Will Obama Play the War Card?

Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play.

Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran's nuclear program and impose the "crippling" sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be on an escalator to confrontation that could lead straight to war.

And should war come, that would be the end of GOP dreams of adding three-dozen seats in the House and half a dozen in the Senate.

Harry Reid is surely aware a U.S. clash with Iran, with him at the president's side, could assure his re-election. Last week, Reid whistled through the Senate, by voice vote, a bill to put us on that escalator.

The  Democrats are mulling over the idea of invading Iran to maintain their stranglehold over the Republicans in Congress says Pat Buchanan. [Your kindly editor would like to raise a point of order - please quit calling our invasions wars. We haven't fought a war since WWII. War can only be declared by Congress. Presidents as Commander-in-Chief can order the military to deploy but that is not a war unless authorized by Congress. Call it a police action, promoting democracy, fighting the axis of evil, or whatever the current PC terminology happens to be, but not war. Furthermore, only Congress can fund these invasions into foreign and sovereign states so they should be held accountable for doing so. (Of course, the distinction between war and invasion is purely a technical one to those being targeted with our rockets, bombs and troops.)]