Griper Blade: If You Want the Antiwar Vote, Don't Get Into a Shoving Match with Iran

Here's a fun game, who said this?

Associated Press:

"U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," [_____] told a crowd of Israel supporters. "In dealing with this threat ... no option can be taken off the table."

Not Condoleeza Rice. Not Dick Cheney. Not George W. Bush. That was Hillary Clinton. As this young campaign for president unfolds, Hillary Clinton is emerging as her party's war candidate. She's been unwilling or unable to admit that her early support for the Iraq war -- support that survived far longer than most people would've liked -- and seems to be buying the administration line that Iran is a looming nuclear threat.

To see Iran this way requires a redefinition of the word 'looming,' making it synonymous with 'about the same amount of time it takes to make good scotch.' A recent National Intelligence Review put Iran's ability to create a weapon about a decade in the future. Plenty of time to find a diplomatic solution. But, in a time when we have no friends in muslim middle east, Clinton seems intent on keeping enemies...

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