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This Resolution calls for a blockade of Iran...and Giffords has signed on as a supporter. Use the toll-free number for the Washington offices of our Senators& Reps: 1-800-828-0498 and urge Giffords to drop her endorsement, and all to oppose it when it comes up for a vote. The Senate equivalent is S. Res.580. So far neither Kyl nor McCain has co-sponsored. (This note, above, from Pat B.)

As you may already know, in the US Congress, Representative Ackerman (Democrat?!) has introduced House Concurrent Resolution 362. The language of H Con Res 362, if it is passed, call for actions that are explicitly acts of war under international law. Here is the link to the actual resolution:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:8:./temp/~c110wFKHQU::

I'll just quote some of the pithy parts:


Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress--


(1) declares that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, through all appropriate economic, political, and diplomatic means, is vital to the national security interests of the United States and must be dealt with urgently;


(2) urges the President, in the strongest of terms, to immediately use his existing authority to impose sanctions on--


(A) the Central Bank of Iran and any other Iranian bank engaged in proliferation activities or the support of terrorist groups;


(B) international banks which continue to conduct financial transactions with proscribed Iranian banks;


(C) energy companies that have invested $20,000,000 or more in the Iranian petroleum or natural gas sector in any given year since the enactment of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996; and


(D) all companies which continue to do business with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;


(3) demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran ; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran's nuclear program;
As you can see, the italicized portion calls for a complete blockade of Iran.
What makes the situation so frightening is that this insane bill has attracted 231 co-sponsors, from both parties.

If you have not done so already, please, please, please pick up your phone right now and call your Congressional rep and both your senators.

Thank you,

Julius

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