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

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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.

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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.

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1. both links come up no bueno

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3. try this link instead

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-282

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4. thanks..I updated as well. I just called Reid's office... the bill is not

out of committee yet.

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2. Thomas link to bill

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:1:./temp/~c109Uye6hi::

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5. Note that LIBERMAN is in "this group" (Present Danger Committee)

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."

above yahoo link

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6. Relax

If we even try the Chinese will dump our bonds and that will be that. Bankrupt countries can't afford adventures.

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8. our only ammunition plant in Independence Mo...incr. prod. by 4 !

Pentagon expands ammunition production to avoid shortfall

BY STEPHEN J. HEDGES

Chicago Tribune


WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The pace of training and combat required of U.S. troops in Iraq is prompting the Army to quadruple its production of small-arms ammunition compared with prewar levels, a move intended to stave off an ammunition shortage like the one the Pentagon faced last summer.

The Army within months will award manufacturing contracts for ammunition used in its M-16 and M-4 rifles and .50-caliber guns. Since shortly after the Vietnam War, that ammunition has been made at only one location in the United States, the sprawling Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo.

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/10837637.htm?1c

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7. This just bites! Look at the list of sponsors!

Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. BACHUS, Ms. BERKLEY, Mrs. BIGGERT, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CHANDLER, Mr. COX, Mr. CROWLEY, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin, Ms. HARRIS, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois, Mr. KIRK, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. MICA, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. NADLER, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. NUNES, Mr. PENCE, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. PORTER, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. TANCREDO, Mr. WELLER, Mr. WEXLER, and Mr. WILSON of South Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

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9. get your war lies ready...becuase they are loaded with them.