The following statement has been released by the Diane Sare for President campaign. Given its importance for matters facing the United States and the world, EIR has decided to republish it below in full.
“Yes, the President is Nuts, But Congress Has the Power of the Purse—Don’t Let Them Change the Subject”
As constitutional attorney Bruce Fein has reminded us in an article in The American Conservative, it was ultimately the U.S. Congress which put an end to America’s unjustified and genocidal war in Vietnam—a war which also claimed the lives of 57,000 American soldiers and left countless others to die by suicide after their return.
While many members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, as well as political commentators, are focusing on the insane social media posts of a deranged President Donald Trump, the urgent matter before us is that the United States and Israel are marching into Armageddon with an illegal and unconstitutional war against Iran which can and must be stopped by the Congress.
It is easy to posture on the question of impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment, and many representatives are eyeing the November midterm elections, but such actions will be too late. Billions of people on this planet depend on the U.S. Congress acting now to stop this war.
As attorney Fein writes: “Congress can brandish the power of the purse to end President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional attack on Iran, a criminal war of aggression as defined by the postwar Nuremberg Tribunal. Congress ended the Vietnam War through the power of the purse….
“The Continuing Appropriations Resolution for FY1974 … signed by President Richard Nixon on July 1, 1973, prohibited expenditures to conduct combat operations ‘in or over or from off the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia’ after August 15, 1973. That funding termination put the nail in the coffin to the gratuitous, trillion-dollar war precipitated by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was itself predicated on a lie about a second North Vietnamese torpedo attack on twin United States destroyers.”
As an American citizen and a candidate for the United States Presidency, I am urging all people of goodwill to join with me in calling, visiting, and emailing members of the U.S. House and Senate to remind them that they have the power and the obligation under the U.S. Constitution to stop this war.
I would also welcome world citizens from other nations to contact Members of Congress, particularly Committee Chairs, and tell them how this illegal war of aggression is affecting people in your country as well. Sadly, as we heard from Senator Ted Cruz in his interview with Tucker Carlson, many people who vote on foreign policy have no idea of anything outside the United States.
To be very clear, Congress could convene in Washington, D.C within 24 hours in an emergency session to pass a resolution to stop the funding of the Iran war. This is the action we are demanding. Posturing about impeachment will not stop this war.
Fein has drafted a resolution to be passed by Congress immediately: “No monies of the United States may be expended to conduct combat operations against Iran without a congressional declaration of war or in self-defense in response to an Iranian invasion of the United States. Further, no member of the United States Armed Forces may be deployed to undertake combat against Iran absent a prior congressional declaration of war or in self-defense to an unprovoked actual attack on the United States.”
The Congressional switchboard phone number is (202) 224-3121.
To find your representatives and their bio, as well as which committees they serve on, visit https://www.congress.gov/members.
