Exactly. Bush's administration and the republican congress are failing at their agenda, so they are trying the things that worked before --make gay marriage an issue, go to war and call anyone who doesn't support them unpatriotic traitors.

Iran is a soveriegn country and should be able to pursue nuclear energy [but why? they are sitting on the 4th largest pool of proven oil reserves in the world] if they choose.

I am not really even worried about a country like Iran developing nuclear weapons because I don' think they would ever use them. That would be silly--the retaliation would completely wipe them out--the same reason the US and Soviet Union never used nuclear weapons in the cold war.