Chicago Daily Observer

A potentially dangerous anti-Iran resolution is flying through Congress on the wings of some of our best-known doves. By the time you read this it may already have passed one or the other house with the all-out support of scores of liberals and progressives including Florida’s Robert Wexler, California’s Henry Waxman and the representative of the district next to where I live in Chicago, Jan Schakowsky.

Known as Concurrent Resolution 362, the nonbinding resolution expresses “the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony…”

The big problem is that a key clause can readily be interpreted as urging a naval blockade of the country, likely in the Hormuz Straits, which would be seen by most of the world as an act of war.

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Can You Imagine if Hillary Were President Now What the Media Would be Blasting? Then Consider if Bush is Getting a Media Break…and Get This! The Economy is Starting to Expand Now Thanks to Hillary Who Got Us Out of the Bush Slump!

Hillary the Wonder-Worker! *

Do you know that if Hillary Clinton were president today she would be on the fast track to immortality…regarded as one of the greatest of the presidents-exceeding her husband, exceeding Ronald Reagan? Look at the figures and tell me if having a feisty woman president doesn’t revolutionize things. Why with the fiscal year 2007 that ended September 30, the federal budget deficit that she inherited from that awful George W. Bush has FALLEN BY 35%! It is now $161 billion…an amazing change which means that trust a woman with shrewd fiscal sense to impose a discipline that has been sorely lacking under ... Read More...