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Entry: A Phony Crisis -- and a Real One Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_phony_crisis_and_a_real_one#32662 Post contents: Any fair reading of HCR 362 debunks the notion that has it as a "virtual war resolution." Regrets. It is, foremost, a nonbinding and concurrent resolution and thus accords Bush the leverage to do absolute squat in the middle east and, two, it creates no law, legislation or authority for him to step anywhere near Iran. Where you are correct is by intoning that it's an AIPAC thumbprint and a regurgitated congressional echo from AIPAC puppets. I'm too lazy to look, but it would be my guess that Ackerman-the bill's main sponsor-likely has AIPAC DNA all over his political rear-end. Still, is it not better to submit and stress detailed economic pressures (which, in the abstract, are the resolution's essence)on Iran than to tacitly grant the Bush-Cheney cabal the license of war by, instead, playing opossum? I think we've learned by now that an acquiescent and lobotomized democratic congress fast transforms this administration into Machiavelli's Prince. Sent at: 2008 12 01