Representative Ron Paul says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed a
section from a bill passed by Congress which would have barred the U.S.
from going to war with Iran without a congressional vote, claiming she
did so at the behest of the leadership of Israel and AIPAC.
Paul, a former Republican presidential contender who formally
removed himself from the party’s nomination race last week, makes the
allegation on C-SPAN during a recently held foreign policy conference
in Virginia.
Paul says Pelosi’s first act as House Speaker in 2006 was to
“deliberately” remove a portion of a legislative spending bill which
said the United States “can't go to war with Iran without getting
approval from Congress.”
According to Paul, Pelosi and her allies in the chamber's
Democratic leadership initially accepted the bill designed to outline
an Iraq exit strategy, but during a revision of the legislation
excluded the statement regarding the need for congressional approval of
any military assault on the neighboring country of Iran.
“She [Pelosi] removed it deliberately,” Paul says. “And then, the
astounding thing is, when asked why, she said the leadership in Israel
asked her to. That was in the newspaper, that was in 'The Washington
Post,' that she was asked by AIPAC and others not to do that."
Paul implies Pelosi, desperate to advance her flawed spending
legislation, bargained away the proposal that would have been the House
leadership's primary vehicle for challenging the administration's
policies in the region.
According to John Nichols, who covered the story about Pelosi’s
capitulation at the time for “The Nation,” Pelosi was "under pressure
from some conservative members of her caucus, and from lobbyists
associated with neoconservative groups that want war with Iran, and the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).”
Paul's allegation is corroborated by 'The Asia Times', which in
another article published at the time says AIPAC was strongly against
attaching "a provision to a Pentagon spending bill that would require
President Bush to get congressional approval before attacking Iran.
AIPAC was strongly against it because it viewed the legislation as
taking the military option 'off the table.' The provision was killed."
The article also cites Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, as saying [Pelosi's] decision was due to AIPAC.
UPDATE: newsmax.com reports on the content of this video — see: Ron Paul Claims Pelosi Spiked Iran Bill http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/pa…
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in a speech given on 06 june 2008, in reston, virginia, at the hyatt
regency, reston, to the future of freedom foundation, 'restoring the
republic 2008: foreign policy and civil liberties' conference,
congressman ron paul, tells how speaker of the house, nancy pelosi,
acting on orders of israel and aipac, 'deliberately' pulled a
supplemental bill requiring congressional approval for attacking iran.
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