Clinton is relying on intelligence on Iran that she got from the Bush administration???

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They're telling her that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is sponsoring terrorism and she's bought it. She's bought into the administration line on Iran enough to posture against them as 'state sponsors of terrorism.'

Has she given up any suspension of belief when it comes to 'intelligence' provided by this administration? How many time does she have to be lied to before she catches on?

Her answer was disgraceful, and amazingly accommodating of the administration's PR on Iran. There's been even less manufactured evidence against Iran than the Bush administration dished out on Iraq.

Clinton looks like she's bought the whole bag without demanding the kind of proof that Congress and the American people need before posturing against Iran as some kind of threat that everyone knows will just encourage Bush to push forward with some kind of military aggression against yet another sovereign nation. She, and the others who voted for the Lieberman manifesto against Iran, are drifting American toward another preemptive military assault across sovereign borders.

The notion that *Iran threatens Iraq is belied by the numerous economic and security agreements that have been made between the Iranian government and the new Iraqi regime. The ONLY thing Iran threatens in Iraq is the U.S. interest and ambition that Bush is imposing on Iran's next-door neighbor behind the force of our military.

Iran has not threatened our country, except in defense of what they see as their own interests in Iraq. And, we haven't seen any of the level of posturing against Iran from the Maliki regime that Clinton seems to support with her approval of Lieberman's legislative provocation.

My question is, how can Clinton rely on intelligence on Iran (or anywhere else) provided by the Bush administration? She admitted (in the debate) that the Bush administration is not providing Congress with the full range of information they need to make these determinations on Iran independent of Bush's own biased dribblings he's used to bait Congress into supporting his planned aggression.

To take any of what the administration determines on Iran as settled fact is an invitation to Bush to roll right over Congress (again) and do whatever he pleases to counter the Iranian 'threat' they've manufactured and cobbled together in Cheney's office.


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