Biden Says Bush Could Use Iranian Guard Resolution as a Pretext for War

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Source: Bloomberg News

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Joe Biden, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said President George W. Bush could use a measure calling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group as a justification for war.

The Senate voted 76-22 on Sept. 26 to approve a nonbinding resolution asking the U.S. to formally include the 150,000- member military group on a list of terrorist organizations. Biden said Bush could use the vote to justify an attack on Iran, which is suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Biden said in an interview on ABC's ``This Week With George Stephanopoulos,'' broadcast today, that the vote in favor of the resolution was ``a gigantic mistake.''

``The president's going to stand there and say, if he does, `Ladies and gentlemen, as the United States Congress voted, they said these guys are terrorists. I moved against them to save American lives,''' Biden said.

Biden, a presidential candidate, criticized Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, a senator from New York, for supporting the measure on Iran. He said she would bear responsibility for any military action taken by the president against Iran.



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