Lawmakers move to restrain Bush on Iran/

[Dover]

Feb 3, 2007

Lawmakers move to restrain Bush on Iran
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - Increasingly concerned about the escalating rhetoric against Iran by senior US officials, including President George W Bush, members of Congress are trying to put limits on his ability to attack the Islamic Republic.

Their efforts so far have primarily taken the form of what one lobbyist refers to as "resoliferation" - that is, the proliferation of a number of mostly non-binding resolutions - in both the House of Representatives and Senate - asserting that Bush must seek Congress' approval before any attack on Iran or any of Iraq's other neighbors.

The latest resolution, introduced on Wednesday by a group of five House Democrats, declares that it is the policy of the United States not to enter a preemptive war with Iran and bans the expenditure of congressionally appropriated funds for covert actions designed to achieve regime change or to carry out any military actions against Tehran in the absence of an imminent threat.

Several influential senators have also posed pointed questions to the administration about whether it believes it has the constitutional authority to carry out military action against Iran without Congress' approval...cont'd

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB03Ak01.html

[pretzel4gore]

1. kick, whatever.

as the issue is stopping 'geeb' (bro of 'jeb' as junyer bush is known in certain shallow circles) might we think there'd be more response(?)