Let me suggestion a number of possible talking points and positions.
1. George Bush is the wrong man to be launching yet another war.
The same president who made a disaster out of the Iraq war now wants to launch another war with Iraq's neighbor, Iran. Bush has already proven he is incompetent at running an effective war. America simply cannot afford another rash Bush misadventure.
Anyone is the wrong person to launch an illegal war. Bush wanted to occupy Iraq and make huge profits for oil companies. Bush wanted a launching pad for attacking Iran. He is far less incompetent than depicted, and people do not care and should not care about his alleged incompetence the way they do and should about his criminality, cruelty, and dishonesty.
2) Slow down, we've got ten years.
America's intelligence community estimates that Iran is still ten years away from building a nuclear weapon. There is no reason we need to prepare for war in the next few months, or even before Bush's term runs out in 2008. Give diplomacy and the international community a chance. We've got years, not months.
We've got forever. There will never be a good time to attack someone else's country.
3) Since we have ten years, we can at the very least wait seven months until the congressional elections this fall.
America needs a Congress that is going to look into Bush's claims about Iran's nuclear program and determine if those claims are even credible. The Republican-controled Congress has already shown that it is unwilling to provide any oversight on any matters involving the Bush administration. We need someone who isn't on George Bush's team to use their subpoena power to get administration officials under oath, review the evidence, and see if Bush is right this time around. That someone is a Democratically-controled Congress.
There will never be a good time to attack someone else's country or to take Bush's BS about Iran seriously. We need to be pushing for impeachment over his lies about IraQ.
4) It is ridiculous to consider any congressional resolution on Iran until after the fall elections.
George Bush proved with Iraq that he has no intention of using diplomacy to avoid war. His first option is always to declare war, then ask questions later. It would be foolhardy and naive not to think that Bush would take any congressional Iran resolution and immediately use it to declare war prematurely. The resolution comes ONLY after we know the intelligence is right, that Bush is telling the truth, that we have exhausted ALL other options to avoid war.
And finally, NO resolution is considered until Congress has verified that our military has been given a real plan for victory and sufficien resources to achieve it. Such a verification will NEVER happen under a Republican Congress - they simply cannot politically oversee their own president. It can only happen with a Congress run by the other political party - and that means a Democratic Congress.
There will never be a good time to attack someone else's country or to talk about "victory" in doing so. We need to investigate, impeach, remove, indict, convict, and imprison. We do not need to fight our illegal wars more competently.
5) There is no reason we need to even go to war until Bush has left office.
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