From a speech given today Barack Obama said the following:

We hear eerie echoes of the run-up to the war in Iraq in the way that the President and Vice President talk about Iran. They conflate Iran and al Qaeda. They issue veiled threats. They suggest that the time for diplomacy and pressure is running out when we haven’t even tried direct diplomacy. Well George Bush and Dick Cheney must hear – loud and clear – from the American people and the Congress: you don’t have our support, and you don’t have our authorization for another war.

Endless speculation has swirled for the last year or so that the Bush administration is considering military action against Iran and Gen. Patraeus said this week that Iran was fighting a “proxy” war in Iraq. News came out today that Syria may be developing nuclear weapons using North Korean technology and Iranian assistance.