Edwards: Thank you very much.
Well, I just listened to what Senator Clinton said and she said she wanted to maximize pressure on the Bush administration. So the way to do that is to vote yes on a resolution that looks like it was written, literally, by the neo-cons.
I mean, has anyone read this thing? I mean, it literally gave Bush and Cheney exactly what they wanted. It didn't just give them what they wanted. They acted on it.
A few weeks later, they declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, and -- this is going to sound very familiar -- remember from Iraq? The prelude to Iraq? -- proliferators of weapons of mass destruction.
The way you put pressure on this administration is you stand up to them; you say no.
A lot of us on this stage have learned our lessons the hard way, that you give this president an inch and he will take a mile. And this is about such an important issue, and we have to stand up to this president. We need to make it absolutely clear that we have no intention of letting Bush, Cheney or this administration invade Iran because they have been rattling the saber over and over and over.
And what this resolution did, written literally in the language of the neo-cons, is it enables this president to do exactly what he wants to do. He continues to march forward. He continues to say this is a terrorist organization. He continues to say these are proliferators of weapons of mass destruction.
How in the world is that -- Democrats -- we're not talking about Republicans now, Chris and Joe -- Democrats standing up to this president and saying, "No, we are not going to allow this, we are not going to allow this march to war in Iran"?
Thank you, John. But I have to steal your thunder or rather highlight the fact that you are not alone in this matter and in fact Dennis Kucinich’s press release on September 25th titled, “I ran Counter-Proliferation Act Unintentionally Undermines Diplomatic Efforts.” It would be interesting to go back to the previous debate where Gravel was allowed to attend and ridicule Hillary for her vote on the Lieberman-Kyl amendment and see exactly what you said and then see how you have shifted or toughened your stance against the amendment. Anyways, funny how after all this talk about diplomacy by Hillary Clinton there exists this press release that shows how flawed she is for voting for an act that hinders diplomacy.
You failed to mention that the U.S. has never asserted another nation’s military to be a terrorist organization as Dennis notes in the mentioned press release. You also failed to talk about impeachment, which could greatly hinder a march to war with Iran. And you failed to ask Congress to hold hearings to examine the current existing case for war with Iran.
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