HILLARY NEEDS TO EXPLAIN HER VOTE DESIGNATING QODS FORCE AS "TERRORIST" ORGANIZATION

I still cannot get over Hillary's vote to designate the Qods division of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a "terrorist" organization. We know that Joe Lieberman has been agitating for resolutions like this one in order to enable Bush and Cheney to launch a military strike against Iran. To learn that Hillary has gone along with this is simply sickening. As John Edwards points out, if there is a Bush/Cheney attack, Hillary is liable to claim that her vote was justified based on faulty intelligence provided by the administration, just as she claims that her vote for the military authorization bill preceding the invasion of Iraq was justified on the basis of what she knew then.

WHAT IS HILLARY CLINTON THINKING BY VOTING TO DESIGNATE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD AS "TERRORIST"?

I don't understand Hillary Clinton's position on Iran and the Qods force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. She voted last week to ask the State Department to declare the Qods force a "terrorist" organization.

As former senator John Edwards has pointed out, Hillary's vote plays right into the hands of the neo-con war mongers who would like nothing better than to launch a military attack against Iran. Bush and Cheney then can justify their bombing and missile attack by saying that it was aimed at "terrorists," meaning ordinary Iranians.

There is no proof or creditable evidence that the Iranian government or Iranian military forces are engaging in acts of terrorism. In fact, when the U.S. military claims Iran is supplying IEDs and EFPs to Shiite insurgency groups, it has presented no evidence showing that these explosive devices were made and then supplied by the Iranian government to Iraqi insurgents, and why these arms were not and could not have been made by local Iraqis or people in countries other than in Iran.

So when Hillary casts her vote on the Qods force, all this does is to give George Bush cover to claim that by attacking Iran he was just following the logical progression of the Senate vote.