Measure blocking funds for Iran war gains support.
Measure blocking funds for Iran war gains support.
“House Democrats, who have been divided on whether the president needs authorization from Congress to attack Iran, suggested yesterday that they are more united on the controversial issue.”
[A] new amendment by Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) could attract the most votes. His measure would prevent funds authorized in the bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from being obligated or expended to plan a contingency operation in Iran.
Andrews said in an interview that he has spoken to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) about his amendment to the pending defense authorization legislation.
“He will be supportive of this approach because it balances the assertion of our constitutional prerogative with the needs of the military to act in case of an emergency,” Andrews said.
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You know, it would be far simpler and more effective to just impeach Chimpy and Deadeye…
We should pitch in and buy Nancy a sturdy table…a good solid piece of furniture, suitable for placing things upon.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:03 pmWe’re settling for not starting any more wars? Is that really the best we can agree on?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:03 pmif not iran, then who? syria? North Korea? nah, they can defend themselves. sudan? somalia? venezuela?
Blocking funds for Iran does nothing. what needs to happen is a complete change of foreign policy – where war is no longer used as a tool of “negotiations”
Some thoughts on Iran here:
“Speaking of Iran”
May 15th, 2007 at 11:11 pmhttp://www.populistamerica.com/speaking_of_iran
#3 DM, Look at it this way. If this passes the House and then the Senate and then Bush goes ahead and attacks Iran anyway, it would form a solid rationale for Impeachment.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:12 pmThat could be what this is about.
Yeah, call me crazy but I’m just sayin……
Attack on Iran could trigger global nuclear WWIII, so it must be stopped > PERIOD.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:13 pmI have not watched Fox in a while… just did though because of the repub debates… it is amazing watching this guy with the mic acting completely unprofessionally and attacking Ron Paul over and over even when Ron Paul gets the #1 place in the vote Fox was doing…
Is that what goes for reporting?
Or is it really that out of question that republicans will acknowledge the facts of history? How can they simply say that our actions have no reaction? Our good deeds cause people to like us. Our bad deeds cause people to hate us. Is it out of question for republicans to accept that fact and craft their response by taking that into account? Is it pure ego 24/7 with these people? False bravado 24/7?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:14 pmBush is just buying time until he can hand the keys to the WH to the next President and say, “Iraq is your problem now.” If the man had any desire at all to win the “war on terror” or “bring demacracy to Iraq” would he really have put Donald Rumsfeld in charge? Would he take the “advice” of Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Paul Bremer seriously? Just remember that when Bush looks across the table for ideas he sees Karl Rove and Dick Cheney–and he wonders why his approval rating is half of what Bill Clinton’s was?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:20 pm“You know, it would be far simpler and more effective to just impeach Chimpy and Deadeye…
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — May 15, 2007″
You people really are a bunch of cowards! Their intentions are clear and you just want to sit back and react to whatever they do. It’s really hard for me to understand people who won’t respond for fear that they might hurt someone’s feelings. God help this country if the progressive traitors ever gain control.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:23 pmComment by Gerald Gibson Jr #5
…which is why i SO DESPISE them…
…they are HYPOCRITES of the worst kind…
…subhuman, AMORAL CONNED’selfserving DEMONS…
May 15th, 2007 at 11:23 pmI also think that contrary to their Training and the fact that the Military Leadership is always subordinate to the Civilian that it would force the Generals or at least the Joint Chiefs to act. If not directly, then through the Pentagon.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:24 pmJim Wolf 359:
Are you kidding? At this point, do we reallyneed any more rationales? Here’s just a few, courtesy of impeachbush.tv:
And those are just the top five.
If Congress won’t impeach now, they never will. And that makes them accessories to Chimpy & Co.’s crimes.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:24 pmIf Congress won’t impeach now, they never will. And that makes them accessories to Chimpy & Co.’s crimes.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey
That it does……
May 15th, 2007 at 11:29 pmblocking funds for Iran does nothing. the government has made it clear that war could be taken to many other countries – north korea, syria, somalia, sudan, etc, etc, etc.
what needs to be done is a complete change of foreign policy – from one of aggression to one of peace and trade. only when we focus on defense rather than offense will this country be safe.
Some further thoughts:
May 15th, 2007 at 11:35 pm“Leaders Don’t Kill People…”
http://www.populistamerica.com/leaders_dont_kill_people
TripMasterMonkey, I understand what you’re saying, believe me I do. There should already be enough to do it. But, just like 1974 when Congress need something to push them over the edge with Nixon, I think thats what this one needs.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:36 pmUnfortunatly the cost will be dear this time in blood and treasure, especially, I’m afraid, blood.
De-fund the war. Bring home the bait.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:37 pmI dare you: de-fund the war.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:48 pmmichael and Jake, what a couple of pathetic bedwetting losers
rock-back-under-crawl
May 15th, 2007 at 11:58 pmThe notion that the military may use money if it need to act against Iran “in an emergency” gives Bush all the cover he needs to start a war based on some manufactured emergency.
May 16th, 2007 at 12:11 amWhere are we America??? We need to block funds so our president does not blow up countries… how will all this go down in history?
May 16th, 2007 at 12:31 amI dare you: de-fund the war.
Comment by Jake — May 15, 2007 @ 11:48 pm
I dare you: s*ck michael’s tiny little c*ck. Then you can both get over your wimpy and whiny fear mongering that’s masking your own feelings of inadequacies brought on by your sexual orientation confusion.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:00 amShrug. And when Iran attacks US forces in the Middle East and Israel, those Defeatocrats will be eating crow, knowing they are tying our hands as we try to fend off Islam.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:13 amIt’s beautiful watching Republicans strengthen the left.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:41 am‘had enough’ (#17), yes, this is the pathetic level that we have come to in this global corporate Empire posing as “Vichy America”.
The DeFazio amendment — to attempt to block funds so that the chimp Emperor might be prevented from launching preemptive nuclear war on Iran, and triggering broader nuclear war in the Middle East and the entire world — did not even pass the people’s House of Representatives.
The gutless corporate shills, pimps and whores, who call themselves Congress, do not even have the guts to try to protect our children and grandchildren from the highly probable, behaviorally predictable, and indeed almost certain vainglorious act of our maniac ‘commander in chimp’.
No impeachment of the monsterous liar and mass murderer.
No de-funding of his currently illegal and immoral war crimes and slaughter in Iraq.
No date limitations on his imperial oil-war, and crimes against humanity.
No restraints on this nasty chimp’s ‘flexibility’ to continue his rage and destruction of our own children and Iraqi children.
And now not even the guts (or brains) to attempt — even attempt — to keep his already blood-soaked paw off the nuclear button to broaden the slaughter to a full holocaust.
Is this representative democracy, when the vast majority of the average, honest, ‘working class’ American people want an end to this madness — and have voted strongly for such half a year ago?
May 16th, 2007 at 8:57 pmBoth parties (to varying degress) have sold their souls to the richest, most powerful individuals and corporations (aka those who finance their campaigns). As a consequence, the first priority is their largest campaign donors and the second priority (if it doesn’t conflict with the first) is to the people they are supposed to represent. Complete public financing of campaigns is the answer, however, this would require surmounting massive opposition from those who currently enjoy the lucrative benefits afforded by the status quo. Whenever a representative/senator votes against the wishes of the majority they represent, expect to hear their actions labeled as courageous leadership, when, in fact, they are obeying the commands of their puppet masters. The words of Ralph Nader during the 2000 campaign says it all, “The only difference between Bush and Gore is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock at the door.”
May 16th, 2007 at 11:03 pmFrom an Eroupean angle the war of oil have different faces.
May 17th, 2007 at 1:35 pmThe draft of new oil law pushed on Iraq is a bad one.