Senate approves Lieberman resolution on Iran

[ryan2772]

can this be interpreted as the 1st step on a war with iran?

Senate approves Lieberman resolution on Iran -- Newsday.com

Senate approves Lieberman resolution on Iran

By ANDREW MIGA | Associated Press Writer

6:56 PM EDT, September 26, 2007

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution urging the State Department to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, a move aimed at bringing additional economic pressure on Iran.

The measure passed 76-22.

The proposal by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., attracted overwhelming bipartisan support. But a small group of Democrats said they feared that labeling the state-sponsored organization a terrorist group could be interpreted as a congressional authorization of military force in Iran.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., was among those voting against the amendment. Dodd referred to the 2002 congressional vote authorizing the use of force that led to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq.

"We shouldn't repeat our mistakes and enable this president again," Dodd said in a statement.

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., branded the Lieberman-Kyl measure as Vice President Dick Cheney's "fondest pipe dream."

Lieberman and Kyl have said their resolution does not authorize the use of force against Iran. It was instead crafted to cut off financial support for Iran, they said.

"It is vital to the national security interests of the United States that the Iranian government not be allowed to prevail in its proxy war against us in Iraq," Lieberman said in a statement. "This amendment makes it clear both to our enemies and our friends that the United States will not retreat in the face of Iranian terrorism."

The Revolutionary Guard is training, arming, funding and directing extremists inside Iraq who are killing U.S. troops, Lieberman has said.

The Bush administration is considering wide-ranging sanctions against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds force, which is accused of supporting insurgents in Iraq, by naming it an international terrorist group.

The Senate vote came one day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

During a tense appearance at Columbia University Monday, Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. His visit this week has drawn thousands of protesters.

The Iranian leader has denied the chief accusations against Iran, that it is providing weapons to kill U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting terrorism or breaking international law by developing nuclear weapons.

Copyright © 2007, The Associated Press

[Guest obby]

Actualy the Iranian government (not the people) breaking UN Resolutions 685, 676, 671, 651, 642, 631, 620, 619, 612, 598, 588, 582, 540, 522, 514, 479, 461, 457, and 348 from 1946-1991 should have been your first sign.

If that wasn't your first sign then UN Resolution 1737 and 1698 back in 2006 should have been your second sign.

Just my 2 cents

Also, the "Death To America" chants should have been a sign as well.

[Guest trancepriest]

Boy you just posted a bunch of bullshit resolutions that you haven't even read about... lol.

for example the first one: UN resolution 685

United Nations Security Council Resolution 685 - Wikisource

The second one UN resolution 676

United Nations Security Council Resolution 676 - Wikisource

The third one UN resolution 671

United Nations Security Council Resolution 671 - Wikisource

and on and on... warning to you Republicans.. some people on here actually read.

[Guest trancepriest]

UN resolutions against Israel

Resolution 106: "...‘condemns’ Israel for Gaza raid"

Resolution 111: "...‘condemns’ Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people"

Resolution 127: "...‘recommends’ Israel suspend its ‘no-man’s zone’ in Jerusalem"

Resolution 162: "...‘urges’ Israel to comply with UN decisions"

Resolution 171: "...determines flagrant violations’ by Israel in its attack on Syria"

Resolution 228: "...‘censures’ Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control"

Resolution 237: "...‘urges’ Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees"

Resolution 248: "...‘condemns’ Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan"

Resolution 250: "...‘calls’ on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem"

Resolution 251: "...‘deeply deplores’ Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250"

Resolution 252: "...‘declares invalid’ Israel’s acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital"

Resolution 256: "...‘condemns’ Israeli raids on Jordan as ‘flagrant violation"

Resolution 259: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation"

Resolution 262: "...‘condemns’ Israel for attack on Beirut airport"

Resolution 265: "...‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan"

Resolution 267: "...‘censures’ Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem"

Resolution 270: "...‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon"

Resolution 271: "...‘condemns’ Israel’s failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem"

Resolution 279: "...‘demands’ withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon"

Resolution 280: "....‘condemns’ Israeli’s attacks against Lebanon"

Resolution 285: "...‘demands’ immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon"

Resolution 298: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s changing of the status of Jerusalem"

Resolution 313: "...‘demands’ that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon"

Resolution 316: "...‘condemns’ Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon"

Resolution 317: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon"

Resolution 332: "...‘condemns’ Israel’s repeated attacks against Lebanon"

Resolution 337: "...‘condemns’ Israel for violating Lebanon’s sovereignty"

Resolution 347: "...‘condemns’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon"

Resolution 425: "...‘calls’ on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon"

Resolution 427: "...‘calls’ on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon’

Resolution 444: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces"

Resolution 446: "...‘determines’ that Israeli settlements are a ‘serious obstruction’ to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"

Resolution 450: "...‘calls’ on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon"

Resolution 452: "...‘calls’ on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories"

Resolution 465: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel’s settlements program"

Resolution 467: "...‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s military intervention in Lebanon"

Resolution 468: "...‘calls’ on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return"

Resolution 469: "...‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s failure to observe the council’s order not to deport Palestinians"

Resolution 471: "...‘expresses deep concern’ at Israel’s failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"

Resolution 476: "...‘reiterates’ that Israel’s claims to Jerusalem are ‘null and void’

Resolution 478: "...‘censures (Israel) in the strongest terms’ for its claim to Jerusalem in its ‘Basic Law’

Resolution 484: "...‘declares it imperative’ that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors"

Resolution 487: "...‘strongly condemns’ Israel for its attack on Iraq’s nuclear facility"

Resolution 497: "...‘decides’ that Israel’s annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights is ‘null and void’ and demands that Israel rescind its decision forthwith"

Resolution 498: "...‘calls’ on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon"

Resolution 501: "...‘calls’ on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops"

Resolution 509: "...‘demands’ that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon"

Resolution 515: "...‘demands’ that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in"

Resolution 517: "...‘censures’ Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon"

Resolution 518: "...‘demands’ that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon"

Resolution 520: "...‘condemns’ Israel’s attack into West Beirut"

Resolution 573: "...‘condemns’ Israel ‘vigorously’ for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters

Resolution 587: "...‘takes note’ of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw"

Resolution 592: "...‘strongly deplores’ the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops"

Resolution 605: "...‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians

Resolution 607: "...‘calls’ on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention

Resolution 608: "...‘deeply regrets’ that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians"

Resolution 636: "...‘deeply regrets’ Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians

Resolution 641: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s continuing deportation of Palestinians

Resolution 672: "...‘condemns’ Israel for violence against Palestinians at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount

Resolution 673: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to cooperate with the United Nations

Resolution 681: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s resumption of the deportation of Palestinians

Resolution 694: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return

Resolution 726: "...‘strongly condemns’ Israel’s deportation of Palestinians

Resolution 799: "...‘strongly condemns’ Israel’s deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.

List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sometimes I wonder if you neo-cons are just uneducated, illiterate, stupid, ignorant or just plain retarded.

[Guest obby]

LOL

Wikisource???? LOL A website I myself can update? LOL You're sharp!!!!!!

Here you go Trance: (click below)

UN Security Council resolutions relating to Iran

or go straight to the UN's website (click here) United Nations

Make sure to search under "Iran" this time.

[Guest trancepriest]

parstimes.com?????? LOL :-)

[Guest 029]

it's at times like this that i'm thankfull lieberman didn't get to be vp.

[Guest yume]

The Revolutionary Guard is training, arming, funding and directing extremists inside Iraq who are killing U.S. troops, Lieberman has said.

Maybe he should have said:

The United States is training, arming, funding and directing extremists inside Iraq who used to kill U.S. troops, and probably will in the future

Hmm. I want to break down a few things for some people.

Iran is mostly Shiite. Saudi Arabia is mostly Sunni. We are helping the Sunnis in Iraq.

But.....

The Shiites were the ones who were "oppressed" by Saddam's government. We go in there to free them, only to turn against them?

In Iraq most of the insurgent violence directed at the American military has come from Sunni forces, and not from Shiites. Confused yet?

Remember, we are now teamed up with the Sunnis. The people who were killing us.

So we are now arming and training the people that were killing us earlier. The people that are against the current "democratic" Iraqi government (The one we helped set up. The democratic government. We're helping it's enemies. Go Democracy!).

Oh yeah, the majority of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. They are Sunni. You know, those Sunni guys we've teamed up with, and are now giving weapons and training to.

Yep, Al-Qaida is Sunni. Those guys we're helping.

You know who else we once gave weapons and training too? Before 9/11? Well gosh darn it, those Al-Queda guys! The Sunnis! Man, our government really likes to help those guys out. And those guys really like to kill us.

?

Maybe someone should approve a resolution against our own stupidity & hypocracy. I believe our own government is a threat to US national security. Maybe we should throw them in Guantanamo.

[Guest trancepriest]

I'm thinking this nation couldn't be so stupid. So the only reason I can come up with for arming different groups at the same time is to continue the military industrial complex... to create new enemies and warring parties. Take the touting of the success in Anbar province... it sounds good to most americans... in reality we are turning a blind eye to sunni's ethnic cleansing of the entire area. They are pushing out shiites in the hundreds of thousands. But then again most americans do not watch independent news sources so they don't get this type of news. They don't know the demographics of the area. They don't know that al Qaeda is a Sunni organization. Just like they didn't know that taking out Saddam would just make Iran more powerful by default. Our intelligence services cannot be so stupid... at some point this is planned.

After we take out Iran... which country will benefit by default? Pakistan... Saudi Arabia? Then we'll make enemies of our "friends". Just like Saddam Hussein was our "friend". Look at the pattern ladies and gentlemen. The strategy we have in the Middle East is pleasing to al Qaeda and organization with its leaders hiding out in Pakistan and receiving funding from Saudi Arabia.