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Scheer writes: "Here we go again. With the economy showing faint signs of life and their positions on the social issues alienating most moderates, the leading Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, have returned to the elixir of warmongering to once again sway the gullible masses."

Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney tried to out-do each other on the issue of warmongering at the Arizona GOP Debate, 02/22/12. (photo: Nick Oza/The Arizona Republic/AP)

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+21 # Kayjay 2012-02-23 16:10

Actually, these GOP candidates could appear in a remake of Disney's "Apple Dumpling Gang," from the 1970's. Mitt could assume Don Knotts' role as bumbling bad guy, Santorum as Bill Bixby's wise, pure character, Newt as Tim Conway's idiotic sidekick and Paul as Harry Morgan's sheriff......On a side note, regarding these candidates and their obsession over Iran. I gotta wonder who is producing those video clips of Iranian scientists gathering in some secret nuclear facility, while oooohing and awwwing over their nuke progress as if admiring a batch of freshly baked muffins. I'll bet the videos are backed by Koch productions, as a drumbeat to more war.

+23 # Rick Levy 2012-02-23 17:32

The sad thing is not that the rethuglicans would resort to this cheap attack. Who would expect any better of them? What's troubling is that the American public will likely fall for it, as they always do.

-14 # dquandle 2012-02-23 21:48

What about Obama's thirst for war and thirst for the power to assassinate, torture, kidnap, and detain anyone or anything under the sun that his majesty wishes? What about his having presided over the massacre of thousands of people in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and now seemingly in Libya, Yemen, ad ifinitum.....you name it he bombs it.

+11 # ABen 2012-02-24 08:10

dquandle; you appear to have confused the Obama administration with that of GWB. Please acquaint yourself with the factual historical record of stop wasting our time.

0 # X Dane 2012-02-25 20:20

Dquandle. You really should stick a sock in it.
You are mistaking Obama for the cowboy. HE would have liked to attack yet another Muslim nation. Of course W didn't give a damn about the cost of war! He left paying for it to the next president.

Republicans have the bad habit of spending money, like drunken sailors, starting wars and then sticking democrats with paying for them, and ending them.

And then we are sick and tired of hearing you republicans spewing hatred of the president. You really are sick.

+4 # RMDC 2012-02-24 01:08

All this performance is really disgusting. Ron Paul's presence in the Rep race, is however a breath of fresh air. He's good on the anti-war issue and on the absolute need to the US to give up imperialism. It is good that he forces the other republicans and their audience to listen to his case against war.

He's being marginalized, of course. But he may actually be building the chance of a 3rd party anti-imperialism candidate. Maybe it won't be Ron Paul, but he is mobilizing a base of voters who know that the economy cannot change until US foreign policy changes.

I'm surprised that a 3rd party candidate has not emerged already. but funding is probably the problem.

+4 # Nell H 2012-02-24 05:27

The Republicans who want to attack Iraq or Syria have not mentioned how they would pay for two new prolonged wars.

+5 # Peace Anonymous 2012-02-24 06:15

The Republicans created bin Laden and Bush had no intention of getting him. And missed in the article is any discussion regarding oil in Iran. Remember the oil??? You know Cheney, Iraq, Halliburton, the 350 billion barrels. Iran has oil. The rest of this discussion is purely BS!

+4 # ABen 2012-02-24 08:13

The Rethuglican mantra is "Be afraid, be very afraid."

+4 # reiverpacific 2012-02-24 08:33

Perhaps these chicken-hawks to a man, having run out of ideas months ago -if indeed they ever had any- are hoping that beating the war drums will give them some credibility with the ever-gullible US electorate, to lure them away from the Oscars and NBA.

0 # bugbuster 2012-02-24 16:06

Warmongering is same time-honored tactic recently used by none other than Iran's President Ahmadinejad to distract his restless flock from the lousy Iranian economy. They'll do it every time.

0 # mjc 2012-02-27 07:07

Ahmadinejad's war-mongering is nothing compared to Israel's and to a certain extent the United States. Iran has responded that IF the sanctions become more severe and IF there is an attack on Iran, they would respond. The present war-mongering is indeed an attempt to make sure that certain tough-line views are heard the loudest, probably in the hope for better chance to be elected.

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