Senator "Lie"berman the bi-party man says "Bomb Iran!"
Senator "Lie"berman the bi-party man says "Bomb Iran!"
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Senator "Lie"berman the bi-party man says "Bomb Iran!"#1
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:44am
Though Al-Qaeda and Iran hate each other, apparently they are one (according to Lieberman).
Apparently the GOP has changed it's tune on Iran and now instead of bombing Iran for an alleged Nuclear weapons plan we will bomb them for being Al-Qaeda.... um....
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Senator Lieberman advocates military strike on Iran David Edwards and Josh Catone
Published: Sunday June 10, 2007
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) on CBS's Face the Nation this morning laid out a case for the US taking military action against Iran.
"Iraq is now the main front in the long war we are fighting against the Islamist terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. In fact 90% of the suicide bombers in Iraq today killing Iraqis and American soldiers are foreign Al Qaeda fighters. Iran is training and equipping soldiers, Iraqis, to come in and kill American soldiers and Iraqis," said Lieberman.
Host Bob Schieffer then asked Lieberman what the United States should do about Iran.
Lieberman said that Iran is at war with the US and "the moderates" and that while he supports sitting down and talking with the Iranian government, that might not be enough.
"If we're going to sit and talk with the Iranians, tell them what we want them to do, which is to stop doing that because it's killing Americans, we can't leave it at that. I think we have to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," he said. "To me that would include a strike into, over the border into Iran where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers."
"Let's just stop right there," said Schieffer. "You're saying that if the Iranians don't let up that the United States should take military action."
"I am," replied Lieberman. "If they don't play by the rules we've got to use our force and to me that would include taking military action to stop them from doing what they're doing."
The following video is from CBS's Face the Nation, broadcast on June 10
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Senator_Lieberman_advocates_military_strike_on_0610.html
re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#2
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:48amPlease vote in my No-Confidence thread.
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re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#2
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:56am
Remeber this PJ:
"If we end up with a clear Democratic lead in the House and Senate and it has to include Sloppy Joe, I can live with that.
Hell, if we end up with a Democratic House and a tied Senate or even just a diminished Republican senatorial lead, I can live with that too.
AS LONG AS WE BREAK THE YOKE OF THE DESTRUCTIVE REPUBLICAN HEGEMONY. "
re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#3
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:05amI remember. But all that was before Raul Esparza lost the Tony.
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re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#4
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:11amI don't even know who that is.
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re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#5
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:13amPJ - you are too much!
re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#6
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:15amHow the hell can you be posting on a theater board--even off topic--and not know who Raul Esparza is?!?
re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#7
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:28am
As a Connectciut resident I am embarassed of Joe Lieberman! Ned Lamont would have been the best choice for the country!!
I asked myself this question just yesterday.Is it really worth having lieberman, just to maintain the majority in the Senate? We have had control for six months, and when push came shove very little has happened
Setting the agenda in the Senate appears to not accomplish that much when you don't have the votes to do anything with it.
The House is another story, and in 2008 when we take back the Senate in a BIG way lieberman will be history!
(Gimmie a nice wet one girlfriend!)
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re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#8
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:36am
No I don't know who he is. I dont usually pay attention, I think I saw him in Rocky.
Anyways like I said in another thread, winning a Tony would have done nothing for his career.
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re: Senator 'Lie'berman the bi-party man says 'Bomb Iran!'#9
Posted: 6/11/07 at 3:32pm
More lies from today:
General: Iran aids Karzai, maybe Taliban
By JASON STRAZIUSO and JOHN DANISZEWSKI,
Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 39 minutes ago
In an interview with The Associated Press, U.S. Army Gen. Dan McNeill said Taliban fighters are showing signs of better training, using combat techniques comparable to "an advanced Western military" in ambushes of U.S. Special Forces soldiers.
Iran's possible role in aiding insurgents in Iraq has long been hotly debated, and last month some Western and Persian Gulf governments charged that the Islamic government in Tehran is secretly bolstering Taliban fighters.
"In Afghanistan it is clear that the Taliban is receiving support, including arms from ... elements of the Iranian regime," British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in the May 31 edition of the Economist.
Iran, which is also in a dispute with the West over its nuclear program, denies the Taliban accusation, calling it part of a broad anti-Iranian campaign. Tehran says it makes no sense that a Shiite-led government like itself would help the fundamentalist Sunni movement of the Taliban.
McNeill, the commander of 36,000 soldiers in NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, said indications on the ground cut both ways.
There is "ample evidence" Iran is helping Karzai's administration, particularly with road construction and electricity in western Afghanistan, he told the AP.
But he added that he wouldn't doubt Iran may also help the Taliban and other political opponents of Karzai.
"So what does that add up to? It makes me think of a major American corporation that will give political campaign money to three or four different candidates for president of the United States," he said. "Somebody is going to come out on top. This corporation wants to be aligned with whoever comes out on top."
McNeill, a 60-year-old, four-star general from North Carolina who has fought in most American conflicts since Vietnam, said he had no hard evidence the Iranian government has helped the Taliban. He said munitions, particularly mortar rounds found on Afghan battlefields, "clearly were made in Iran," but said that does not prove the Iranian government is formally involved.
"If I had the information, I would have no reservation about saying it," he said.
In a separate interview Monday, the Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan rejected the accusation that his government aids the Taliban.
"This is not correct," Mohammad R. Bahrami told the AP at his embassy. "The return of extremism in Afghanistan will affect not only Afghanistan and the region, but the entire world."
Bahrami claimed the U.S. and Britain are making the accusation as an excuse to "justify their failures" in Afghanistan, such as the increasing opium poppy production and the resurgence of the Taliban.
Insurgents have stepped up the pace of suicide and roadside bombings from last year, which saw the most violence since the Taliban was toppled in late 2001. More than 2,200 people, many of them insurgents, have died in fighting this year, according to an AP count based on U.S., NATO and Afghan reports.
McNeill said NATO forces under his command pursued a successful offensive this spring against insurgents, but he acknowledged Taliban militants are showing signs of improved training.
For instance, they have advanced on U.S. Special Forces in recent months after staging ambushes in tight terrain between high ground and a river, a complex military maneuver that McNeill termed "surprising."
"We have now seen them shoot and maneuver a couple times in ways we haven't seen before. Where that's coming from I'm not exactly certain," he said. "But they have used some versions of fire and maneuver that makes one think of an advanced Western military."
There also has been speculation Taliban fighters are adopting tactics used by insurgents in Iraq, and McNeill said he wouldn't rule out that they are coordinating their efforts. But he stressed he didn't have any information to state conclusively that is happening.
NATO forces gained a major victory in Afghanistan last month with the killing of Mullah Dadullah, who was deemed the top Taliban commander.
McNeill said Dadullah had attained "iconic" status among some Afghans, but his reputation had begun to wane after the distribution of videos showing his participation in beheadings of enemies and his encouraging a 12-year-old boy inside Pakistan to behead an alleged spy.
While withholding details about how Dadullah was tracked down, McNeill said it was the "ego" of the Taliban commander that led to his death.
"It was my view that any of these Taliban leaders, especially Dadullah, if they ever left their sanctuaries, especially if they came into Afghanistan, that their egos would be their undoing. In Dadullah's case that was a large part of it," McNeill said, alluding to the belief that Dadullah and other insurgents have operated from bases in Pakistan's tribal region.
McNeill said NATO forces have slightly reduced the number of insurgents flowing into Afghanistan from Pakistan, but he gave no details.
"We have stemmed it a tad. Have we stemmed it greatly? I'm not in a position to say that's the case," he said. "Do I continue to be worried about what's coming over the border? The answer is yes."
McNeill painted an optimistic picture of the development of the Afghan National Army, now approaching the fifth anniversary since its first battalions were trained.
The Afghan army has made "tremendous strides" and is taking the lead in a new operation in Ghazni province, he said. Recruitment is up from 600 soldiers a month last year to more than 2,000 a month this year, McNeill said.
"When I see how they are moving and shooting on the battlefield today, I realize how far they have come and how more advanced they are," he said.
"That does not mean game over, time for us to go home. But I think that quite possibly the fighting season next year, maybe some fighting units will be operating independently."
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Associated Press writer Alisa Tang contributed to this report.
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