Sept. 26, 2007 (LPAC) -- From the floor of the U.S. Senate, yesterday, Virginia's Senator Jim Webb forcefully called for withdrawal of the Lieberman-Kyl Iran amendment, charging that it is "Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream."

Webb warned that the "cleverly worded" sense-of-the-Congress amendment could be "interpreted" to "declare war" on Iran, The Hill reports.

Senator Webb called on those who "regret their vote five years ago" authorizing Bush's action in Iraq to "think hard" before supporting the amendment pressed by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.) and Jon Kyl (R-Az.). This amendment, Webb insisted, "could be read as a backdoor method" to get Congress to concur with Cheney's long-standing plans "for military action, without one hearing and without serious debate."

Meanwhile, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) compared Cheney's organization of the Middle East war to the legalization of slavery, in an interview with The Hill. Rangel said of Cheney, that the action by "the most powerful Vice President in history," with "Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle" to "invade the Middle East for purposes that preceded 9-11" has been a cost to our nation's "credibility, internationally, like nothing other than the fact that we legalized slavery."