Lieberman: "I think there is only one choice" (military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities) [View All]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Launching a military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities will be the “only one choice” left for the United States if new economic sanctions fail to convince Tehran to halt its bomb-making program, according to Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

Only through “crippling sanctions do we have a chance to convince the Iranians to stop this nuclear weapons program,” Lieberman, an independent Democrat from Connecticut, told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Stiffer sanctions are necessary in order to “save ourselves” from having to make the most difficult choice, which he said was “doing nothing in regard to a nuclear Iran, and taking military action.”

“Because this is the choice we will be faced with and to me in that moment I think there is only one choice, but we don’t have to make it now, and it’s why these sanctions proposals are so important,” Lieberman added, in comments reported last week by the WashingtonTV.

Lieberman was referring specifically to an Iran fuel sanctions bill introduced to Congress in April, which would impose sanctions on foreign energy companies that sell refined petroleum products to Iran and the insurance companies that insure the tankers destined for that country, the WashingtonTV explained.

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/lieberman_iran_nuclear/2009/08/03/243208.html