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August 12, 2007
McClatchy on Iran
I was going to write something about this alarming story by McClatchy reporter Matt Stearns about Bush's continuing interest in attacking Iran. But Nell of A Lovely Promise already said everything I had to say:
Stearns vastly overstates Congressional opposition to a U.S. military strike in Iran. This passage made my jaw drop:It's been the consensus for months among the Democrats who hold the majority that Bush must get congressional authorization before any military strike [on Iran].Orilly? Then why was a provision requiring such an authorization stripped from the Democratic leadership's version of the Pentagon supplemental spending bill in April before ever coming to a vote? Why did a similar standalone bill go down to defeat in May with 100 Democratic members voting against it? And why does Stearns not even mention either event?
Read the rest.
Posted at August 12, 2007 04:37 PM | TrackBackJust one of the many, many reasons THE TAXPAYER MUST FORCE CONGRESS to vote his way.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at August 12, 2007 08:18 PMThanks, Jonathan. But I see the downside of being linked to right off: I'm going to have to clean up my act in making transparent the editing of posts, which I sometimes take hours to do.
For instance, I corrected the date of the stripping-of-Iran-authorization part of the supplemental, and the vote on the supplemental itself, to March. But who's counting?
Posted by: Nell at August 12, 2007 10:46 PMre:editing, blogger has very nice support for drafts. i don't use them, it doesn't fit my um whatever it is that i do, but, it's there.
Posted by: hapa at August 13, 2007 02:16 AMI'm assuming that the only serious or effecive opposition to an attack on Iran is coming from the military, concerned about the consequences for the 160,000 hostages - er, I mean, soldiers - now stationed in Iraq.
So there it is: we supposedly live in a democracy, and I'm putting my faith in the Generals .
Posted by: SteveB at August 13, 2007 09:32 PM
