Kucinich to lead Iran briefing on Wednesday

[eridani]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/10/1355226

On Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich is leading a briefing on Wednesday on whether the Bush administration is ramping up for a war against Iran. Among the experts testifying are former UN nuclear weapons inspector David Kay and retired Air Force colonel Sam Gardiner. Gardiner has said evidence exists that the United States is already conducting covert military operations inside Iran. Time Magazine recently reported the aircraft carrier Eisenhower has been deployed to the Persian Gulf. In a recent campaign fundraising letter, Congressman Kucinich warned “The Bush Administration is preparing for war against Iran, using an almost identical drumbeat of weapons of mass destruction, imminent threat, alleged links to Al Queda, and even linking Iran with a future 911.”

[Greeby]

1. Contact C-span and tell them to cover this

email at: [email protected]

[eridani]

4. Just did.

Thanks for the handy link.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Call the media . . . . oh yeah, I forgot . . . n/t

[chill_wind]

3. Thank you for this heads up!- Needs K&R's.!

Here's one from me.

[bunny planet]

5. K and R, this is so important.

It also seems to violate the Constitution.
Call your Senators!!!!!

[AllexxisF1]

6. DUDE THIS IS SERIOUSLY IMPORTANT!!!111

Peoples we need to get the word out and damn quick about the Eisenhower moving into the region by the 21st. Here is a link to the Nation which describes the above mentioned author. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff

I have said it for months! the only way these clowns could ever get their numbers up would be to either start a major conflict or another 9-11 type attack. This monster is actually considering starting a damn world war right before elections.

I will tell you this, the Eisenhower has been in dry dock for over three years, watch them rig this boat will all hands aboard to "be sunk" and kill all 3000+ aboard to rally the cause for war and make like Iran did it. Why bother taking the oldest ship in the fleet that has basicly been moth balled for this major offensive. Something stinks and WE SERIOUSLY NEED TO GET THIS MESSAGE OUT. CALL CNN. CALL C-SPAN GET THE BLOODY WORD OUT!!!!

[bunny planet]

7. This is why Hastert won't resign, they want to drag this out until

they attack Iran and then all bets are off, nobody will be talking about Foleygate or pages then. We will all be fucked.

K and R, K and R, K and R.
For awhile I didn't think they'd do it because I thought the military wouldn't go along with it but now I'm not so sure.
:scared:
They are desperate.
The Eisenhower carrier going into the region could be the perfect sitting duck and a cassus belli if it's sunk.
Think about it, they will do just about anything. Who will stop them.
Call your Senators and Congress people.

[chill_wind]

8. H.C.R. 391 Iran- Raise the roof on Congress for its inaction!

"Sense of Congress" Resolution. About the bill.

"(...) to express the sense of Congress that the President cannot initiate military action against Iran without congressional authorization."

As far as I can tell, has been laying around since April 2006.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2334957

more from when it was introduced in April: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/9930

Contact your reps about it.
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=20647

[bamacrat]

9. Hope Dennis gives it to them.

Our future president, Well in a perfect world.

[reprobate]

10. Wonder what the reaction will be when the Ike is sunk with all hands

by a Sunburn missle, for which we reportedly have zero defense?

Will the sheep that make up the American public demand the destruction of Iran, along with the world war that will bring?

Or will the Citizens finally blame something on Bush? Oh, do we live in interesting times, to remember the old chinese curse.

[PurityOfEssence]

"Pre-emptive retaliation": the best line from the Vietnam mess

We KNOW they're going to hit us, so by hitting them first, it's self-defense.

The sad thing about all this is that the Iranian Government IS an ugly and crazy bunch of godsucking powermongers all riled up against Israel and the U.S.

This is the clever part of the conservative maneuverings: make us so hated among the rest of the world that we have to stand with the reactionaries out of mere self-preservation.

Do YOU have a solution to the Iraq mess? I don't.

[PurityOfEssence]

11. "Pre-emptive retaliation": the best line from the Vietnam mess

We KNOW they're going to hit us, so by hitting them first, it's self-defense.

The sad thing about all this is that the Iranian Government IS an ugly and crazy bunch of godsucking powermongers all riled up against Israel and the U.S.

This is the clever part of the conservative maneuverings: make us so hated among the rest of the world that we have to stand with the reactionaries out of mere self-preservation.

Do YOU have a solution to the Iraq mess? I don't.

[Zorra]

12. Rep. Kucinich before the invasion of Iraq, Nov. 2002:

The Bloodstained Path
by U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, November 2002

(Originally Published in The Progressive)

Unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq is unjustified, unwarranted, and illegal. The Administration has failed to make the case that Iraq poses an imminent threat to the United States. There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to 9/11. There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda. Nor is there any credible evidence that Iraq possesses deliverable weapons of mass destruction, or that it intends to deliver them against the United States.

(more...much more)

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Bloodstained_Path.html

Everyone needs to listen to Dennis Kucinich and make a united front to make sure that we stop the fascists from invading another country that is no threat to us. DK knows exactly what is going on and the whole world needs to pay attention to him and then band together to stop Bu*h and the PNAC from destroying our country and our planet.

[chill_wind]

13. Who, When & Where

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 10am
2154 Rayburn House Office Building

With:
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH)

Dr. David Kay, Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Former IAEA/UNSCOM Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector Colonel

Sam Gardner (Ret.), US Air Force, National War College

Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at the Center for American Progress. Former Director of the Nonproliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dr. Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council

Alfred Cumming, Congressional Reserach Service: Specialist in Intelligence and National Security Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/1009-13.htm

[eridani]

14. Can somebody please tape this and put it on YouTube?

7AM PDT is an awfully early rising time for a swing shift worker.

[AllexxisF1]

15. Briefing is supposed to be today.

We all know that Carrier Battle Group rotations happen on a regulary scheduled intervals however this is not what is happening here.

According to sources the Enterprise will NOT be heading back anytime soon due to it's duties fighting the escalating battles against the Taliban. Moreover, the Eisenhower has been in dry dock for three years but was given order to rush the process and set sail a month+ earlier than scheduled.

This does raise some serious eye brows especially when you consider that word got out a couple of weeks ago that the Navy's specialized mine sweeper ships are ALREADY en route to Iran.

Carl Rove said that they had a major surprise for the party come October and apparently WW3 is what he is hinting at.

The reason why this story is a big deal is because the Navy Officers supposedly within the battle group leaked this story in hopes that the civilian authority within Congress would demand action in making sure the White House seeked approval from the Congress before going it alone against Iran.

Make no bones about it. With absolutely ZERO intelligence that Iran is pursuing weapons development, without consent from either the U.N. Security Council or our own Congress this President had NO RIGHT to attack another soverign nation, especially if it's only a means to secure positions of power during the next election.

[Marnieworld]

16. Welcome to DU AllexxisF1!

We knew war was coming in Iraq while they were still denying it for months. It's deja vu all over again. I have little hope that we can stop them this time either. The bright side is that the military is so overextended that they may not be able to conduct a war without troops. Their own incompetence/hubris bites them in the ass. When will this madness end?

[chill_wind]

17. So what happened to it? Anybody know? nt

[goodhue]

19. here is a news account of yesterday's event . . .

http://voanews.com/english/2006-10-12-voa47.cfm

[Zorra]

18. kick