Lawmakers criticize Bush's Iran policy

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Frustrated U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle slammed the Bush administration Thursday for an Iran policy they charged lacks direction and has failed to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.


At a joint hearing Thursday, lawmakers criticized President Bush's approach to Iran's nuclear program.

In an often contentious joint hearing, House committees dealing with foreign affairs, the Middle East, terrorism, nonproliferation and trade said the United States has not imposed strict enough sanctions against Iran to stop it from advancing its nuclear program.

"Within the next two years, there is a real possibility that Iran will have the means to make an atomic bomb," said Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York. "The reason for this awful truth is that they wanted it more than we wanted to stop them."

"Future generations of Americans will neither understand nor forgive this appalling foreign policy failure," he added



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/17/congress.bush.iran/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[bemildred]

1. Is anybody running against this guy in the primary?

This isn't the kind of criticism of Bushite Iran policy I'm looking for.

[Krashkopf]

2. Sounds like he is reading from the Hillary Clinton/Joe Lieberman play book!

Was anyone else scared shitless when she said that she would use massive retaliation if Iran attacked Isreal?

I don't want, and America does NOT need, a Democratic President who is a bigger war hawk than Bush, or the worst of the NEO-CONS.

We need a Democratic President who will roll back the Imperial Presidency, not one who is going to try to enlarge the Empire.