by Patrick J. Buchanan

Many in Congress deeply regret having voted President Bush a blank check for war in October 2002. And they are frustrated at their inability to compel him to begin bringing the troops home.

Why, then, is Congress pushing for a new confrontation, with Iran, which could involve us in a war with a nation four times the size of Iraq?

In July, the Senate voted 97 to zero to censure Iran for complicity in the killing of U.S. soldiers by enhanced IEDs that Iran’s Quds Force is said to be providing Iraqi insurgents. Last week, the Senate voted 76 to 22 to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “terrorist organization.”