Did Senator Joe Lieberman ever serve in the military?

[proud2BlibKansan]

I looked on his website but see no mention of military service.

Anyone know?

[ISUGRADIA]

1. Military service: None

from this CNN 2000 campaign bio:

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/9909/candidate.bios/lieberman.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Thank you

Just what I thought.

[Staph]

3. Doesn't look like it....

I checked his Wiki entry. He went from college to law school to a law firm to politics, with no obvious gaps for military service. I would expect that if he did serve, he would have trumpeted it to the skies during the 2000 campaign.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Well flame me but

I am starting to think these war mongering politicians should be required to serve in the military. It seems unfair that they literally hold the lives of our soldiers in their hands.

[still_one]

7. send hillary along with her neocon friend liberman

[Hardrada]

27. I second that

and the sooner the better!

[niyad]

10. I have been saying for years that each and every person who vites for

armed conflict, and the pres and veep-and all the cabinet--are the first to go over--along with every member of their family who is of age.

[walldude]

11. You hear the chimp's little news conference today?

Where he claimed that he will make no political decisions regarding the war, all his decisions are made by the Generals handling the war on the ground. :eyes: Uh... Paging Mr Shinzeki, General Shinzeki please report to the white courtesy phone.....

[LittleClarkie]

20. Sure the generals make the decisions

as long as they're Chimpy's hand picked generals.

[TahitiNut]

18. No flame from me -- I favor UNIVERSAL National Service.

I don't think "Jodies" have a clue. Not. One. Fucking. Clue.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. I like that idea too

We could use some help in our urban schools. I have always been in favor of a model that allows military OR community service.

[TahitiNut]

24. Yep. Public health care, public education, infrastructure, Peace Corps, ..

... VISTA, hurricane clean up, as well as military.

The "business model" of government (public administration) doesn't allow excess capacity. Excess capacity is simplistically regarded as an unmitigated 'evil' by MBAs (Morons of Business Abuse), except for killing people or the capacity to destroy the entire planet five times over. But excess capacity is essential for disaster recovery; excess capacity is essential for dealing with epidemics and pandemics; excess capacity in education assures a more informed electorate. It's INSANE that a 'free' society doesn't fully comprehend this.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Wikipedia says no

Yale Law School, '64, became a lawyer at Wiggin & Dana law firm, then became a Connecticut State Senator in '70.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. So he could have served in Vietnam

and put off law school. hmmm

[TahitiNut]

19. He coulda been a JAG officer, at the very least.

:shrug:

[Hubert Flottz]

22. He is a Jagoff!

And a Judas.

[SHRED]

8. Another Chickenhawk

Is he on the PNAC board?
:sarcasm:

[goclark]

9. He is just a little chicken period.

How Gore ever picked him is beyond me.

Every time I see his face I turn the channel.

What a turn coat!

[John Q. Citizen]

12. It was smart politically at the time. It helped Gore win Florida.

[goclark]

13. I thought Joe was in tight with GWB nt

[John Q. Citizen]

25. Joe is a corporatist Democrat who likes to play the

"Why can't we all just non-partisanly get along?" game. I don't much like it, but Gore chosing him in a tight election where Florida is critical to win made sense.

[goclark]

28. Joey needs to move on and get a big corporate job

and stop telling lies in Iraq.

[Talismom]

15. I have the same reaction goclark, he makes me nauseous! n/t

[Canuckistanian]

14. I'm sure they have a seat on The Board all ready for him

They're warming it up as we speak...

[cmkramer]

16. Not a chickenhawk

For him to be a chickenhawk, he would've had to support the Vietnam War, which is the one he would've most likely would have had to fight in. I'm guessing he got the standard issue student deferments. I've never seen anything to indicate that he supported the War in Vietnam.

Wouldn't he more likely be a "Sunshine Patriot"? Or what do they call someone who supports a war when they aren't in any danger of ever having to fight in it?

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. No, he just agrees with their agenda 100%

But at least he was smart enough not to sign any of their documents.

Unlike the other Senator Joe. (Biden, D-MBNA, that is)

[leftchick]

21. An offshoot with the same neo-con players ...

They’re Back: Neocons Revive the Committee on the Present Danger, This Time Against Terrorism
by Jim Lobe

A bipartisan group of 41 mainly neoconservative foreign-policy hawks has launched the latest incarnation of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), whose previous two incarnations mobilized public support for rolling back Soviet-led communism but whose new enemy will be “global terrorism.”

The new group, whose formation was announced at a Capitol Hill press conference July 20, said its “single mission” will be to “advocate policies intended to win the war on global terrorism—terrorism carried out by radical Islamists opposed to freedom and democracy.”

“The Committee intends to remain active until the present danger is no longer a threat, however long that takes,” said CPD chairman R. James Woolsey, who served briefly as former President Bill Clinton’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director and has often referred to the battle against radical Islam as “World War IV.”

Woolsey appeared with Senators Joseph Lieberman, a neoconservative Democrat who was former Vice President Al Gore’s running-mate in 2000, and John Kyl, a Republican from Arizona with strong connections to the Christian Right. In a joint column published July 20 in the Washington Post, the two senators argued, “Too many people are insufficiently aware of our enemy’s evil worldwide designs, which include waging jihad against all Americans and reestablishing a totalitarian religious empire in the Middle East.”


http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0722-14.htm

[Rocknrule]

26. No, he's against violence, remember?

It teaches kids bad things. Oh wait, that's only fake violence. Real violence is OK with him. :crazy: :wtf: :argh: :dunce: :nuke: :headbang: :sarcasm: :rant: