Matthews To Snow: I Fear Bush Will ‘Bomb The Hell Out Of’ Iran In ‘Extra-Constitutional War’

[sabra]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/11/snow-matthews-iran/

Matthews To Snow: I Fear Bush Will ‘Bomb The Hell Out Of’ Iran In ‘Extra-Constitutional War’

Tonight on MSNBC, Chris Matthews aggressively questioned White House Press Secretary Tony Snow about whether President Bush’s rhetoric last night was a “precursor for a rationale for an attack” on Iran.


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SNOW: Ok, but, let me just do a couple of things here. I think you understand and most Americans understand Iran is the foremost financier of global terror. It’s a problem. But you don’t deal with everything militarily, as you know. The United States exhausted all diplomatic options before going into Iraq, and I think what you’re doing if you’re trying to go down the road of speculation that is just way ahead of events. Right now, we’re working on making Iraq a success. One other thing about Iran, Chris. The Iranian public, most which of is young, is very pro-American. We got a lot of people —

MATTHEWS: Boy, do I agree with you on that. Completely agree with you. My concern is we’re gonna see a ginning up situation whereby we fall in hot pursuit any effort by the Iranians to interfere with Iraq. We take a couple shots at them, they react, then we bomb the hell out of them and hit their nuclear installations without any without any action by Congress. That’s the scenario I fear, an extra-constitutional war is what I’m worried about.

SNOW: Well, you have been watching too many old movies —

MATTHEWS: No, I’ve been watching the war in Iraq, is what I’ve been watching. As long as you say to me before we leave tonight that the president has to get approval from Congress before making war on Iran.

SNOW: Let me put it this way. The president understands you got to have public support for whatever you do. The reason we are talking to the American public about the high takes in Iraq and why it is absolutely vital to succeed is you’ve got to have public support, and the president certainly, whenever he’s taken major actions, he has gone before Congress.

[malaise]

1. Repeat coming up now on

MSNBC

[Junkdrawer]

2. This "They're trying to provoke Iran" thing has gone...

from a few locked posts here on DU to the talk of Washington is less than a week... :scared:

[Earth_First]

3. HOLD THE PRESSES!

"I think you understand and most Americans understand Iran is the foremost financier of global terror."

I thought that was Afghanistan and the Taliban.

Then, it was Iraq and Al-qaeda.

Now it's Iran and the Shia?

[HockeyMom]

5. It's ANYBODY Bush wants it to be

IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH.

[Lucky Luciano]

7. No...sadly, it is us...

PS - change your sigline! Jan 20 09 is when the creep leaves office!

[happydreams]

13. It's actually Saudi Arabia in league with the CIA.

But heck who can argue with Snowjob?

[greenbriar]

4. yea, its the same bullshit that precursed the Iraq war

this is all shit

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Except this time

no one is buying BushCo's bill of goods.

[Sparkly]

8. "Extra-constitutional?" How's that different from UNconstitutional?!? nt

[Roland99]

9. They're talking to the public now? WTF are they saying? Oh, I know:

"FUCK OFF!"

[Contrary1]

10. "The president understands you got to have public support for whatever you do."

:wtf:

[happydreams]

14. Notice how he doesn't say: a "majority of the public's support"

They do have public support ~25%.

[ellisonz]

11. Dean on Hardball tommorow.

:applause:

[w4rma]

12. There is no doubt. Bush and Cheney will have to be impeached. (nt)

[spanone]

15. NO doubt.

[boston bean]

16. I hate it when he says "let me do" a couple of things here.

he does that often.

Shouldn't he say, "let me say"

What the hell is it he's trying to do anyways.

I think I know, pull the wool over unsuspecting Americans eyes.

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[Roxy66]

17. Video?

[sandnsea]

18. He doesn't have public support now

Maybe he should take himself before Congress and let Congress vote him and Cheney out and put Nancy Pelosi in.