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McCain Sings "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"

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Cited on HN 4 times, 2020–2024, never outright recommended score 0
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HN brings it up in Iran-related threads as a critical or darkly joking reminder of casual hawkish rhetoric.

A short clip of John McCain, asked about Iran, singing 'Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran' to the tune of the Beach Boys' Barbara Ann.

3 critical · 1 jokes · News · news from the time

4 Hacker News comments

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@belatw May 2021 Pushes back
on HN thread After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism
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> What about the Iranian approach to the U.S.? What if Iran stopped development of nuclear weapons and attacking U.S. forces in Iraq and elsewhere, or sponsoring organizations that are destabilizing the Middle East? It's not like they're not also agitating the situation. It's in their best interest because that way they can maintain power. It takes threee to tango in this situation Provocations and aggressions that maybe the US should perhaps stop doing: - presidential candidates gleefully parodying beach boy songs about bombing Iran. [1] - spending many 10s of billions of America’s hard earned tax dollars surroinsing Iran with several dozen military bases. [2] - Assassinating or supporting Israel in assassinating Iranian scientists abroad.[3] - or assassinating Iranian military leaders [4] - Organizing violent military coups to replace democratically elected governments with Radical Islamist puppet dictatorships [5], [6] - Gatekeeping nuclear power by releasing destructive viruses into the world to destroy Iranian Nuclear research labs [7] 1. [this video] 2. [link] 3. [link] 4. [link] 5. [link] 6. [link] 7. [link]
@pazimzadeh Feb 2023 Pushes back
on HN thread Israel's Dangerous Shadow War with Iran
The translation for that is questionable [link] Unlike John McCain singing "bomb bomb Iran" during his 2008 campaign [this video] Iran has also never shot down a US passenger flight [link]
@text0404 Aug 2024 Makes a joke
on HN thread Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
here's some intro material: [link] [link] here's a fun one: [this video] - "McCain Sings "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" also check out the proxy wars being fought in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen between the US and Iran in lieu of all-out ground war. i was going to start adding links from Trump's presidency but there's just so many...

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