Podhoretz "hopes and prays" that the US will bomb Iran.

This is simply reprehensible. Listen to the casual way that Podhoretz "hopes and prays" that the US will bomb Iran. And, lest we forget, no-one has ever proven that Iran are even developing a nuclear weapon. But none of this bothers Podhoretz, who blithely calls for the deaths for thousands of people.

Also note that he thinks Britain should have threatened to "bomb the Iranians to smithereens" over the capture of British sailors. This is an incident which was resolved within weeks with no loss of life, but Podhoretz thinks that threatening to "bomb the Iranians to smithereens" was the more sensible option. Unbelievable...

He also, rather bizarrely, accuses the Iranians of using torture as a tactic. I presume his dislike of this is the fact that it is Iranians who are doing the torturing as he certainly doesn't seem to object to Americans who use such tactics. Indeed, he complains that attempts are being made to stop them from torturing:

Both domestic opposition and the international community, unhappily, are "defining torture down. The things they're calling 'torture' now have never been and have no business being considered torture." He keeps on: "It is an effort to disarm us that's succeeding to a frightening extent. No, it's worse than that. They're trying to make it impossible to fight terrorism. . . . Every weapon that's been developed to protect us from terrorism, and the Iraqis from internal terrorism, is under assault."

Oh, and you'll note he also gets in the tired Hitler analogy. The sooner these neo-cons nuts are kicked out of power the safer the whole world will be.

Tags: Podhoretz, Iran, bombing, "hope and pray"