Hillary Clinton threatens to "obliterate" Iran

Rephrasing the question to address a potential Iranian nuclear strike on Israel, Clinton said, I want the Iranians to know, if I am the president, we will attack Iran. And I want them to understand that, because it does mean that they have to look very carefully at their society, because at whatever stage of development they might be with their nuclear weapons program in the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.

The scenario proposed by Clinton to phrase her commentsan Iranian strike on Israelis simply a pretext for her to assert her willingness to use overwhelming military force, including nuclear weapons, to guarantee US domination of the Middle East.

Clintons choice of words is significant. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines obliterate as to remove utterly from recognition or memory and to remove from existence: destroy utterly all trace, indication, or significance of.

Moreover, she said that it is Iran and the Iranians who would face total obliteration. If one were to take her words literally, what she is saying is that she would respond to an attack by the Iranian government on Israel by completely wiping out all trace of the people and history of Iranthat is, to commit genocide against a population of some 71 million people.