$enate, 97-0, Endorses War On Iran
The three $enators not voting on the Amendment were:
Brownback (R-KS)--Running for president
Johnson (D-SD)--Is he out of the hospital yet?
Vitter (R-LA)--Probably frequenting new hookers while using a new phone that's in someone else's name
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The amendment sounds reasonable enough on its face. (Text is here.) It asks for bimonthly reports from the military regarding "external support or direction provided to anti-coalition forces by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran or its agents ... the strategy and ambitions in Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran; and .... any counter-strategy or efforts by the United States Government to counter the activities of agents of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Iraq."
It was a shrewdly worded document. Any Democrat who voted against it would have opened him- or herself up to accusations that of being afraid to face the facts about Iranian involvement in Iraq. And we know that Iran is involved in Iraq in certain ways. After all, it's been invited there - by the very government our troops are sacrificing themselves to defend. In fact, the Iraqi government is so close to its Shi'ite neighbor that it quickly invited it to open an embassy in Baghdad.
Predictably, the Lieberman measure passed 97-0. But it's not the reporting requirements themselves that are dangerous - it's the amendment's language. It lists a hodgepodge of undocumented and inflammatory accusations before stating that "the murder of members of the United States Armed Forces by a foreign government or its agents is an intolerable and unacceptable act of hostility against the United States by the foreign government in question." (See "Update," below.) These are words that invite an act of war against Iran, even in the absence of clear evidence of involvement.
Full article, R.J. Eskow, Huffington Post, July 13, 2007
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Dover Bitch brings the reader up to speed on the background of LIEberman's Amendment, leaving no doubt that the $enators knew exactly what they were voting for: War.
Remember this, O Supporters of Hillary & Obama, not to mention nostalgic admirers of Kennedy & Kerry, and those delusional as to think Barbara Boxer is anything other than a philosophical compatriot of Fraulein Feinstein.
TLC
Brownback (R-KS)--Running for president
Johnson (D-SD)--Is he out of the hospital yet?
Vitter (R-LA)--Probably frequenting new hookers while using a new phone that's in someone else's name
______________________________
The amendment sounds reasonable enough on its face. (Text is here.) It asks for bimonthly reports from the military regarding "external support or direction provided to anti-coalition forces by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran or its agents ... the strategy and ambitions in Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran; and .... any counter-strategy or efforts by the United States Government to counter the activities of agents of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Iraq."
It was a shrewdly worded document. Any Democrat who voted against it would have opened him- or herself up to accusations that of being afraid to face the facts about Iranian involvement in Iraq. And we know that Iran is involved in Iraq in certain ways. After all, it's been invited there - by the very government our troops are sacrificing themselves to defend. In fact, the Iraqi government is so close to its Shi'ite neighbor that it quickly invited it to open an embassy in Baghdad.
Predictably, the Lieberman measure passed 97-0. But it's not the reporting requirements themselves that are dangerous - it's the amendment's language. It lists a hodgepodge of undocumented and inflammatory accusations before stating that "the murder of members of the United States Armed Forces by a foreign government or its agents is an intolerable and unacceptable act of hostility against the United States by the foreign government in question." (See "Update," below.) These are words that invite an act of war against Iran, even in the absence of clear evidence of involvement.
Full article, R.J. Eskow, Huffington Post, July 13, 2007
______________________________
Dover Bitch brings the reader up to speed on the background of LIEberman's Amendment, leaving no doubt that the $enators knew exactly what they were voting for: War.
Remember this, O Supporters of Hillary & Obama, not to mention nostalgic admirers of Kennedy & Kerry, and those delusional as to think Barbara Boxer is anything other than a philosophical compatriot of Fraulein Feinstein.
TLC
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