McCain wants everybody in Iran to die of lung cancer!
Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be “a way of killing ’em.”
McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from the hip, was responding to a report that U.S. exports to Iran rose tenfold during President George W. Bush’s term in office despite hostility between the two states.
A rise in cigarette sales was a big part of that, according to an Associated Press analysis of seven years of U.S. trade figures.
“Maybe that’s a way of killing ’em,” McCain said to reporters during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. “I meant that as a joke, as a person who hasn’t had a cigarette in 28 years, 29 years,” he added, laughing.
that link isn’t working for me
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0832180920080709?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Philip Morris makes money and we save on the price of bombs. What’s not to like?
oh. it’s working now. weird.
“during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh.”
The “Smokey City” routine.
Am I missing something? Where the heck is everybody?
If we do bomb Iran, some wag will paint cigarettes on teh bombs.
And probably get in trouble, just like these guys did.
I think we ought to equip a couple of C130s with whatever it was the Israelis used to get through the Syrian air defenses, and go bomb Qom — with one planeload of Marlboro Red and one of menthols. Each pack labeled in Pars, Arabic, and English: A gift from the American People. Enjoy!
Yes, I know, you’d never get it past the smokingstaffel. But such little symbolic acts could have more impact than a MOAB, if properly exploited.
Regards,
Ric
Just when I was giving up hope on McCain you have to post something that that actually makes me like him.
Go figure.
Phillip Morris making money.
Too simply stated: The slope — toward, among other horrors, our own “socialized medicine” — lubricated by the recent global wave of anti-smoking laws is largely an effect — as in, they largely caused it — of Phillip Morris having traded future prohibition for governments’ destroying their present-day competition in the various “tobacco settlements” of the last decade or so.
I’ve mentioned this before, and it’s still so: With full knowledge of exactly what I’m paying for, I buy smuggled non-PM cigarettes from some Egyptian psycho who sends the proceeds to Hamas, because they’ll do less harm with my money.
I like that. I like that a lot.
Hee hee. I just can’t bring myself to dislike McCain. He is the coolest Republican politician I have seen in a long time.
If only it were that realiably consistant, see…lots of people are dying of lung cancer even though they never smoked. Beverly Sills comes to mind, my own father at age 69(and he was a die hard health nut who did all the beautiful living requirements for a pristine life) Now I’m not saying that smoking doesn’t promote health problems, it’s as bad as automobile wrecks forever mangling bodies however, to believe that not smoking will prevent lung cancer is as silly as believing your plastic teeny car will protect you from getting crushed to death in an automobile accident.
The delightful curmudgeon Cathy Seipp also died from lung cancer. She wrote on the delight she took in befuddling her busybody California neighbors by noting that she had never smoked, never lived with a smoker, never worked in a bar, etc. They simply couldn’t wrap their heads around that.
Yes Percy Cathy was delightful, she is missed.
What has also yet to wrap around heads is that gasoline in the new cigarette; you see…oil is an ‘addiction’ which is making us ‘sick’ so in order to cure the ‘dependence’ Mommy Government deems it necessary to increase tax on a gallon of gasoline so it will stop the ‘addicts’ from getting access to that which is making them ‘sick’; in Mommy Government high tax is the way to curing dependence thus gasoline is the new cigarette.
I must say that I find it quite disgusting that McCain would wish ill health on any people and I also think that the posters here who support his statement are just as disgusting. What kind of people would want others to die. That the US is getting ready to attack this country is outrageous, but they have oil and the US oil companies want that oil. These companies are poised to take over the Iraq oil fields as well. I just keep asking; who are we as a people?
um, ask Iran? or do you think that whole “Death to America” thing is just catchy?