WE THE PEOPLE CUT THE HEART OUT OF THE LIEBERMAN-KYL

WE THE PEOPLE CUT THE HEART OUT OF THE LIEBERMAN-KYL
AMENDMENT

It has taken a couple days for the actual disposition
of the
Lieberman-Kyl amendment to leak out, but in FACT, the
two most
offensive paragraphs (3 and 4), which we were
objecting to so
strenuously as amounting to a declaration of war on
Iran, were
REMOVED IN THEIR ENTIRELY prior to the vote. Which
means we WON.

Yes, you did it, with your TENS of thousands of emails
and phone
calls to Congress this last Monday and Tuesday. We are
so proud of
our participants on this one. Claim your win.

What was left was not great, but ultimately it means
nothing with the
actual teeth of the amendment extracted, not that
that's any excuse
for those who voted yes (or did not vote at all). So
the Senate
called some people a terrorist organization. Big deal,
it's not
binding anyway, no more than their groundless and
hypocritical
condemnation of MoveOn a week ago. And for those who
may say this
gives Cheney and Bush an excuse to do anything, this
White House
doesn't think it needs an excuse to do anything,
that's the whole
POINT of impeachment.

Once again this PROVES that activism works. We beat
them back this
time in a major way, folks, and why? Because we
actually spoke out,
that's why! We dismissed the voices of defeatism and
took action.
Fancy that, participatory democracy works. Are the
evil ones going to
give up? Of course not, and that's why we're not going
to give up
either. Let's say it together, we're going to keep ON
speaking out in
even greater numbers.

There are many dirty secrets in Washington, but the
biggest one of
all they are trying to keep may be that when you write
and call in
mass numbers, members of Congress tremble, shaking in
their socks,
especially in the House where they have to get
reelected every two
years. Oh, sure, sometimes they send us their form
letter responses
trying to sluff us off, trying to con us into thinking
we are not
having an impact. But we know the truth, which is that
they work for
us, and we do have the POWER with our personal
messages to enforce
that.

WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? WHY, IMPEACHMENT OF COURSE

This week yet another video of Dick "Five Deferments"
Cheney surfaced
from the early nineties, again articulating his views
as to why
trying to occupy Iraq would be lead to nothing but a
disastrous
quagmire. And yet this is the same man who not only
lied the country
into doing just that once he seized power himself, but
is still the
most aggressive force in the White House pushing for
an even more
monumental debacle in Iran.

H. RES 333 ACTION PAGE:
http://www.usalone.com/hres333.php

This is an NEW action page. We're going to have a new
action page on
impeachment EVERY week from now on. That's the plan,
we're ALL going
to call for impeachment once a week from now on, and
each time
encourage everyone else we now to do the same using
the friends
invitation section of the action page.

Recognizing the gravity of the increasingly loud
drumbeats for more
war coming from the Vice President's office, this week
Dennis
Kucinich, who had already gotten 20 cosponsors for
H.Res 333 to
impeach Cheney, said he was seriously considering
forcing the House
of Representatives to take up the issue of impeachment
by bringing it
as a privileged resolution.

We have a major win in our pocket this week. We have
slowed them
down. But we also recognize that the only thing that
will stop them
completely is confronting the White House, and Cheney
in particular,
with impeachment. Each and every member of the House
must be called
to account at this moment in American political
history, by the
demands of you, their constituents, whether they will
stand up for
the Constitution and stop Dick Cheney's delusional
march to Iran . .
or not.

Already more than 110,000 of your fellow constituents
have voted in
the National Cheney Impeachment Poll. If we had a
million people
write in one week, impeachment would be the
centerpiece on the table
so fast it would make their heads spin. We're going to
do it. We're
going to crank up our efforts to a new level this
week. And when
Dennis Kucinich DOES introduce his privileged
resolution, we're going
to crank it up even more.

THANK DENNIS KUCINICH PERSONALLY FOR HIS LEADERSHIP

Once again, Dennis Kucinich stands out as the leading
voice calling
for restoration of our Constitution. Isn't that enough
reason to make
whatever donation you can to him, to encourage him to
speak out even
stronger on the issues more and more every day? If you
have not done
so already, please do so now if you can.

DENNIS KUCINICH CONTRIBUTIONS:
http://www.usalone.com/donations_kucinich.php

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories
that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else
you know.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do
so at
http://www.usalone.com/in.htm



It has taken a couple days for the actual disposition
of the
Lieberman-Kyl amendment to leak out, but in FACT, the
two most
offensive paragraphs (3 and 4), which we were
objecting to so
strenuously as amounting to a declaration of war on
Iran, were
REMOVED IN THEIR ENTIRELY prior to the vote. Which
means we WON.

Yes, you did it, with your TENS of thousands of emails
and phone
calls to Congress this last Monday and Tuesday. We are
so proud of
our participants on this one. Claim your win.

What was left was not great, but ultimately it means
nothing with the
actual teeth of the amendment extracted, not that
that's any excuse
for those who voted yes (or did not vote at all). So
the Senate
called some people a terrorist organization. Big deal,
it's not
binding anyway, no more than their groundless and
hypocritical
condemnation of MoveOn a week ago. And for those who
may say this
gives Cheney and Bush an excuse to do anything, this
White House
doesn't think it needs an excuse to do anything,
that's the whole
POINT of impeachment.

Once again this PROVES that activism works. We beat
them back this
time in a major way, folks, and why? Because we
actually spoke out,
that's why! We dismissed the voices of defeatism and
took action.
Fancy that, participatory democracy works. Are the
evil ones going to
give up? Of course not, and that's why we're not going
to give up
either. Let's say it together, we're going to keep ON
speaking out in
even greater numbers.

There are many dirty secrets in Washington, but the
biggest one of
all they are trying to keep may be that when you write
and call in
mass numbers, members of Congress tremble, shaking in
their socks,
especially in the House where they have to get
reelected every two
years. Oh, sure, sometimes they send us their form
letter responses
trying to sluff us off, trying to con us into thinking
we are not
having an impact. But we know the truth, which is that
they work for
us, and we do have the POWER with our personal
messages to enforce
that.

WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? WHY, IMPEACHMENT OF COURSE

This week yet another video of Dick "Five Deferments"
Cheney surfaced
from the early nineties, again articulating his views
as to why
trying to occupy Iraq would be lead to nothing but a
disastrous
quagmire. And yet this is the same man who not only
lied the country
into doing just that once he seized power himself, but
is still the
most aggressive force in the White House pushing for
an even more
monumental debacle in Iran.

H. RES 333 ACTION PAGE:
http://www.usalone.com/hres333.php

This is an NEW action page. We're going to have a new
action page on
impeachment EVERY week from now on. That's the plan,
we're ALL going
to call for impeachment once a week from now on, and
each time
encourage everyone else we now to do the same using
the friends
invitation section of the action page.

Recognizing the gravity of the increasingly loud
drumbeats for more
war coming from the Vice President's office, this week
Dennis
Kucinich, who had already gotten 20 cosponsors for
H.Res 333 to
impeach Cheney, said he was seriously considering
forcing the House
of Representatives to take up the issue of impeachment
by bringing it
as a privileged resolution.

We have a major win in our pocket this week. We have
slowed them
down. But we also recognize that the only thing that
will stop them
completely is confronting the White House, and Cheney
in particular,
with impeachment. Each and every member of the House
must be called
to account at this moment in American political
history, by the
demands of you, their constituents, whether they will
stand up for
the Constitution and stop Dick Cheney's delusional
march to Iran . .
or not.

Already more than 110,000 of your fellow constituents
have voted in
the National Cheney Impeachment Poll. If we had a
million people
write in one week, impeachment would be the
centerpiece on the table
so fast it would make their heads spin. We're going to
do it. We're
going to crank up our efforts to a new level this
week. And when
Dennis Kucinich DOES introduce his privileged
resolution, we're going
to crank it up even more.

THANK DENNIS KUCINICH PERSONALLY FOR HIS LEADERSHIP

Once again, Dennis Kucinich stands out as the leading
voice calling
for restoration of our Constitution. Isn't that enough
reason to make
whatever donation you can to him, to encourage him to
speak out even
stronger on the issues more and more every day? If you
have not done
so already, please do so now if you can.

DENNIS KUCINICH CONTRIBUTIONS:
http://www.usalone.com/donations_kucinich.php

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories
that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else
you know.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do
so at
http://www.usalone.com/in.htm

Forum Name General Discussion
Topic subject White House decides to piggyback on Kyl-Lieberman with a plan to attack Iran's Revolutionary Guard
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1943512#1943512
1943512, White House decides to piggyback on Kyl-Lieberman with a plan to attack Iran's Revolutionary Guard
Posted by bigtree on Sun Sep-30-07 05:55 AM


Bush Administration Has Revised Plans For Possible Attack On Iran-Report

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, the New Yorker magazine reported on its Web site Sunday, citing former officials and government consultants. The focus of the plans had been a broad bombing attack, with targets including Iran's known and suspected nuclear facilities and other military and infrastructure sites, according to the article written by Seymour M. Hersh.

Now, the emphasis is on "surgical" strikes on Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere, which, the administration claims, have been the source of attacks on Americans in Iraq, the New Yorker reported in the article, which will appear in the magazine's Oct. 8 issue.

The revised bombing plan for a possible attack, with its tightened focus on counterterrorism, is gathering support among generals and admirals in the Pentagon, the report said.

The strategy calls for the use of sea-launched cruise missiles and more precisely targeted ground attacks and bombing strikes, including plans to destroy the most important Revolutionary Guard training camps, supply depots, and command and control facilities, the New Yorker reported.

"Cheney's option is now for a fast in and out-for surgical strikes," the former senior American intelligence official said, according to the report. The Joint Chiefs have turned to the Navy, he said, which had been chafing over its role in the Air Force-dominated air war in Iraq, the report said.

"The Navy's planes, ships, and cruise missiles are in place in the Gulf and operating daily. They've got everything they need - even (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) are in place and the targets in Iran have been programmed. The Navy is flying FA-18 missions every day in the Gulf," the report quoted the official as saying.

There are also plans to hit Iran's anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile sites, the report said. "We've got to get a path in and a path out," the former official said, according to the New Yorker report.

A Pentagon consultant on counterterrorism told me that, if the bombing campaign took place, it would be accompanied by a series of what he called " short, sharp incursions" by U.S. Special Forces units into suspected Iranian training sites, the report said. He said, "Cheney is devoted to this, no question," according to the report.

more: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/231858354?-16670