Batty Sarah Advocates War With Iran After Misunderstanding Buchanan Column

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Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly argues against conflict with Iran, Sarah Palin on Sunday suggested that a war with Iran would be good policy and a boon for President Obama’s 2012 reelection hopes.

Buchanan’s column, “Will Obama Play The War Card?” was a rebuttal of Daniel Pipes call last week for Obama to bomb Iran to save his presidency. “Will Obama cynically yield to temptation, play the war card and make ‘conservatives swoon,’ in Pipes’ phrase, to save himself and his party?” Buchanan writes.

Buchanan, a longtime anti-interventionist, comes out against more sanctions, arguing that “the families of the sick, the old, the weak, the women and the children who die are unlikely to feel gratitude toward those who killed them.” He says the prospects of Iran developing a nuclear bomb are much overstated.

But during an interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace in which she cited the Buchanan column, Palin spoke approvingly of the “bomb Iran” idea. Check out the key exchange (emphasis ours)

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