Was Bluto gunning for Germans out there?
Posted on 09/25/2007 11:12:13 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress signaled its disapproval of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a vote Tuesday to tighten sanctions against his government and a call to designate his army a terrorist group.
The swift rebuke was a rare display of bipartisan cooperation in a Congress bitterly divided on the Iraq war. It reflected lawmakers' long-standing nervousness about Tehran's intentions in the region, particularly toward Israel—a sentiment fueled by the pro-Israeli lobby whose influence reaches across party lines in Congress.
"Iran faces a choice between a very big carrot and a very sharp stick," said Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "It is my hope that they will take the carrot. But today, we are putting the stick in place."
The House passed, by a 397-16 vote, a proposal by Lantos, D-Calif., aimed at blocking foreign investment in Iran, in particular its lucrative energy sector. The bill would specifically bar the president from waiving U.S. sanctions.
Current law imposes sanctions against any foreign company that invests $20 million or more in Iran's energy industry, although the U.S. has waived or ignored sanction laws in exchange for European support on nonproliferation issues.
In the Senate, Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., proposed a nonbinding resolution urging the State Department to label Iran's military—the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—a terrorist organization.
The Bush administration had already been planning to blacklist a unit within the Revolutionary Guard, subjecting part of the vast military operation to financial sanctions.
The legislative push came a day after Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust revisionists, questioned who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and declared homosexuals didn't exist in Iran in a tense question-and- answer session at Columbia University.
The Iranian president planned to speak Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly.
Lantos' bill was expected to draw criticism from U.S. allies in Europe. During a visit to Washington last week, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told lawmakers that France opposes any U.S. legislation that would target European countries operating in Iran. He argued that such sanctions could undermine cooperation on dealing with Iran.
Fair enough...
Sorry not falling for your attempts at diversion. YOU answer some questions ONE time instead of pulling your usual trick of simply posting and reposting your absurd questions.
HOW AND WHAT would a Paul administration DO? NOT slogans, real live documented, with links, ACTIONS Paul has claimed he would do. POST them.
He does have a long record. It's not particularly popular on FR, check the couple of threads on his neocon expose in 03 if you think that's a new development. He's not a mainstream Republican, he shouldn't be looking for support from Republicans, or on what I think it's fair to describe as a pro-war forum. Paul supporters call it neocon, warmonger and such.
Why does that surprise you?
As to man has a record much longer than the pro-mexican commie lantos, I don't like Lantos, but you really need to check things out before making statements like that on Paul's behalf. I believe Lantos has spent more years in House than Paul. That voluntary term limit thing, which he changed his mind about.
I just like saying he’s a kook, much easier...
Did you know we had more traffic deaths every month in 1941 than deaths at Pearl Harbor.
Just like Paul's 9/11 comment.
I admit I was amazed to learn there were over 40,000 accident deaths that year. I guess drivers licenses, aka ID cards, worked out ok.
Sorry, but you’ll have to find your entertainment somewhere else. Unfortunatley not everyone can be fun.
Sheesh, keep up will you...
Well, I just removed myself from his posts. I've had enough of the RP justification. If he wants us to consider him a FredHead then he'd better get with the program instead of trying to justify RuPaul. PERIOD!!
As for my start date, PFFFFFFT!
See, that’s what I get for paraphrasing Animal House...
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
Now want to try and explain to me why Dr Paul voted against a bill imposing stricter sanctions on Iran? STILL waiting for you to post a single document fact about HOW or WHAT a Paul Administration would do.
Nope.
These guy’s staff writers are having a field day with this opportunity for “Biting Rhetoric”. McCain and Gingrich staffs get top marks for their boss’s speech regarding the coarse little turd from Iran. Bush is off in the corner trying to sound more Texan. I’m from Texas. Nobody sounds that hick except people from Ohio on northward trying to sound Texan. I think GWB has been as good as you could expect from a cocky right winger and appreciate that maybe speaking isn’t his strong suit but pushing our agenda forcefully is. So I give him a let on his faux Tex.
Any, McCain was the best. To Columbia’s president - You didn’t allow the ROTC to have their say or the Minutemen but that was the reason (excuse?) you give for letting Mackmood talk?
McCain properly points out some pretty lousy hypocrisy on the part of Columbia.
I heard that Mens Wearhouse was expanding their tuxedo rental line.
But cojones?
Wow! The Wash. D.C. franchise must have been the first with the "new line" of rentals! LOL!
He says he’s a Fred Head...
Hmmm..
His post don’t seem to indicate that...
Was Bluto gunning for Germans out there?
Misguidedness takes many forms.
Knee jerk reaction via comfort is one of them.
Charles Lindberg was used to fixed gear aircraft and showed his talent in having the right stuff by crossing the Atlantic successfully, however times change and gear retracts now.
That's my point. /snicker
Perhaps ScreamingFist should see the start dates of some who've been zotted lately for their incontinent posts.
Yet you and I are still here? Oh, the huge manatee of it all!!!
Animal House after they were booted off campus...
That was part of his speech right before the parade....
It doesn't, my bro is a a big L libertarian, I'm not. I will also say that small "l" libertarians don't think that way and is why the Libertarian party (IMHO) is equal to the Greens in support.......the Libertarians screw themselves..........but I see no reason to diss Ron Paul, he's a good man.......don't want him as President....I've seen anarchy, it sucks...
Some nuts take time to emerge...
Even a filthy bastard with American soldiers blood on his hands gets one right once in a while.
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