June 12, 2007
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TUESDAY POLITICS
Sorry, I couldn’t bring myself to put a photo of Joe Lieberman up, he gets on my last nerve so bad. But this morning the headline flashed by on my cable news station that he’s urging an Iran air strike so I had to do a little checking this out online. So Joe L. said on Face the Nation Sunday we should attack Iran because they’re training insurgents to come back into Iraq and attack US soldiers. Senator Harry Reid fired back as follows:
REID: I believe our efforts should be diplomatic in nature. The Iraq Study Group said that. And General Petraeus has said the war in Iraq cannot be won militarily. It can only be won politically, economically, and diplomatically.
So I would think rather than talking about military action against Iran, we should do what the Iraq Study Group said. Have a regional conference where we sit down and the president himself is personally involved with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and yes, Iran. That’s where our efforts have to be.
Right now, quite frankly, we’re so overextended — we don’t have the ability — we can send a few airplanes around the world, but as you know, our ground troops are overworked in Iraq.
So, I know Joe feels strongly about that part of the world. I do too. But the invasion of [Iran] is only going to destabilize that part of the world more. We don’t have the resources now to be involved in the situation in Lebanon, and we should be. We have, because of the Iraq invasion, totally ignored the Palestinian-Israeli situation. And with Iran, we don’t have — the Iranians are thumbing their noses at us. They know we’re overextended. And the president is very stubborn. He is not willing to sit down and meet with their leaders.
I know Joe means well, but I don’t agree with him.”I know Joe means well…”!?#* Really? Having just outhawked Bush, I would beg to differ. Are these people totally insane or what? Maybe I better get my old No War In Iraq sign out from the back of my closet and dust it off and change the “q” to an “n”. Everybody who dies over there are just letters and numbers anyway, aren’t they? And it’s time to take off for my 9:00 am dentist appointment to get my permanent crown.
Deep Thought: “The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself. Then I told myself, “Go ahead and do whatever you want, it’s okay by me.”
Today I am grateful for: Raccoons
Guess the Movie: “There’s no living with a killing. There’s no goin’ back from one. Right or wrong, it’s a brand… a brand sticks. There’s no goin’ back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her… tell her everything’s alright. And there aren’t any more guns in the valley.” Answer: Shane, 1953. Winner: soobee72.
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Comments (25)
I’ve enjoyed your post.
Thanks for letting me visit.
The people of Connecticut should really be embarrassed. Lieberman might as well run for President somewhere to the right of Sam Brownback. Of course he’s now a fan of Alberto Gonzales as well.
Re: Joe Lieberman. Ugh. That’s all. Just ugh.
The quotation sounds like Shane.
Shane … for the movie.
Shame on Liebermann. I saw the piece from Face the Nation yesterday, and about croaked. He’s been playing the game with his ball lately, but now he’s acting like a real crazy SOB.
I heard this and truly wondered what drugs this man is ingesting. Insanity. All of them.
Unbelievable! Has he gone mad? Isn’t the quagmire that we’re already in bad enough?
Shane sure nuff!
People who love war are never satisfied.
It looks like ole Joe is jockeying for the role of election saboteur again.
racoons?
This world is just a big mess!
It will be suicide action…
I went to the Air Museum in McMinnville a few months back with my dad. And I touched war planes. It was surreal. And it hit home a little harder after touching something like that. I’m with nadia_mt, it’s a mess and with messy people in charge, who’s to say when it will get better?
Sorry I’m late, but Lieberman still sucks. I do believe the Bush-Lieberman kiss was not accidental.
Just thinking, what if all the money spent on war and its infrastructure had been spent on oil discovery and building refineries ?
Oh my goodness… more war?
I am curious about the raccoons.
I hope your day is peaceful!
Diplomacy is a dying art.
Lieberman is confused as always.
I honestly believe that a number of “our” politicians are clinicly insane.
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Foolish folly. Perhaps Joe would like to step up to the plate and be the first american on Iran soil when we impliment such retarded policies. Heck, strap him to the front of a Humvie and he can be a human shield!
just stopped by as I was checking out different sites to get ideas for layouts. Read your profile – you actually mend socks? My husband’s Mom did that. I thought it was a long lost art!
I have given up trying to understand the “need for a war.” I am hoping for a miracle to bring peace to the world. What good would an air strike on Iran do anyway?
Foolish men… what passes for leadership in this country is CRIMINAL.
I would say that Joe’s idea is both dangerously naive and laughably simplistic. BUT I would also say that Reid and Co. who seem to keep using this idea of ‘the Iraq war can’t be won militarily’ have both failed to understand the context of Petraeus’ words and the situation on the ground. What the general meant was that one cannot win over there by simply rolling in by force and killing insurgents en masse. He most definitely believes in the use of military force, since he is currently both architect and commander of US forces that are currently engaged in the most complex operation since 2003, involving the largest number of troops to date. His real point is that ultimately Iraq needs to have a relatively stable political environment so that the structures of orderly government can be established. However, that will not happen until Baghdad and the outlying neighborhoods are cleared and secured, removing the insurgent and Al Qaeda In Iraq forces that are making the city one great big massacre. To do that requires a massive, sustained military operation, albet one conducted quite differently from past operations, i.e. Fallujah. As Fredrick Kagan, a key architect of the current strategy guiding the operation, testified before Congress, the order is security first, political stability second. Not the other way around. I posted his entire testimony on my site if you’re curious.
Sorry to get so long winded, but politicians who snatch the latest catch-phrases out of context and add them to an already flawed argument really get on my nerves, regardless of what letter comes after their name.
I’ve spewed as much venom about that man as I care to. Joe Lieberman can go to hell.