Their proposed amendment cites the dubious claims made to
Congress last week by Gen. David “Peaches†Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan
Crocker that Iran is promoting the violence in Iraq, and then seeks to
authorize “the prudent (sic) calibrated use of all instruments of
United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic,
intelligence and military instruments.â€
Any member of Congress who supports this sleazy, ill-founded amendment
should be hounded from office as the ultimate weasel and coward.
It
bears mentioning that the leading weasels in this despicable effort to
pour more accelerant on the fires of the Middle East, Lieberman and
Kyl, are themselves both notorious “chickenhawksâ€â€”that is, neither of
these gung-ho warmongers ever wore a military uniform, much less faced
the horrors of combat. The biggest challenge these two worthies ever
faced was first-year law school classes.
Putting
aside the assininity of bombing and/or invading Iran—an action that
would instantly more than double world oil prices, and precipitate a
global economic collapse, and that would cause an eruption of violence
against already beleaguered US forces in Iraq—even if one thought
invading that nation of 70 million and taking on its battle-hardened
military was somehow a good idea, it hardly makes sense to do so
without the support of the American public.
Bush
put the US into a war with Iraq in 2003 by way of lies and deception,
knowing that the vast public did not support such an invasion. By lying
about Saddam Hussein’s links to 9-11 and about Iraq’s having or trying
to obtain nuclear weapons, Bush was able to forge an artificial
consensus in favor of war, but we’ve watched that support evaporate as
the deceit was exposed. This time around, Lieberman and Kyl aren’t even
bothering with a propaganda campaign of lies. They’re going straight to
the deceit, trying to pass what amounts to a war authorization by
tucking it into a larger military spending bill.
No general in his or her right mind would want to march into battle with that kind of Congressional “support.â€
But it’s just the kind of thing you’d expect from a devious slimeball like Lieberman, or Kyl.
Every
American should be contacting their members of Congress to demand that
they have no part of this nefarious scheme. The Kyl-Lieberman amendment
must be killed.
If Congress wants war with
Iran, the pro-war faction should have the gonads to write and then
formally pass a resolution authorizing, and explaining the
justification for authorizing, such a war.
When
others were volunteering to support their country during the Cold War
by signing up with one of the military services back in the early
1960s, Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyl, like their patron Vice President Dick
Cheney, had “other priorities.†They were busy earning undergraduate
and law degrees so they could make the big bucks and then go into
politics.
Now they are the big war hawks in Congress, ready to
authorize an action that will most assuredly lead to the deaths and
maimings of tens of thousands more young Americans and hundreds of
thousands or even millions of innocent Iranians.
I
say, if Lieberman and Kyl want war with Iran so badly, they should go
to the Persian Gulf and hang out on one of the destroyers that are
likely to get hit by one of Iran’s shore-to-ship missiles once
hostilities begin. At least they should finally be willing to put their
lives on the line with the people they want to place in harm’s way.
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) want the US to attack Iran, but because they know most Americans know that is a crazy idea at a time that the US is already bogged down in a losing war in Iraq, they want to authorize this disastrous expansion of the conflict secretly.
That’s why, instead of introducing a war authorizing bill in the Senate, they have introduced a 
