By Steve Clemons

We will be discussing Iran, the bleak binary choice, and whether or not there is a third (or fourth, or fifth) option.

There is breaking news via Taylor Marsh that Hillary Clinton will support Senator Webb’s Resolution demanding that the President seek Congressional approval before any military action against Iran and prohibiting the use of funds for military operations in Iran.

Tonight, I received Hillary Clinton‘s formal statement explaining her vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Iran Resolution — and her assertion that this did not amount to Congressional authorization for actions against Iran. Clinton stated: “Earlier today, I voted for a non-binding resolution that designates the Iranian Revolution Guard as a terrorist organization.

There are many including this writer who have been documenting the internal decision-making divisions inside President Bush’s White House.

Joe Wilson is off in Nevada campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Joe and I think similarly on many national security issues — and we have like-minded disdain for what Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, John Bolton and others have done to America’s global position.

I’m not in a place to judge the veracity of Dan Rather’s reporting on Bush’s National Guard service, but as usual, Sidney Blumenthal has done an extraordinary job sequencing the bits and pieces of the Rather CBS story and suggests that Rather’s $70 million lawsuit against CBS will animate some much needed truth-telling about Bush’s…

A lot of folks out there think I’m a sucker for good email notes — or very effective, personalized fundraising appeals like Hillary Clinton’s invitation to all of us (including me) to possibly have lunch with her, after she picked up the groceries and with her husband dropping by to say hello.

In the internal White House battles over the Geneva conventions, enemy combatant policies, extraordinary rendition, and torture — which have been viciously waged between various Bush administration officials against other colleagues in the same White House — there are a few heroes who fought the “darkness at noon” solutions advocated by Vice President Cheney’s team….

The Clinton Global Initiative is the largest global telethon for good causes the world has yet witnessed.

. . .in ten minutes at 10:30 pm on Mike Malloy’s show. Sam Seder is standing in and hosting tonight for Mike Malloy — and we are going to discuss my recent Salon.com article on Iran.