Sen. Lieberman seeks 'more troops' for 'winnable' Iraq war

[BlueStater]

What is with this guy?! Even a lot of Republicans have admitted the war was a mistake yet he's still as delusional as ever.

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Sen. Lieberman seeks 'more troops' for 'winnable' Iraq war

Mike Sheehan
Published: Friday December 29, 2006
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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I/D-CT) has written an op-ed for The Washington
Post in which he explains his reasons for why more troops are needed
in Iraq. Lieberman argues that the war is "winnable," yet acknowledges
that "more U.S. forces might not be a guarantee of success" in the
fight.

"I've just spent 10 days traveling in the Middle East and speaking to
leaders there," writes Lieberman, "all of which has made one thing
clearer to me than ever: While we are naturally focused on Iraq, a
larger war is emerging.

"On one side are extremists and terrorists led and sponsored by Iran,
on the other moderates and democrats supported by the United States,"
the Senator continues. "Iraq is the most deadly battlefield on which
that conflict is being fought. How we end the struggle there will
affect not only the region but the worldwide war against the
extremists who attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001."

In August 2006, Lieberman, who lost the Democratic primary to
challenger Ned Lamont but defeated him in the general election,
criticized Lamont's Iraq exit strategy by saying, "If we just pick up
like Ned Lamont wants us to do ... it will be taken as a tremendous
victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this
plot hatched in England." Lamont responded, "That comment sounds an
awful lot like Vice President Cheney's comment... Both of them believe
our invasion of Iraq has a lot to do with 9/11."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Lieberman_on_why_we_need_more_1229.html

[Deep13]

1. Apparently Joe has no memory of any events between 1962-1975.

[tchunter]

2. we tried to get rid of him we really did

i voted for lamont, he wasn't a strong candidate but it was the best we could field...

[Deep13]

5. Well, what can you do?

You go into the majority party with the senators you have, not the senators you want.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. OTOH, there are senators we know and senators we *don't*...

know. At the same time , there are senators we *know* that we *don't* know and senators that we DON'T know that we *know*.

[saigon68]

13. Joementum was dodging the draft between 1962 and 1975

He let someone else get killed in his place

HE IS SCUM

[arewenotdemo]

14. that pic speaks volumes

Holy Joe has always been very :loveya: fond of the Cheerleader-in-Chief.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. He's playing his cards close to his chest

Not revealing his true motives, which have nothing whatsoever to do with persisting the United States as a Constitutionally sourced secular society.

[ryanmuegge]

15. Indeed. He's a scary individual.

He's a "moral" crusader when it comes to entertainment, like Gore's moronic wife. This guy was preoccupied with gangster rap and Prince songs during the 80s and 90s. All the while, government could have been preparing for the future with sensible energy policy emphasizing alternatives and conservation, thereby negating the need to even be involved in the Middle East. This guy was worried about Janet Jackson's tit rather than our trade deficit and American jobs.

[MikeNearMcChord]

4. I would love to have this guy drafted to the duty

of handing folded flags to grieving families for a full year, look 'em into their eyes Joe! Tell them about sacrifice.

[last1standing]

20. It wouldn't help a bit.

Holy Joe has an incredible talent for not caring about what other people think. He makes up his mind and that's the end of it. He'll never change direction or admit to mistakes. Doesn't that sound kind of familiar?

[BlueStater]

6. I'd also like to mention that Lieberman never served a day in combat

He's as clueless as Bush as to what our troops in Iraq are going through.

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. Doesn't matter. He took a '10 day tour' of the middle east.

Spoke to the leaders there.

He's an expert.

Besides, Lieberman's adopted Homer Simpson's battlecry:
"Can't somebody else do it?"

It works in Ct. just as it did for Homer in Springfield.

[superconnected]

8. if his popularity increases a fractional blip for this, expect hillary to follow.

[anotherdrew]

10. Joe believes we are _already_ AT WAR with Iran

apparently he thinks all evil come from Iran.

Tell ya the truth, I don't think Joe has this nations interests at the forefront of his mind.

[ribrepin]

11. The only good thing I can say about Joe is at least he wears the independent label now

Democrats should NEVER refer to Joe as a "Democrat independent" only independent. The Democratic party needs to put as much distance between themselves and Joe as possible.

Lamont did a service to his party and country by running. He forced Joe to become an independent. Good on Lamont.

Do these chuckleheads really believe that 20,000 more troops are going to provide stability for Iraq?. We couldn't do it with 500,000 in vietnam

[SKKY]

12. Who's running the Lieberman camp? Alan Keyes?

[against all enemies]

16. Washington Post? I thought he belonged to Opinion Journal.

Lieberman is a whore, but who is paying the bill?

Oh, I guess Bill Kristol.

http://tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/jul/21/famous_neocon_bill_kristol_donates_to_lieberman

[CanonRay]

17. Nice going, Connecticut...we really need this asshole.

[Psephos]

25. Actually, we do need him

If he decides, like Jeffords, that the other party will serve him better, then he will flip his caucus.

We created this monster, we better make peace with it. The alternative is much worse.

Peace.

[leesa]

28. "We created this monster"? How so?

[against all enemies]

29. Let him become a Republican, then it will be the all Republican war.

Sorry but I would rather have Lieberman a Republican than a mole for them, undermining the Democrats position on the war. He is trouble, screw him, get it over with and let him go. Then deal with it and move on.

[Psephos]

32. My heart is with you, but the political animal in me knows better

Committee chairs are assigned to the majority party. The Majority Leader determines the flow of legislation to the floor.

These are what make or break a party's agenda in the Senate.

But man oh man, I do know how you feel.

Peace.

[IndianaGreen]

31. We didn't create this Lieberman monster, Judas Joe is his own creation.

Lieberman's support for Bush's surge will lead to many unnecessary deaths, but it won't be able to prevent a humiliating defeat for America in Iraq.

The Iraq Study Group offered a big fig leaf of a way out of Iraq, a way out with at least a semblance of honor for those that care about such things. Bush and Lieberman's rejection of the Iraq Study Group is the ultimate act of folly of a government responsible for the biggest strategic and foreign policy failure in America's history.

[hadrons]

18. "'more troops' for 'winnable' Iraq war", so Joe found another Iraq war?

because the one now isn't winnable ... draft the Lieberman voters

[daleo]

19. 500,000 troops couldn't win in Viet Nam

Why would another 40,000 make a difference in Iraq? They will just make a more "target rich" environment for the other side.

[Comadreja]

21. Liebermann rrepresents the Likud...

so what do you expect him to say about killing Arabs?

[saigon68]

27. apparently so

[bahrbearian]

22. Does Conneticut , allow Recalls?

[Jack Rabbit]

23. Ah, my dear Senator, tell who these "moderate" leadrs are

Hosni Mubarak? King Abdallah? The House of Saud?

Gee, I remember when Saddam was a moderate Arab. It was around the same time Nicolae Ceauşescu was a moderate Communist.

Some say Joe Lieberman is a moderate Democrat. The people who say that are usually Republican extremists. I say Lieberman is willing prostitute to the tyrant US dictator.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. As we escalate this into the grand and larger war of which he speaks

it seems like a whole lot of civilians are going to die. What is it now in Iraq alone; over 700,000? Hundreds of thousands of dead civilians, if not eventually millions who will pay for these wonderful military adventures seem to be of no consequence to Mr. Lieberman.

[IndianaGreen]

26. The sons and daughters of those that voted for Judas Joe should send them to Iraq

Easy to vote for war, or for a warmonger, when one's ass is not on the line. So, let's go Lieberman voters! Let's go to the nearest Armed Forces recruiting station and enlist!

[tchunter]

30. we need to end his joe-mentum with...

a vote of joe(no)confidence

[Larkspur]

33. It's time to flood Lieberman's offices with military enlistment forms for his kith and kin

Here's the link to the military enlistment forms Military enlistment form

[David__77]

34. This man is the reason I could not vote for Gore in 2000.

I just could not do it. I am a bit regretful in retrospect, but this man is a bigger warmaniac than Cheney. I think his influence in a Gore administration would have been not negligible. Furthermore, it made me question Gore's political orientation as well.