Head's Up - HR Bill 282 ----- Regime Change in Iran.....It's Here.

[cthrumatrix]

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 282
To hold the current regime in Iran accountable for its threatening behavior and to support a transition to democracy in Iran.

A BILL
To hold the current regime in Iran accountable for its threatening behavior and to support a transition to democracy in Iran.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Iran Freedom Support Act'.

SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Short title.

Sec. 2. Table of contents.

TITLE I--CODIFICATION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN

Sec. 101. Codification of sanctions.

TITLE II--AMENDMENTS TO THE IRAN AND LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT OF 1996

Sec. 201. Multilateral regime.

Sec. 202. Imposition of sanctions.

Sec. 203. Termination of sanctions.

Sec. 204. Sunset.

Sec. 205. Clarification and expansion of definitions.


http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h282ih.txt.pdf

Yahoo Story Today
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Bush seeks regime change in Iran, but his route is unclear, experts say


WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) has been actively behind "regime change" for Iran but the route to that end has yet to be defined and the perils are great, US experts said.


Bush and his top aides have turned up the volume in their verbal attacks on the Islamic republic, calling it an "outpost of tyranny" and one of the principal backers of international terror, on its way to developing a nuclear weapon.


It was three years ago that Bush plotted Iran on an "axis of evil," alongside North Korea (news - web sites) and Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Iraq (news - web sites).


US officials shy away from pronouncing "regime change," a controversial phrase on the international scene, but their intentions are clear, analysts said.


"I have no doubt the president and his closest advisers believe that the way both to solve the nuclear problem but also to deal with terrorism and improve the lives of the Iranian people is regime change," said George Perkovich, an Iran specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank.

snip

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&u=/afp/20050208/pl_afp/usirannuclear_050208143518&printer=1

Look like its not to far away.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Typo in your title?

[tanyev]

2. Pssst.

Fix your title and the thread will make more sense.

:hi:

[caligirl]

3. You said Iraq! Did you want to say IRAN? edit?

[cthrumatrix]

4. thank you...done

[atreides1]

5. Could This Be Equivilant....

...to a declaration of war. The US Congress is basically telling Iran that the US will force change, if it's not done willingly.

If that's the understanding that Iran gets out of this, then under
international law, wouldn't Iran have the right to launch an attack
against the US, because it sees the US as a threat to its existence?

[spanone]

7. ...and congress will once again do the presidents bidding.

carte blanche to war....

[caligirl]

12. Nancy Pelosi is taking comments on this very new bill, phone

Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[cthrumatrix]

18. This who makes up the Committee on the Present Danger (Perle is in)

Ken Adelman, former executive committee member
Richard V. Allen, former executive committee member
Martin Anderson, former member
Midge Decter, former member
John S. Foster, Jr., former member
Amoretta M. Hoeber, former board member
Rachelle Horowitz, former member
Fred C. Iklé, former member
Max M. Kampelman, former member
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former member
Charles Kupperman, former executive committee member
John F. Lehman, former member
Richard Perle, former member
Richard Pipes, former executive committee member
Norman Podhoretz, former associate
Richard Mellon Scaife, former funder
William Schneider, Jr., former executive committee member
George P. Shultz, former member
William R. Van Cleave, former executive committee member

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/cpd.php

[Inland]

6. I get nothing with the Thomas link....

not a 404 Not Found, but literally a blank page.

[spanone]

9. It's a blank check from Congress to the idiot son of an asshole.

[Lizardking]

19. Idiot Son of an Asshole

link to the next #1 hit in amerika
ericblumrich.com/idiot.html

[Inland]

21. HAH! You explained it perfectly.

Besides, no matter what the language is, the new AG says that Bush's ;power as commander in chief allows him to secretly disobey statutes anyway.

[cthrumatrix]

15. updated link...for it to be a PDF file...thanks

[Colorado Blue]

8. Have we lost our freakin' MINDS????? n/t

[Walt Starr]

10. :::sniff sniff::: smells like a precursor to war to me!

And damned if it doesn't beg Iran to make a pre-emptive strike!

Problem is, If I was running Iran, my pre-emptive strike would be against Israel and U.S. forces in Iraq simultaneously.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Rate this Yahoo! story a 5!!!

:kick:

"Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have not ruled out the use of force, not only to potentially destroy Iran's nuclear sites, but also to weaken the regime."

[cthrumatrix]

17. Sponsored by "The Committee on the Present Danger"

The Committee on the Present Danger, a group of Washington heavyweights, including former Republican secretary of state George Shultz and former Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman, have released a document saying, "We recommend a peaceful but forceful strategy to engage the Iranian people to remove the threat and establish a strong relationship, which is in both nations' and the regions's interests."

same yahoo link


note Liberman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Swamp Rat]

20. Yes... Lieberman. Now we know why Dumbya kissed him.

[caligirl]

13. Senator Harry Reid phone and fax info

Phone: [phone] / Fax: [phone]
Toll Free for Nevadans: 1-866-SEN-REID (736-7343) -Restricted to calls originating from area codes 775 and 702-

[caligirl]

14. Senator Boxer's phone numbers

Washington D.C.
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
[phone]

Sacramento
501 I Street, Suite 7-600
Sacramento, CA 95814
[phone]
[phone] fax

San Francisco
1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240
San Francisco, CA 94111
[phone]
[phone] fax

Los Angeles
312 N. Spring Street, Suite 1748
Los Angeles, CA 90012
[phone]
[phone] fax

Fresno
1130 O Street, Suite 2450
Fresno, CA 93721
[phone]
[phone] fax

San Diego
600 B Street, Suite 2240
San Diego, CA 92101
[phone]
[phone] fax

Inland Empire
201 North E Street, Suite 210
San Bernardino, CA 92401
[phone]
[phone] fa

[caligirl]

16. Reids office asked that we call Boxer and Feinstein's office too.

Senator Feinstein

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
TTY/TDD: [phone]

San Francisco, CA 94104
415/393-0707
TTY/TDD: 415/249-4785

The following list is of counties served by the San Francisco office:

Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, Yuba.

For more information, visit Cityspan - City and County of San Francisco Official Web Site or visit SF Yahoo.

LOS ANGELES
Guillermo Gonzalez, Deputy State Director
11111 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310/914-7300

The following list is of counties served by the Los Angeles office:

Los Angeles, North Orange County, Santa Barbara, Ventura.

For more information, visit the City of Los Angeles or visit LA Yahoo.

SAN DIEGO
James Peterson, District Director
750 "B" Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
619/231-9712

The following list is of counties served by the San Diego office:

South Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial and San Diego.

For more information, visit the City of San Diego Homepage.

FRESNO
Shelly Abajian
1130 "O" Street, Suite 2446
Fresno, CA 93721
559/485-7430

The following list is of counties served by the Fresno office:

Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne.

[cthrumatrix]

22. these people have the balls to draft this BS.....marketing for war

never stops

[cthrumatrix]

23. it ties in with the Iran Oil Exchange (in Euros) Opening next month

funny how that works

[LSK]

24. what threatening behavior?????????????????

Please tell me this is all a nightmare and I will wake up and Clinton will still be Pres.

[txaslftist]

25. They are threatening to put their oil reserves in Euros...

...instead of dollars. That's the 'imminent threat'.