From Think Progress:
Today, the Senate is expected to vote on an “extremely threatening” amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ). The “sense of the Senate” amendment could “lead to a tit-for-tat escalation resulting in military confrontation between the US and Iran.”
The legislation accuses Iran of fighting “a proxy war against the Iraqi state and coalition forces in Iraq” and threatens to “combat, contain and [stop]” Iran. The right wing has quickly circulated around the amendment, claiming it “unflinchingly…calls on America to win” against Iran.
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As Jonathan Schwarz noted, the amendment is a “Sense of the Senate” resolution, “which means it has no legal force, but as the Congressional Research Service will tell you, ‘foreign governments pay close attention to [such resolutions] as evidence of shifts in U.S. foreign policy priorities.’”
Read the rest of the article here.
2 Comments
September 25, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Sent off email’s to all my rep’s about this mess this morning…..Think it was the Dem’s. com that sent me the alert…….Lieberman is quickly becoming the extreme war hawk, sickning little slime that he is….Can’t believe I voted for him to be VP once…Yike’s……Please forgive, …..even old witche’s make mistake’s…Blessings
September 25, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Hey, you old witch!
Howya doin? Welcome to the zoo!!
I’d love to see Kyl and Lieberman bomb Iran, but they will need to be riding the bombs down, ala Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove!@!