[Peace-discuss] Senator Rand Paul Calls the Question on War with Iran

[C. G. Estabrook]

Absolutely. Since we've recently heard our senior senator lie about  
Iran to a local peace group, we should write him now about the matter.

With our junior senator incapacitated - and the local representative a  
sure vote against war - it's Durbin whom we should be pressuring.


On Mar 28, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:

> Before we have a war with Iran, shouldn't the Senate and the House
> have at least one debate and vote on it? Isn't that what the
> Constitution demands? Isn't that what is demanded by the War Powers
> Resolution (which, despite its name, is binding law)?
>
> If you agree to the principle that Congress should debate and vote on
> a war with Iran before any such war takes place (which also happens to
> be the Constitution and the law), when do you think a good time would
> be for the Senate and the House to start taking up the question?
>
> Should we wait until after there is further escalation? Should we wait
> until after some real or invented Persian Gulf of Tonkin incident,
> when Members of Congress can be steamrolled by cable news and
> right-wing talk radio? Or should we start having the debate now, when
> rational argument still has a chance, so that Members of Congress will
> be forced to choose sides between American generals, who oppose war
> with Iran, and the Israeli Prime Minister, who wants war with Iran?
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/senator-rand-paul-calls-t_b_1386042.html
>
>
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> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
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