December 2, 2007 (LPAC)--In an interview with NBC's Tim Russert, on Meet the Press this morning, Virginia Democratic Senator James Webb attacked the Senate's vote to declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, and proposed restricting funds, pre-emptively, to prevent any military activity against Iran.

The Senators who upheld the Lieberman resolution to designate the Guard a terrorist organization, didn't understand the implications of what they were doing, Webb said, upon being asked about the action. In consultation with his staff, he determined that this was the first time a government's military had ever been proclaimed terrorist, and thus this act effectively says that the U.S. is at war with that country. While Sen. Webb was only able to organize 24 other Senators to vote against the resolution, he emphasized that the Senators who understood anything about foreign policy, including the senior six Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee (including two Republicans), voted against this action.

Briefed on Webb's statement today, Lyndon LaRouche agreed with the Senator's implicit characterization of those who voted for the resolution as ignorant. "But it's worse than that," LaRouche added. "They are playing into the British game with Ahmadinejad. In a situation where the Revolutionary Guard is factionalized into pro- and anti-war factions, they are lumping both factions together for attack. They're idiots."

As for preventing U.S. military action, LaRouche called for Congress to suspend all funding for any operations of the Eighth Air Force outside the borders of the U.S., without a prior declaration of war. Such an action would prevent the air attacks which Cheney is planning to launch against Iran.

In his earlier discussion of the Iraq situation, Senator Webb, who had just returned from his first visit to the country, refused to endorse the Bush surge, but said that a combination of events have created an interval, for the moment, where the program of robust regional diplomacy required to make peace in the region could, and must, be undertaken. Annapolis may be the first step, he said, but that could have happened five years ago.

On the issue of funding the war, which Congress will be taking up over the next weeks, Senator Webb stressed that Congress would not cut money for troops now on the ground. But the elephant in the room, he added, the real issue, is what actually ARE we funding? The Administration has not come clean on that. He then raised the fact that Administration spokesmen are now openly talking about having bases in Iraq for 50 years, something which the Senator himself had warned against in an anti-war op-ed six months before the U.S. 2003 assault on Iraq.