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McCain sings 'bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran'

rawstory.com — Sen. John McCain, in a "what was he thinking?" moment threatens Iran to the tune of "Barbara Ann." Is McCain is becoming the Sanjaya of this Presidential race?

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  • SignOfHope, on 10/12/2007, -31/+20shame less
    • ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -48/+87What? This is a good thing.

      Every time Giuliani and McCain shoot themselves in the foot, it means there's that much more of a chance for Ron Paul to not get owned in the primaries.
    • PATSCRU, on 10/12/2007, -22/+33it's not shameless...it's sadly honest, and a once respected republican that once stood by what he thought was just and could not be swayed by the left or right has sadly fallen by the way of the big neocon machine, and has lost all respect for it.
    • DigitalOmnivore, on 10/12/2007, -35/+23People are way too easly offended nowadays.
    • xekko, on 10/12/2007, -19/+91Countries are way too easily invaded nowadays.
    • DigitalOmnivore, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2Use the petrodollar or die, imo.
    • smoothmedia, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18Him and Bush should sing a duet!
      http://bombiran.ytmnd.com/
    • ExSlashdotter, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3@xekko

      combat controllers FTW!
    • Winters, on 10/12/2007, -16/+62I'm no fan of McCain at all, but if you watch the video, it's really not all that bad.


      Though he was totally in the wrong key.
    • SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -21/+7I agree with him. We should bomb Iran if they try to destroy Israel.

      But they have to actually attack Israel first.
    • benradler, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6he should die
    • CatalystDM, on 10/12/2007, -48/+130OH MY GOD DIGG. Shut up about Ron Paul for the love of god. Just because he's a republican who isn't corrupt doesn't mean he's Jesus reborn. He's still a republican.

      Go ahead and digg me down. Please. But Digg's unnatural obsession with Ron Paul will soon make even Ron Paul himself a little wary.
    • dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31its actually a pretty good pun
    • MrFatalistic, on 10/12/2007, -21/+13uh, the thinly veiled question was basically "when are we going to bomb them"

      he responded with "that old beach boys song?" it was a ***** JOKE. he was making light of a dark question, omfgbbq.

      I'm sick of propaganda on digg, anyone with half a brain should digg this ***** DOWN.
    • night141, on 10/12/2007, -19/+27You're right Catalyst, everybody that doesn't share the same viewpoints as you should just shut up. After all, who cares about the first amendment anyway when it doesn't fit your agenda?
      • CatalystDM, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1Right, since spamming your viewpoint all over digg has anything to do with the first amendment.
    • Bluteau, on 10/12/2007, -14/+52I lost all respect for John McCain back in 2000 when he bent over and took it up the butt from GW Bush.
    • Sifl, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11I was thinking more to the tune of the Imperial March.
    • macfanboi, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19Has McCain lost his mind? Wow, this is like watching Britney Spears' self destruction.
    • origclubsoda, on 10/12/2007, -26/+9You guys are too young to remember that from the 70s when Iran was holding US hostages. Frankly, you guys seem clueless about the hole Iran issue.
    • gak001, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12@origclubsoda
      The nice thing about not having been around when things were unfolding is that not only do we have digital archives of all of the coverage of the event, but we also have a wealth of literature written about the subject from many different perspectives. You see, there's this place that we go with lots of books and people who are experts (or in the case of the earlier version just trained) in the subjects that they talk about. This place is sometimes called "College" or "University".

      It's pretty awesome - you might want to check it out. Look out for us young whippersnappers though - we bite.
    • pitlord, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Wow! McCain just might get my vote in the primaries for this.

      We need more leaders like G. W. who will stay the course - even in the face of massive public outcry - to get the job done and done right.

      It's a nasty world out there and it ain't gonna get better by ignoring it.

      Too bad McCain is such a waffler.
    • babakshirazi, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4
      Ron Paul! Ron Paul! McCain must have been having a POW flashback.
    • str3ama, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8what an idiot...
    • SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9@CcatalystDM
      He's the first politician many of us have seen in a long time who is truly honest about his beliefs and is willing to stand out.

      We may not agree with all of his policies, but believing in limited government and personal liberties is rarely a bad thing.

      For most of us, it has nothing to do with his political party; hell, he doesn't even fit in any political party. It appears that you are the one judging him based on his party.
    • ihavebeenseen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10BAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
    • elhaf, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Ron Paul is mainly a Libertarian. Which, if there's a good Republican left these days, they are Libertarian. That is exactly the opposite of what Bush stands for these days.
    • airiox, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4I'm gonna come back to this article and laugh when all you people have your heads cut off cuz you said play nice with the cobra.
    • TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7All you should get a since of humor.
    • d00ley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"You guys are too young to remember that from the 70s when Iran was holding US hostages. Frankly, you guys seem clueless about the hole Iran issue."

      You are too young to remember when we overthrew their democratically government in 1953 and installed the Shah during which a rein of terror ensued for the next 25 years.
    • flyhunnie7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@ tdkwilson
      I totally have a SENSE of humor... I just think that when it's campaign season, politicians can't assume that nothing they say won't be taken literally or out of context. Even thought I don't agree with McCain now, I did a few years ago, and I still think he's a smart man; he could have thought of something more clever that would not have portrayed him as senseless.

      *I also wish that the video went on to play the rest of his thought. It makes you wonder, especially since it was from Rawstory
    • trevorml0878, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@scornforsega - I agree! Ron Paul is the only candidate I'm going to vote for- and I've been democrat all my life! http://RonPaulReport.SquareSpace.com
    • SIRBERUS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Waaaaaay mis quoted.

      Quote the site says he said: ""'Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,' he sang to the tune of Barbara Ann," the paper notes."

      What he said in reality was like: "Like that old song by the Beach Boys. Bomb Iran?" "Bomb, bomb, bomb."

    • CatalystDM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@night141

      Yep, you're right... that must be it. I must be one of those partisan hacks with an agenda who doesn't support the first amendment. After all, why else would I mention Ron Paul's party of origin?

      Maybe I mentioned it because it's a republican who got us into this ***** up war, it's a republican who completely demolished the work done by the previous president to eradicate our country's debt, and it's a republican who left his own countrymen stranded in the water after Hurricane Katrina.

      Since, as pointed out by others, Ron Paul isn't even really a true republican by beliefs, don't you think it's a little curious that he calls himself officially a republican when this is what it means to be republican?

      I don't think he's a bad guy, but even if he is "libertarian," he's a member of the republican party and, if elected, would thus be essentially forced to act as a republican, not as a libertarian, democrat or whatever. If he were campaigning as a candidate for the Libertarian party (which does exist, so don't say he doesn't have that option), then yes, this would be a completely different story and I might even consider supporting him. But with the way the republican party is structured and the beliefs they have held true since Reagan was elected, I won't even consider voting Republican because no matter what the character of the candidate, he will still be forced to act as the head of the Republican party. Just look at what has happened to McCain already. He used to be the Republican senator who didn't care about party lines and who was liberal enough to look electable even to Democrats. However, now he has become a partisan hack who clearly is in the pocket of the Bush administration. Do you honestly not believe the same will happen to Ron Paul in the general election if he wins the Republican primary?

      No matter how good of a man someone is, in the race for the presidency he is only as good as his party.
  • louise12345, on 10/12/2007, -41/+80This man makes lite the destruction and death of thousand if not millions of innocents. He is truly unworthy of representing America.

    Get out McCain!! Take the rest of your neocon thugs with you.

    HIT THE STREETS IN PROTEST PEOPLE! GET THESE PEOPLE OUT!!
    • xekko, on 10/12/2007, -22/+37McCain should be scorned for making a glib joke like this. Can you imagine Obama or Clinton making these comments? They'd be vilified! But McCain "was just trying to add a little humor to the event", so he gets away with it.
    • DryvBy, on 10/12/2007, -15/+32Sorry, I have a job. I don't really care what he says. 1st Amendment applies to everyone in America.
    • Grub, on 10/12/2007, -17/+12@dryvby "Sorry, I have a job. I don't really care what he says. 1st Amendment applies to everyone in America."

      you can say what all that u want, it doesnt change the fact that because of what you say, people dont want you as their leader. I dont remember louise saying "he cant say" i remember louise saying "He is truly unworthy of representing America."
    • IslandDog, on 10/12/2007, -20/+9LOL.

      McCain is not a "neo-con" or whatever label you moonbats want. He is more a democrat than a republican.
    • Milo82, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@DryvBy... Everyone has the right to speak their minds, but voters have the responsibility of not voting into office people who have no idea where the line of acceptable speech is for public figures. They are voted into office and are supposed to represent the American people. And as someone said earlier, destroying thousands and thousands of lives is not something that should be laughed about by a public figure. We very well might have to go to war with Iran at some point, I hope not, but we might. If we do, I'm sure as hell not going to laugh about it.
    • megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5It reminds me of the old Nazi beer hall song, "Wir bomben auf England (We're bombing England.)" To quote Rush Limbaugh, "I am not making this up."

      Seriously though, jubilating merrily over the violent destruction of human life isn't just a bad joke, it's a sign of an unhinged mind, if not outright sociopathy.
    • hootdoodie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Oh I thought you said "repressing" America. He could do that pretty well.
    • drenader, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3@megaloid

      How did you think that quoting Rush Limbaugh would ever be a good idea?
    • megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Irony value?
    • Silencer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is what bombing Iran would actually result in:
      http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/nuclear-bunker-buster-rnep-animation.html
      Way to go, geniuses
    • AnaHadWolves, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If sadly out-of-touch and almost-out-of-time John McCain really wanted to be correct about the tune "Bomb Iran", he should go to the source: Vince Vance & the Valiants recorded the Beach Boys parody song "Bomb Iran" in 1980-81, written during the Hostage Crisis.

      It's on Towel Records and available,. I believe, from Dr. Demento.
    • tex68, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1But it's OK to say "Death to America" and "Israel should be wiped of the map" by dictator thugs and Islamic clerics...got it. Geez! Liberal is truly a mental disorder.
  • Cordier, on 10/12/2007, -14/+26The death of others has no meaning to one with blind ambition. It's all about McCain and always has been...
  • toddcat, on 10/12/2007, -15/+11That's an insult to Sanjaya....whoever the fug he is. F*ck McCain. He got embarassed in South Carolina in 2000, took one for the team, so to speak, and has never been the same.
  • GlobalistShill, on 10/12/2007, -14/+10I've said it before, and I'll say it again. McCain is a douche. LOL!

    ""Iran is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That alone should concern us but now they are trying for nuclear capabilities."

    I wonder how many Americans even know why we have a "strategic" alliance with Israel? For those curious, check this out, it is an excellent piece:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2894821400057137878&q=israel+dutch
  • TheLoneWolf071, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Hehe... At least he's a president for the arts...
  • antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -36/+13Oh my god.
    IT WAS A JOKE JOKE JOKE, JOKE YOU DUMB LIBS!
    • FloppyLlamaDigg, on 10/12/2007, -21/+8DIGG ME DOWN DOWN DOWN
    • kevin45, on 10/12/2007, -11/+36Its not a joke when we should be IMPROVING RELATIONS WITH THE MIDDLE EAST AND SHOW WE ARE NOT AN OPEN THREAT TO THEM.
    • 28dayslater, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39I know it was ***** hilarious. Bomb Bomb Kill Kill, funny as ***** hell. Great joke, and you have good taste in jokes. In presidents as well. It's too bad you couldn't vote for Bush a third time, eh?
    • Sunuva, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22It wasn't funny.
    • Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29@antoniojvr (#6246449)
      It was a joke, yes. One he was making to mirror the attitude of the warmonger in the audience who was posing the question. Responsible world leaders do not attempt to mollify ignorant aggressiveness in the citizenry by mirroring it, even in jest. McCain had the opportunity to rebuke that attitude with a reasonable and educated reply. Not only did he fail to do so, he chose to play to the crowd.
    • Skeptic1970, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Wasn't that Kerry's defense for his botched troops joke. Did you cut him any slack?
    • CannedMango, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37It's a joke when Howard Stern or Jeff Foxworthy says it.

      It's international tension when a ranking politicians says it.
    • GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Unfortunately showing the middle east you're not a threat to them means that they will gladly ***** you up in the name of Islam because that's how they do things these days.

      Good muslims are hard to come by. Also, Britain was pretty Middle east friendly, and polls show their Muslim population is favoring enacting sharia law..

      Saudi Arabia has recently reopened the debate over slavery, claiming it is a Muslim's right to own slaves.

      You guys have no idea what you're getting yourselves into. You're basing your decisions on how you would react or expect to be treated, but that side of the world carries an entirely different mentality, ideology, and attitude.
  • sonofdy1, on 10/12/2007, -22/+10I don't care care care care care care.
    • Milo82, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11You should.
    • mightydavefish, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10That's because you are an ignorant right wing tool tool tool.
    • sonofdy1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5No i don't care because im not going to vote for him so i couldn't care less what he sings. He can sing about whatever he wants. But thanks for showing your blind hatred of anything not in lock step with your views.

      I still don't care care care
  • jhnewt, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19I think its kind of catchy...

    (sings to self: "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran...")
    • catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I wonder how late he stayed up thinking of that one.
    • HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18He didn't stay up late. This parody (or whatever) of Barbara Ann was widely played on national radio during the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979.
    • laserdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now, I'm not the biggest fan of McCain lately, but man, all the write ups of this I've seen seem to imply he was mugging and making light of the possibly of a war. Often times accompanied with videos that don't even show his entire response to the question.

      When in reality, it seemed like an attempt to disarm an otherwise ignorant question from some yokel in the audience ("When do we get to bomb Iran?")...

      To me, the fact that some people earnestly believe a war in Iran is the best course of action right now shocked me far more than seeing McCain trying to use a 30 year old song parody to avoid answering a pointed question.
  • antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1lawl Surf Ninjas
  • TonyBalls, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Thats not that bad - this is overexaggerated. It was clearly a joke. Who knows what he said after. it could've been against attacking Iran, but I mean it appears that crowd is somewhere where they are all about that sort of thing, judging on how the question was phrased. He's playing to the crowd is all.

    Dugg down - just link to the damn video not your anti-McCain message in a blog post which is loaded with Windows Live and Google Ads.
  • imgonnafart, on 10/12/2007, -13/+12Mccain is a total piece of *****.
  • SilverBack101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17At least he isn't pretending to be black like MC Rove and his posse.
  • nuttybar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23south park doesnt even need to try to mock politics anymore
  • ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -18/+6He's finished. Go back to your bamboo cage, old man.
    • sonofdy1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14So you respond to his joke by telling him to return to his jail where he was tortured for years. Classsssyyyy
  • rmetzger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2he made more of a reference/joke to it then "sing" it. regardless if Iran is behind all "this" or not i doing think a presidential candidate should be making light of bombing a nation.but thats just me.
  • deeboe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Not that I support his decision, but that really wasnt as bad as it is made out to be.
  • jkenda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A little more confusion about our strategic intentions would likely be of aid in helping Iran tone down their behavior.
  • dylantea, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Go Go Gadget Colonialism !!

    You don't joke about invading countries. Afghanistan and Iraq are hardly funny. I used to have a lot of respect for McCain, and in the last few weeks it has completely disapeared.

    Funny thing again, about supporting an occupying nation like Israel, and the way that whenever a "Third world" country seeks to get nuclear power, the US freaks out, labels them as nuclear weapons monsters (when we are the only people dumb enough to have used them) and then bars progress. Maybe what is really at hand here is a desire to keep poorer countries poor and obedient.
  • gormenghast, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3***** lol
  • giddytonk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3@islanddog

    "LOL.

    McCain is not a "neo-con" or whatever label you moonbats want. He is more a democrat than a republican."

    Stupidest. Comment. Ever. If that were true he'd be a fuqn democrat dipwad
    • uhohzombies, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1No he wouldn't... he's just trying to say that McCain is a very moderate Republican. He still sides one way or the other, but he's so far left from what most Conservatives want to see in a candidate that they deride him as being a Democrat.
    • IslandDog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2LOL. Ever heard of a RINO?
    • Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8McCain used to be moderate, before he had a visit from Vice President Palpatine.
  • zaycev, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Actually it is horror!

    Saddam dead:
    http://ipload.ru/file.php?File=39446385792
  • disciple83, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2As a conservative, I feel disgusted by the fact that he is one of the more hopeful candidates for the party. However, as a registered democrat, I believe in the system, and thankfully, I won't have to worry about him in the oval office.

    (conservative as in I don't think it's right to liberally apply laws to the people to protect them from ridiculous things such as faulty toothbrushing techniques, music that is too loud, "violent video games" training psychotic lawyers to spit in the face of tragedy or anything else people find a need to sue over because their "rights" have been violated...If people would grow the hell up and think for themselves, it wouldn't be a problem. I say if we just pull the warning labels off of products the problem will solve itself.)
  • pwolfe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This was just un-professional and tasteless.
  • TheGeek27, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I saw a wackly little flash movie about half a year ago with the "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" as a whole song.
  • totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10poor McCain, he's totally lost it.
    • stalky14, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4I used to like McCain, and if 2000 had been Gore Vs. McCain, I think the vote would have been more like 66/34 McCain. I think Bush's goons got to him sometime around the beginning of the Iraq war and replaced him with a robot double, just like they did with Tony Blair.
      As I recall, both those guys were initially against the war and suddenly "overnight" changed their minds. I still want to know what the hell happened.
  • spinthread, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1this is worse than his psychopathic speech from the last presidential race
  • ronito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13If this gets any media coverage this could be his equivalent to Dean's YYAAAAARRGGGGGGG!!!
  • 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11"I will not allow Iran to destroy Israel" but you will let Israel/US destroy Iran?

    damn hypocritical jerk wads.
  • ablez3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2WHO THE LET THE DOGS OUT!

    WOOOH WOOH!!

    lol
  • hedley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Unacceptable. He aspires to get the keys to the nuclear arsenal one day.
  • barthook, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3sen·sa·tion·al·ism
    1. subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
    2. the use of or interest in this subject matter, language, or style: The cheap tabloids relied on sensationalism to increase their circulation.
  • ericatdigg, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2people whine over the silliest things. i don't think he was shaping foreign policy, but rather just having some fun.

    one
  • HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6He's a total jackass.
  • cortlandjim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2 ONLY ACTION REQUIRES REACTION!
    if Iran wants to start ***** and they actually do something other than let their blowhard president run his mouth, then we will react in the mean time we should keep to our nose out of it.

    let them have nuclear weapons, having them and using them are 2 totally different things. Remember America is the only country ever to use a nuke on another country, and given the fact we have the market cornered on the most different ways to deliver them, I dont think they would have the balls to use them. if they did use one they would cease to exist, all of iran would glow for years.

    Self preservation will always win. that is why they will never use a nuke.
  • willgonz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Isn't that Bush's song?
  • PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4McCain trying to be funny?? Please!! I expect this crusty old codger to wist away like the old fart that he is well before the next election. Time's up already ya demented old right-wing flip-flopper.
    • kevin45, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Are you like, 8 or something? Grow the ***** up.
  • diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8on the rush limbaugh show way back in the mid/early 90s he used to play these parody songs 'bomb iran' and another one called 'bomb iraq'

    so he didn't make these up, but more likely thought it was a funny throw back to the good 'ole rush times when the republicans had a lot to make fun of with clinton in charge and were missing Bush v1.0
    • megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I told one of my friends that I occasionally liked to listen to Rush Limbaugh, just for kicks.

      He turned to me and said, "Isn't that kind of like listening to Satan?" At first, I thought this ridiculous, but then I realized it is a fitting analogy: a man who wins the trust and affection of people in order to lead them astray, regardless of the suffering that ensues, for no reason other than to feed his own monumental vanity.
    • android32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@megaloid I used to listen to Rush as well just for kicks, cuz I love listening to the devil speak, it's actually quite entertaining.
  • bradrmattison, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Totally blown out of proportion. He just made a quick joke, maybe he's a little quirky, but he isn't really that goofy. Media will jump on anything to attack a politician.
  • kasrasf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Afghanistan->>IRAQ->>IRAN->>N Korea->>Syria->>.......They are all bad !!! one by one need to fixed!!! while we are at it lets just fix the whole world!!!! It is the tax payers money.......there is no need to spend the money in school system and higher education or public transport!!! lets just go to war it is more cowboy friendly!!!!.......
  • biuku, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4History will be very unkind to the United States and its sleepwalking toward the annihilation of the outside world.
    • zephc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2'History will be very kind if the US "wins." '
      Nations never win, they just stay ahead for a while.
  • captaincoconut, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6I used to think McCain was one of the more reasonable Republicans. Now it seems he has lost his mind.
  • Blandanomics, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3totally over blown
  • Vinadetta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I guess he knows something that the rest of us doesn't!!!! Oh wait, we are going to be in a war with Iran very soon!!! How dare they think of selling their Oil for Euros instead of the mighty US Dollar!!!!!! Careful or the US will bring Democracy to your country is no laughing matter!!!!!!
  • OoO3xOoO, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@origclubsoda,

    Perhaps you're too young to remember the US overthrowing the Shaw of Iran in the 50s because he wouldn't give British Petroleum a monopoly on their oil. And it's "whole, not "hole."
    • cpemma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's 'Shah' not 'Shaw', and the US helped set up the Shah's secret police system and supplied all his weaponry. Or was your post sarcasm?

      "SAVAK came increasingly to symbolize the Shah's rule from 1963-79, a period of corruption in the royal family, one-party rule, the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners, suppression of dissent, and alienation of the religious masses. The United States reinforced its position as the Shah's protector and supporter, sowing the seeds of the anti-Americanism that later manifested itself in the revolution against the monarchy."

      http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/savak/

      One reason why Iran loves America.
    • OoO3xOoO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I stand corrected on "Shah"...not quite as bad as confusing "whole" and "hole"

      Just another example of why we should stay out of other country's affairs. And yes, we did help set up the shah's secret police system. then, when he wanted to keep the oil profits in his own country, he became a bad guy to us. That is how we work. That was the basis for all the US covert action since the the 50s (and before) in central and south america. They try to nationalize and keep the profits from their resources and that is hostile to "US interests."
  • hurtstobesoemo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3This is not news. Stop treating it like it is.
  • Jenkin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I don't think he did anything wrong here. Seriously. I think he was making fun of the question more than joking about an answer.
    • OoO3xOoO, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2He may have been poking fun at the guy who asked the question, I'll admit that. However, his response is abhorrent. The fact that it is acceptable to joke about bombing a country unprovoked shows how insane this country has become. He should have said something like: "There are millions of innocent people in Iran and I find it offensive that you are making light of killing these innocents." etc. etc. etc. Rather than changing the tune of Barbara Anne to joke about killing thousands of people.

      Hahaha. McCain, you are such a joker! Did you come up with that little bit yourself? You know, about killing thousands of people for no apparent reason? Wow, you are a regular comedian. You write your own material? Amazing! How would you like a TV show dedicated to making jokes about the destruction of foregin countries? The advertising revenue will be rediculous! Americans will love it!
    • mmortal03, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think everyone has conveniently forgotten about the British soldiers being captured. Iran likes doing that kind of stuff, and it shouldn't be allowed to continue. No, we shouldn't invade them, as there are better ways to deal with them than that, but, you have to realize that there are reasons why we aren't friendly with them, and it isn't because of things that we have done to them.
  • gregharmon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Eh, we all want our politicians to act more human and when one of them jokes about something, laughing while he's saying, we take it dead serious and act like it's a huge thing. He has made his feelings toward Iran very clear. This joke changes nothing. And before you digg me down, thinking I'm a McCain or republic "fan" -- I plan on voting for Obama.
  • ongie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Ahhh! What tact! What grace! What professionalism!

    We live in a sad time, friends. When men like this can actually make a realistic bid to be our PRESIDENT.

    Hopefully he just lost some votes.
    • elhaf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2No, he can only get Republican votes; he can't make a realistic run at the presidency.
  • theratdotus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2who let the digs out. i bet mccain wins now... AMERICA! LAND OF THE GO ***** YOURSELVERS
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