Morning Update: Clinton’s Iran Stance
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is cosponsoring a binding resolution to stop a possible war in Iran. The move comes after Clinton received harsh criticism for her vote last week in favor of a resolution tagging the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post notes the refusal last week of Clinton, John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to commit to removing all troops from Iraq by 2013. He writes the decentralization plan of Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) may end up becoming the broader strategy for Iraq under a Democratic administration.
Republican Candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced a bill to prohibit federal funding for Columbia University after it hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week.
Fred Thompson said yesterday he remains convinced that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction (DesMoines Register), although U.S. and UN weapons inspectors never found them.
