Would the U.S. Drop the Bomb Again? 59% of Americans would if similarly provoked

Started by jimmy olsen, May 22, 2016, 10:54:27 PM

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Should the US nuke Iran to save the lives of 20,000 American soldiers?

Yes
6 (23.1%)
Only if they have developed a nuclear weapon
1 (3.8%)
Only if they have used chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
6 (23.1%)
Only if some larger arbitrary number of US soldiers are at risk (please list, 50k, 100k, etc)
0 (0%)
No, the US can beat Iran under any circumstances without resorting to nukes.
13 (50%)

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lustindarkness

#45
May 23, 2016, 03:23:22 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 23, 2016, 03:03:25 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on May 23, 2016, 02:03:08 PM
stop the useless blabbering.

Cue the end of Languish. :(

Oh yeah. :hmm:  :blush:


Carry on folks!
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Martinus

#46
May 27, 2016, 06:01:46 AM
So apparently Obama just comes short of apologising for Hiroshima, pledging that the US shall never "repeat the evil" of dropping a nuke again.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/obama-first-serving-us-president-to-visit-hiroshima-a3258316.html

You guys have asked me if I have concerns about Poland's international safety if Trump gets elected. I have much bigger concerns about this guy - his term cannot end soon enough.

garbon

#47
May 27, 2016, 06:03:35 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 27, 2016, 06:01:46 AM
You guys have asked me if I have concerns about Poland's international safety if Trump gets elected. I have much bigger concerns about this guy - his term cannot end soon enough.

Don't be such a ninny.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

#48
May 27, 2016, 06:04:23 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 27, 2016, 06:01:46 AM
You guys have asked me if I have concerns about Poland's international safety if Trump gets elected. I have much bigger concerns about this guy - his term cannot end soon enough.

Lighten up, Francis.

garbon

#49
May 27, 2016, 06:04:57 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2016, 06:04:23 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 27, 2016, 06:01:46 AM
You guys have asked me if I have concerns about Poland's international safety if Trump gets elected. I have much bigger concerns about this guy - his term cannot end soon enough.

Lighten up, Francis.

:cheers:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

#50
May 27, 2016, 06:15:11 AM
People at Hiroshima didn't run around screaming with their hair on fire as much as Martinus does on a Tuesday.

Maladict

#51
May 27, 2016, 06:17:46 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 27, 2016, 06:01:46 AM
So apparently Obama just comes short of apologising for Hiroshima, pledging that the US shall never "repeat the evil" of dropping a nuke again.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/obama-first-serving-us-president-to-visit-hiroshima-a3258316.html

You guys have asked me if I have concerns about Poland's international safety if Trump gets elected. I have much bigger concerns about this guy - his term cannot end soon enough.

He did not apologize at all, just expressed hope nuclear weapons would not be needed anymore.

"We shall not repeat the evil" is written on the monument. You know, the one set up by the Japanese.

Maladict

#52
May 27, 2016, 06:19:35 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2016, 06:15:11 AM
People at Hiroshima didn't run around screaming with their hair on fire as much as Martinus does on a Tuesday.

:lol:

grumbler

#53
May 27, 2016, 06:55:24 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2016, 06:15:11 AM
People at Hiroshima didn't run around screaming with their hair on fire as much as Martinus does on a Tuesday.

:lol:
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Bayraktar!

Valmy

#54
May 27, 2016, 07:21:40 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 27, 2016, 06:01:46 AM
So apparently Obama just comes short of apologising for Hiroshima, pledging that the US shall never "repeat the evil" of dropping a nuke again.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/obama-first-serving-us-president-to-visit-hiroshima-a3258316.html

You guys have asked me if I have concerns about Poland's international safety if Trump gets elected. I have much bigger concerns about this guy - his term cannot end soon enough.

Well both Trump and Obama are Hitler and last I checked Hitler was bad for Polish safety.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

CountDeMoney

#55
May 29, 2016, 07:31:01 PM
Don't worry, Marti;  your surrogates here are hard at work.

QuotePost Politics
Sarah Palin assails Obama for Hiroshima visit
By Philip Rucker May 27
Washington Post

SAN DIEGO – Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, savaged President Obama here Friday for what she termed his "apology lap" in Hiroshima, a Japanese city destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb during World War II.

Addressing a large Donald Trump campaign rally in downtown San Diego, Palin accused Obama of "dissing our vets" with his visit to Hiroshima — the first by a sitting U.S. president and one designed to honor the memory of all who were lost in the war.

Palin said Obama's visit suggested that the president believes that "the greatest generation was perpetuating the evil of World War II." She added, "Our commander in chief suggesting – actually, lying in suggestions – to the world that we were wrong to prove that we would eradicate evil in World War II."

Thousands of Trump supporters cheered Palin and booed the president. The former Alaska governor-turned-reality TV star and tea party heroine said Trump would be a president "who knows how to win."

"You mess with our freedom," she said, "we'll put a boot in your ass. It's the American way." At that, the crowd chanted, "USA! USA! USA!"

Palin was the warm-up act at Trump's large rally, speaking on stage before the candidate arrived in San Diego. She took issue with Obama's statement overseas this week that other world leaders have been "rattled" by the rise of Trump.

"Rattled, are they now?" Palin said. "Well, maybe it's time that things get rattlin'." She pointed out that the yellow Gadsden flag flown at tea party rallies depicts a rattlesnake "coiled, prepared, ready to strike."

"So, yeah, rattlin' – it's a good thing," she said. :lol:

Palin took aim at Trump's critics, including in the Republican Party.

"You know that tent that the GOP operatives have at least claimed for so long now that they really wanted to enlarge?" she asked. "They're really freaked out now that we all came in and demolished their tight-knit tent."

Turning to look at the television cameras and journalists on the press riser, Palin lambasted the "sheep in the media."

"Their head is still a-spinnin'," she said. "Do you know how thoroughly distrusted you are, mainstream media? ... He is now we the people's nominee, so suck it up, cupcake!"

Razgovory

#56
May 29, 2016, 08:07:54 PM
These read like Onion articles.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Jaron

#57
May 30, 2016, 01:50:35 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 23, 2016, 01:07:57 AM
So is it "if similarly provoked" or "to save lives of 20,000 soldiers"? Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives of way more than 20,000 soldiers.

As usual, Tim is an idiot.

This comment was really uncalled for.
Winner of THE grumbler point.
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