Ted Turner: U.S. and Israel Should Disarm to Prevent Nuclear Iran
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, the news network's founder, Ted Turner, complained that a double standard exists between the U.S. and Israel being allowed to possess nuclear weapons while Iran is expected to be nuclear-free, as he suggested that all countries dispose of their nuclear arsenals to persuade Iran not to build such weapons.
After host Piers Morgan asked Turner what he would do about Iran if he were President, the CNN founder absurdly complained that Iran was being held to a different standard than Israel, without either he or Morgan noting Iran's support of terrorism against both Israel and the U.S. Turner:
Well, first of all, I believe in total nuclear disarmament. That's the only way we're ever going to get there. We all got to play by the same set of rules. We have 2,000 or several thousand nuclear weapons. Iran has none at the current time. It's okay for Israel to have 100, but it's not okay for Iran to have two. That's, that's, you're not treating everybody equally.
He soon recommended all countries get rid of their nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from going nuclear:
I think we've already voted at the U.N. and the Security Council to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours, and then Iran will stop, I believe, and everybody else will because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe - at least safe from a nuclear attack.
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Thursday, May 3, Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN:
PIERS MORGAN: What would you do about Iran if you were the American President?
TED TURNER: Well, first of all, I believe in total nuclear disarmament. That's the only way we're ever going to get there. We all got to play by the same set of rules. We have 2,000 or several thousand nuclear weapons. Iran has none at the current time. It's okay for Israel to have 100, but it's not okay for Iran to have two. That's, that's, you're not treating everybody equally.
You have no strong position except force. Only by force can it be done. I think we've already voted at the U.N. and the Security Council to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours, and then Iran will stop, I believe, and everybody else will because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe - at least safe from a nuclear attack.
I mean, if we have full-scale nuclear exchange, it's going to destroy life on Earth, all life. Maybe there will be a few cockroaches left, but that's all, and I find that crazy. This is such a nice world, and most of the people are really nice here.
But, you know, and if you treat people with dignity, respect, and friendliness like I did with the Russians and the Soviets before them with the Goodwill Games, if you try and make friends, you can make friends and you can do that even with former enemies. Japan bombed us at Pearl Harbor, and now we're good friends with the japanese. We fought China in the Cold War, but now we're good friends with the Chinese, most of us are.
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Where do I begin?
Submitted by KevinB on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 1:13am.
This guy is living in lala land like the typical celebrity liberal. It's not hard to see that the early stages of dementia are setting in with dear old Ted. The hardcore left is so naive, they believe if you simply play nice with a group of people who want to convert you or kill you, that they will somehow by osmosis, change their minds and decide that it is much nicer to sit around the campfire and sing kumbaya with you.
The word idiot just doesn't go far enough.
How did this incredible moron make so much money?
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:20am.
Well, first of all, I believe in total nuclear disarmament. That's the only way we're ever going to get there. We all got to play by the same set of rules. We have 2,000 or several thousand nuclear weapons. Iran has none at the current time. It's okay for Israel to have 100, but it's not okay for Iran to have two. That's, that's, you're not treating everybody equally.
We DON'T all play by the same rules Teddy. THAT'S the problem. We won't nuke someone who we don't like, just because we don't like their religion or whatever. About the only way we'd use nukes is in retaliation for someone else nuking us. And we've had our nukes for decades. So has Israel. Neither of us would use them as policy instruments, or even preemptively. Can the same be said for Iran?
If Iran didn't use them themselves, there are tens of thousands they could give nukes to who would be more than happy to unhesitatingly pop a couple off in Israel or the US. The only reason Iran and friends haven't already destroyed Israel is because they know they don't have the capability. Israel would once again hand them their heads. The only reason we haven't had a terrorist nuke detonated in the US is because THEY DON'T HAVE THEM! YET! They've already clearly and openly stated that their ultimate goals are to "wipe Israel off the map" and to create a world-wide caliphate. Now, how do you suppose a pissant little backwards country could accomplish such goals? They don't even get into the ballpark with their conventional forces, and they sure as hell aren't going to get anywhere being nicey nice and asking Israel to disappear or the US and the rest of the world to instantly convert to Islam (with Iran in charge, of course). So what options are left to them? Hmmm?
Teddy, you need to look at the philosophy, goals, methods, and stability of a government before you start running your mouth and putting your overwhelming ignorance on display. You Sir, are an unmitigated ass who clearly doesn't live in the real world with all those you would cheerfully allow Iran or their surrogates to destroy. How's about you get a clue before spouting off. Go ahead, Try something different for a change. It would also probably help, A LOT, if you were to pull your head out of your ass for a few minutes each day.
Idiot.
Ted Turner is a colossal dumbass of the first order
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 1:07am.
Senile is what it is, after all,
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave, I know that your Dad is
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 2:44am.
Dave, I know that your Dad is in that territory............and my own Father entered that territory, and continued on a downhill slide before he died - but I'd be willing to bet (well, I allready KNOW my own Father) that neither one of them could come close to saying the idiotic and delusional things that this so-called genius was spouting in this interview. Plus - I'm to a point where, if I see Long Walk/Short Piers mentioned in the storyline - I allready KNOW that it is totally bogus - because this guy is a lib puke of the first order.
How does a guy go from starting a cable news outfit to marrying Jane Fonda to thinking that if we just get rid of our nuclear weapons, then everything will be peace, love, happiness, and utopia???
Ted it's time to go back to
Submitted by bill99 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 1:35am.
Ted it's time to go back to the home
...and law abiding Second
Submitted by The_Basseteer on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 1:55am.
...and law abiding Second Amendment supporters should get rid of their weapons to as a sign of good faith towards those who mat want to break into their home and rob them....what a clown.
Let's all think sweet thoughts and set the example...
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:44am.
Yo, Theodore!!
What say you stuff your pockets so full of of $100 bills that they're sticking out all over, then tell your sufficiently-armed body guards to stay home while you go for a 2AM stroll in some of the rougher areas of our Liberal-nurtured-and-controlled inner cities.
Walking boldly through those areas without armed escort would be an example to one and all of your non-confrontational and friendly intent, thereby shaming any thugs who would otherwise beat you (I'd add "senseless", but you're already there) and relieve you of your pockets' contents, into meekly standing still while you walk by, hanging their heads in shame and whimpering, "We repent of our evil ways, we are not worthy to view such peaceful innocence..." after which they would promptly go to the local police station and turn in all of their illegal weapons and become local church choir members.
Riiiiiight.....
Wuttchoo been smokin' there, Ted? Must be some goooood stuff, Maynard!
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
if we don't fly airliners into buildings....
Submitted by dmacleo on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 2:15am.
surely nobody else would do it to us right Ted?
dumbass.
countries like Iran LOVE liberals in power over here just cause of stupidity like that.
Iran has been our biggest enemy and the source of most terrorist funding for decades, we knew it in the 80's when I was in service, but our "leaders" chose to ignore it.
5 X 5
Submitted by frank_andrini on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:50am.
10-4
And yet another example of
Submitted by rockyracoon on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 3:39am.
And yet another example of having a lot of money, Not equating to the possession of a coherent intellect.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Why?
Submitted by Fredy on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:26am.
Why are senile people paraded on the TV until someone finally laughs strait into their faces?
Turner clearly has no friends left to help him control his blatant stupidity.
Ted
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:34am.
There really are no words the decision making by CNN.
Remember all the breaking news stores when ole Ted donated a billion dollars to the UN?
The good old days when Larry King was the man!
Now it's come to a drugged up old fool speaking to a dimbo named Piers.
Great Chamberlain's Ghost
Submitted by frank_andrini on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:55am.
All Ted needs to do to complete the illusion/delusion is to wave a piece of paper with words and signatures and begin to proclaim peace in our time.
Neville Chamberlain is what came to my mind, too
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:11am.
With more than enough wealth necessary to insulate himself from global reality, Turner can fantasize about a world where the nasty, imperial US disarms itself, and the rest of the world reciprocates in kind.
Being a child of the Sixties, I remember the rhetorical hippy phrase "What if they held a war and nobody came?" Of course, you can ask the Poles, or the Kuwaits about that.
war comes to you
Submitted by frank_andrini on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:15am.
If "they" "held" a war...and none of our allies came to our aid...we would use a significant portion of our strategic armaments and reduce Bejing to a glowing puddle- assuming Chinese agents had not introduced defective electronics into the command and control chain or had installed a Manchurian Candidate as oh say President of These United States.
Watergate was merely the bumbling antics of former Langley employees with little long term consequence to this Once Great Nation. On the other hand "normalizing" relations with the most dangerous enemy My Country has EVER had was the act of a traitor.
Great Chamberlain's Ghost
Submitted by frank_andrini on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:56am.
All Ted needs to do to complete the illusion/delusion is to wave a piece of paper with words and signatures and begin to proclaim peace in our time.
once again software
Submitted by frank_andrini on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 5:11am.
issues with this 'smartphone' have doubled me up.
Mr Turner
Submitted by oldfart on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 5:40am.
Mr Turner reminds me of Dr. Jonathan Gediman, from the movie Alien Resurrection. He will live long enough to see the birth of his dream only to have that dream destroy him because he is so blinded by his dream he is incapable of seeing the logical conclusion to his actions.
Ted should stick too...
Submitted by MacWell on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 5:54am.
restoring old movies, at least he's good at that.
Well, he's good at buying movie libraries . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:20am.
. . . and hiring people to colorize them.
What he is really good at is (a) making money, and (b) skippering racing yachts to championships.
Turner inherited his father's failing advertising business in Georgia and built it into a giant media empire. For that, he is worthy of admiration. He is an American success story.
That success has provided him with a platform from which to espouse his worldview and politics. No problem there; he's entitled to free speech just like every other American.
But as we've discussed regularly on NB, celebrity does not inherently translate to wisdom, and age and fame do not add any credence to Turner's views.
The thing of it is
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:44am.
he hates the very thing that made him successful - capitalism.
I dont begrudge him success. I just dont get his worldview.
He's good at hiring people to
Submitted by Dau Tieng 59 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 3:25pm.
He's good at hiring people to do that. Just mentioning.
He's good at hiring people to
Submitted by Dau Tieng 59 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 3:25pm.
He's good at hiring people to do that. Just mentioning.
The Police should give up their guns.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 6:36am.
And then the criminals will gladly turn in theirs. And the rivers will overflow with butter and puppies shall run free. And hope and love and joy will spring from the rainbows. And the raucous lively smell of unicorn farts will fill the air.
You beat me to it, Vet!!!!
Submitted by NC Cop on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 8:31am.
I was going to say the exact same thing!!
I think I'll write up a proposal for everyone in our department to turn in all firearms, and pepper spray and tasers since they kill people, too!!
Hmmmm, anyone hiring??????
And love will steer the stars
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:43am.
Fifth Dimension, Age of Aquarius, 1969.
Yeah You Beat Me To It Too
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 5:22am.
When everyone gives up their nukes then only the criminals and terrorists will have nukes.
Ted has fallen off his highchair.
Submitted by needle on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 6:51am.
Ted has fallen off his highchair.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
If Ted agrees. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 7:11am.
. . .to move to Israel and live out his life there, then let Iran have the bomb!!
up is down
Submitted by KornKing on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 7:20am.
stupidity is rampant
What a putz.
Submitted by texastommy on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 7:44am.
What a putz.
If Turner were President...
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 7:50am.
We'd all be speaking Chinese and praying 5 times a day while facing Mecca.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Unfortunately it won't be that easy, C5.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:52am.
Once the commies and the Islamists are the world powers, they will immediately begin to beat the Shiite out of each other, because they agree on very little other than the defeat of the USA and capitalism.
There will be "no peace in our time," or anyone else's.
Don't want peace
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 11:13am.
I don't want the commie's peace or Islam's peace, and even those two contradict each other when set side by side. Both sides want to dominate, except in the case of Communism, it's the government that's in control with no religion while Islam is the religious(har har) control, in this case, Sharia and others, wanting to dominate everything. Both are self-destructive at their own levels, but to have them fight each other would result in cataclysmic destruction of each other. Neither would win.
If they would be contained and isolated, they would feed off each other like cannibals and animals, and they would just fade away(quickly I hope).
That's the best thing next to nuking them outright.
-Jon
Yeah, they may be
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 5:26am.
Yeah, they may be ideologically opposed but they both have the same fatal effect on freedom.
I thought Ted had stopped drinking?
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 8:44am.
Guess not!
Knucklehead
Submitted by fatboy on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:03am.
This fool is EXACTLY why this country needs strong, conservative, Republican leadership.
Woo-Hoo!
Submitted by Servo1969 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:07am.
Yee-Haw!
Hi! I'm Ted Turner.
When I'm not chasin' my marbles around the floor I like to spend my spare time as an international policy consultant.
I get most of my ideas from my wife. Have you met her? Janie! Janie?
Mammy, where's Janie? (She's in Palm Springs, Mr. Ted.) Damnation. Get Janie on the horn! (Yessuh.)
You'll like Janie. She's a real sport. She knows all about foreign affairs.
he's got money....
Submitted by notinstl on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 12:26pm.
...that's why he's on tv....it then presents him the opportunity to show how stupid he really is......funny how national media love the RICH idiots but hate those with money that can think for themselves and don't share the liberal bent
Ted is such a dumb bunny.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:58am.
"if you find yourself in a fair fight, you need to rethink your strategy," Ted.
Following that advice is the only way this country will survive. Right now we are engaged in the idiotic process of giving the Chinese and the Russians ALL of our military and technology secrets! Now, how stupid is that?
And, Ted, the reason the Japanese get along so well with us nowadays is because we beat them to a pulp, and demanded UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. That is also the reason they are such a strong nation today. We rebuilt them.
Their success was a result of our strength, not our giving up the ability we had to kick their asses.
Do you think that they or the Germans would have treated us the same had they won, you dumb bastard?
Man with his money must be
Submitted by John21 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:59am.
Man with his money must be using the really good drugs, he never was one of the best and brightest but at least he wasn't delusional.
Is he have flashbacks from the acid trips of the 60s?
I guess the general was righ "You just can't fix stupid"
Turner
Submitted by Cyclopps on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:23am.
This man has gone mad.
Same thing happened to Howard Hughes.
Too much money and too much time without solid direction.
Guess he has no clue about the Mahdi or other world leader proclivities.
I just love Ted
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:40am.
That COF (crazy old fool) just cracks me up. On the other hand, insanity and money are not a good combination. Obama should take all of Ted's money. He makes too much anyway.
And we're good friends with Japan because after THEY attacked US, WE leveled their cities and factories. And it STILL took TWO atomic bombs to make them surrender. We did not disarm in the face of aggression.
Stupid Ted. No wonder he's a democrat.
Said something similar
Submitted by gwalt on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:42am.
I heard him speak at an awards banquet in 2002. He was drinking gin and tonics--- lots of them and an associate of his commented that he was going to say something offensive. At the podium, he said he wanted to buy all nukes and store them in his basement or give one to each country to make everyone even.
Another time he interjected himself into a conversation while we were both waiting for a table at a popular restaurant. When I left I told hom good night and he replied Good Night and Good Luck!! He's crazy, but he is somewhat pleasant.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Ted Turner: Still crazy,
Submitted by celator on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:45am.
Ted Turner: Still crazy, after all these years. (with apologies to Simon and Garfunkle)
And for a moody, mid-morning break.. here they are....
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=simon+and+garfunkle+still+crazy+afte...
But Teddy baby
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 10:51am.
I don't have a million dollars and you have hundreds of 'em. That's. that's, you're not treating everybody equally. I know you're heartbroken losing Hanoi Jane but cheer up, there are a lot of nice available democrat women, well maybe you should call BBBawney.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 12:37pm.
More evidence that you don't need to be particularly intelligent to get to be a gazillionaire...
Fruity the loon
Submitted by Nelbert on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 3:01pm.
He has officially become a crazy old man. Maybe his oxygen is turned up too high.
Ted Turner
Submitted by Numian on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 7:02pm.
He's opening up a nuclear weapons disposal company so we'll be giving all of our nukes to Ted Turner. Something happened when Hanoi Jane left him.
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