Let's go over the Iran issue, and Democrat leadership spinelessness on this, one more time, from a different angle.

The issue is Bush. Bush can't be trusted to have the power to use tac nukes on Iran, or go to war with Iran in any fashion. It's just that simple. If it were Clinton, that'd be another matter (either Clinton, though I trust Bill more). But this is Bush. What does it take for politicians to understand that this man has to be restrained from unilateral use of military power?

Bush is, pardon the language, a fuck up.

He needs the keys taken away from him, before he totals the family car - again.

Presidential contenders - or any other politicians - who don't understand this, or do understand it and refuse to act on it out of political consideration, are failing their country and the US's troops, in an extremely significant way. If Bush launches a serious strike on Iran (ALL options) and Iran decides to consider it a real war, then you are going to lose a LOT of troops. The US will be reminiscing about the days when it lost less than a thousand a year.

More After the Jump

The arms control wonks - the ones who aren't in the CIA and having political appointees breathing down their necks, do not think that Iran is close to nukes. The estimates are at 5 to 10 years.

This is not a crisis. It does not need to be dealt with by this administration. It can wait for the next one.

Therefore it should wait for the next one, because this administration couldn't run a boy scout jamboree, let alone another war. They're already losing two wars. Do we really want to make it three?