A Vote For War

To be fair, two of the more offending paragraphs were removed entirely, the ones calling for the use of "all instruments" of American power to "combat" Iran, but the Senate just essentially voted for war with Iran, unquestionably stating that Iranian arms are killing American troops (not a definitive in any respect) and declaring that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is a terrorist organization. This will be an easy way to back-door an attack on Iran as part of the overall "war on terror" under the 2001 AUMF. The vote was 76-22, with Obama and McCain missing it. Hillary Clinton voted FOR it; Biden and Dodd voted against.

The full marked-up amendment is here. This lays the foundation for an attack on Iran, and keeping in the part about making the Revolutionary Guard a terror organization is abominable.