Sen. Kyl blames Bill Clinton for Iran

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/7/30/113827.shtml?s=sr

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Kyl blamed the Clinton administration for a mistaken policy of making concessions to Iranian elites, noting that a 1998 decision to allow the import of pistachios, rugs and caviar benefitted "the family of the former President," Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who has built a "fiefdom" in the pistachio trade.

While noting that "force is not the best policy" toward Iran, Kyl warned that "failure to take advantage of some or all of these tools only serves to make it more likely that force may be used."

Ronald Reagan once observed that "history teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

Kyl noted that for the Iranian regime, "the price of their aggression has been too cheap for too long."