Senator Byrd [D-WV] has introduced two amendments to the 2008 Defense Appropriations bill.
From Iran Nuclear Watch: "The amendments would prohibit funding provided by the bill to be used for military operations or activities against any other country without explicit Congressional authorization. The text of both amendments is identical and I’m unsure why two identical amendments were submitted. The amendments do provide exceptions for certain activities. Though the amendments employ a non-country-specific approach similar to Senator Byrd’s S. Res. 39, the enactment of either amendment could prevent a military confrontation with Iran.
Iran Nuclear Watch’s Cara Ong provides the text of Byrd’s amendments here.
[Byrd did not vote for the Kyl-Lieberman travesty.] Earlier, there was a similar Amendment from Senators Clinton and Webb along the same lines. Is it possible that Congress is waking up to what the people want? And I think the mandate is clear. We aren’t saying Iran isn’t a danger. We’re not saying that there isn’t going to be a confrontation with Iran, maybe a Military confrontation, in the future. We’re saying something very specific. We don’t want President Bush and Vice President Cheney pulling any more of their Bush Doctrine, unilateral, pre-emptive war tricks anymore. Their judgement and their motives are, at best, suspect. Whatever we’re going to do down the line, we don’t want those two acting on their own…
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