some believe the Bush administration could still choose to attack Iran

‘Their intention to use fear is very clear, and I think that you have to understand how they manipulate American fear to keep power,’ said Rep. Jim McDermott

‘[President Bush] wants to find a way to provoke a military confrontation, or gin up some data to frighten the American people into believing a preemptive strike is defensible,’ McDermott said at a recent forum in Washington organised by the group Just Foreign Policy. ‘And I live in constant fear that he intends to do just that,’ he said.

Though Democrats have criticised President Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq, many have echoed the administration’s hawkish rhetoric when it comes to Iran

‘It would be a disaster for Israel if the United States took military action against Iran, because it would fundamentally weaken the United States and it would fundamentally weaken Israel’s position in the Middle East,’

nobody

has been willing to say this