With the economy in tatters despite Bernanke's assurance of glimmers of recovery, the War lobby wants Iran's blood soon after Ahmadinejad's presidential inaugural.
The health campaign promise is yet to make headways anywhere. It's a tough time in Washington. It can't be War or Health. Or can it?
The war drums are a-beating. Will Obama dance?
"...The pressure campaign kicked off in earnest this week. On Thursday, hundreds of leaders and activists from the U.S. Jewish community descended on Washington to lobby for harsher sanctions, while widely-publicised media reports suggested that Iran is already nearing the verge of a nuclear capability.
Leaders from Jewish groups came for a national "Advocacy Day on Iran", during which they met with key Congressional figures.
Rep. Howard Berman, a California Democrat who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested that the clock "has almost run out" on Iran's nuclear programme, and indicated that he would move ahead next month with a bill imposing sanctions on Iran's refined petroleum imports "absent some compelling evidence why I should do otherwise".
Not all U.S. Jewish groups are lining up behind the legislation, however.
Americans for Peace Now (APN), for instance, issued a statement arguing that "arbitrary deadlines are a mistake" and that "pursuing sanctions that target the Iranian people, rather than their leaders, is a morally and strategically perilous path that the Obama Administration must reject". ..."
More at Inter Press Service (IPS) News.
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I would think the drums are also beating on the MCA EGM.
Already my meighbor is exploding crackers lah! Gives me a jolt now and then! I hope I won't snap at him. :))
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