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16 Members of Congress Vote for Ahmadinejad

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Posted by: Calabrio

Congress Denounces Iran's Ahmadinejad
Sep 25 12:08 PM US/Eastern
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer

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.

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Posted by: Calabrio

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll895.xml

Here are the 16 that voted "No."

Representative Neil Abercrombie (D - HI)
Representative Tammy Baldwin (D - WI)
Representative Roscoe Bartlett ( R - MD)
Representative Earl Blumenauer (D - OR)
Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D - MI)
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate
Representative Jeff Flake (R - AZ)
Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-MD)
Representative Maurice Hinchey (D - NY)
Representative Barbara Lee (D - CA)
Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wa)
Representative George Miller (D-CA)
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wi)
Representative John Olver (D - MA)
Rep. Ron Paul (R - TX)
Representative Fortney Pete Stark (D - CA)

Posted by: MonsterMark

We'll make sure Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin doesn't get re-elected.

Gwen Moore is a black lady from Milwaukee with a 99% black district so she is safe. She will never do wrong in the minds of her constituents.

Posted by: TheDude

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Originally Posted by MonsterMark

We'll make sure Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin doesn't get re-elected.

Gwen Moore is a black lady from Milwaukee with a 99% black district so she is safe. She will never do wrong in the minds of her constituents.

So... what do you think of the Dem lead Congress passing this bill?

Posted by: fossten

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Originally Posted by 95DevilleNS

So... what do you think of the Dem lead Congress passing this bill?

Well, let's see...what did they actually do in this bill?

1. They imposed monetary sanctions - big whoop - hasn't this already been done by the UN? You think this wackonutjobfreakazoid really gives a crap about sanctions? He's ushering in the 12th imam - the nuclear destruction of Israel and the West. He can't be bothered about sanctions.

2. A call to label his army a terrorist organization...horror of horrors - Imonajihad better be scared now - the US Congress just agreed to...CALL HIM NAMES!!!! AAAAAGGGGHHHH! Boy they really showed him!

If I'm DinnerJacket, I go home trumpeting how I lectured and smote the weak Satan right between the eyes. I strode into his inner sanctum and emerged unscathed because he was too weak to do anything to me but whine and protest. And he's right - our Congress, the very august body that has the POWER TO DECLARE WAR - just did the "sticks and stones" routine on this very dangerous terrorist leader.

The only "sharp stick" is the one stuffed up Lantos' a$$.

Posted by: shagdrum

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Originally Posted by Calabrio

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll895.xml
Rep. Ron Paul (R - TX)

Ron Paul, theres a suprise...

Posted by: TheDude

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Originally Posted by fossten

You're a "half empty" kind of guy

. But fair enough.

Two questions for you.

1) If the Reps had maintained power in both houses, what do you think would have occured with/or against Iran by now.

2) In an ideal world, what should happen?

Posted by: fossten

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Originally Posted by 95DevilleNS

You're a "half empty" kind of guy

1. Our government should, by rights, have arrested him and held him as an enemy combatant. We have smoking gun proof that Iran is supplying our enemies in Iraq with IEDs and other weapons being used to kill our soldiers. The fact that Bush doesn't do anything about it is an implicit lie to the American people because he knows the truth.

2. He should be ignored by our Congress and our universities and not given a forum of legitimacy.

3. I have no more confidence in the backbone of the Republicans than I do the Dems these days. Even Bush is being soft over Iran. How's that for intellectual honesty?

Posted by: evillally

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Representative John Olver (D - MA)

Goooooo figure!