Time for a New Boland Amendment
The Boland Amendment was actually a series of amendments passed in the 1980s that eventually banned any money from the US Government being spent as military aid to the Contras in Nicaragua.
We need a new one, only this one should be to ban the spending of any money by the US Government to fight within the territorial limits of Iran. We might stick a two year time limit on it since any other administration wouldn’t be crazy enough to do it barring a real provocation. Right now, it is very plausible that this administration and it’s willing enablers like Lieberman will create a provocation to attack Iran-something that can only result in a complete disaster for the entire region, if not planet:
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The only way to stop this from happening it to make it so military leaders can refuse to follow Bush’s order for an attack, and making it illegal would give them that leverage.