2008 Hopefuls

(JPOST.com) Nov. 1, 2007 Iran, rather than Iraq, dominated the foreign policy segment of Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, with competitors pouncing on Hillary Clinton for her stance on the nuclear challenge posed by the Islamic Republic.

Former vice presidential nominee John Edwards led the attack on the New York senator, arguing that she was enabling bellicosity by the Bush administration in its handling of Iran. He and others pointed to her recent vote in favor of a nonbinding sense of the Senate amendment calling on the US to designate Teheran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization. That move, which received the support of 76 out of 100 senators, has been criticized as paving the way to war.

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