AIPAC backed removal of Iran war provision

AIPAC lobbying helped remove a provision from a bill that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval for war against Iran. A number of congressional sources confirmed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee backed dropping the provision from the Iraq war spending bill introduced Tuesday by Democrats. The bill ties funding to deadlines for withdrawal from Iraq.

AIPAC and a number of Democrats close to Israel said the provision would have hampered the president as he attempted to leverage Iran into backing down from its alleged nuclear weapon plans. Others said the provision simply reasserted the constitutional role of the U.S. Congress in declaring war that is believed to have been eroded by Bush during the Iraq war...[Open in new window]

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I think it's time for the US to get out of Israel's business & for them to get their hands out of our pockets. See how they do for awhile on their own.

Then maybe a little while down the road we could invade & occupy them because they have nuclear WMD. The only middle eastern country that does as far as I can tell.

Maybe that'd set off WWIII & we could all die laughing at the only country that's used nuclear weapons (us) mutually self-destructing with the only country in the middle east that has nuclear weapons.

Think?

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