Early on in the race for 2008, I had decided that among all of the Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton was mine. She is an eloquent speaker, she has amazing composure, her stances on the issues that matter to me are right on target, she devoted a large portion of her life to helping children and families, and she is well versed in the political arena.

I did question her sincerity on ending the war in Iraq a few times and wondered why she just wouldn’t admit that authorizing force there was a mistake to begin with. I did not agree with her that we are now safer than we were but overall we went together very well.

I live in a red state where the Hillary Hating abounds so I was in a minority but found, to my surprise, that there were many others that supported her locally. I followed her debates, kept up on her web site, and spread her messages wherever I could.

Then I was betrayed. Somehow, what I had thought was a crazy little amendment that would never go anywhere, was passed by the Senate. I’m talking about the call to war with Iran that is the Lieberman/Kyl Amendment. There must have been a mistake somewhere, surely our Congresspeople could not seriously think that this was a good idea? I anxiously read the roll call and was stunned. Not only did it pass by an overwhelming majority but Hillary Clinton voted for it and Barack Obama didn’t even bother to vote either way!

Now MSM has not really covered this very well at all. Even in the blogosphere it seems, to me, to be an underrated story. Perhaps because two sections were removed that made it more palatable for Dems to support. It is still a scary piece of legislation that details the “sense of the Senate” regarding Iran. It places Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on our list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” which is basically an authorization to attack them. While the toned down version specifically states that we should do what we need to IN IRAQ and is not as aggressive as the first version, putting the Revolutionary Guard on this list would make them official targets in the war on terror. Theoretically, this could allow for attacks against them in Iran, which we are already hearing will be happening.

The worst part about this is the lack of evidence to support these statements and possible invasion of yet another country that was on Bush’s to do list. Iraq and Iran have a lot of interests with each other and that doesn’t necessarily translate into bomb making business. I would have hoped that our legislatures, many of whom now wish that they would have voted differently in 2002, would have taken a closer look at this disastrous amendment and really did the research and demanded more information.

I would encourage you to read Seymour Hersh’s column here for more information regarding Iran.

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