Obama says Clinton scolded him about Iran before.

FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Hillary Clinton sounds too much like President Bush. That’s Barack Obama’s take on Clinton’s threat to “totally obliterate” Iran if it attacks Israel.

Clinton initially made the comments a couple weeks ago, saying: “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.”

Obama says this isn’t the language we need right now. He says it’s too similar to the kinds of things President Bush says, what Obama calls “bluster and saber rattling.” Obama says Clinton is changing the rules right before an election. He said she scolded him about Iran before, saying “we shouldn’t speculate about Iran, we’ve got to be cautious when we’re running for president.”

Clinton’s not backing away from her comment. She says she wants to make it “abundantly clear” to Iran that if they attacked our ally Israel, they would face a “tremendous cost.” However, Clinton adds that “nobody wants to go to war with Iran.” She refuses to say whether she would order a nuclear response.

Here’s my question to you: Is Hillary Clinton’s comment that the U.S. could “obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons appropriate?

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad casts his ballot in the parliamentary elections at a mosque on March 14, 2008 in South Tehran.

FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

It’s been quite a week for U.S. foreign policy.

In a radio interview meant to reach the Iranian people on the Persian new year, this is what President Bush had to say about the Islamic republic’s intentions:

“They’ve declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people. And that’s unacceptable to the United States, and it’s unacceptable to the world.”

Uh, Mr. President, your own intelligence experts have said that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Experts on Iran and nuclear proliferation tell the Washington Post that the president is flat-out wrong, that Iran has never said it wanted a nuclear weapon for any reason. The National Security Council says Mr. Bush was referring to Iran’s previous statements about wiping Israel off the map. But that’s not what he said.

One global security expert says the president’s comment on Iran is as uninformed as John McCain’s statement in front of foreign leaders in Jordan that Iran is training al Qaeda. This is a man who touts his foreign policy experience as one of the top reasons why he should be elected, but who apparently gets confused when it comes to Sunni vs. Shia vs. Iran vs. al Qaeda. It’s embarrassing.

Oh, and there was this: The White House announced that President Bush will still attend the Beijing Olympics despite China’s crackdown on Tibet. Mr. Bush’s position is that the Olympics “should be about the athletes and not necessarily about politics.” So it’s fine that Chinese soldiers are killing Tibetans… let the games begin.

Of course we owe China so much money, it would be a little tough for President Bush to say anything else, wouldn’t it? We didn’t used to be like this.

Here’s my question to you: Why would President Bush say Iran has declared it wants “to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people” when his own experts say that’s not the case?

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FROM Jack Cafferty:

Israel isn’t buying into the new U.S. intelligence report on Iran.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the conclusion that Iran has given up its nuclear weapons program will not change Israel’s view that Iran is still trying to develop

Olmert apparently told a closed meeting of his Security Cabinet that Israel has no reason to change what it’s believed all along… that Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons, is developing weapons and rockets, and enriching uranium.

For years, Israel has been calling on the international community to act to stop Iran’s nuclear program. This has led some to believe that Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Keep in mind, although Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”

Olmert says Israel would work with the International Atomic Energy Agency to expose Iran’s plan to develop nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff Michael Mullen, is in Israel for talks with leaders there. No surprise that Iran is among the subjects expected to be discussed.

Here’s the question: When it comes to Iran’s nuclear program, whom do you believe: Israel or the U.S.?

Here’s my question to you: When it comes to Iran’s nuclear program, whom do you believe: Israel or the U.S.?