Although I strongly disagree, I can see why Congress is hesitant to cut off funding for the Iraq War. They don't want to be accused of not supporting the troops, and Bush would leave them there until every last bullet was shot rather than pull them out and give up control of the oil spigot for his cronies.
Barring Bush from attacking Iran and denying funding for that attack should have no downside with voters right now--but it might piss off some oil companies and defense contractors who were looking to get their hands on even more oil and profit from even more carnage respectively.
Tell your congressmen and senators to pass a resolution barring an attack on Iran and funding for any more Bush wars beyond Iraq. If you don't tell them what to do, someone else will who speaks a little louder and flashes some cash.
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http://senate.gov http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0201-20.htm Published on Thursday, February 1, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
This is like Hitler's Suicide Order from the Bunker
by Dave Lindorff
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0201-20.htmI wrote last September that Bush was gearing up for war with Iran, as evidenced by the moving up of the deployment date of the carrier group headed by the recently re-fueled and re-armed USS Eisenhower, some of whose crewmembers had leaked that its mission was to attack Iran.
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Now, four months later, it is widely assumed in Europe that the U.S. is planning to attack Iran, and even in the U.S., members of Congress are openly talking about their concern that Bush is planning to attack Iran.
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Iran, meanwhile, poses no immediate threat to the U.S. But it does have a huge, battle-hardened army, much better equipped than Saddam Hussein's rag-tag troops, and equipped with some very sophisticated weaponry courtesy of Russia and China. Any U.S. forces that went into Iran could expect to take heavy casualties, and could hardly hope to conquer a nation with a population bigger than Iraq and Afghanistan combined - a population that, unlike Iraq's - can be expected to rise as one against a US invasion.
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Iran is the second largest oil producing country in the world, and it borders the entire eastern shore of the Persian Gulf, through which a third of the world's oil passes every year. If it was attacked, all of Iran's oil, and most of the oil produced by Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, would be taken out of circulation indefinitely. Oil prices would soar way past $100/barrel, and maybe past $200 a barrel, causing a U.S. and a global depression.
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If Senators and Representatives pass a resolution barring the use of any military forces against Iran, or the expenditure of any funds for war against Iran, Bush will not be able to push the country over the precipice. American military leaders would have reason to ignore any orders that would put them in violation of the law of the land.
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