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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-22-07 07:30 PM
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Has Senator Obama ever criticized Hillary for supporting the IRG terror designation?
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Has Senator Obama ever criticized Hillary for supporting the step of the State department designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terror organization?

No. Because he openly supports that designation, and always has. He supported it in S970 and he supported it the day Condi Rice made the actual designation. He pretends he's against K/L, and has made up a laughable sub-objection to a tangential aspect of K/L (itself something he has supported before it became convenient not to)

But Barack Obama has NEVER opposed designating the IRG a terror organization.

His objection to K/L is a clever fraud. And effective too, because his own strongest anti-war supporters seem to be utterly convinced against all evidence that Obama's objections to K/L are similar to Jim Webb and Joe Biden's objections. Webb and Biden objected strongly to the IRG designation, which neither man supported in S970, K/L or after the designation was made by the State Department. Unlike Biden and Webb, Obama supports that designation.

...The new sanctions target Iran's Revolutionary Guard, its Quds force and a number of Iranian banks and people the U.S. accuses of backing nuclear proliferation and terror-related activities.

"It is important to have tough sanctions on Iran, particularly on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which supports terrorism," Barack Obama said. "But these sanctions must not be linked to any attempt to keep our troops in Iraq, or to take military action against Iran."

The senator from Illinois added that "unfortunately, the Kyl-Lieberman amendment made the case for President Bush that we need to use our military presence in Iraq to counter Iran -- a case that has nothing to do with sanctioning the Revolutionary Guard."

The Kyl-Lieberman amendment passed 76-22 in the Senate last month. It calls, in part, for the Revolutionary Guard to be designated a terrorist organization. While Obama opposes the legislation, he was campaigning when the full Senate took up the bill and missed the vote.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/iran.campaign/index.html

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