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Matthews: People Who Led U.S. Into Iraq Eager For War With Iran [VIDEO]

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During his opening monologue Monday night, MSNBC hothead Chris Matthews lambasted the neoconservatives who he believes are eager to start up a war in Iran. Matthews, who ranted unendingly regarding how “right” President Obama has been on foreign policy issues across the board, told his audience “the people who talked us into Iraq are out there talking us into war with Iran,” while adding that among that alleged-crowd, you can “already see the light of their campfires.”

Chris Matthews: Let’s clear something up. President Obama has been right about what I believe is the central question of our time. peace and war. he was right about Iraq when practically all the other democrats, I mean, the name-brand Democrats, were all wrong. and don’t let them tell you otherwise. It wasn’t just a matter of getting the facts wrong, whether Saddam Hussein has weapons or not. It was about the doctrine of preemptive war. Should the united states declare war on another country because we think they might prove to be a danger or a menace in our region sometime down the road? Well the from W and Cheney and the neocons and again, from a number of big name Democrats was yes. Obama, he stood alone and said no. That’s a hell of a difference.

He was on the side of reason and restraint when the others were dancing in a conga line to a nasty, unnecessary, evil war that made Iraq into the cradle of terrorism that it is today. Think this doesn’t matter? Think is as young people like to say today, just history? Well think again. today the president and his negotiators are working like hell to find an alternative to war with Iran. They are being pelted with all the brick-bats the hawks can muster. There’s nothing it seems the hawks will not oblige, if it means under cutting and humiliating the people who work for peace. anyone with a brain and common-decency knows thats that a war with Iran, and don’t kid yourselves, that’s what the hawks want. Could be unpredictable and unending.

Do you think the leaders in Tehran are going to sit there and take it on the chin if they get attacked? Do you think Hezbollah will sit idly by and defeated and held up to worldwide ridicule? What then? Will the hawks slink back into their think tanks…and fill up the op-ed pages and wait out the storm while others die, while people pay the price of their keyboard bravado. Their Westmorelands of 800 word-count, their patents of the opinion page. Yes.

Listen, I say, and remember, the people who talked us into Iraq are out there talking us into war with Iran. Listen again, they want war. you can already see the light of their campfires.