Obliteration
“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran,” she said when she was asked what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. “In the next 10 years, -during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,” she added.
- Hillary Clinton, April 22, 2008
This is what “obliterate them” looks like. When I looked at this newly released collection of photos, I was stunned. The imagination cannot fill in the gaps where reality is. An entire city leveled. People living one moment, dead the next. Just like that. Mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, children, fathers, grandchildren.
Gone.
This is what Hillary Clinton has tossed around like a cowboy at a rodeo, swaggering with her imaginary holster full of death.
My reaction when I saw these photos was this: How on earth could ANYONE contemplate doing such a thing, much less actually say the words?
What’s yours?
(Credit: Robert L. Capp | Full Collection: Sean Malloy)
Technorati Tags: nuclear weapons, hiroshima, destruction, evil
May 5th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Poor choice of words perhaps? When I’ve heard her explain her comments, which were in response to a question about potential use of nuclear weapons by Iran, I have to wonder if she felt a moderate response would sound like she was being wishy-washy?
May 5th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
She has made statements since to the same end. The words have changed, the message has not.
John Hersey’s Hiroshima, http://moourl.com/zbk4p
I was made to read that book in high school and have reread it every few years. The thought ever since that makes me shiver is a person being burned into the wall or ground to look like a permanate shadow.
War is hell. Atomic war is *censored* insanity.