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Setting the Record Straight

There You Go Again

posted on 03/17/08

“Given the nature of Iran’s rulers, the declarations of the Iranian president, and the trouble the regime is causing throughout the region … our country and the entire international community cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions."
–Vice President Richard Cheney, former ranking member, House Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair, at Weinberg Founders Conference, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 21, 2007

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"Diplomacy requires a degree of strategic flexibility for all parties. … We must always remind Iran of the benefits of engagement and the costs of isolation. We should work for stronger, tougher sanctions and intrusive inspections without delay. Military action can remain our big stick while we speak a bit more softly.”
–Lee H. Hamilton, co-chairman, Iraq Study Group, former chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, former chairman, House Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair, “A Plan to Deal with Iran,” October 8, 2007