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Iran Condemns McCain for Cigarette Joke
TEHRAN (July 13) - Iran has condemned U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain for joking about killing Iranians with cigarettes and said it showed his "warmongering" foreign policy attitude, media said on Sunday.
McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the Islamic Republic by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said: "McCain's crude remark on the indiscriminate killing of the Iranian nation not only testifies to his disturbed state of mind, but also to his warmongering approach to foreign policy."
In a statement quoted by the website of Iran's state Press TV satellite station, Hosseini added:
"We condemn such jokes and believe them to be inappropriate for a U.S. presidential candidate. It is most evident that jokes about genocide will not be tolerated by Iranians or Americans."
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 countries.
A rise in cigarette sales was a big part of that, according to an Associated Press analysis.
"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.
His comments coincided with rising tension between Iran and its arch-foes, the United States and Israel, over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program.
U.S. leaders have not ruled out military options if diplomacy fails to assuage fears about Iran's nuclear work, which they suspect is aimed at making bombs but which Tehran says is only to produce electricity.
TEHRAN (July 13) - Iran has condemned U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain for joking about killing Iranians with cigarettes and said it showed his "warmongering" foreign policy attitude, media said on Sunday.
McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the Islamic Republic by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said: "McCain's crude remark on the indiscriminate killing of the Iranian nation not only testifies to his disturbed state of mind, but also to his warmongering approach to foreign policy."
In a statement quoted by the website of Iran's state Press TV satellite station, Hosseini added:
"We condemn such jokes and believe them to be inappropriate for a U.S. presidential candidate. It is most evident that jokes about genocide will not be tolerated by Iranians or Americans."
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 countries.
A rise in cigarette sales was a big part of that, according to an Associated Press analysis.
"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.
His comments coincided with rising tension between Iran and its arch-foes, the United States and Israel, over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program.
U.S. leaders have not ruled out military options if diplomacy fails to assuage fears about Iran's nuclear work, which they suspect is aimed at making bombs but which Tehran says is only to produce electricity.
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Answered Undecided
Political correctness is designed to stifle free speech no matter how dumb you may think it is. We all have a right to say stupid things and then live with the consequences. If you feel what McCain said was inappropriate, fine, but to say he can't say it is just wrong. I'm sick of the liberal attempt to eliminate people's rights to free speech, called political correctness. -
Answered NO, WE SHOULDN'T LOWER OUR OWN STANDARDS
Proving once again that McInsane is one SICK and TWISTED PIG, and the Ape Rape joke was even worse.
PUMA Hillabots: Go right ahead and waste your one precious vote on this disgusting excuse for a human being. It will make no difference. Congratulations on your new found irrelevance. -
i did see mccain answer this question when asked by reporters and yes, in his twisted comedy, he did mean it as a joke...however, as a Presidential Candidate, a US Presidential Candidate, that's not something that should be said especially in regards to a country that we could potentially bully, oops, i mean go to war with....
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What he said exactly was
From Dreams of My Father, " I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE".
I'm sorry I said disstain instead of grievance and animosity. Doesn't this make him a man with race issues? -
Well IF you are a native American and can stop from having the apathy of a racist white person then you can stop posting this racist crap. So, IF your ancestors were driven off their property instead of tearing the brother down YOU should take your ass and join all your people of color and try and change the system for everybody. STOP ACTING LIKE A WHITE RACIST!!!
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I along with others are sick and tired of people like yourself race baiting. This shit is tiresome. I can honestly say that you are not an Indeginous to this land or you have been manipulated into thinking that you have somehow "elevated" into whiteness. Keep doing what you are doing and see just how far this shit gets you. The only racists in America are in the white race because they have the power to make every non white person to submit and to subjugate them. The rest are merely bigots but no racists. Until the minority has a militia, government, and justice system that dictates to them their life, then the only damned racists in the country are WHITE.
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Your unbelievable. Black people are bigots too. You talk about having a militia, are you going to bust heads if Obama loses. I was denied rental of a house by a black woman, after her husband took my deposit. She told me no white is going to live in my Daddy's house. That makes her a bigot.
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I am not a liar, check your past posts. You said "Until the minority has a militia, government, and justice system that dictates to them their life, then the only damned racists in the country are WHITE.". Now who's the liar. You remind me of the black panthers rantings in the 70's.
Answered Undecided
McCain has issues with people with color. He would be a national and global disaster if he is elected. He must not be elected.