"Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) last night opted to back away from her pledge to have President Bush gain Congress' approval first before authorizing any military activities on Iran. "
Congress is supposed to be the main barrier to deviations and abuses of power by the Executive branch. It is supposed to be "people's check" on those who hold power. At least, that's how the founders of the United States perceived it to be.
Unfortunately, the two main political parties in the US have made a joke out of all these democratic principles and constitutional mechanisms for the sake of special interests and politics. They seem to have burrowed into the root of Amercia to chew it away up to the branches.
They're doing more harm to the USA than any terrorist could ever dream of.
" Iran does not deny the Holocaust, the president does not deny the Holocaust. We believe that that was a genocide. It must be condemned and it must not happen again. It should not happen again to Jewish people nor should it happen again to any other group that have been subjected to systematic violations of their human rights. And that is the issue that Iran has been pursuing. Unfortunately, some people have tried to create public sentiments about a simple question that Palestinians had nothing to do with Holocaust."
Iran's Ambassador to the U.N - Feb.9 /2007
"Iran, has no interest in providing weapons to any insurgents groups in Iraq. But the problem is that the United States has decided on a policy and is trying to find or fabricate evidence if it cannot find one — and I believe it hasn't been able to find an evidence – in order to substantiate and corroborate that policy. And that seems to be at the bottom of this problem, and it's an alarming problem because if you're looking for a crisis, then you're certainly not looking for solutions."
