Santorum: Let Bus Drivers Topple Iran

In all of the losses the GOP suffered in November, none was as sweet to me as the loss of Sen. Rick Santorum to Bob Casey, jr. Sure, Casey's pretty conservative himself, but Rick's freakin' nuts. Along with Pete Hoekstra, Rick pushed the claim that WMD had been found in Iraq, but the media wasn't reporting it. To prove his case, he pointed to stale chemical shells that were lost in the shuffle as Saddam destroyed his stockpiles. We got a firsthand example of how dangerous these things were when US troops were exposed to an old sarin shell. It gave them a headache.

As I pointed out at the time, in order to qualify as a weapon of mass destruction, a weapon actually has to cause mass destruction -- a headache bomb isn't going to cut it.

Now, the man described as "one of the finest minds of the 13th century" has a cunning plan to deal with Iran. Support striking bus drivers and let the Ralph Kramdens of Iran take down the government.

Transcript from Imus in the Morning, courtesy of Think Progress:

IMUS: What do we do, then, when you say confront them — Iran?

SANTORUM: Well, I've (inaudible) forward a whole bunch of different thing. For example, there was a bus driver strike a few weeks ago in Iran. We did nothing to support it; we should have. We should have quietly gone in there and given them a whole boat-load of money so they could sustain the strike and continue to cause unrest within Iran to try to topple the government. And we did nothing to support that strike.

And as a result, they crushed the strike and another labor movement, which of course, as you know, like in Poland and other countries, was the key to the overthrow of the government because it's an organization that is based in democracy to try to topple these types of regimes that we see in Iran and we didn't do anything. That’s one example.

But there are a host of examples of what we could be doing to be much more engaged and involved in Iran, but the State Department — a lot of folks don’t want us to do it because we don't want to antagonize Iran. While Iran is killing our people in Iraq right now, I just think it's foolish.

IMUS: We’re talking with Senator Rick Santorum.

By the way, I was just thinking as you were talking — because I wasn’t listening...

And this guy thought he'd be president...

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