Big Tent Democrat at Talk Left and mcjoan at dailykos vigorously disagree with Matthew Yglesias and Ed Kilgore and James Fallows over whether all the sabre rattling towards Iran is a calculated distraction from the escalation in Iraq, with the two being inextricably linked, or whether politics dictate that war against Iran should be opposed foremost, separately and apart from the Iraq war escalation.
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