On June 20 the House of Representatives passed a resolution demanding that the UN Security Council charge Iranian President Maumoud Ahmadinejad with incitement to genocide, and that the Council consider unspecified ?measures? to ?prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons....?

The resolution recycled the familiar claim that Ahmadinejad ?called for Israel to be `wiped off the map'.? The Iranian president is a maniac, but that phrase was not uttered by him: He was calling for regime change in Israel, not for the annihilation of the Israeli people.

Iran is cursed with a hideous government whose intentions toward Israel are hardly benign. But Congress has no jurisdiction over the utterances of foreign rulers, and no constitutional duty to defend the State of Israel. Furthermore, calling for the UN to prosecute an elected head of state is itself a form of aggression.

The same strategic geniuses who planned the disastrous invasion of Iraq are planning another war with Iran. They must be stopped.

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.