From The Nation
By John Nichols

With the Bush administration preparing formal plans for a quick attack on Iran — and, perhaps even more ominously, setting up the sort of faux “discussions” that conveniently break down just in time to confirm the president’s “diplomacy-doesn’t-work” line — a number of current and potential presidential contenders have been positioning themselves as the anti-Iran War candidate.

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the most consistently anti-war of the Democratic contenders, has been suitably aggressive in condemning the administration’s machinations — going so far as to suggest that if Bush moves on Iran without a declaration of war the Congress should consider taking steps to impeach the president.

Retired General Wesley Clark, a candidate for the 2OO4 Democratic nomination who may try again in 2OO8, has launched a www.stopiranwar.com website at which he urges visitors to: “Please join the Iraq War veterans at VoteVets.org and me and sign the petition to President Bush today. Military force against Iran is not the solution now, and if we adopt the right strategy, perhaps it need never be. Urge him to work with our allies and use every diplomatic, political, and economic option at our disposal to deal with Iran. War is not the answer.”

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