Journalist O. Kay Henderson: “How, as president, would you deal with Iran?”

Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson: "[discussion of the dangers of Islam and the inefficacy of sanctions...] I’m afraid that the Soviet Union & China are not ever going to do anything that’s going to hurt them that badly but we need to ratchet those up if at all possible."

I repeat:

Fred Thompson: "...the Soviet Union..."

What's a couple of decades between friends?

(h/t Right's Field)