Bob, what happens if right before the 2008 election, George W. Bush bombs Iran?
My worst — let me tell you, my worst scenario. The day after we do that and engage the world in a holocaust of attack on us forever from the Arab world and the Islamic world and Europe and everybody else, Hillary Clinton will be waking up that morning saluting through the dust. She will be saluting the president. And I — my fear is there will never be a debate on whether we attack Iran. We’ll never have a vote in Congress on a resolution requiring the president to get a vote. They’ll just go along with it like they did with the last war. SHRUM: Well, first of all, he wouldn’t get the vote, so he wouldn’t ask for the vote. MATTHEWS: Why don’t the Democrats initiate a vote to stop him, then? SHRUM: Well, you can’t stop something you don’t know is going to happen. MATTHEWS: You can’t? SHRUM: No. What are going to do? I mean, there is a way to stop the war in Iraq, and that is to pass a resolution saying that at a certain point, we’re going to stop funding the war — say, the end of this
