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By Dylan Matthews
Want more evidence that Evan Bayh would be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad addition to Barack Obama's ticket? Check out this quote he gave in a early 2007 interview to The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg:
You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic, because Iran is a grave threat. They're everything we thought Iraq was but wasn't. They are seeking nuclear weapons, they do support terrorists, they have threatened to destroy Israel, and they've threatened us, too.Yes, it would be "tragic" if Iraq convinced a whole generation that unilaterally invading large oil-rich Middle Eastern countries based on questionable claims of WMD possession is a bad idea. That'd be a terrible lesson for the next generation of American foreign policy-makers to learn. Elsewhere at The Atlantic, Clinton in-fighting expert Joshua Green reports that one of Bayh's best political consultant friends should be a pretty familiar name by now:
