iran’s business is now passé?
Oh, and I guess the Hot Dog party is out of the question now?
I. Can’t. Keep Up.
TN Mom on July 27, 2009 at 11:52 PM
That’s a tuffy. I’ll have to go with Iran, if they get it I don’t think they’ll hesitate to launch it what with the religious ideology behind them.
4shoes on July 28, 2009 at 12:53 AM
God help me, in comparison to Obama, I like Hillary. In that she perhaps doesn’t want us all to die, unlike the piece of sh*t that’s currently “in charge” of the free world.
Security Mom on July 28, 2009 at 2:36 AM
Am I imagining things or is Hillary hitting the testoterone these days?
Her voice is an octave lower.
rickyricardo on July 28, 2009 at 3:40 AM
We haven’t heard from her in weeks and suddenly here she is making threats in Ochimpy’s name. Do they really think that this will insulate him from more charges that he is going back on every “promise” he has made?
And since when is a nuclear umbrella an option when the policy is that Iran will NEVER get nukes? It sounds like Ochimpy is considering a fall back position for the day Iran does have nukes.
csdeven on July 28, 2009 at 6:00 AM
Meanwhile the Mossad is secretly replacing the undeliverable low yield test device with a one thousand megaton warhead.
darktood on July 28, 2009 at 6:51 AM
The harridan. As I said earlier, she see’s the Palin PeterBuilt looming large in her reaview mirror (2012).
The only answer to Irans Nuclear ambitions is to bomb them with penetrators. But that would take some stones and we haven’t had any of those in the oval office for a while.
dogsoldier on July 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM
I guess there is one upside to having Obama in office. All of Bush’s worst policies are now under new ownership. You don’t have to feel so bad about criticizing someone who does a lot of good things if he doesn’t do a lot of good things. Or any, for that matter.
OneGyT on July 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Hillary swears a lot
Bevan on July 28, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Ha Ha Ha!!!
Reality 101
Hillary Clinton=F
sonnyspats1 on July 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM
If the US can translate its economic power into effective, nonviolent diplomatic measures to cripple rogue states, then Russia can’t count on being able to do what it likes on its borders. So Russia will oppose such American “soft power”.
If the US can translate its economic power into effective, nonviolent diplomatic measures to cripple rogue states, then China can’t count on being able to do what it likes on its borders. So China will oppose such American “soft power”.
If the US can translate its economic power into effective, nonviolent diplomatic measures to cripple rogue states, then Europe must limit its economic investment to match American policy objectives. So Europe will oppose such American “soft power”.
If the US can translate its economic power into effective, nonviolent diplomatic measures to cripple rogue states, then Latin America and Africa can’t get financing without aligning closely with the United States on–to them–irrelevant policy considerations. So the Third World will oppose such American “soft power”.
In fact, they usually do.
There is nothing intellectually deep about continual reliance on “the best and brightest” trying to BS the planet into playing along with America. I’d rather have some cowboy diplomacy.
Chris_Balsz on July 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM
are you listening iran. of course nothing is going to happen ramp up you nuclear efforts
rjoco1 on July 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM