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star-traveller
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| quote: | US move to block attack on Iran
A bipartisan group of politicians in the US House of Representatives is pushing for legislation to prohibit a US attack on Iran without congressional permission.
The effort, led by Walter Jones, a Republican, came as politicians voiced concerns the Bush administration might provoke a confrontation with Iran.
"The resolution makes crystal clear that no previous resolution passed by Congress authorises a US attack on Iran," Jones told reporters, referring to a 2002 vote by Congress authorising the US invasion of Iraq.
The resolution would have to be passed by the House and Senate and signed by George Bush, the US president, to acquire the force of law.
"No trust"
It would waive the congressional authorisation only if Iran attacked the US or its armed forces, or if such an attack was "demonstrably" imminent.
So far, Jones' resolution has 11 co-sponsors in the 435-member House.
At the White House, Bush, asked whether there were any US plans to take action against Iran, said: "I have made it clear that if they're moving weapons inside Iraq that will hurt the cause of democracy and more particularly hurt our soldiers, we'll take care of business there.
"We're not going to let them."
Martin Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, said that while he did not trust Iran or its intentions in the Middle East, he also did not trust the White House.
Meehan said the resolution on Iran was needed because the Bush administration had "lied so many times" in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Concerns about a US attack against Iran increased after the United States moved an additional aircraft carrier into the Gulf region and the Bush administration told Arab allies it would do more to contain Tehran.
The legislation's backers said they hoped Democratic leaders in the House would advance their resolution in coming months, possibly as part of Iraq war funding legislation or other Iraq-related measures.
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LazFX
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| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
A Tejano |
| quote: | | Hispanics in Texas identified themselves simply as Tejanos as early as January 1833, when leaders at Goliad used the term. The term Méjico-Tejano appeared in print in 1855, when the San Antonio newspaper El Bejareño reported a letter by José Antonio Navarroqv read at the second meeting of the Spanish-speaking members of the Bexar County Democratic party. Throughout the nineteenth century, Mexican (mexicano) was the term generally used in popular reference for a Mexican national or a Mexican American. As the boundaries of Texas changed to include the Nueces Strip, Laredo, and El Paso, so too did the term Tejano come to include the Hispanic and Mexican residents of those areas. Historians have applied the term specifically, perhaps anachronistically, to those Mexican Texans in Spanish Texas,qv to distinguish them from residents of other regions, and in Texas from the end of the Spanish era in 1821 to Texas Independence in 1836, in contradistinction to the Texianqv or Anglo-American residents of that time and of the Republic of Texas.qv Increasingly, Tejano, as a term denoting regional identity, referred to Mexican Texans of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the Hispanic Texans of the Spanish era. The term occurred with greater frequency in speech and written forms as the political activity of the ethnic group became pronounced, particularly following the Chicano movement of the mid-1960s. |

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