Democratic Iran Dilemma

RealClearPolitics ^ | November 19, 2007 | Robert Novak

[gpapa]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama, desperate to cut down front-running Sen. Hillary Clinton, did not take advantage of one opening in Thursday night's Las Vegas Democratic presidential debate. Obama pulled his punches on Clinton's September vote for a resolution that he earlier said can be used to go to war against Iran. His reticence may be traced to his co-sponsorship of a similar hawkish amendment back in March.

Obama was softer toward Clinton than last month when he called her "reckless" for voting to name the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, claiming it would give President Bush a pretext to attack Iran. For her part, Clinton did not raise Obama's inconsistency and was uncharacteristically silent about Iran. The two leaders for the Democratic nomination were muzzled by mutually assured destruction, reflecting a Democratic dilemma.

[pawdoggie]

I don’t know about the Democrats’ “Iran Dilemma”, but I do know that there is a Republican Iran dilemma brewing. The President has said that the Iranians will not be allowed to have nukes, period, end of story. The latest rumblings from Foggy Bottom, wherein resides that great conservatrix, Condi Rice, are saying something else, that we may be on the verge of a North Korea-style deal in which the Iranians are allowed to process all the nuke fuel they want, in exchange for vague promises not to build a bomb, backed up by inspections by Mo’ el Baradei’s crew (you know, the guys who couldn’t find A. Q. Khan with a flashlight). I don’t know how the GOP is going to exploit Democrat “softness” on the Iran issue, when our Administration is busy cutting deals with Ahmadinejad.

[SunkenCiv]

Dems must confront Iran
The New York Daily News | 11/19/2007 | Ed Koch
Posted on 11/19/2007 8:57:07 AM EST by StatenIsland
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1927809/posts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Obama pulled his punches on Clinton's September vote for a resolution that he earlier said can be used to go to war against Iran. His reticence may be traced to his co-sponsorship of a similar hawkish amendment back in March... The two leaders for the Democratic nomination were muzzled by mutually assured destruction, reflecting a Democratic dilemma.