{"id":528627,"date":"2010-04-15T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/04\/15\/mccain-complains-that-the-united-states-has-yet-to-pull-the-trigger-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:39:51","slug":"mccain-complains-that-the-united-states-has-yet-to-pull-the-trigger-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528627","title":{"rendered":"McCain complains that the United States has yet to ?pull the trigger? on Iran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/04\/14\/mccain-pull-trigger-iran\/\" >McCain complains that the United States has yet to ?pull the trigger? on Iran. \t\t<\/a><br \/>During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) complained that United States policy towards Iran is not tough enough. McCain reportedly said that while the United States keeps pointing a loaded gun at Iran, it has yet &#8220;pull the trigger\u201d:  Senator John McCain says the United States [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mccanian.gif\" alt=\"mccanian\" title=\"mccanian\" width=\"295\" height=\"180\" class=\"imgright\" \/>During a Senate Armed Services Committee <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/04\/14\/republicans-push-obama-pull-trigger-iran\/\">hearing today<\/a>, former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) complained that United States policy towards Iran is <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/04\/14\/politics\/main6395289.shtml\">not tough enough<\/a>. McCain reportedly said that while the United States keeps pointing a loaded gun at Iran, it has yet &#8220;<a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/04\/14\/national\/w080240D14.DTL\">pull the trigger<\/a>\u201d: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Senator John McCain says the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while that country moves ever closer to having nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>McCain opened a Senate hearing Wednesday by saying that Iran will get the bomb unless the United States acts more boldly.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking figuratively, the Arizona Republican <strong>says the U.S. keeps pointing a loaded gun at Iran but failing to &#8220;pull the trigger.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After famously singing the words &#8220;<a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/04\/19\/bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-iran\/\">Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran<\/a>\u201d to the tune of the Beach Boys&#8217; song Barbara Ann in 2007, McCain later said he was joking, telling his critics to &#8220;<a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18201844\/\">lighten up and get a life<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain complains that the United States has yet to ?pull the trigger? on Iran. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) complained that United States policy towards Iran is not tough enough. McCain reportedly said that while the United States keeps pointing a loaded gun at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}