Lieberman's Distorted View of Iraq: Should this guy really be a Senator?

[BurtWorm]

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/08/meanwhile-iraq-unravels-even-faster.html

* Joe Lieberman's December, 2005 Wall St. Journal Op-Ed:


I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the last 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn. . . .

The leaders of America’s military and diplomatic forces in Iraq, Gen. George Casey and Ambassador Zal Khalilzad, have a clear vision of our mission there. It is to create the environment in which Iraqi democracy, security, and prosperity can take hold and the Iraqis themselves can defend their political progress against those ten thousand terrorists who would take it from them.

Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? Yes we do.

[NewJeffCT]

1. This was a focus of my LTTE a month or so back

I think I had said something to the effect that his rose-colored glasses view of an Iraq that is in civil war is either intentionally dishonest or completely divorced from reality...

[BurtWorm]

2. I don't think there's another possible option.

He's lying or looney.

[datadiva]

3. He reminds me of a scene in Independence Day

the little dweeb who kept whining about the nuke, "We don't want to just give up on this now!" He played a whiney little piss ant coward. Remind you of anyone?