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Michele Bachmann Delivers Final Piece Of Learned Advice Before Leaving Congress: 'Bomb Iran'

US Politician Wants To 'Bomb Iran' For Christmas
Paul Vale
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Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center in support of the plaintiffs in the Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores case which began today the Supreme Court. The case has to do with Hobby Lobby's desire to not provide coverage for emergency contraception as stipulated in the Affordable Care Act. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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NEW YORK -- Michele Bachmann, perhaps the least hinged Republican serving in a Congress in which sanity passes as voting to repeal a healthcare law 33 times, is to leave the august institution at the end of the year, thus robbing Washington of one of its more colourful minds.

Yet the Representative from Minnesota, who once equated the gay community with child rape, has not exited the stage without delivering one final piece of advice, informing President Obama at a recent White House holiday Party that he should "bomb Iran".

Speaking to the Washington Free Beacon, Bachmann said she told the President that he must take out the Iranian nuclear facilities otherwise the "course of world history" would change.

"I turned to the president and I said, something to the effect of, ‘Mr. President, you need to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities, because if you don’t, Iran will have a nuclear weapon on your watch and the course of world history will change,'" Bachmann told the conservative newspaper.

"And he got his condescending smile on his face and laughed at me and said, ‘Well, Michele, it’s just not that easy,’" she continued. "And I said to him, ‘No, Mr. President, you’re the president, it will happen on your watch, and you’ll have to answer to the world for this.’ And that was it and then I left. Merry Christmas."

What a lovely festive gift for those diplomats entrenched in delicate negotiations to rein in Tehran’s nuclear programme. A statement like this couldn’t possibly upset that at all…

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