[PAA-Discuss] Pelosi Spiked Iran Bill

[Rick _lux]

Ron Paul Claims Pelosi Spiked Iran Bill
  
    http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/paul_pelosi_AIPAC/2008/06/18/105652.html

      
        
        
          Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:07 PM

By: Rick 
            Pedraza 
          

  
    

      
      Representative Ron Paul says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed a 
      section from a bill passed by Congress which would have barred the U.S. 
      from going to war with Iran without a congressional vote, claiming she did 
      so at the behest of the leadership of Israel and AIPAC. 
      Paul, a former Republican presidential contender who formally removed 
      himself from the party’s nomination race last week, makes the allegation 
      on C-SPAN during a recently held foreign policy conference in Virginia. 
      
      Paul says Pelosi’s first act as House Speaker in 2006 was to 
      “deliberately” remove a portion of a legislative spending bill which said 
      the United States “can't go to war with Iran without getting approval from 
      Congress.” 
      According to Paul, Pelosi and her allies in the chamber's Democratic 
      leadership initially accepted the bill designed to outline an Iraq exit 
      strategy, but during a revision of the legislation excluded the statement 
      regarding the need for congressional approval of any military assault on 
      the neighboring country of Iran. 
      “She [Pelosi] removed it deliberately,” Paul says. “And then, the 
      astounding thing is, when asked why, she said the leadership in Israel 
      asked her to. That was in the newspaper, that was in 'The Washington 
      Post,' that she was asked by AIPAC and others not to do that." 
      Paul implies Pelosi, desperate to advance her flawed spending 
      legislation, bargained away the proposal that would have been the House 
      leadership's primary vehicle for challenging the administration's policies 
      in the region. 
      According to John Nichols, who covered the story about Pelosi’s 
      capitulation at the time for “The Nation,” Pelosi was "under pressure from 
      some conservative members of her caucus, and from lobbyists associated 
      with neoconservative groups that want war with Iran, and the American 
      Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).” 
      Paul's allegation is corroborated by 'The Asia Times', which in another 
      article published at the time says AIPAC was strongly against attaching "a 
      provision to a Pentagon spending bill that would require President Bush to 
      get congressional approval before attacking Iran. AIPAC was strongly 
      against it because it viewed the legislation as taking the military option 
      'off the table.' The provision was killed." 
      The article also cites Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, as saying 
      [Pelosi's] decision was due to AIPAC. 
      

      
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