Bomb Iran?

Up next, the candidates are going to be asked to respond to a "scenario."

Ah, it's about war with Iran. They must have got the Cheney memo (to which Arnaud de Borchgrave has alluded) about building up a case for war with Iran.

Paul: the president doesn't have the authority to go to war. He goes to the Congress and finds out if there is any threat to our national security. We didn't have to have a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. We should be talking to Iran right now, we shouldn't be looking for the opportunity to attack them. [Paraphrase.] "Instead of looking at a scenario where it's inevitable we have to attack," we should be looking for how to have peaceable relations, as we did with China and the USSR. Massive applause once again: a very antiwar audience, or at least parts of it are.

Edit: I was mixing up Borchgrave's column on Bush's plans to attack Iran with George Packer's piece in the New Yorker on-line about Cheney's plans to whip up war with Iran. The latter is the one that's relevant to the Fox News scenario.