{"id":7475,"date":"2010-07-24T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2010-07-24T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:02:52","slug":"stop-congress-from-green-lighting-attack-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/stop-congress-from-green-lighting-attack-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Congress From Green-Lighting Attack on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one third of the Republican Caucus in the House of Representatives has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jamal-abdi\/resolution-green-lighting_b_657608.html\">introduced a resolution<\/a> giving Israel a green light to attack Iran.  <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&#038;docid=f:hr1553ih.txt.pdf\">H.Res.1553<\/a> declares unwavering support for Israel to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153use all means necessary,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153eliminate nuclear threats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d posed by Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The game plan of these Members of Congress was spelled out by John Bolton in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> just two weeks ago:  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Having visible congressional support in place at the outset [of an attack] will reassure the Israeli government, which is legitimately concerned about Mr. Obama&#8217;s likely negative reaction to such an attack.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The National Iranian American Council is urging people to contact House Republican leader John Boehner urging him to block this measure.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/niac\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&#038;page=UserAction&#038;id=153&#038;JServSessionIdr004=qnzqv4a1f3.app333b\">go here to automatically contact Boehner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also urge you to contact your individual member of Congress and Senator to oppose H.Res.1553.    You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.org\/bio\/id\/812\">Congress.org to get contact info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one third of the Republican Caucus in the House of Representatives has introduced a resolution giving Israel a green light to attack Iran. H.Res.1553 declares unwavering support for Israel to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153use all means necessary,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153eliminate nuclear threats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d posed by Iran. The game plan of these Members of Congress was spelled out by John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7476,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}