Jim Webb saw it correctly. The Israel lobby is in full battle mode.

The similarities between Joseph Lieberman and Senator Palpatine have gone way beyond the physical resemblance.

Well, you might just as well go fishing or work in the garden until HS comes to take you away. Our alleged representatives just gave the "Unitary Executive" carte blanche to strike Iran as they did Iraq. Don't you think Cheney/Bush will use that to start a new nuclear holocaust?

"Write letters, make phone calls, let your representatives know how concerned you are." Yeah, right, they need a good laugh.

Congress had a chance to inject a little sanity into this government, but it blew it big time and millions are going to suffer and die because of it.

God, every day is like reading another chapter from "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," but from the inside.

As Pete Seeger sang in another war, "When will they ever learn?"

Everyday our nation and the world is led closer and closer to the abyss, by the lunatics in charge.

Believe it or not, all of this extreme foolishness will pass. What? Why? How?
http://www.Share-international.org

You're encouraged to refrain from making the (all too common and understandable) mistake of assuming too much if/when you go there.

here's the nays

Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feingold (D-WI)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

where's your vote mr obama.

I'll post this again:

Naughty Democrats who voted FOR this amendment:

Akaka (HI)
Baucus (MT)
Bayh (IN)
Cardin (MD)
Carper (DE)
Casey (PA)
Clinton (NY)
Conrad (ND)
Dorgan (ND)
Durbin (IL)
Feinstein (CA)
Harkin (IA)
Johnson (SD)
Kohl (WI)
Landrieu (LA)
Lautenberg (NJ)
Levin (MI)
Menendez (NJ)
Mikulski (MD)
Murray (WA)
Nelson (FL)
Nelson (NE)
Pryor (AR)
Reed (RI)
Reid (NV)
Rockefeller (WV)
Salazar (CO)
Schumer (NY)
Stabenow (MI)
Whitehorse (RI)
_____
_____

Note:

Sanders, the Independent from Vermont, voted NAY.
_____

Republicans who voted NAY:

Hagel (NE)
Lugar (IN)
_____

Not voting:

McCain (R- AZ)
Obama (D - IL)
_____

Please thank those on the above post: the 19 Democrats, the Independent, and the two gutsy Republicans who broke with party lines and will pay for it!

As for the Dems on this list of shame: what do we do with them?

Where was CommonDreams on this one YESTERDAY?

Where was the headline article exposing what was going on and urging people to contact their Senators demanding they vote No?

Where were all the people who will be posting here to express their "disgust" with "the Democrats" (despite the fact that nearly all the Republicans voted Yes and half of Dems voted No)? Did they express themselves before the vote?

Where were they in the last election cycle?

Some of them will probably want to declare their innocence, "I'm Green (or whatever), I have nothing to do with the corrupt corporate state." Except that they live in it, work for it, and feed off it every day of their lives.

This is my country. This is my country on war and militarism.

This is the LEFT of my country. Whining, narcissistic, feckless, demoralized, prey to millenarian cults and demagogues with get-powerful-quick schemes.

None of us is Green, none of us is clean. We are Red, White and Blue through and through, and the shame falls on all of us.

Bush and Cheney will certainly spin this into a war somehow. Here we go again. How sick.

VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE. THE DISEASE HAS INFECTED THEM ALL!

Utterly relevant. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWGa9ViY7G8

Have fun. At least until the Blackwater Blackshirts come for you...

I've always liked the subliminals in the selection of imagery accompanying many CD articles. Clearly, the photo of Liebermann is evocative of an American foreign policy driven 101% by m.i.c. + energy + (in his case) AIPAC.

So as a rejoinder to Nader2000's post here, this really isn't the US at war, per se. It's the m.i.c. and energy industry at the bank, and AIPAC at the something-or-other.

Who's in charge of who is the question.

My state has no Republican Senators, so this comment only applies to the Democrats.

I have been emailing both Senators for years. Recent responses from them have been in a pro-forma email message that appears to have been furnished by the Democratic Party National Committee. The tone of the message leads me to believe that they are dialed into "central control" and not interested in input from constituents.

jerbo

It's right where you should expect it to be: with the rest of the war-mongers'.

LIEberman should just move to Israel and get a job in the Kennesset. It is now very apparent that the Democrats in the Senate are only interested in saving themselves - as in making sure they get money from AIPAC and other lobbyist groups so they can keep their cushy jobs. Any notion that the people who keep voting for these inane bills have the best interests of US citizens at heart is nonsense. If we have the elections next year (which I fear may not happen due to another "terrorist" attack like 9/11), we should vote for ANYBODY who is not a part of the current political structure.

Why can I hear 'The Star Spangled Banner' segueing to 'Deutchland Uber Alles'? What is that LOUD drumming in the background?

As if being lied and arm-twisted into Iraq didn't give these dimwits any perspective on Iran at all. I'll wager that Iran isn't 1/100000 the threat to the safety of the world that the United States of America is.
I feel angry at us and sad for the world.

oh gee, my spineless asshole Senator from Florida voted for this, so surprising.
andersdl, you are correct, I've emailed many, many times and always get the standard brush off replies...

Joe Lieberman, the senator from Tel Aviv, is going to get us into war with Iran if he possibly can. What is wrong with him?

How sad. I guess Americans will have to get used to having less petroleum and natural gas. Rather than go to war with Iran for supposedly attacking U.S. soldiers and for making money by selling weapons (a minor version of what the USA does in other countries), would it be better if the USA leaves Iraq? Would leaving iraq save lives and be cheaper and have the added benefit of saving face for the American people? I am curious.

How can the USA invade Iran anyhow? What does the USA want from the Iranians? Their extermination perhaps? I mean...who do you think you are to be judge jury and executioner of the world? I do not understand the rationale for the USA invading Iran, the goals of such an invasion, how to go about an invasion of a nation with more than 70 million people, and dropping nuclear bombs on them for doing what is within the right of Iran to do. 70 million people is many people Americans - think about how many people that is! It would not be feasible to invade them. The deaths of a USA invasion of Iran with even half of the total military power of the USA would rival any time in World History - especially if the USA nukes Iran, which probably they will do. How else can the USA be victorious from such an insane adventure? I believe that most nations on Earth, excluding your nation, would rather risk the consequences of Iran having nuclear energy than these same nations supporting the nuclear destruction of Iran.

MIRF59, I am very pleased at your comment. I was beginning to think I am the only one here who recognizes what Star Wars really is. You have renewed my faith in the art of critical thinking - thank you. Now, how do we inspire others to "get it"?

"It is clear to me now that the Republic no longer functions" - Queen Amidala

Ken
Medford, MA

nader2000--Cut out the guilt trip, man, it's not helping either...and certainly misplaced on those of us who have fought the war machine, the military industrial complex with all we have at our fingertips and with our minds and bodies...
Put the blame where it belongs with the willfully ignorant and the powers that be that so greedily try to brainwash us...some of us are NOT guilty...just sadly, but steadfastly, dissenting refuseniks, trying to inform and convince our fellow countrymen of the folly and disgusting reality of our nation's addiction to war.
I'm sooo tired of this "we're all to blame, we're all guilty" crap. My conscience is clear on THIS matter.

Galen

Are you sure that's drumming?

Could it be the sound of many feet running for the exit?

"What does the USA want from the Iranians? Their extermination perhaps? "

That's exactly what the government officials want. Or, if not the extermination, their decimation.

Sir Melvin: There will be no invasion. A massive bombing campaign, possibly with nukes, mostly against civillian targets and infrastructure. Millions of innocent Iranians -will- die.

The Srtaights of Hormuz will be closed, Saudi Arabia will explode in an orgy of anti-western violence, the Muslim world will unite against the US, oil will CEASE to flow from the Middle East, and the world economy will come to a screaming stop. Israel will likely 'retaliate' with it's unaknowleged nuclear arsenal, right before they are swept aside by millions of enraged Muslims howling for blood.

Heck of a job, Bushie.

"This proposal … is Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream"

Shouldnt that read wet dream. This sick fuck will never rest till all 'colored' people are dead or wasted. As for the Senator from Tel Aviv ... Leiberman ... that fist salute looks amazingly similar to another similar minded brother of his from the past ( Adolf something ...)

I wrote all three of my alleged representatives and phoned them in Washington asking them to please defeat this. One voted Yea and one voted Nay. Knowing my democratic Congressman, I'm sure he will vote right along with the Bushits when it comes to a vote in Congress.
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"Berlin, August 31, 1939 (morning)

"Everybody against the war. People talking openly. How can a country go into a major war with a population so dead against it? People also kicking about being kept in the dark. A German said to me last night: 'We know nothing. Why don't they tell us what's up?'

(The next page is taken up with an analysis of Hitler's demands, which Shirer had to put on the air for his newscast.)

At "0330 on September 1st" he ends his diary entry with:

"Tonight the great armies, navies and air forces are all mobilized. Each country is shut off from the other. We have not been able to get through to Paris or London, or of course to Warsaw, though I did talk with Tess in Geneva. At that, no precipitate action is expected tonight. Berlin is quite normal in appearance this evening. There has been no evacuation of the women and children, not even any sandbagging of the windows. We'll have to wait through still another night, it appears, before we know. And so to bed, almost at dawn.

"Berlin, September 1

"At six AM. Sigrid Schultz -- bless her heart -- phoned. She said, 'It's happened.' I was very sleepy -- my body and mind numbed, paralyzed. I mumbled: 'Thanks Sigrid,' and tumbled out of bed.

"The war is on!"

From Walter Shirer's Berlin Diary
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That is how war starts, by the "Leaders" with their people either against yet another war, or not believing that their particular fuehrer would actually start one. Once started, they fall in line so as not to be "unpatriotic."

Afghanistan?

Iraq?

Iran?

Tomorrow the world!!!

AIPAC wants extermination, Big Energy wants oil, the M.I.C. wants contracts. The US government is just there to please the power-brokers ....er... to represent the American people.

No wonder that the Fox News, the media of American criminals and mafia dons, has described Ahmedinejad as "international foe". Whatelse can anyone expect from an US corporate media that glorifies wars, genocides, and violence in the name of "peace, freedom and democracy". When a country boasts about its faith in "god and gun" and has a president, a House of representatives, and a corporate media that overwhelmingly perpetuate such "faith", what else comes out of such culture and society.

I just told my lady in Michigan to pack her bags...

Of course there are Iranian weapons found in Iraq. Are they being used by insurgents? Do the insurgents even know of their existence? Or are we (the U.S. buying Iranian weapons bringing them to iran so that, oh lo and behold, we now have a reason for war with Iran.

How fucking quickly these Senators forget how they were duped into the last two wars.

Bush & Co. are seeing their time in power running out, thus the urgency to further their agenda in the middle east while they can still taxpayer subsidize it.

It is my guess that a huge majority of the weapons being used by the insurgents, have been produced and sold by the good ole USofA. Or perhaps they are some of the several billions of dollars worth of "lost" weapons, the pentagon has been asking us to reimburse them for.

This story is VERY frightening.

"Our colleague has given the darkest possible interpretation … There is no intention of declaring war," Lieberman said."

The USA didn't declare war on Iraq either, or Vietnam, or Grenada, or Panama, or Chile....

People like Lyin' Leiberman give all Jewish people a bad name.

Remeber this gem from last week's Pretraus haring..."I want to go to Iran"Senator Leiberman

or this one " I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," Lieberman said. "And to me, that would include a strike … over the border into Iran"

Bush is going to surpass Hilter for the number of dead on his hands before the end of 2008.

What is with chickenshit Obama?

I thought he opposed war?

what was the difference between the Dems and GOP again?

fuck Hillary Clinton, the warmongering biotch. she just precluded herself from holding the office of President.

A little poem I wrote short time ago:

Babe, it's time to go.

Everthing we're gonna need is packed,
The car's out front, and we have enough gas,
almost, to get us away from here.

I know it's hard,
Leaving our life, all that we''ve known.
But it's over. Dreams end, and kids grow up

Babe, it's time to go.

I can hear the boots in the street.
Coming for those who won't bow their necks,
to the inevitable.

We can't stay.
We have freinds who will help,
Help us start over, just as we will help them.

Babe, it's time to go.

Take only what you need,
Leave the rest. Maybe we will come back for it.
Maybe it will be of use to someone else.

Leave the CDs. We can't play them any more.
No, wait. Bring them.
We can use them to keep crows from our corn.

Babe, it's time to go.

Please don't cry.
We have each other.
We're all we have left of the old world.

But we will give our kids their own world.
One with no Bomb. No pesticides.
No wars for oil. (It's all gone anyway...)

Babe, it's time to go.

Theyr'e waiting for us,
Just outside of town.
We'll build a new home, somewhere.

I dont know, somewhere safe,
With a creek nearby,
So you'll fall asleep to it's rushing waters.

Babe, please... it's time to go.

Odd how they mis-represented Lieberman in the photo above as a Democrat.

He's now officially an "Independent".

Oh, never mind. What difference does it make? Might just as well have labeled him a Republican/Fascist/Israeli.

Send him back to Israel where he belongs.

i overheard someone say it's time for a revolution

We have become a nation of blind fanatics. We shout and don't listen. The Republicans, Leiberman and his Israeli friends beat the drums for war and the press is again joining in. The Pied Piper of Hamlin is alive and well. As for the Democrats they vacillate to placate the indecisive masses. It is the Iraq fiasco all over again.

My wife deported to Germany in 1942 survived the holocaust but her father, grandparents and many relatives didn't. She detests extremists of any stripe with their simplistic rhetoric whether they be Nazi, Zionist or Bushite.

How does the human race manage to end up with such vicious and moronic leaders? Neitzeche said we are blindly looking for the elusive man god; Melville describes a crew blindly following the utterly mad Captain Ahab in search of the mythical White Whale to their destruction, and again the same story with the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The human race never learns from its mistakes.

Mearsheimer and Walt quote Tom Dine, executive director of AIPAC,
who boasted upon Sen. Percy's defeat: "All the Jews in America, from coast to
coast, gathered to oust Percy. And the American politicians - those who
hold public positions now, and those who aspire - got the message."

I'm sorry, but I've had it with the criminal, warmongering, lying cheating immoral arrogant USA.

I fell sorry for the men and women of your military, who will bear the brunt of this fiasco, but I hope IRAN kicks your fucking asses out of the Middle East.

Like a puppy that continues to crap on the carpet, you all need your collective noses smacked with the rolled up newspaper in order to relearn your proper place in the world.

You don't own the fucking planet.

Dear Americans… in other countries, people vote for politicians who will do what they want them to do. Even if they don't win, it sends a message to the other parties to change their ways. Your Democratic Party supported the attack on the people of Iraq and continues to support the occupation. Why would you think that giving them more seats in congress would change things? Surely, in a nation of 300 million people, you could find someone else to vote for.

I'm with canuckchuck - we need a good whuppin', and that is just what we're going to get. Not that the Shame List above cares what their constituents think, but let them know anyhow. I am ashamed to be a Democrat - ashamed to be American if this is how we are going to behave. The Senate should be censured, every last Democrat in it who voted for this appalling measure voted out of office - my country revolts me.

papananook--

I'm with you. I've been against Bush since the beginning. I suspected govt complicity in 9/11 from the outset. Nearly all of my energy has been devoted to fighting this administration. It's difficult to fight when they have the power of thousands of corporations behind them, and I have...about $250 and a $400/month rent with a lame job.

musicmarc--

The senators weren't duped into war last time and they aren't being duped this time. They want war just as much so the corporations that draft their monthly paychecks can give them a raise, after they gobble up all that black gold!

jlocke123--

I'm with you. Vote Green, vote Socialist, vote Labor, vote ANYTHING other than Democrat or Republican (except Libertarian...for the love of God, don't vote Libertarian).

Vote with your feet... Time to go.

"vote ANYTHING other than Democrat or Republican (except Libertarian…for the love of God, don't vote Libertarian)."

LMAO, thanks for the good laugh ARA Charleston, I'm beginning to believe the Libertarians are even more annoying than the Jehovah Witness' at dinner time. At least if you tell a Jehovah Witness you'd sooner worship the devil they leave...Oh goodness still LMAO...

Democrats = Republicans = Bush enabler
Democrats = Republicans = the war enabler party
Democrats = Republicans = Israeli agent

Only when Americans realize this and the fact that

our troops = executioner of wars of aggression = war criminals = executioner of Israeli interests = executioner of interest of the military industrial compex

will this never-ending war and the ultimate demise of our country end

But I am not holding my breath because I do not have a favorable opinion of my countrymen's ability to think clearly and rationally. Oh well.....

Canuckchuck: Hey from a fellow canuck! Nice to see we are on the same page. How would you feel about playing host to couple hundred fellow CD'ers come to roost for a while? Say...they rest of their lives?

jlocke123,

"Surely, in a nation of 300 million people, you could find someone else to vote for."

In 1992, billionaire Ross Perot won 19% of the vote. The response of the Dems & Reps was to debate only each other & to exclude all third party candidates from debates.

Those of us who voted for Ralph Nader, running on the Green ticket in 2000, have been denounced ever since by Democratic Party faithful for "electing Bush" -- though Bush was handed the election by an illegal Supreme Court decision & stole the election of 2004 outright.

Leftwing voters have been routinely attacked by Democrats for "wasting their votes" if we vote Green or Socialist -- which, in the vast majority of precincts in the United States, is impossible.

The corporate media, down to the lowest affiliates, refuse to accept advertising from any but the duopoly, even when candidates or parties can raise the funds to put on a small ad. There is no such thing as public funding or equal time. The system has been pruchased, and sa Senator Mike Gravel put it, "Congress is onwed by the military-industrial complex lock, stock, and barrel."

Clinton evidently wants war with Iran. Once again, the Dems are giving their base the finger, figuring progressives will back them to conduct the Iraq and Iran Wars as opposed to the Republicans.

And Obama. It's clear now how he would have voted if he were in the Senate when the Iraq War resolution authorizing Bush to invade Iraq came up. He would have abstained. The only time he rails against anything is when it doesn't directly impact him. He wasn't in the Senate when he spoke out against the resolution. But now we see his record when his career is on the line. Despicable would be an improvement for Obama -- AND for Hillary.