Rand Paul: “does anybody care, has anybody noticed, that: Our policy toward Iran is hostile and provocative, and thus war seems…”

“does anybody care, has anybody noticed, that: Our policy toward Iran is hostile and provocative, and thus war seems inevitable? That we have seized Iranians in Iraq, who claim they are diplomats, and now we have announced that any Iranians found in Iraq may be shot? Has anybody noticed that large numbers of Iranians go back and forth into Iraq for many reasons, including family, religious and medical reasons, and probably for their own security as well? Iraq Prime Minister Maliki has expressed opposition to the surge of U.S. troops? That the violence in Iraq has sharply escalated since Saddam Hussein was hanged? That the American electorate voted for deescalation of the war, and yet the war is being expanded with no new strategic goals? That Iraqi officials, from the government we installed, have held conciliatory talks with Iranian officials, something we refuse to do? That our own CIA acknowledges that Iran is not likely to have a nuclear weapon for at least 10 more years? That Iran has a right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, yet we claim they do not? By denying this right to Iran, we actually are violating the NPT. The neoconservative propagandists promote the idea that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks for the Iranian people and her government, even though he lacks real power, in order to stir up hatred and generate popular support for an attack on Iran?”