The People’s Email Network
In case you thought it was just an aberrant moment of lunacy when Lieberman pressed General Petraeus for an attack on Iran, just before the weekend he introduced an amendment to the defense bill to authorize exactly that.
No, we are not kidding. He has drafted language that any impartial observer would interpret as a DECLARATION OF WAR against Iran, and he is pressing for a vote as fast as possible.
Here is the language from the amendment:
“(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.”The policy of the U.S should be to “combat” Iran with “all” “military instruments”?!? You can be absolutely certain that those are the ONLY words Dick Cheney and George Bush will see or care about.
We need every warm body we can muster to call and email their senators RIGHT NOW, before they pull another fast one and sneak this one through in the dead of the night. Call them toll free at 800 828-0498, 800 614 2803 or 866 340 9281, and the submit the http://www.usalone.com/no_iran_war_declaration.php below to make sure your message gets through.
The one click form will send your personal message to all your government representatives selected below, with the subject “Reject the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment On Iran.” At the same time you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your nearest local daily newspaper if you like.
http://www.usalone.com/no_iran_war_declaration.php
No matter what one thinks of Iran and Ahmadinejad, the policy of the United States towards this nation are being manipulated by the powerful Israel lobby for the interests of Israel. The expansion of the Iraq occupation into an invasion would be of enormous cost to the US, which is already bogged down. US foreign policy, as Ron Paul says, should be carried out for US interests alone.