So Dick Lugar, a very conservative guy of some integrity who has probably seen enough BS from this administration, says gosh, maybe nuking Iran isn’t the first, best option:
Lugar, on the ABC television program “This Week,” said it was too soon to press hard for sanctions aimed at halting Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program even as the Bush administration prepares to do so at a meeting in Moscow Tuesday.
“I believe, for the moment, that we ought to cool this one, too,” said Lugar, a Republican from Indiana. “We need to make more headway diplomatically.”
Spokesmen for the White House and the State Department had no immediate comment.
Bush, wary of any Iranian effort to undo multilateral diplomacy, has ruled out direct U.S.-Iran talks on the nuclear issue, although he has opened a door to bilateral discussions on sectarian violence in neighboring Iraq.
Why does Dick Lugar hate America?
Seriously, this is a very useful brake on BushCo, which dismissed their planning military strikes on Iran as “wild speculation” … which is a “non-denial denial”, as Josh Marshall likes to say.
