[Peace-discuss] Clinton embraces Bush position on Iran

[Robert Naiman]

Thanks, antiwar candidate John Edwards. One fears Obama will soon follow suit.

The headline should have been:

"Clinton Echoes Edwards' Call for U.S. to Threaten War Crimes Against Iran"

since, as an international group of legal experts just re-asserted, if
the U.S. attacks Iran without having been attacked, it will be
committing a war crime.

On 2/2/07, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6388736,00.html
>
>         Sen. Clinton: Iran Is a Threat to Israel
>         Friday February 2, 2007 1:01 PM
>         By SAMANTHA GROSS
>         Associated Press Writer
>
> NEW YORK (AP) - Calling Iran a danger to the U.S. and one of Israel's
> greatest threats, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that ``no
> option can be taken off the table'' when dealing with that nation.
>
> ``U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not,
> we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons,'' Clinton
> told a crowd of Israel supporters. ``In dealing with this threat ... no
> option can be taken off the table.''
>
> Clinton, D-N.Y., spoke at a Manhattan dinner held by the nation's
> largest pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs
> Committee. Some 1,700 supporters applauded as she cited her efforts on
> behalf of the Jewish state and spoke scathingly of Iran's decision to
> hold a conference last month that questioned whether the Holocaust took
> place.
>
> ``To deny the Holocaust places Iran's leadership in company with the
> most despicable bigots and historical revisionists,'' Clinton said,
> criticizing what she called the Iranian administration's
> ``pro-terrorist, anti-American, anti-Israeli rhetoric.''
>
> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called the
> Holocaust a ``myth'' and said Israel should be ``wiped off the map'' and
> its Jews returned to Europe.
>
> Iran insists its nuclear program is designed to produce energy, not
> weapons. Ahmadinejad said Thursday that his government is determined to
> continue with its nuclear program, despite U.N. Security Council
> sanctions imposed over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, a process
> that can produce fuel to generate electricity or for the fissile core of
> an atomic bomb.
>
> Clinton, the front-runner for her party's presidential nomination,
> called for dialogue with foes of the United States, saying Iran ``uses
> its influence and its revenues in the region to support terrorist
> elements.''
>
> ``We need to use every tool at our disposal, including diplomatic and
> economic in addition to the threat and use of military force,'' she said.
>