Kyl-Lieberman Iran Amendment Passes with Lots of Help from Democrats

I'm absolutely fucking sick:

The Kyl-Lieberman Iran amendment—which ratchets up the confrontation with Iran by calling for the designation of its Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization responsible for killing U.S. troops—just passed overwhelmingly, 76-22.

The text of the amendment states that "the United States should designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization...and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists," which prompted opponent of the amendment, Jim Webb (D-VA) to note: "At best, it's a deliberate attempt to divert attention from a failed diplomatic policy. At worst, it could be read as a backdoor method of gaining Congressional validation for military action, without one hearing and without serious debate."

Nonetheless, the amendment passed overwhelmingly, with the help of plenty of Dems, including Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid, just for a start. (Obama didn't vote.) Because I'm evidently living in Bizarro World, my Democratic Senator, Evan Bayh, voted for it, while my Republican Senator, Dick Lugar, was one of only two Republicans who voted against it. (The other was Chuck Hagel, of course.)

I just don't even know what to say about this mess. It's exactly this kind of asinine, belligerent posturing that empowers the Iranian mullahs and makes life eminently more difficult for moderate Iranian reformers who don't support the mullahs and who don't support Ahmadinejad and who also don't want to fight a war with America.

Oh, and I guess the Democrats haven't noticed that America doesn't want a war with Iran, either. Otherwise, their decision to give Bush carte blanche to pursue his neverending war is inexplicably stupid.