@_@ Artman
09-26-2007, 03:29 PM
Lieberman-Kyl’s Iran amendment passes (http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/26/breaking-lieberman-kyls-iran-amendment-passes/)
It is the sense of the Senate--
(1) that the manner in which the United States transitions and structures its military presence in Iraq will have critical long-term consequences for the future of the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, in particular with regard to the capability of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to pose a threat to the security of the region, the prospects for democracy for the people of the region, and the health of the global economy;
(2) that it is a critical national interest of the United States to prevent the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran from turning Shi'a militia extremists in Iraq into a Hezbollah-like force that could serve its interests inside Iraq, including by overwhelming, subverting, or co-opting institutions of the legitimate Government of Iraq;
(3), (4) [removed] *
(5) that the United States should designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, as established under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and initiated under Executive Order 13224; and
(6) that the Department of the Treasury should act with all possible expediency to complete the listing of those entities targeted under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1737 and 1747 adopted unanimously on December 23, 2006 and March 24, 2007, respectively.
* The two paragraphs that were contentious were removed, they were...
(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat,
contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing
influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its
indigenous Iraqi proxies;
(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of
United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic,
intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy
described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.
Ok. Still seems that diplomacy is the angle Gates is giving us for now...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated on September 16, 2007 that 'I think that the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian threat, the Iranian challenge, through diplomatic and economic means is by the preferable approach. That the one we are using. We always say all options are on the table, but clearly, the diplomatic and economic approach is the one that we are pursuing.'
But it still passed. Despicable. Kudos to the too few who voted against:
* Biden (D-DE)
* Bingaman (D-NM)
* Boxer (D-CA)
* Brown (D-OH)
* Byrd (D-WV)
* Cantwell (D-WA)
* Dodd (D-CT)
* Feingold (D-WI)
* Hagel (R-NE)
* Harkin (D-IA)
* Inouye (D-HI)
* Kennedy (D-MA)
* Kerry (D-MA)
* Klobuchar (D-MN)
* Leahy (D-VT)
* Lincoln (D-AR)
* Lugar (R-IN)
* McCaskill (D-MO)
* Sanders (I-VT)
* Tester (D-MT)
* Webb (D-VA)
* Wyden (D-OR)
No shows: Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) :???:
It is the sense of the Senate--
(1) that the manner in which the United States transitions and structures its military presence in Iraq will have critical long-term consequences for the future of the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, in particular with regard to the capability of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to pose a threat to the security of the region, the prospects for democracy for the people of the region, and the health of the global economy;
(2) that it is a critical national interest of the United States to prevent the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran from turning Shi'a militia extremists in Iraq into a Hezbollah-like force that could serve its interests inside Iraq, including by overwhelming, subverting, or co-opting institutions of the legitimate Government of Iraq;
(3), (4) [removed] *
(5) that the United States should designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, as established under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and initiated under Executive Order 13224; and
(6) that the Department of the Treasury should act with all possible expediency to complete the listing of those entities targeted under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1737 and 1747 adopted unanimously on December 23, 2006 and March 24, 2007, respectively.
* The two paragraphs that were contentious were removed, they were...
(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat,
contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing
influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its
indigenous Iraqi proxies;
(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of
United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic,
intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy
described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.
Ok. Still seems that diplomacy is the angle Gates is giving us for now...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated on September 16, 2007 that 'I think that the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian threat, the Iranian challenge, through diplomatic and economic means is by the preferable approach. That the one we are using. We always say all options are on the table, but clearly, the diplomatic and economic approach is the one that we are pursuing.'
But it still passed. Despicable. Kudos to the too few who voted against:
* Biden (D-DE)
* Bingaman (D-NM)
* Boxer (D-CA)
* Brown (D-OH)
* Byrd (D-WV)
* Cantwell (D-WA)
* Dodd (D-CT)
* Feingold (D-WI)
* Hagel (R-NE)
* Harkin (D-IA)
* Inouye (D-HI)
* Kennedy (D-MA)
* Kerry (D-MA)
* Klobuchar (D-MN)
* Leahy (D-VT)
* Lincoln (D-AR)
* Lugar (R-IN)
* McCaskill (D-MO)
* Sanders (I-VT)
* Tester (D-MT)
* Webb (D-VA)
* Wyden (D-OR)
No shows: Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) :???: