Meanwhile, Israeli sympathizers in congress are doing everything they can to thwart Obama's reproachment with Iran and carry water for Israel. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman is the leading culprit.

House Committee Approves Expanded Iran Sanctions
By Dan Robinson
Capitol Hill
28 October 2009


A key congressional committee has approved legislation to expand sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear ambitions. The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act is aimed at placing additional pressure on Iran by punishing companies involved in assisting Iran's petroleum sector and gasoline imports.

Although a major oil producer, Iran must import most of its gasoline because of a lack of refining capacity, creating what U.S. lawmakers have long seen as a crucial point of leverage with Tehran over its nuclear program.

The legislation crafted by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman, like a similar bill in the Senate, would prohibit non-U.S. companies selling, or enabling the sale or transport of refined petroleum products to Iran, from doing business in the United States.

Berman says the legislation would be only one point of pressure on Iran to roll back its uranium-enrichment program, which the United States believes is aimed at producing a nuclear weapon.

Nice article, Byuke, but you need to review your stats: "While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion dollars and a divided America facing an endless war, what have we won?" If you ever think of asking someone in Iraq or Afghanistan about the number of dead bodies, you will hear from them that you are missing a zero or two.