The Folly of War with Iran
By Stanley Heller
The feeble Democratic leadership has given up on legislation to require the President to seek approval from Congress before attacking Iran. It stripped the language from the Iraq Supplemental Appropriation Bill. Reportedly convervative Democrats didn’t want to “tie the President’s hands”. While the President’s hands were left free no doubt many in Congress found their arms twisted by over 1,000 lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who descended on Washington recently to spread hysteria about Iran. (more…)
Archive for March, 2007
The Folly of War with Iran
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Death of Congress shifts resistance to military
Friday, March 2nd, 2007“DEATH” OF CONGRESS SHIFTS WEIGHT OF
WAR RESISTANCE MORE HEAVILY ON MILITARY
By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org
March 2, 2007
One can argue that Congress died as a representative body on Feb. 16-17, 2007 when it went on record as doing nothing to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. Statements of the Democratic leadership about the war since then can be compared to the chattering of microbes in a cadaver.
The Congressional Iraq failure made it even more clear that Congress will not block an attack against Iran, despite mounting evidence that such an attack is likely within a few months if not weeks.
And nothing can be expected from Congress to reduce U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, which, in the shadow cast by the death toll in Iraq, is becoming a war and occupation with no foreseeable end, a war possibly spreading into Pakistan. Indeed, the Afghanistan Plus war seems to have wide support in the Congress. (more…)