What to do?

# First, connect with our allies in Congress, including the 22 senators who voted against the Kyl-Lieberman surrender to Bush (list available here). Let antiwar lawmakers know you're behind them, ask them to get still noisier on this, and ask that they develop an inside-outside strategy to rally and focus our national outrage against expanding Bush's Iraq disaster into Iran.

# Second, demand that your Congress critters (whatever their stripe) use all their congressional powers (to control spending, launch investigations, declare war, etc.) to say that the president can take no preemptive military action...

What to do?

# First, connect with our allies in Congress, including the 22 senators who voted against the Kyl-Lieberman surrender to Bush (list available here). Let antiwar lawmakers know you're behind them, ask them to get still noisier on this, and ask that they develop an inside-outside strategy to rally and focus our national outrage against expanding Bush's Iraq disaster into Iran.

# Second, demand that your Congress critters (whatever their stripe) use all their congressional powers (to control spending, launch investigations, declare war, etc.) to say that the president can take no preemptive military action against Iran without a full, constitutionally mandated declaration of war by Congress.

# Third, connect with any and all of the savvy grassroots groups in this issue's "Do Something" box. Use their information, sign all of their petitions, spread their materials, and join their actions.

# Fourth, talk, talk, talk, and talk some more -- in church, at school, with your neighbors and coworkers, at town hall meetings, in family phone calls or visits, on talk radio, at candidate forums, in supermarket check-out lines... wherever you can find an ear. The vast majority of Americans have not heard what Bush is up to, and they won't like it. The most effective way to reach them and activate them is by personal contact -- i.e., you. Talk to someone about it every day.

# Fifth, don't let Democrats waffle. Iraq was Bush's war (and his political debacle), but Iran would be a product of a Democratic-controlled Congress, and they will be responsible either for allowing it...or for stopping it.

# Sixth, come up with your own action idea, and let the rest of us know how we can support and spread it.

Supporting Webb's Senate Bill 759 is a good action. And Barack Obama also has introduced a similar resolution, S.J.Res. 23 .And Congressman Dennis Kucinich has introduced H.R. 333 calling for the impeachment of VP Cheney. (more info, below)


Also It would be good for the USA to get back to the basic Constitutional requirement for war: i.e., Congress is the group that declares wars. (Not just one man).

Of course the President has the right to take action in the case of EMERGENCY ATTACKS. If this is the case even then there are limits, requiring Congress to eventually be the ones to make the war decision.

But Congress likes to avoid this, avoid responsibility and Bush is allowed to break th...

Supporting Webb's Senate Bill 759 is a good action. And Barack Obama also has introduced a similar resolution, S.J.Res. 23 .And Congressman Dennis Kucinich has introduced H.R. 333 calling for the impeachment of VP Cheney. (more info, below)


Also It would be good for the USA to get back to the basic Constitutional requirement for war: i.e., Congress is the group that declares wars. (Not just one man).

Of course the President has the right to take action in the case of EMERGENCY ATTACKS. If this is the case even then there are limits, requiring Congress to eventually be the ones to make the war decision.

But Congress likes to avoid this, avoid responsibility and Bush is allowed to break the law. So demanding the laws and Constitution be enforced would be good; impeachments would be appropriate; but this is another thing congress is avoiding.

Electing better leaders and kicking out the bad ones, where and when possible is always critically important because as we see, leaders can pretty much do what they want so getting the best ones inoffice is perhaps the most important need: i.e., vote.

Lobbying for the passage of H.R. 3256, recently passed by the House by defeated two days ago by the Senate would be, at least, the strongest anti-Iraq war legislation thus far; It's named: Orderly and Responsible Iraq Redeployment Appropriations Act, 2008

U.S. Senator Jim Webb, (D-VA) is a very, very strong anti-Iran war voice. He's a Vietnam Vet and his son is currently in Iraq. He's for real. He fought very hard against this Kyl-Lieberman amendment.

Senator Web first introduced an amendment which would require Congressional authorization before the president could launch a large-scale operation against Iran and he's also written to and put pressure on Sec. of State Condi Rice so she, and other (like all Democratic candidates for president) have had to make it clear that Kyle-Liberman's sneaky amendment DOES NOT give Bush power to start a war.

So...act.