Letters to the Editor

Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again The same people who smeared Mohamed ElBaradei in 2002 over Iraq did the same in 2007 over Iran. They were dead wrong both times. Glenn Greenwald [2007-12-04]

• "how sad and broken our political establishment is"

  Hillary, in January, 2006:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011903220.html

  Friday, January 20, 2006
  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused the Bush administration of playing down the threat of a nuclear Iran and called for swift action at the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Iranian government.

  The senator's statements, in which she said the administration should make it clear that all options remain on the table for dealing with the Iranians, came during a speech about the Middle East on Wednesday night at Princeton University. She criticized the White House for turning the problem over to European nations and said Iran must never be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons.

  "I believe we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats [...] " Clinton said. "I don't believe you face threats like Iran or North Korea by outsourcing it [...] "

  [...] Clinton's call for sanctions was another example of the hawkish posture on national security issues that has marked her tenure in the Senate [...]

  - - Washington Post, Friday, January 20, 2006

  -- sysprog
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