Edwards critical of White House bellicosity
George Sweeney - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 11/6/07 Section: Metro
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Former Sen. John Edwards said the Bush administration is trying to start a war with Iran.
"George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the neocon warmongers used 9/11 to start a war with Iraq, and now they're trying to use Iraq to start a war with Iran. And we have to stop them," the Democratic-nomination hopeful said on Monday morning in a packed IMU Richey Ballroom.
He also pitched a plan for improving U.S. relations with Iran, which included opening dialogue and abandoning the Bush administration's policy of "preventive war."
Criticizing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for not being specific about her plan to end the war in Iraq, Edwards said she sends mixed messages about her position on the war. Rodham Clinton is "voting like a hawk in Washington, while talking like a dove in Iowa and New Hampshire," he said.
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Aside from bashing the Democratic front-runner, Edwards praised presidential-nomination hopefuls Joe Biden and Chris Dodd for their votes against a bill that called Iran's Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist organization," a resolution Rodham Clinton supported in a Senate vote last month.
Edwards went on to criticize Rodham Clinton for being nebulous in her exit strategy for the war in Iraq.
"All she's said is that she'll meet will with her generals within two months of taking office," he said, pledging a complete pullout of Iraq before the end of 2009. "That's not a plan. That's not even a real promise. It's the promise of a planning meeting."
Edwards closely follows Sen. Barack Obama in Iowa, according to most polls. Both follow Rodham Clinton by fewer than 10 percent among Democratic voters surveyed in Iowa, in a race UI political-science Associate Professor David Redlawsk characterized as "very tight."
"George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the neocon warmongers used 9/11 to start a war with Iraq, and now they're trying to use Iraq to start a war with Iran. And we have to stop them," the Democratic-nomination hopeful said on Monday morning in a packed IMU Richey Ballroom.
He also pitched a plan for improving U.S. relations with Iran, which included opening dialogue and abandoning the Bush administration's policy of "preventive war."
Criticizing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for not being specific about her plan to end the war in Iraq, Edwards said she sends mixed messages about her position on the war. Rodham Clinton is "voting like a hawk in Washington, while talking like a dove in Iowa and New Hampshire," he said.
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Aside from bashing the Democratic front-runner, Edwards praised presidential-nomination hopefuls Joe Biden and Chris Dodd for their votes against a bill that called Iran's Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist organization," a resolution Rodham Clinton supported in a Senate vote last month.
Edwards went on to criticize Rodham Clinton for being nebulous in her exit strategy for the war in Iraq.
"All she's said is that she'll meet will with her generals within two months of taking office," he said, pledging a complete pullout of Iraq before the end of 2009. "That's not a plan. That's not even a real promise. It's the promise of a planning meeting."
Edwards closely follows Sen. Barack Obama in Iowa, according to most polls. Both follow Rodham Clinton by fewer than 10 percent among Democratic voters surveyed in Iowa, in a race UI political-science Associate Professor David Redlawsk characterized as "very tight."
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