First he gleefully declared his wish to bomb them. Now he would like to see them die from smoking American cigarettes. Either way, John McCain is really eager to impose a death sentence on ordinary citizens of Iran. I doubt that the crazy but devout Ahmadinejad or the shadowy mullahs who pull Iran’s political strings are puffing away at Marlboros. So it must be the men and women on the streets of Iran who are the targets of McCain’s venegeance. In any case, it was a joke, he said. I surely hope so. I would rather have warmongers cracking silly jokes than acting out their murderous fantasies.
Cindy McCain’s jab to her husband’s back came a second too late Tuesday to keep him from making a wisecrack about the health impact of Iran’s main import from the United States: cigarettes.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was asked about an Associated Press report that $158 million in cigarettes have been shipped to Iran during George W. Bush’s presidency despite restrictions on U.S. exports to that country.
"Maybe that’s a way of killing them," McCain told reporters, smiling as he waited for a cheesesteak sandwich at the Primanti Brothers restaurant. His wife, sitting next to him at the counter, poked his back without looking up.
"I meant that as a joke," McCain quickly explained. "As a person who hasn’t had a cigarette in 28 years," he began to say, when his wife corrected him: 29 years.
Taking a more serious tone, McCain said, "I’d like to look into" details of exports to Iran. "This is the first that I’ve heard about it," he said.
Right. I too would like to know why we are exporting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cigarettes to a country on whom we want the rest of the world to impose trade sanctions and political boycott.
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