Press "black-out" on Iran Blockade plan

I'm not sure why you have concluded that Sen Obama and Rep Pelosi support this bill. I don't see them listed on the list of co-sponsors here -- http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HC00362:@@@P.

I would be very surprised if either of them supports the sanctions on Iraq.

Jaimie Scott
Sacramento, CA

"I would be very surprised if either of them supports the sanctions on Iraq."

1) There is a 2/3 majority in both the house and the senate and the democrats control both. The elected leaders of their party are Nancy Pelosi and Barrack Hussein Obama... ergo, whether they endorse the resolution directly or through proxy, they cannot claim ignorance or impotence to any but the naive (absolutely no offense meant).

2) Let's assume for a moment that they are strongly anti-war.. my latin is rusty but, qui tacet consentire! "he who is silent is taken to agree". Ron Paul for example strongly disagrees and is probably the only reason any of us even know about this. It's not like Pelosi and Obama don't have opportunities to talk to the press!

3) A staffer in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office told Chelsea Mozen of the nonprofit Just Foreign Policy. it's bound to "pass like a hot knife through butter" . That seems fairly direct!

House Resoluton 362 is wrong.

Why should we oppose Iran obtaining nuclear weapons?

Why should we oppose any nation obtaining nuclear weapons?

Not only is it a violation of those nations right to develop their military,,, it is futile to do so.

Stopping the spread of Nuclear Weapons is like stopping the spread of any technology.The Internet is a good example. Sooner or later everyone is going to have access. This is a good thing. This is progress.

Mutually assured destruction kept the peace between the United States and the Soviet Union for decades. Mutually assured destruction made war obsolete because it made war unthinkable.

In the future, any conflict, anywhere on Earth will be able to become a nuclear inferno. Humanity will have no choice but to work towards peaceful compromise on every issue. Reason shall prevail as it has always done.

Imagine how much safer and peaceful our world shall become once everyone who wants an atomic bomb is able to have one.

When the CONTEXT of state nuclear development is an elected leader of a country declares his intent to destroy a fellow member of the United Nations, common sense will reign of INSANE flower-children like yourself my friend. It must and it will.

MAD requires a basic respect for life. Terrorists lack that fundamental (no pun) ingredient. Today, I don't trust democrats with the bomb. More than one has stated that the way to avert the global warming "crisis" is to depopulate.

Bob is in a daze.

"Imagine how much safer and peaceful our world shall become once everyone who wants an atomic bomb is able to have one."

Apple introduces it's new i-nuke today amid great reviews. Customers waited in line for 2 days to be the first to get the new , sleeker, faster technology. App designers are pleased because the platform makes 3rd party launch codes a breeze to install. Apple has done it again.

KenUSA, thank you for the vote of sanity! While it still amazes me that there is no talk of R.362 ANYWHERE in the mainstream press, a few intelligent threads are are developing and are sure to pressure the press for coverage. I just hate it when Congress gives Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more credit for perception than the American people. He must be stopped but it must be a conscious act our country's Will.

Are you on something? Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons???? Well, Duh; could it be because they want to destroy Israel, the USA and anybody else that might not suit them: that their current president is a homocidal maniac? Again...are you nuts?

I was not aware of resolution 362. I'll have to do some researching and thinking to form an opinion on it.
In the meantime, I think poor ole' Bob needs to be locked up.

I was so blown away by Bob the boob's comments that I forgot to comment on your post. It was very informative and well stated. When my head stops spinning, I'll read it again and do a little research.

Thanks for your own research and sharing it. Keep up the good work.

Bob and the other flower children from the sixties, anxiously dusting off their pastel colored VW vans are a distinct minority here in the United States, thank God! North Korea is the perfect example that the super-powers will not tolerate rogue states going nuclear, Pakistan being the exception... one that was inevitable given their stand-off with India.

Perhaps these people (like Bob) people take Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's talk as sheer bravismo or rhetoric, but tens of thousands of centifuges give his talk meat.

And for those of you mindlessly thinking that Fox News and CNN keep you in thee loop (setting aside the silence on resolution 362 for a second), how is it that the current coverage of the new talks in which the U.S. is actually participating, is being given such a positive and hopeful spin? Walstreet LOVES the idea of easing tension and oil futures eased accordingly. I actually READ thee Associated Press postings though. Here's the wonderful new update guys! You may want to put a biodiesel engine in that VW along with radiation shielding and a good air filter...

-Mike Sparks

Iran says 'no' to suspending enrichment (Associated Press) - July 19th, 2008


An Iranian official says his country will refuse requests to freeze its uranium enrichment program in exchange for a pledge of no new U.N. Security Council sanctions.

Keyvan Imani's comments cast doubt on the success of talks between senior envoys from Iran and the six countries trying to persuade it
to compromise on its nuclear program.

The six nations hope Iran will agree to stop expanding its uranium enrichment program. In exchange, they offer to hold off pushing for
new U.N. Security Council sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

But Imani, speaking to reporters shortly after the talks began Saturday, said there was no chance Iran would suspend.
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Associated Press Writer Bradley S. Klapper contributed to this report from Geneva.

We're up to 261 cosponsors!

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