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House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act”

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 27 April 2006
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As if Iraq isn’t a big enough mess, the House of Representatives has just voted to ‘hold Iran accountable and support a transition to democracy’. Sound Familiar? Only this time Iran is a democracy. They just held an election where their president was actually elected by the people. How refreshing.

After everything that has been exposed...the lies, the profiteering, the long list of war crimes, 397 ‘Representatives’ gave Bush the go ahead on attacking Iran. Only 21 Patriots voted Nay. Sad to say but these are the only people we can trust...

Baldwin, Blumenauer, Boyd, DeFazio, Duncan, Flake, Hostettler, Jones (NC)
Kucinich, Leach, McDermott, McGovern, McKinney, Oberstar, Obey, Olver

Paul, Rahall, Snyder, Stark, Taylor

The most disappointing aspect however is the fact that so many of our ‘progressive’ leaders in congress voted for this lie. John Conyers voted yay. Maxine Waters, Murtha, Bernie Sanders, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee all voted for it. On the hill today the Progressive Caucus is hosting a hearing on Iraq...

Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee will host a hearing on the Iraq War next Thursday, April 27, 8:30-11 a.m., in 2325 Rayburn House Office Building. The two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are continuing to do what the “leadership” of both parties does not, respond to the demands of the majority of Americans, who disapprove of current policy.

Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee just voted yay on giving the green light for war on Iran. I can assure them that the demands of the majority of Americans are not in accordance with their vote on Iran. We are supposed to believe that these representatives ‘can get fooled again’? Are they merely posing as the opposition in order to stall for Bush?

At least we have a small vocal group speaking out...

Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, said the measure reminds him of a 1998 congressional resolution that called for regime change in Iraq, which he thinks was the first step to the “very unpopular, expensive” Iraq war.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Oregon Democrat, noted all lawmakers “hate this regime,” but he favors “strong, smart, constructive, diplomatic efforts” - characteristics that he says are not present in the bill.
“I am very worried about where this all ends,” he said.

“It is bad for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, but there are things that are worse,” such as giving the country a reason to use one, said Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa Republican.

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich said the Bush administration has “made a mess of international relations,” with the war in Iraq. “Don’t we have enough problems in Iraq to clean up before setting the stage for another conflict with Iran?” the Ohio Democrat asked.

How is it possible that Bush is still getting away with promoting lies about Iran. How is he even still in office?

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Forum posts

  • Wardance has already begun. Iran is another scapegoat trying to win the midterm elections. But we see also the support from the Democrats. Those Democrats should be removed from the party.

    • < These democrats should be removed from the party >.
      Yes, yes and yes. They just CALL themselves "democrats" and "republicans"
      Truth be known, it’s a "two party dictatorship" ...

  • oh NOW I get it....

    “Pro-Israel lobbyists on Capitol Hill are cajoling members of Congress to support the Iran Freedom Support Act, which would expand the existing American sanctions on companies that invest more than $20 annually in Iran’s oil and gas sectors. The bill would tighten sanctions on companies that invest in Iran’s energy industry in the hopes of blocking money that could be used to produce nuclear arms.

    The bill also provides for assistance to pro-democracy forces within Iran, and funding for independent media broadcasts to the country. The House of Representatives’ Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, and Howard Berman, a California Democrat, are sponsoring the proposed legislation. The sponsors of the Senate version are Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, and Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat.”

    http://www.forward.com/main/printer-friendly.php?id=4004

    • Independent media my ASS! Like ours here in STATES is Independent? Yeah, Right! WORLD WIDE MARCH OF FASCISM, THANKS TO SOME SO CALLED "PEACE" ACTIVISTS AS WELL! SHAME ON ALL OF THEM! THEY ARE ALL TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND ARE PUTTING FUCKING ISRAEL FIRST AND AMERICA LAST! THEY ARE LITERALLY DESTROYING AMAERICA FROM WITHIN FOR GODDAMN ISRAEL! I HATE ISRAEL ANYMORE! I HATE THEM! ALL BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF OUR NATION GOING TO WAR BECAUSE OF THEM AND WARPROFITEERING ETC.! THE GODDAMN PEOPLE IN CONGRESS ARE TRAITORS,PERIOD! THEY KNEW BUSH LIED ABOUT IRAQ BUT VOTED THAT WAY ANYWAY, THIS VOTE PROVES IT! GODDAMN TRAITORS IS WHAT THEY ALL ARE! I HOPE ALL EXCEPT FOR 21 LOSE THEIR GODDAMN HOUSE SEATS TO ANYONE OTHER THEN THEM! FUCKING WAR MONGERING BASTARDS WHO PUT ISRAEL ABOVE AMERICA’S SECURITY AND WELL BEING! FUCK ISRAEL !

    • I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you. GOD speaking about Isreal. Do you want the exact verse?

    • Amen brother.. fight the good fight and don’t let the loser shills upset you.. when all else fails they pull out the religion card.. fuckin’ numbnuts getting brainwashed in churches dying for Israel..

  • So AIPAC has bought Lee and Woolsey. US foreign policy: Made In Israel.

  • We NEED TO CLEAN OUT CONGRESS AS WELL AS SENATE AND WHITE HOUSE AND NOW! WE DESPERATELY NEED A 2ND AMERICAN REVOLUTION! THEY ARE LISTENING TO GODDAMN ISRAEL OVER AMERICAN PEOPLE! PERIOD! THIS ISN’T AMERICA ANYMORE BUT GODDAMN SLAVE STATE TO ISRAEL! MAKES ME SICK! THESE GODDAMN BASTARDS CALL TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION AT HOME AND ABROAD "FREEDOM" F*CK THEM! THE FASCSIST BASTARDS! THEIR GODDAMN IDEA OF "FREEDOM" IS SLAVERY, AND TYRANNY! Just goes to show how Goddamn powerful Israel Lobby REALLY IS! THE GODDAMN BASTARDS ARE LITERALLY DESTROYING AMERICA FROM WITHIN AND WE NEED A F*CKING REVOLUTION AND NOW! FREEDOM MY ASS! THEIR IDEA OF FREEDOM IS BOMBING THE LIVING HELL OUT OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WHILE STEALING THEIR GODDAMN OIL WHILE OUR G.I’S INVADE AND PUT IN PUPPETS! WE HAVE A F*CKING HUGE PROBLEM PEOPLE! AND IT IS ONLY GONNA GET WORSE! NEXT IS SYRIA! HOW MANY MORE GODDAMN COUNTRIES ARE WE GONNA LET THOSE GODDAMN TRAITORS IN D.C. GET US INTO, WHILE MAKING US LESS SAFE AND BEING IN BED WITH REAL TERRORISTS!? HOW MANY MORE, DUMB F*CKING SHEEP? BEFORE WE RISE UP AND SAY ENOUGH IS F*CKING ENOUGH? IT’S THE MARCH OF WORLDWIDE FASCISM FOLKS UNDER THE DISGUISE OF FIGHTING "TERRORISM" PURE FUCKING BOGUS! RAISE HOLY HELL AND NOW WHILE WE STILL CAN!

    • ROFL! That’s funny! Not the substance (which is dead serious as it should be - enough is enough!), but the form which is hilarious in its candor. Thanks!

  • WHO’S NEXT TO BE ON GODDAMN ISRAEL’S HIT PARADE!? I AM BEGINNING TO REALLY HATE ISRAEL! AND I DO MEAN HATE ISRAEL! THOSE GODDAMN MF’ERS IN CONGRESS ARE GOING ALONG WITH BOMBING PEOPLE WHO ARE 60% KIDS! AND WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH WOOLSEY CONYERS AND OTHER SO CALLED FUCKING "PROGRESSIVES"? AIPAC GOT TO THEM? WHEN ARE THESE SAME GODDAMN FASCIST SUPPORTERS GOING TO STAND UP FOR AMERICA? WHEN? WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT? I HATE MAJORITY IN CONGRESS AS WELL! THEY ALL NEED TO BE RUN OUT OF CONGRESS AS WELL! THE GODDAMN SENATE IS PROBABLY WORSE! FUCKING ISRAEL LOVING ABOVE AMERICA BASTARDS! ALL FUCKING TRAITORS! AND WHAT ABOUT GODDAMN BARBARA LEE? WHY DID SHE VOTE YAY!? FUCKING ASSHOLES WE NEED A REVOLUTION AND NOW!

    • I love your hate. You make yourself blind with it.

    • Thank you for the voice of reason. It is a shame that people who are supposed pacifists opposed to war are promoting such hate, fear and loathing. They too are becoming part of this sickening cycle and preventing positive reform from taking place. It is too easy to strike them out as ignorant when they show no sense of control or thoughtful reasoning process. Get productive. Get real. But get a grip or you’ll never get ahead. And we’ll all be at war.

    • To 72.125: You sound an awful lot like Palpatine, the Dark Sith Lord that became the usurping Emperor of the Galaxy. He too was very much in love with hate, for with its consuming fires he could manipulate and control the weak minded. HOW ABOUT YOUR HATE, 72.125? When was the last time you had a reality check, Zionist? Remember all that bullshit about Muslims being out gunned, you know the comment you made that 1.25 billion Muslims weren’t too much to kill, that they were out gunned anyway, that you couldn’t wait to see Iranians getting pay back? Do you not hate as well, candy assed bitch? Do you not harbor in your blackened heart murderous hatred specifically for this large group of human beings? AND PAY BACK FOR WHAT, the loss of the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291?

      YOU ARE ONE GODFORSAKEN HYPOCRITE, totally unaware of your own faults. I’ve got your number down, 72.125, and I’m going to make extra sure that for every hypocritical, zionist, globalist, Pro-Bush cock-sucking comment you make, I’ll be behind your bitch/whore’s ass ready to strike with vicious verbal assaults until at last you will decide on your own that it’s not worth coming back to this ’loony liberal’ or this ’communist’ website as you described Bellaciao so many times before. You should stay with NewsMax and Boortz.com, those two websites welcome ignorant racists like yourself with open arms.

      Why is it that you repeatedly come back to a website that you hate? It’s certainly not to educate us, since your posted comments, and I’ve read them all, tell me that you are either horribly misinformed with out of date knowledge or you’re a paid White House whore/goon who lives and eats lies for breakfast, lunch and dinner. LET me inform you of your dreadful fate : ASMODEUS awaits to feed on your soul at the moment of your death, you slime bitch/whore for the Gang of Four, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice.

      Branching off tangentially to another subject: You pro-Bush types want to have it both ways. First you vilify and defame all those who oppose your beloved Bush and his insane policies, using profanity and the language of hate and discord from the very beginning, expecting the members of the anti-war movement not to strike back at all, erroneously believing us to be all a bunch of whiny effiminate types incapable of defending themselves. YOU have been making a horrible mistake in that respect. We are quite able to defend ourselves & we are not afraid at all to do so. We are not flower-children, when we are attacked we are not accustomed to showing the other cheek; au contraire, we strike back with equal if not greater force and with a righteous anger which you too often confuse as ’hatred’. Yes we can hate. And here is a short llst of what we hate: HYPOCRISY, COWARDICE, CORRUPTION, RACISM, IGNORANCE, TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION. And here is a list of who we hate: (take notes here, 72.125) HYPOCRITES, COWARDS, CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFICIALS (ELECTED OR SELECTED) CRIMINALS, RACISTS (CUBE THAT, 72.125) FOOLS, IDIOTS, TYRANTS AND OPPRESSORS ( take that to the nth power, giftless one).

      This kind of hatred is born of RIGHTEOUS ANGER, which comes from the Lord God Almighty, 72.125. This has been a reminder to you of that truth when you see yourself at last in the ninth circle of hell, where all treacherous whores await the end of eternity.

  • EVERY GODDAMN ONE OF THOSE VOTING FOR THIS IN CONGRESS NEEDS REPLACING COME NOV. AND I DO MEAN ALL OF THEM, PERIOD! WORK TO GET THEM ALL OUT AND NOW! RUN SOMEONE AGAINST THEM AND NOW, EVEN GREENS TOO, SOMEONE, JUST GET THEIR TRAITOROUS ASSES OUT OF CONGRESS AND NOW! EXCEPT FOR PATRIOTIC 21, THEY ARE ALL TRAITORS! IRAN "FREEDOM" MY ASS! LIKE IRAQ’S FREEDOM! LYNN WORSLEY AND BARBARA LEE REALLY PISSES ME OFF! SO MUCH FOR THE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA! THEY SUCK OBVIOUSLY TOO! INCLUDING JOHN CONYERS! IT’S HIGH TIME FOR REVOLUTION FOLKS AND NOW! BEFORE IT GETS WORSE AND IT WILL! WE NEED TO REVOLT AND NOW!

  • So 116, what do you really think? Actually, I pretty much agree with your sentiments. I can put it very succinctly.

    VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT!

    The one and only thing politicans care anything about is holding onto what they think is power. If all incumbents were sent packing can you imagine the profound shock waves that would send through DC?! If would make a statement, and more terrifying to the elities, it would show that we can work together as one. This is the single most terrifying thing for the powers that be. Count on it.

  • The Nukes will fly and millions will die all for Isreal. Fuck it.... I hope America falls and falls hard so that the lazy ass MTV generation of video games and reality TV will MAYBE wake up. I think that is what it is going to take.... don’t get me started on the yuppie business men!

    • Are you from this planet? Or just another Liberal Loser? You guys have no answers just HATE. I pity you.

    • Since you seem to be all for killing and chaos...I suggest you are the one who is full of hate

    • If you pity and hate us so much, Bush whore, then stay away from this website, moron.

  • I sure hope the american people to realize that when the time comes you need to storm the white house.. overturn the people who have led the american ideal astray and smeared it internationally for years to come, committing atrocities and criminal acts against sovereign nations while lulling the masses with lies and deceptions - manufactured reality to support their motives. bush is so innocent and does what he believes is good to do, but who creates his reality ? there are places in the us where children get killed by stray bullets and schools have reinforced windowless walls at ground floor for protection... get over with the crap about who’s democrat or republican it’s just limiting your view on the issue.. you don’t choose your side by picking a label and acting by it, but following what you feel inside.

  • So now at least you know all those in Congress who put American over Israeli interests: 21 out of 397. And so it was once again confirmed: the US is Israel’s bitch, pimping it’s way to a nuclear holocaust. Ain’t democracy a wonderful thing?

  • Oh my GAWD..not again...what is wrong with these people...? Is this why the Dem’s want amnesty for illegals? How many of the twenty million illegals would be fit for fighting in the military..... this sure feels "drafty"

  • All this talk of "FREEDOM" what with Iraq’s new found freedom and the freedom Iran will soon enjoy-just as soon as we nuke the living shit out of them-I am drawn to those famous words spoken by M.L.K...."Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty the Oil’s free at last" At least I think thats what he said before he was killed.

  • Bush and his zionist lackeys in Congress are not true Christians, for if they were they would at the very least ignore if not oppose zionist Israel. The NEW TESTAMENT read carefully is an outright indictment
    of Jews and therefore zionist Israel. Falwell, Robertson, Lindsey et. al. are apostate Christians, merely zionist shills.

    • Yep - its time for a change. Is that the smell of presidential impeachment in the air ?

    • I am for peace. Therefore, I say we NUKE ISRAEL and the whole world will be at peace - its win win.