More Stating The Obvious

Yes, we know this. Both the US and Israel can blow any country in the world off of the face of the earth. Iran knows that. The constant insinuation (either by Iran or us) that they will attack Israel is np more than bluster and grand standing because we all know the ramifications. I know Clinton has to establish herself as a hawk. That kind of talk may appeal to the uneducated and non-thinking. I don't want to hear it!

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

On the day of a crucial vote in her nomination battle against fellow Democrat Barack Obama, the New York senator said she wanted to make clear to Tehran what she was prepared to do as president in hopes that this warning would deter any Iranian nuclear attack against the Jewish state.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"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 said.

"That's a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic," Clinton said.

Her comments appeared harder than a week ago, when during a presidential debate she promised "massive retaliation" against any Iranian attack on Israel.

Obama rejected Clinton's rhetoric as saber rattling on a day when Pennsylvania Democrats voted in a party primary contest that could help decide which Democrat will face Republican John McCain for the White House in the November general election.

Yes, it's saber rattling and it's irritating. But, Obama better figure out how to do more than brush it off if/when he ends up in the ring against John McCain because this topic is par for the course.