Flashback: Hillary Clinton Said She'd 'Totally Obliterate' Iran If She Were President

By
David Rufful
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Liberals are up in arms about President Trump threatening to bomb Iran—to spare no expense in fully retaliating should it attack any American people—but, it was not so long ago when twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was arguing for the very same thing.
In 2008, when Clinton was running against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, the context was different, but the message was the same: she said if she were president, then she would “totally obliterate” Iran.
Reuters reports:

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

“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.
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As for the Democrat Clinton was running against, Obama argued against using words like “obliterate,” saying “it doesn’t actually produce good results.”