The New York Times reports that the Senate is urging Bush to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. I have to admit this one throws me for a loop for a couple of reasons. First, I thought the Bush administration had already done that. Maybe the first report was simply a statement of intent, and this report is the actual official step in the process. I'm not sure, but it's clear this is a move being made by the U.S. government.
Anyway, I also find it curious that the Senate (with a broad majority, since the resolution passed 75-23) is urging Bush to take this action that some consider "a declaration of war". The idea here is that by declaring Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, we would then be allowed to go after them (i.e. attack them militarily).
And yet, despite the fact that the Senate is urging this action, if Bush actually does commence action against Iran, don't be surprised if the Democrats suddenly pop up all over the media calling Bush a war-monger, etc.
This isn't the first time it's happened. After the first resolution to invade Iraq, the Democrats who voted against it wanted Bush to come back to Congress for a second resolution authorizing it all over again (because at the time it was politically expedient to be viewed as in favor of the action). And yet, how many times since then have we heard about how this is "Bush's war" and how Bush has screwed this all up? Shameful, and predicatable.
There's my two cents.
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