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Boris
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« on: September 26, 2007, 02:51:18 PM »
« edited: September 26, 2007, 02:53:14 PM by Boris »

This doesn't mean anything, Jfern. It's just meaningless legalese probably designed to coincide with Ahmadinejad's visit to New York. It doesn't even say anything about authorizing the deployment of U.S. military forces into Iran; just that we should do something about Iranian proxies operating in Iraq.
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Boris
boris78
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« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2007, 07:16:16 PM »

Everyone knows the true enemy of the US is the war-mongers in the Senate.  Everyone else (Russia, China, Iran, NKorea, etc) just wants to be our friends.   To bring peace to the world, it is going to take the disbanding of the US military and the acceptance of ecology as the our new religion.  In fact, if parents ate their own children, we could solve overpopulation and economic plight once and for all.  And we should take any wealth away those who have worked for it and give it to masses who untowardly wallow in a sea of wasted opportunity.   For Allah only knows that those who spend most of their free-time posting on an internet forum have the experience and moral clarity to lead this country.  Right?
 

lol

Also to all the people attacking Jfern, I think he understands this isn't an actual vote for war with Iran but this is one of the test balloons. The actual vote will probably occur in a few months and you can bet Hillary Clinton will be there to support it.

Dude, this doesn't mean anything. There's a huge difference in voting in favor of a "fuck you, Ahmadinejad," resolution and voting in favor of a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Iran. I doubt Clinton would vote in favor of such a resolution; she's hardly a 'warmonger,' merely an opportunist.

It's kinda equivalent to the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, which was supported almost unanimously by all Democratic legislators, most of whom would vote against the Force Against Iraq resolution five years later. The former served as nothing other as a) a statement condemning Saddam Hussein and b) a distraction from the Monica Lewinsky Scandal (it even prohibited the usage of military force to remove Hussein, which is a testament to how much meaning it had)
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