Greens – Obama speech to AIPAC means he is war-minded too

Quoting from Obama’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Greens worry that Barack Obama appears to embrace Bush-like pre-emption stances.

“I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power. Everything.” (The Iranian government is) “a threat to all of us” and “we should take no option, including military action, off the table.”

Whether he’s that enamored of pre-emption or not, this is a warning to Obama that, among real antiwar progressives, you an only get so much mileage out of a 2002 speech. (Which may have had political undercurrents anyway.)