McCain's Joke - "Maybe That's a Way of Killing Iranians!"

How could anyone think that way? What have people who happen to have been born there done wrong? The leaders may have unacceptable ideas, but I'm not willing to kill off the civilians for it. Nor am I willing to have our young people killed to support our leaders' greed and their power trips!

I am outraged by racist jokes, made by people who should know better. If we accept bigoted humor by people in positions of power, how do we stop future generations from being racist? Absolutely unacceptable!

It certainly is not funny. Sometimes politicians make these jokes to impress a few around them, without realising the consequences of it. Can you imagine what the common man in Iran must be feeling ? Will it not only increase the distrust. What if the Iranian leader was to make a statement like that ? He should withdraw it immediately.

This is just the lastest in a trend of annoying the Iranians. It almost seems as if certain politicians are picking a fight with them. I know the Iranian leaders are not some of society's best individuals, however most Iranians harbor no bad feelings towards Americans. Let's just write this comment off as just another stupid comment by a silly politician. Lloyd

You are right. That comment is in very poor taste. We are all human beings with the same basic needs. No nationality should be treated or viewed as less than any other. I think that this goes back to the old saying, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Smoking is a choice, just as U.S. citizens have the choice to smoke, so do Iranians. If they chose to take the chance of killing themselves with smoke related cancer - so be it. I don't smoke, never have, tried to encourage smokers to stop - it helped kill my father - and would encourage Iranians to stop, it is still their choice to do it. And if they do - oh well. Yes, I feel the same way about any one smoking and dying.

I think that comments like that should be kept silent, but at the same time, he is not the only person to say things that shouldn't be said. there's been a lot of that going on. I wouldn't let a comment like that stop me from voting how ever I am voting, if you know what I mean by that. I agree it's a tasteless & classless comment, but I also know were only human and we do and say dumb things sometimes.

This is a guy who called his own wife a trollup and a c*nt in front of other people. He doesn't sound like a very classy guy anyway. A comment like that about the Iranians sounds about par for the course. Besides, I have a feeling that a lot of Washington politicians don't see people in other countries as anything more than cannon fodder. They're simply not human beings who experience pain and heartache, in their eyes.

Other countries hate America. They always have and always will. They do not care about our civilians. They would bomb us in a heartbeat if they could. I think you are all being too soft on Iran and a bit naive. They are supplying Iraqi militants with weapons to kill our soldiers fighting there. They are no friends to the U.S. We need someone who is tough to deal with them. Otherwise they see us as being weak. They are a backward country of people who stone women and girls for being raped. They hold mass public executions of gays. They have no civil rights for their ownpeople. They have crazy leaders and they want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. They have been testing long range missiles recently. I don't think we can bargain with people like Ahmadinejad. I find what McCain said regrettable and a mistake even as a joke. On the other hand I think we are as a nation becoming too politically correct with our language and I fear it will be the downfall of our country.

I have never been an admirer of McCain's political views, but I also never realized until the last six months that he is just about as ignorant as Bush. What a completely assinine thing to say. And how embarrassing for someone running for President of the US to make such stupid statements out loud. I don't think I can go through another four years of apologizing for the ignorance of our President. OMG.

That's pretty brutal. I agree with you on this one, that's pretty classless. We don't really have a stable relationship with Iran to start, all we need is that doofus stirring up trouble with them too. He needs to just start keeping his mouth shut.

Whether we kill them with cancer sticks or Israel nukes um they're gonna get smoked.

of course what it is... i listen what bugs bunny too is helping lol is better laugh than cry

hey Annie! Of course USA and IRAN have been in a very bad relationships for past 30 years... but it is all politics, and when sucha public figure like McCain make a comment about "killing Iranians," this not only show what McCain think about Iranians but also what many Americas think... (i hope i am wrong)