No Congress, no peace
Mother Jones
by Jonathan Schwarz
05/07
Gauging the Bush administration’s true intentions toward Iran is not easy. Each week brings a new story that hints at a struggle between the hardliners who’d like to take down one more point on the Axis of Evil and the realists who prefer one disastrous Middle East conflict at a time. Given the administration’s track record, uncoordinated and sporadic attempts by members of Congress to prevent an attack on Iran will restrain it no more than would cobwebs. Yet Congress does possess the power to stop a war — if it chooses to exercise it. If we wake up one morning to find cruise missiles flying, the responsibility will not be Bush’s alone. It will also belong to a Democratic-controlled Congress that could have acted but decided not to...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/05/plan_for_iran.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Schwarz
by Jonathan Schwarz
05/07
Gauging the Bush administration’s true intentions toward Iran is not easy. Each week brings a new story that hints at a struggle between the hardliners who’d like to take down one more point on the Axis of Evil and the realists who prefer one disastrous Middle East conflict at a time. Given the administration’s track record, uncoordinated and sporadic attempts by members of Congress to prevent an attack on Iran will restrain it no more than would cobwebs. Yet Congress does possess the power to stop a war — if it chooses to exercise it. If we wake up one morning to find cruise missiles flying, the responsibility will not be Bush’s alone. It will also belong to a Democratic-controlled Congress that could have acted but decided not to...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/05/plan_for_iran.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Schwarz
rudkla - 16. Mai, 13:39
