Republican Politician Sues Bush & Cheney on Iran

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Politician Sues Bush & Cheney on Iran
by Steven D
Wed Sep 20th, 2006 at 04:04:33 PM EST

Unfortunately, she's not a candidate for office, having lost her primary election for a Congressional seat in New Hampshire. Oh, and another thing -- she's a Republican:

CONCORD – A federal judge on Wednesday denied a former Republican congressional candidate’s request for a restraining order barring President George Bush or Vice President Richard Cheney from bombing Iran or Syria.

Mary Maxwell, 59, of 179 Loudon Rd, Apt. 10, Concord, filed a lawsuit Monday against Bush, Cheney and other “unnamed defendants actively engaging in acts of war against Iran and Syria in the guise of the war against terrorism.”

Maxwell’s suit seeks a ruling that the administration lacks legal authority to preemptively attack either Iran or Syria without a Congressional declaration of war, and that radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons in any such attack would endanger people around the world, including herself. <...>

Maxwell argues that the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive authority to declare war. Thus, she argues, Congress must debate and approve or deny the administration’s reported plans for preemptive nuclear strikes against hostile nations alleged to be developing nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060920/NEWS03/60920021/-1/news
via:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2006/9/20/151251/372

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. GOOD FOR HER!

Someone stepping up and trying to make things happen. May it be the first of hundreds of such actions! :toast: