Obama Shows Wisdom on Iran, Clinton Repeats Mistakes of the Past:

AFP:

Senator Clinton's opponents are attempting to skewer her over her vote last month for a bill branding Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terror group, which critics regard as a possible pretext for a US strike on Iran.

Obama, an Illinois senator, said Friday he didn't want to give President George W. Bush "any excuse, or any opening for war."

"As we learned with the authorization of the Iraq war -- when you give this president a blank check, you can't be surprised when he cashes it," he said, linking Clinton's decision with her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraq war.

Edwards, a former senator, also tied the two votes together even though he also voted to wage war in Iraq, though has since repudiated the decision.

"Senator Clinton and I learned two very different lessons from the Iraq war. I learned that if you give President Bush even an inch of authority, he will use it to sanction a war," Edwards said.

"Her vote opens the door for the president to attack Iran."

Clinton rejects the criticism.

"There was nothing in that resolution that gave President Bush or anyone any authority to go to war," she said Thursday in New Hampshire.