Re: Israel macht US-Gesetze

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| *Ron* *Paul* *Claims* *Pelosi* *Spiked* *Iran* *Bill*
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| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:07 PM
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| By: Rick Pedraza
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| Representative Ron Paul says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed a section
| from a bill passed by Congress which would have barred the U.S. from going
| to war with Iran without a congressional vote, claiming she did so at the
| behest of the leadership of Israel and AIPAC.
| Paul, a former Republican presidential contender who formally removed
| himself from the party’s nomination race last week, makes the allegation
| on C-SPAN during a recently held foreign policy conference in Virginia.
| Paul says Pelosi’s first act as House Speaker in 2006 was
| to “deliberately” remove a portion of a legislative spending bill which
| said the United States “can't go to war with Iran without getting approval
| from Congress.”
| According to Paul, Pelosi and her allies in the chamber's Democratic
| leadership initially accepted the bill designed to outline an Iraq exit
| strategy, but during a revision of the legislation excluded the statement
| regarding the need for congressional approval of any military assault on
| the neighboring country of Iran.
| “She [Pelosi] removed it deliberately,” Paul says. “And then, the
| astounding thing is, when asked why, she said the leadership in Israel
| asked her to. That was in the newspaper, that was in 'The Washington
| Post,' that she was asked by AIPAC and others not to do that."
| Paul implies Pelosi, desperate to advance her flawed spending legislation,
| bargained away the proposal that would have been the House leadership's
| primary vehicle for challenging the administration's policies in the
| region.
| According to John Nichols, who covered the story about Pelosi’s
| capitulation at the time for “The Nation,” Pelosi was "under pressure from
| some conservative members of her caucus, and from lobbyists associated
| with neoconservative groups that want war with Iran, and the American
| Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).”
| Paul's allegation is corroborated by 'The Asia Times', which in another
| article published at the time says AIPAC was strongly against attaching "a
| provision to a Pentagon spending bill that would require President Bush to
| get congressional approval before attacking Iran. AIPAC was strongly
| against it because it viewed the legislation as taking the military
| option 'off the table.' The provision was killed."
| The article also cites Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, as saying
| [Pelosi's] decision was due to AIPAC.
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