Senate Kills Iran Bill
Thanks to Atlas, who has a list of the yays and nays.
Faced with legislation that would force America to take a harder line on Iran, Secretary of State Rice worked closely yesterday with a key Senate Democrat to kill an amendment sponsored by the Senate’s third-ranking Republican.That amendment — offered by Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, to legislation authorizing the Pentagon budget — would have codified existing restrictions on American businesses investing in Iran; authorized $100 million for democracy groups in the country, and given the president a 180-day deadline to determine whether foreign companies doing business in Iran should be barred from American capital markets.
This is sad because not only did our Senate fail to divest a certain enemy, but our President helped kill the bill. Meanwhile Iran wrote a bill of thier own.
Iran ratifies bill that blocks nuclear inspections
Our friend in commerce.
Faced with legislation that would force America to take a harder line on Iran, Secretary of State Rice worked closely yesterday with a key Senate Democrat to kill an amendment sponsored by the Senate’s third-ranking Republican.That amendment — offered by Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, to legislation authorizing the Pentagon budget — would have codified existing restrictions on American businesses investing in Iran; authorized $100 million for democracy groups in the country, and given the president a 180-day deadline to determine whether foreign companies doing business in Iran should be barred from American capital markets.
This is sad because not only did our Senate fail to divest a certain enemy, but our President helped kill the bill. Meanwhile Iran wrote a bill of thier own.
Iran ratifies bill that blocks nuclear inspections
Our friend in commerce.
posted by kevin at
11:35 PM
9 Comments:
Kevin, sometimes I think I need a valium before coming here! I just cannot believe that we would do something so stupid!
This is going to come back and bite us in the butt.
I wish that I could say that I am surprised.
We ignore Iran at our own peril.
I don't get it either, I think our leaders must be going to that Mosque in the Pentagon.
I hate to sound like doom and disaster...but this is just a nightmare waiting to happen!
There's not a lot Uncle Sam can do at this point. It's a paper tiger - broke and getting its ass kicked militarily in Iraq.
Now go ahead and censor me.
Actually there's a lot the US could do, like take out all of Iran's Nukes.
The bill in question would've at least imposed finacial sanctions, but Iran deserves much worse.
If they nuke Iran, you can say goodbye to oil from Venezuela and the Persian Gulf.
And we'd see how well Vanilla Sam does when gas is 9 Euros/gallon and the dollar is worthless.
Who said US nukes? We should simply remove the Iranian nuke capability before they use them. which they clearly plan to do(by thier own words). I'm curious JB, are you American? and does Ray Nagin know about Vanilla Sam?
Well, I suppose that Vanilla Sam can just oppress Chocolate Sam a little more to make up for it.
Idiot.
*rolls eyes*
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