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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
November 20, 2007
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Democratic Iran Dilemma
By Robert D. Novak
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.
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Democrats want to assume a strong anti-terrorist position
while deploring U.S. military action against Iran as it
develops nuclear weapons. While such an attack before Bush
leaves office is reviled on the Left, no Democrat can be
seen as soft on an Iranian Islamist regime whose nominal
president denies the Holocaust and calls for the
destruction of Israel. The trick is to condemn both Dick
Cheney and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
This balancing act was upset Oct. 11 when the Manchester
(N.H.) Union Leader published Obama's op-ed column assailing
Clinton's vote for the resolution sponsored by Republican
Sen. Jon Kyl and Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph
Lieberman. By designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
as a terrorist organization, wrote Obama, "we're still
foolishly rattling our sabers" in passing "this reckless
amendment," 76 to 22. Obama contended "the Bush
Administration could use the language in Lieberman-Kyl to
justify an attack on Iran as part of the ongoing war in
Iraq." Obama missed the vote.
Obama energized Lanny Davis, Washington lawyer and longtime
supporter of the Clintons. In an Oct. 16 letter to The New
York Times, Davis noted Obama was one of 68 senators --
including Clinton -- who on March 22 co-sponsored Senate
Resolution 970, using language similar to Lieberman-Kyl in
branding the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. On his Oct. 24
website, Davis wrote: "It is a complete mystery why Sen.
Obama or his campaign managers thought he could get away
with criticizing Sen. Clinton on the Kyl-Lieberman
resolution and calling it reckless while knowing about
his own co-sponsorship of S. 970."
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The response to Davis came one day later from another
Washington lawyer: Gregory Craig, Davis's comrade
defending President Bill Clinton and now Obama's foreign
policy adviser. E-mailing supporters, Craig did not
address S. 970 but indicated the Kyl-Lieberman resolution
went beyond a terrorist designation. Calling co-sponsors
Kyl and Lieberman "two of the most hawkish members of the
Senate on Iran," Craig suggested their resolution "can be
used to justify a U.S. attack on Iran."
This dispute was not raised by Obama in Las Vegas as part
of his many-sided attack on Clinton. Not until the floor
was opened to "undecided" voters did an Iraq war veteran's
mother ask about Iran. Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said of Kyl-Lieberman:
"It's a serious, serious mistake.... [I]t convinced the
rest of the Muslim world this is really a war against
Islam.... If he [Bush] takes the country to war in Iraq
[he meant Iran] without a vote of Congress... then he
should be impeached."
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the moderator, immediately turned to
Clinton as "the only one on the stage who did vote for
that resolution." Biden, perhaps remembering Bill Clinton's
complaint that "the boys" were ganging up on his wife,
interjected: "I wasn't attacking Sen. Clinton." Obama next
called the resolution "a mistake," but he said of Clinton
only this: "I agree with Hillary that we've got to initiate
bold diplomacy." Clinton said not a word about Iran and
kept away from Obama's past desire to brand the
Revolutionary Guards.
So, Iran got few minutes at Las Vegas, with important
questions unanswered. Could Clinton or Obama co-exist with
a nuclear Iran? Do they forswear the military option in
Iran? Would they join Biden in impeaching Bush if he
attacks Iran? They cannot want to face those difficult
queries.
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