Lieberman: U.S. Prepared for Iran Strike dispite Iraq and Afghanistan

[ECH1969]

"It's good that we're working with Britain, France and Germany," Lieberman said, listing the Europeans that have led U.S.-backed negotiations with Iran, "but their pace is too slow."

He called for the matter to be referred immediately to the United Nations Security Council, not first sent back to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog.

Lieberman, an intelligence committee member who is considered hawkish among Democrats, said not only that the United States should keep the military option on the table, but also that it had the military capability to continue fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq while launching a complex air attack on scores of Iranian nuclear targets.

"We've got to be prepared to take military action," he said on CBS-TV.

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/01/22/news/policy.php

[Cooley Hurd]

1. What are the odds that Iran will invade Iraq following an airstrike?

:shrug:

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. I doubt that is likely, but we will almost certainly lose any clout with

the Shiite majority and probably have a major uprising on our hand by the majority group

[wakeme2008]

2. Why oh why did Gore pick this asshole for a running mate nt

[cornermouse]

5. Good question.

I've wondered that one a lot.

[BuyingThyme]

3. Neo-con monster.

[rooboy]

4. Joemental. n/t

[rodeodance]

6. "Reflecting the split among Republicans"--I like seeing 'split' & "Repug"

in the same sentence.


.....Reflecting the split among Republicans, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, the intelligence committee chairman, said Sunday that talk of the military option was premature, saying on CBS-TV that "at this particular time, I just do not think that is any kind of an alternative."

Of bin Laden, Roberts said, "I don't think he's quite as relevant as he used to be." But bin Laden's threats to strike the United States again, he said, should be taken seriously.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz of Pakistan, who is in the United States for meetings with administration officials, insisted Sunday that his government had not been warned of an air attack Jan. 13 that killed at least 18 people but missed Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is believed to have been the target.

[HereSince1628]

7. Am I right to think the percieved Iranian nuclear threat is of 2 parts?

Well, at least two parts.

1. Our number 1 friendly state in the region feels threatened.

2. A nuclear Iran would be capable of powerfully backing up the use of its oil trade as a weapon.



I have no clue if Lieberman places one of these before the other.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. "but also that it had the military capability to continue fighting in"

How many of Joe's kids will die in his wars?

[Mutley]

10. Why? Why does Lieberman bother calling himself a Dem? Why?!?

Wouldn't it be better for all of us if he would just switch to that (R) already?

[drduffy]

11. it's the oil bourse

the real question I have is why has the iranian pres. fanned the flames. What is his strategy?

[FreedomAngel82]

12. And how are they going to do it?