I would favor a two-pronged approach, stop the surge and stop the march to war on Iran, but I see, for sure, what Bulworth is getting at here: "2008 and Iran."
So as Greenwald asks, what's left for us, and what Democratic candidates, if any, are going to rebuff the siren's call of war with Iran, given all that's transpired and continues to transpire in Iraq?Well, TPM tells us that James Fallows says forget challenging the surge in Congress and concentrate on denying the Administration any wiggle room for warring on Iran.
It would be nice if our presidential candidates would, after they've fallen all over themselves repenting of their Iraq-war vote, which is now a politically safe call to make, and demonstrate they've actually learned something over the past four years by calling bullshit ahead of time in the already emerging propaganda designed to lure us into bombing another Muslim country that hasn't attacked us or anyone else yet, and which is not a "clear and present danger" to the United States or our allies.
What is needed is for Congress to stand up and confront Bush's preemptive war doctrine, kill it, outlaw it. Would Bush necessarily follow such a law? Probably not, and it would move to the Supreme Court for debate on separation of powers, but that's not such a bad thing. Congress relinquished its own responsibility and the least they can do is try to take its powers back with the whole country watching.
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