Do you support Sanctions against Syria?

[La_Serpiente]

In December, Bush signed a law placing economic sanctions on Syria.

Here is the text of the law:

Title: To halt Syrian support for terrorism, end its occupation of Lebanon, stop its development of weapons of mass destruction, cease its illegal importation of Iraqi oil and illegal shipments of weapons and other military items to Iraq, and by so doing hold Syria accountable for the serious international security problems it has caused in the Middle East, and for other purposes.

Do you support the sanctions?

Bush signs Syria sanctions bill

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has signed legislation that seeks to punish Syria for its alleged ties to terrorism by authorizing economic and diplomatic sanctions against Damascus.

But the measure also gives the president broad authority to waive penalties for national security reasons.

The White House announced the bill signing in a four-paragraph statement released late Friday.

In that statement, Bush says the bill is "intended to strengthen the ability of the United States to conduct an effective foreign policy," but he also maintains the bill's policy statements are not binding.

"A law cannot burden or infringe the president's exercise of a core constitutional power by attaching conditions precedent to the use of that power," Bush says.

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Bush signs Syria sanctions bill

By the way, here are the Senators that voted for and against it

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00445

[lcordero]

1. I'm in shock that Boxer, Feingold, and Kennedy voted for this

garbage.

Chafee must be giving other Repukes heart attacks over this shit:evilgrin:

Props goes out to Byrd, Chafee, Enzi and Jeffords.

[La_Serpiente]

4. here are the house co-sponsors

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d108:1:./temp/~bdQJco:@@@P|/bss/d108query.html|

I couldn't find the final tally though

[lcordero]

5. here it is

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll654.xml

the Nays are:
Conyers
Dingell
Flake
Kucinich
McDermott
Paul
Rahall
Stark

I surprised that so many people agreed to this garbage. The vote was 408-8 with 1 present and 17 not voting.

[TOhioLiberal]

2. No....

Not a good idea.

[IndianaGreen]

3. The US should impose sanctions on Israel instead

and force the Israelis out of Occupied Palestine. The US should also force Israel to give up its WMDs, as we did Iraq.

[buckeye1]

6. Not at all.

If our tax money was withdrawn Israel would have to "exist" on its own. I doubt if that is possible. The only use here is to see what our future is.
Death,destruction,waste,corruption and on and on. But you know that.

[Muddleoftheroad]

7. Syria is a supporter of terror

This is not new. They have been on government watch lists for years, massively predated the current morons in D.C.

[JohnLocke]

12. True.

[Orrin_73]

8. Syria has a new leadership now

he should be given a chance, the younger Assad is different from the elder Assad. He is more willing to compromise with its neighbours then the old guard. The US government should reach out to him.


kucinich.us

deanforamerica.com
clark04.com
sharpton2004.org

Tom DeLay:"I challenge anyone to live on my salary" <$158,000 a year>

[Muddleoftheroad]

9. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

The U.S. IS reaching out to him in the way most appropriate -- sanctions for their ongoing support of terror.

[0007]

10. Israel thinks we should, 'eh?

[Muddleoftheroad]

13. Yeah, because Israel runs everything?

Right...

[kiahzero]

11. For properly implemented sanctions

Focus on the leadership, rather than the people. The idea is to strengthen the people, while weakening the leaders... we did the opposite in Iraq.

[Timefortruth]

14. I might if I weren't absolutely certain that it is a prelude to war.

We will invade Syria, if * wins, there is no doubt about it.

The only doubt is whether he will orchestrate a crisis before the election to get invade sooner, and get a war bump.