Senate Committee Will Be Told to Stop Funding the Occupation
By David Swanson
This Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will bring in a witness who will testify that the Congress should stop funding the occupation of Iraq. How do I know this? Because I interviewed General William Odom for an hour a couple of weeks ago. Here's the audio:
http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/audio/2008/#march
Here's the lineup:
HEARING before the COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Time: 9:30 A.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Biden
Witnesses:
+General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.)
President, BR McCaffrey Associates LLC
Adjunct Professor of International Affairs
United States Military Academy
Arlington, VA
+Lt. General William E. Odom, USA (Ret.)
Senior Advisor,
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Former Director,
National Security Agency
Washington, DC
+Ms. Michele Flournoy
President
Center for New American Security
Washington, DC
+Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales, Jr., USA (Ret.)
Former Commandant US Army War College
CEO/President, Colgen, LP
Washington, DC
A second hearing the same day is scheduled to include at least one witness who might say something useful and honest: Nir Rosen. Here's the lineup:
IRAQ AFTER THE SURGE: POLITICAL PROSPECTS
HEARING before the
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Time: 2:30 P.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Biden
Witnesses:
+Mr. Yahia Said
Director for Middle East and North Africa
Revenue Watch Institute
New York, NY
+Dr. Stephen Biddle
Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Washington, DC
+Mr. Nir Rosen
Fellow
New York University, Center on Law and Security
New York, NY
+Dr. Fouad Ajami
Majid Khadduri Professor,
Director of the Middle East Studies Program
The Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies
The Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC
A third, related hearing is planned for the next day:
IRAQ 2012:
WHAT CAN IT LOOK LIKE,
HOW DO WE GET THERE?
HEARING before the
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Time: 9:30 A.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Biden
Witnesses:
+Dr. Carole O'Leary
Program Director,
Scholar in Residence
Center for Global Peace
American University
Washington, DC
+Dr. Dawn Brancati
Fellow,
Institute of Quantitative Social Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
+The Honorable Carlos Pascual
Vice President,
Director of Foreign Policy
Brookings Institution
Washington, DC
+Dr. F. Gregory Gause, III
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
+Dr. Terrence K. Kelly
Senior Operations Researcher
RAND Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
And then on Tuesday, April 8th, it's the Return of Petraeus:
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Error 404-Odom
Will keep checking back to hear Gen. Odom, but for now link comes up with error and informs an administrator has been contacted and to check back later.
"Bush Exceeded the Authority of HJR 114"
DO the 2 "Authorization To Use Military Force" Resolutions approved by Congress in 2002 and 2003 override the United Nations Charter which "prohibits the use of military force" against any nation without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, which NEVER approved Bush's invasion of Iraq? "NO, domestic laws do NOT override a signed treaty of the United States", stated Nuremberg Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz LINK www.benferencz.org at a recent (June 28, 2007) "War Crimes Panel" sponsored by the Arizona Bar Association. "Bush Exceeded the Authority of HJR 114" as well LINK http://www.impeachbush.tv/args/noiraqauthority.html "REGARDING IRAQ, that last Security Council resolution essentially said, - look, send the Weapons Inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found -- then we'll figure out what we're going to do -- the US (Bush) was impatient and decided to invade Iraq -- which was ALL PRE-ARRANGED OF COURSE -- so the US (Bush) went to war, in violation of the charter -" stated Nuremberg Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz to Alter.Net LINK http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/38604/?page=entire WHAT (invasion and occupation) was NOT sanctioned to begin with, and NOT in compliance now, certainly should be ended now. The 110th Democratic Congress can start by saying "NO, ENOUGH", if they choose to do so. Concerned citizens can send a Letter and Fax asking Congress to say "NO, ENOUGH" at http://www.freedomspeaks.com/letter/87616/calling-for-a-filibuster-to-en... if they choose to do so.