US Democrats warn Bush on Iran
Top Democrats in the US Congress have warned President George W Bush that he does not have the authority to go to war with Iran.
Washington is in dispute with Iran over its nuclear programme, and senior US officials have accused it of supplying weapons to Shia insurgents in Iraq.
The warning came ahead of a House of Representatives vote likely to condemn the recent surge of US troops in Iraq.
The Senate is due to vote on the troop plan in an unusual Saturday session.
Iran rhetoric
There has been concern recently over the president's rhetoric on Iranian activity in Iraq.
House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged Mr Bush has said he wants a diplomatic solution to the rift with Iran, saying: "I take him at his word."
There is no previous authority for the president, any president, to go into Iran
Nancy Pelosi
But she also said that Congress should assert itself "and make it very clear that there is no previous authority for the president, any president, to go into Iran".
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives is on Friday expected to vote on a non-binding resolution opposing Mr Bush's decision to send an extra 21,500 US troops to Iraq to try to restore stability.
The vote comes after days of fierce debate on the issue in what has been the first full debate in the House since the Democrats took control of Congress in November.
Double threat
The resolution states that the House "will continue to support and protect" troops in Iraq but that it "disapproves" of the troop increase.
The Senate is holding its own vote - in an unusual Saturday session - on whether to begin debate on the resolution.
Previous Senate attempts to debate the anti-troop surge resolution have been met with delaying tactics from Republican members.
Mr Bush faces the possibility that both chambers of Congress will repudiate his Iraq policy says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington.
Although the upcoming Congressional votes are non-binding, the president needs the legislators to support his $93bn (£48bn) emergency troop funding measure.
"Our men and women in uniform are counting on their elected leaders to provide them with the support they need to accomplish their mission," he said on Thursday.
"Republicans and Democrats have a responsibility to give our troops the resources they need."
But in the debate, Ms Pelosi said there should be "no more blank cheques".
Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner criticised the Democrats' attempts to derail Mr Bush's plans for Iraq.
"While American troops are fighting radical Islamic terrorists thousands of miles away," he said, "it is unthinkable that the United States Congress would move to discredit their mission, cut off their reinforcements and deny them the resources they need to succeed and return home safely".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6367335.stm
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Should we be getting ready for Iran when we are still engaged in Iraq? I mean, our troops do deserve our utmost support, and they should have whatever resources they need to get their job done and return home safely. Imagine trying to do a job, say as a police officer, without the tools? No handcuffs, nightstick, gun, training - it would be impossible. Should we really cut our own military's needs?
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We should just bring them home. That is smarter than leaving them in the Middle East helpless, on a number of levels.
Bush is trying to set us up for Iran deep enough in that the next president won't be able to straighten it out right away, and the uninformed Americans will get just as pissed at the incoming president as they were at Bush, and won't have a breath of fresh air to compare Bush to.
He's just trying to make it as likely as possible that he will be remembered the hero that he's not.
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=site:irangardi.spaces.live.com+irangardy&first=1&FORM=FEEDTU
President Bush and the Continuation of the Lies
This week, President Bush accused Iran of supplying insurgents in Iraq with the weapons that are being used to kill American soldiers
In making the accusation, Bush knows the American people well and recognizes that the American public will focus on the accusation of "killing American soldiers" rather than on the facts of the accusation
The date "3-2006" bothers me and it should bother you. The date represents March 2006. But the Muslims do not use the Gregorian Calendar. They don’t date things based on the same Western Calendar that we in the West use.
The year 2006, according to Muslim sources I checked with, would actually be the Islamic Year 1384-1385, because the Iranians begin their year in what is the Western month of March
http://www.swnewsherald.com/online_content/2007/02/021507rh_iran.php
http://www.swnewsherald.com/online_content/2007/01/013107wv_hor_iran.php