“(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;

(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies. ”

were removed from the amendment before it passed.

First Barb Boxer comes across like a total fool when “questioning” Petraeus (”oops, I have no time left after my drooling blather!“).
Next Feinstein votes for this amendment.
And finally, Nancy “no impeachment” Pelosi seems to have misplaced her balls.

Living in San Francisco, I’m “blessed” to have these three as my elected representatives. God help us all.

Remember, folks: Iraq was Bush’s war. Iran will be **YOURS**. YOU will have blood on your hands if you do not take a stand.

Donkey, you have more confidence in the current corrupt, crooked president than I do!

Have you ever read any of his “presidential signing statements?” There is NO LIMIT to how he will mangle the intent of a Congressional bill whose limit is clear. What will he do to an amendment whose intent is NOT clear?

If that doesn’t cause you concern, I contend that it SHOULD!

1. the text: which threatens to “combat, contain and [stop]” Iran via “military instruments.”

is GROSSLY edited. after the “via” are words like diplomatic, economic, etc. etc. (READ it for yourself)

2. According to this very article:

Before the vote today, changes were made to the original amendment, with paragraphs three and four taken out completely

3. The paragraphs that were taken out were the ones that CONTAINED the text from my point #1. !!!

This whole article is now practically invalid!!

The resolution was mostly about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which whatever else it is, includes a bunch of thugs that repress innocent people inside Iran and kill innocent people outside of it.

Senator Durbin and others objected to ambiguous language that they felt could be construed to authorize military action, and it got pulled from the resolution.

The rest is weak tea — a non-binding resolution about economic sanctions. While it may be debatable whether or not it would be good policy to prohibit investment in corporations that do serious business with the IRG — if the administration agrees with the resolution, it is in no way a declaration of war on Iran or an authorization of military force.

Bush is not going to use this resolution that way: Resolutions like this get noticed far more in Iran than they do in our own government.

Y’all are too quick to glom on to conspiracy theories, and divisive rhetoric that does nothing but serve the interests of the bellicose right:

So you want to leave the Democrats, vote green, and spew coarse myths about AIPAC and the “Neo-CoNaZionists”:

Bush and Cheney are cheering you on.

1. Go look up AIPAC on google

2. Read The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.

3. Start asking yourself why there isnt any substantive debate about the effects of the U.S. relationship with Israel in our media.

Comment by Clarionkiller — September 27, 2007 @ 5:01 am

This whole Mideast misadventure by the Neo-CoNaZionists should be called , The AIPAC/Exxon War”. Throw in a little Christian Fundamentalism and Islamic Fanaticism, and well, you know the rest.

1. Go look up AIPAC on google

2. Read The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.

3. Start asking yourself why there isnt any substantive debate about the effects of the U.S. relationship with Israel in our media.

So we should be clear now: The top presidential contenders are aligned with the arrogant, violent imperialism that, since the start of the Iraq War, has been openly promoted by the right and center as America’s right and duty: TO CREATE FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD! What a bunch of duplicitous creeps many of our elected are.

Add to this, Dem prez candidates are now retreating from retreat, stating that they won’t even commit to having all troops out of Iraq by 2013.

I grew up in Los Alamos – more nuclear physicists than anywhere else in the country. When I asked about what these weapons would do, no one filtered the information, no one watered it down so I could sleep at night, no one cherry picked it, – no one had an agenda to sell nukes to me.

And what are some Democrats doing at voting for this? What happened to the filibuster? Why can’t they understand what this could lead to with Russia and China? If these idiots want to get rid of nukes and stop terrorists, why don’t they declare war on Pakistan?

Someone tell me this is just a Stephen King movie where, one by one, people are becoming evil and insane, and soon there will be no one left who is aware of it.

There was a time when I would have considered voting for Obama and Clinton. They no longer appear on my list. Of the “likely” Democratic candidates the only one I will support is Edwards. This could be the first time ever I will put in a write-in name for president. As for congressional people, I’ll deal with them on a one by one basis.

To get any kind of meaningful counter-insurgence against the increasing congressional war cabal, I think we need to push very hard for 9/11 truth to gain the spotlight, and pull out the prop of manufactured lies that has supported the neocons, and now our elected government officials in their efforts to spread war and corporate power.

I am sickened by this vote.

donilo

The staff people in the offices of Senators who voted yes today sound less than impressive. I heard all kinds of crazy excuses, but the worst was: This “weak” resolution doesn’t mean anything, it’s just words. I was told that the Senate passes these meaningless resolutions all the time. Just trying to make me feel better, I guess!

Newsflash to Demo staffers of Democrats who caved to Liebermann (!) an Kyl (!) today. It’s over, the war with Iran is on, air strikes against Iran are coming soon. Bush got his way, with a 76-22 bipartisan vote. You Dems don’t get a do-over on the vote. It’s over, done. What a pitiful spectacle.