From the Associated Press:
Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations,” in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The hard-line dominated parliament cited U.S. involvement in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, using depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supporting the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombing and killing Iraqi civilians, and torturing terror suspects in prisons.
“The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror,” said a statement by the 215 lawmakers who signed the resolution at an open session of the Iranian parliament. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio.
The juvenility of our two national legislatures would be funny- if millions of people’s lives weren’t potentially threatened.
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In “The Assault on Reason” he said that bush’s justification, for his illegal actions, of using the label “terrorist organizations” could easily be used by others as a justification for their illegal actions.
Gore also pointed out that our kidnapping people off of foreign soil could be used as justification for others kidnapping people off of American streets because they may have said things that might be construed as supporting “terrorist organizations”.