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A New Congress? Not When It Comes to Iran « Thread Started on Jan 9, 2007, 12:44am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------A New Congress? Not When It Comes to Iran by Joshua Frankwww.dissidentvoice.orgJanuary 8, 2007read at source> http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Frank08.htmNow that the Democrats are back in power, the American public can finally exhale. Bush is doomed. Cheney is on the ropes. Condi is updating her résumé while Rove prepares his exodus. Well, such an optimistic outlook is boldly misguided. The Democrats may have regained control of both houses of government after twelve long years, yet small changes are all we're likely to see come out of the 110th United States Congress. On the surface things look like they are moving in the right direction. Democrats are enthused to increase the minimum wage and roll back subsidies to the oil cartels. They want the Fed to work with Big Pharma to give Americans access to cheaper prescription drugs. Democrats also want to lower interest rates on student loans. Not bad for the first 100 hours in office. But not all that wonderful either. Most of what Democratic leaders are proposing are minor, long-overdue reforms, not the type of progressive restructuring we really need. As Ralph Nader recently warned, "Early and troubling signals from Capitol Hill indicate that the Democrats are not going to move to remove the brazen Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, are not going to go after the huge waste and redundancy in military weapons contracts . . . are not going to end massive corporate welfare . . . and are not going to propose a serious crackdown on widespread corporate crime, fraud and abuse." Perhaps even more alarming than Nader's prescient omen is that our Middle East foreign policy isn't on the road to recovery. Israel will continue to have an affable government in the U.S. that funds the occupation of Palestine and supports Israel's bullying of Iran. As The Times in the UK recently revealed; Israel may be planning a military strike on Iran to destroy the country's uranium enrichment facilities, something Israel denies. Following these reports, the new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told the Jerusalem Post that Democrats wouldn't rule out using force on Iran to block Tehran's nuclear aspirations. In the past, similar remarks had been made by Democratic leaders Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, along with presidential hopeful John Edwards and Sen. Hillary Clinton. Even superman Barack Obama won't challenge the Bush administration's erroneous Iran approach.
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