clipped from www.wsws.org

Republican presidential candidates back nuclear strike against
Iran

Nine of ten candidates for the Republican presidential nomination
explicitly or tacitly supported a US attack on Iran using nuclear
weapons, in response to a question at Tuesday night’s nationally
televised debate in New Hampshire.

Blitzer: Congressman Paul, what’s the most pressing moral
issue in the United States right now?

Paul: I think it is the acceptance just recently that we now
promote preemptive war. I do not believe that’s part of the
American tradition... And now, tonight, we hear that we’re
not even willing to remove from the table a preemptive nuclear
strike against a country that has done no harm to us directly
and is no threat to our national security!”

The rest of the mainstream press did not even report this endorsement
of an unprovoked US nuclear attack on Iran. The New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Bloomberg
News Service, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News all said nothing.