Also signed-on to that bill is none other than Barbara Boxer. Who is a liberal. Then again, its Washblog, so you gotta be careful what you believe.

She must have read the Scoop Jackson biography. I wish she was trying for Dan Evans or Wayne Morse instead. Or hell, even Patty Murray.

I predict Dems like Cantwell will botch taking back either the House or Senate. There is an alienated electorate out there for the plucking, but the war drag these cowardly, unprincipled Dems think they have to wear will keep these non-voters bitching from the sidelines.

I know, because I'm Whitman-esque; multitudes.

hey will !! clicking through to your name - are you belltowner?

24? 26 years old cantwell parrot who doesn't need to know nuttin bout historie cuz you don't need to know

that all your arguements for cantwell are the same old loser arguements used by the DLC for 20 years of losing?

hope you are getting paid.

rm

Bob-
It took you this long?

Um, I read through Cantwell's letter pretty carefully. Nowhere did I see anything that authorizes military intervention. The bill authorizes a variety of sanctions, as well as providing support to organizations who support non-proliferation in Iran.

Am I missing something? Is there code, or something between the lines that I'm not understanding? I didn't read a single word that said anything about military activity of any kind.

I strongly disagree with her stance on Iraq, and it pains me deeply to even contemplate agreeing with Santorum about anything. But this bill, as described in Cantwell's letter, doesn't seem all that bad to me. I'm dubious of sanctions in general -- they don't seem to work all that well, historically -- but there is a big difference between sanctions and military intervention.

Now if Cantwell supports a bill that actually does authorize Bush to conduct a military operation in Iran, then she will loose my vote in November, and probably quite a few others as well, and I'm a solid Democrat. Is she crazy?

agreed with sda. i don't see the fuss on this particular piece of legislation. though if you're against american empire (unilateralism, if you like euphamisms), looking for foreign policy reasons to not support cantwell doesn't require her support of a third war. she's done plenty already to show that she cannot effectively differentiate herself from republicans on most issues of foreign policy or anti-terrorism.

It's called the Iran Freedom and Support Act, and it authorizes financial support of pro-democracy forces in Iran. It doesn't authorize military aciton, but as I said: It "lays the groundwork for military intervention." It sets a course that is redolent of Bush's Iraq "Chalabi Strategy" which sought to sew the seeds of regime change by aiding opposition groups. The Iran Freedom and Support Act formalizes a prescription for change which the Bush administration could use to justify military intervention. Obviously, Bush has a record of manipulating Congressional "approval" to justify all sorts of extreme measures. Bush argued, for example, that Congress signed off on his domestic spying program by okaying his general approach of spying on al qaeda. Give the Bushies an inch...
The U.S. Congress should be wary of this meausre—especially given the combination of Bush's record and his heated rhetoric about Iran.

Mark Wilson, Candidate for U. S. Senate, has a much better grasp on the futility of never-ending war than does Cantwell. Anyone who trusts Bush for even a second, after his continual lies and distortions and failures, is not to be trusted. Bush is using exactly the same language (er, BS) that he used prior to invading Iraq, a nation that did NOT pose an imminent threat. It terrifies me to think that any Democrat could support the Republican-led scheme to support Bush against the Iranian government.

Yesterday on C-Span the Deputy Director of the Dept. of Energy was touting the benefits of having the U. S. move ahead with plans for producing more NUCLEAR ENERGY. However, the U. S. is acting like the master of the universe in saying that Iran must not be allowed to produce nuclear energy. What hypocrites we have leading this nation.

Barbara Boxer is obviously yet another DLC Democrat. For shame! For shame!

As is Patty Murray for co-sponsoring legislation with Santorum on no less than 58 occassions!

Check out S.AMDT.1071 and S.AMDT.169 to see the presense of other noted DLC Democrats, Barack Obama and Patrick Leahy.

We're doomed, I tells ya, DOOMED! All 8 founders of the Out Of Iraq Caucus voted for H.R. 282, the House equivalent of S. 333.

So did almost the entire Congressional Progressive Caucus, including co-chairs Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee.

DOO-OO-OOMED!

Either that, or somebody is misreading the signs and portents here.