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WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Sunday the United States should consider a military strike against Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq. "I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," Lieberman said. "And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers." The U.S. accuses Iran of fostering terrorism and Tehran's nuclear ambitions have brought about international reproach. Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000 who now represents Connecticut as an independent, spoke of Iranians' role in the continued violence in Iraq. "We've said so publicly that the Iranians have a base in Iran at which they are training Iraqis who are coming in and killing Americans. By some estimates, they have killed as many as 200 American soldiers," Lieberman said. "Well, we can tell them we want them to stop that. But if there's any hope of the Iranians living according to the international rule of law and stopping, for instance, their nuclear weapons development, we can't just talk to them." He added, "If they don't play by the rules, we've got to use our force, and to me, that would include taking military action to stop them from doing what they're doing." Lieberman said much of the action could probably be done by air, although he would leave the strategy to the generals in charge. "I want to make clear I'm not talking about a massive ground invasion of Iran," Lieberman said. "They can't believe that they have immunity for training and equipping people to come in and kill Americans," he said. "We cannot let them get away with it. If we do, they'll take that as a sign of weakness on our part and we will pay for it in Iraq and throughout the region and ultimately right here at home." To deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions, Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said tough negotiation is called for. "I would talk to them, but I would build an international coalition that would promote and push economic sanctions on them," Richardson said. "Sanctions would work on Iran. They are susceptible to disinvestment policy. They are susceptible to cuts, economic sanctions in commodities." On Friday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Iran's detention of at least four Americans is unwarranted but will not stop Washington from trying to engage Iran on other matters, including its disputed nuclear program and alleged support of insurgents in Iraq. In an Associated Press interview, Rice also appeared to cast doubt on whether the U.S. would take its tentative diplomatic outreach to Iran any further for now. The U.S. and Iranian ambassadors in Iraq met last month for the first public, substantive high-level discussions the two countries have held in nearly three decades. Although limited to the topic of violence and instability in Iraq, the talks have been seen as a possible window to better relations. Immediately after the meeting in Baghdad, Iran announced plans for another. But U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker said Washington would decide only after the Iraqi government issued an invitation. U.S. officials also said they wanted to see Iran follow up on U.S. complaints that it is equipping and helping insurgents who attack American forces. Lieberman spoke on "Face the Nation" on CBS. Richardson was on "Late Edition" on CNN. ====================================
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Don't Stand For Fingerprinting
March 23, 2007 ERIC PETERS
What if we just said no? Not to drugs - though that's a good idea, too. But no to being fingerprinted and/or optically scanned for purposes of the soon-to-be-mandatory "National ID" card? How about it? We're supposed to be a fiercely independent, freedom-loving bunch - the sort who'd never trot willingly to the glue factory like so many European herd animals. Right? So what's the deal with this National ID stuff - specifically, to meekly submitting to being fingerprinted and having our irises scanned - the so-called "biometric" tags - like common criminals? In 2005, the government passed into law the Real ID act, which requires all states to change the way they issue driver's licenses so that they conform to a single federal standard - one that includes a requirement, dazzling in its stridency, that each of us be tagged with those so-called biometric identifiers - digitized fingerprints, retina scans - with the data linked to a single federal database that would be continuously fed information about us and what we do and where we go. All of it in the name of fighting terrorism; apparently this will be accomplished by setting up one of the building blocks of every modern police state. The National ID card will be required for virtually every transaction of modern life, from boarding an airplane to opening a bank account. The digitized devices would provide an endless mine of personal data - where you travel, what you buy, etc. - for Beltway bureaucrats to pore over and identity thieves to exploit. Just wait until that $10,000 bill for computer gear you never bought shows up in the mailbox! Privacy advocates have been up in arms since the idea was first broached after the 9/11 attacks - and rightly observed that homegrown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh had perfectly in-order "papers" - including legitimate driver's licenses. A National ID would not have stopped the Oklahoma City bombings - or prevented Mohammed Atta from boarding the 767 that flew into the World Trade Center's Tower 1. And anyone who believes it will prevent or even put a dent in the endless truckloads of illegal aliens entering this country from Mexico has been guzzling the Kool-Aid. Interestingly, several states are showing more guts than most of us - or at least, more self-interest. Maine, Georgia, Wyoming, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state have either passed legislation objecting to the federal Real ID Act - or seem poised to do so. It's not that they're looking out for us, though. They're looking out for their bottom lines. Estimates of compliance costs run to $11 billion and more - big money, even at the federal level and huge payouts for states with entire budgets that are smaller than that. But we - you and me - have a more profound interest at stake. At a certain point that's hard to define before it confronts us, we must each be ready to take a principled stand and say "no." This is unacceptable. I will not comply. Politely; without violence. But firmly. It is a question of right vs. wrong. The "law" be damned. That's a concept that made this country possible in the first place. The American Revolution was set off by obnoxious tax edicts from the English crown and parliament. It's the kind of attitude that helped self-cleanse some egregious historical wrongs - slavery comes to mind; then Jim Crow. A certain amount of scofflawing from time to time has served, for more than 200 years, to keep Washington from over-stepping its bounds. A people no longer able to get its collective back up, no longer willing to take a stand when something really important is on the line, is a people that is ready for fingerprints and optical scans. Are we such people?
 Eric Peters is an automotive columnist for The Army Times and The Navy Times. This was distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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