Video (4min 6sec): McCain at AIPAC: Drumbeats of War? (2 of 2). Aijaz Ahmad, senior news analyst of The Real News, takes a point by point look at Republican presidential candidate John McCain's speech to AIPAC. McCain: "I was pleased to join Senators Lieberman and Kile in backing an amendment calling for the designation of The Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization responsible for killing American troops in Iraq. Over 3/4 of the senate supported this obvious step, but not Senator Obama."
"But who are the Revolutionary Guard? They were Iran's main bulwark during the ten year long Iraq-Iran War and it is very difficult to find a Iranian man now between the age of thirty and forty five who has not served with those guards. Secondly, these Revolutionary Guards are, even today, the bulk of Iran's national defense forces. To declare them a terrorist organization is to consign the whole of Iran's national military forces and much of their population to the category of terrorists..."
