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McCain jokes about killing Iranians with cigarettes
Tue Jul 8, 8:27 PM ET
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang
in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a re****t of rising U.S.
cigarette ex****ts to the country by saying it may be "a way of killing
'em."
McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from
the hip, was responding to a re****t that U.S. ex****ts to Iran rose
tenfold during President George W. Bush's term in office despite
hostility between the two states.
A rise in cigarette sales was a big part of that, according to an
Associated Press analysis of seven years of U.S. trade figures.
"Maybe that's a way of killing 'em," McCain said to re****ters during a
campaign stop in Pittsburgh. "I meant that as a joke, as a person who
hasn't had a cigarette in 28 years, 29 years," he added, laughing.
He declined further comment on the re****t.
At a campaign meeting in South Carolina last year the Arizona senator,
asked if there is a plan to attack Iran, began his answer with a
variation on the lyrics of a well-known pop song, Barbara Ann.
"You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran?" he said, then sang "Bomb
bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" before discussing what he considered Iran's
serious threat to Israel and international security.
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Time to face facts. He's always been a dummy and now that he's 83 he's
hopeless.
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