DNC Chair hopeful, rporter? I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. I was looking for a contemporary quote, not a three-years-old quote. There's a favorite trick of the right wing dissemblers, you know the one? quoting what Dem's said back in the last century about Iraq? You get my drift. Current. Current.

As for the other quotes, yes of course many Dem's have made the claim that Iran must not "be allowed" to develop a nuclear bomb. But neither Edwards nor Clinton suggest, in the quote you supplied, that the Bush Administration is not being aggressive enough, as you seem to think. "What one does hear from the Democrats is a general, noncommittal assertion of the need to talk," says your Slate commentator. That's a far cry from hearing that the Bush Administration is not singing the McCain song loudly enough.

When ABC's Anne Flaherty claims that there is "increasing frustration" among Dem's that Bush "is not doing enough, I suspect what she means is that they are frustrated that Rice & Co. aren't talking more, not that they are egging on the Commander in Chief to "play the Cheney card".

Originally Posted by rporter314
diplomacy has not chance of winning any concession from Iran. Why should it if they are pursuing conventional nuclear power?
What do you mean, diplomacy? Do you mean the kind of diplomacy that the IAEA employed to get inspectors back into Natanz? The kind of diplomacy the EU used to get Adhmadinejad to back down with the rhetoric? The kind of diplomacy Putin apparently used to get Iran to temporarily freeze their research?

Or are you talking about the kind of diplomacy employed by the Bush Administration? That is, the kind that is designed to fail? Again, this is exactly what the Dem's in Congress are complaining about - they want to see some real diplomacy. That's why they're grilling Ms. Rice. Because she's not doin enough.

Steve
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