Obama and the war card (will Obama ‘Wag the dog’?)
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Pat Buchanan brings up a good point today at Townhall:
“Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. .Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear program and impose the “crippling” sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be on an escalator to confrontation that could lead straight to war. …
And should war come, that would be the end of GOP dreams of adding three-dozen seats in the House and half a dozen in the Senate.”
Harry Reid is surely aware a U.S. clash with Iran, with him at the president’s side, could assure his re-election. Last week, Reid whistled through the Senate, by voice vote, a bill to put us on that escalator.
More at the link.
Looks like I’m not the only one that wouldn’t put it past Barack Obama and the Dems to “Wag the dog” in order to Barack and his motly crew of corrupticrats re-elected. Which is, of course, not to say that I don’t think Iran needs to be addressed in harsh-enough terms so as to insure that they don’t end up with nuclear weapons. In my mind, the issue is one of timing and intent - and in Obama and the Dems’ case, both the timing and the intent could likely be for a political purpose rather than one of national security.
