Friday Fun: Being Joe Lieberman

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Senator Al Franken To Senator Joe Lieberman "STFU!" (paraphrasing)


 

Quote du Jour: Lieberman's Denial

In the midst of this warmongering editorial about scary Iran, AIPAC shill Joe Lieberman (who's not ruling out backing a Republican for president in '08) writes:

Iran's actions in Iraq fit a larger pattern of expansionist, extremist behavior across the Middle East today.

Memo to Joe: you misspelled the United States'.

The United States' actions in Iraq fit a larger pattern of expansionist, extremist behavior across the Middle East today.

And did someone ask for a side order of fearmongering? Coming right up:

Our objective here is deterrence. The fanatical regime in Tehran has concluded that it can use proxies to strike at us and our friends in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine without fear of retaliation. It is time to restore that fear, and to inject greater doubt into the decision-making of Iranian leaders about the risks they are now running.
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The threat posed by Iran to our soldiers' lives, our security as a nation and our allies in the Middle East is a truth that cannot be wished or waved away.

And just how are you going to "restore that fear", Joe? By bomb, bomb, bombing Iran? Also, perhaps you could explain to me in 25 words or less how Iran is a threat to your "security as a nation"? I assume you're talking about the US there, right? Sometimes I get confused because you seem to advocate on behalf on your adopted country of Israel more than your actual country of birth (not unlike the neocons, I'd add).

You see Joe, Iran is not a threat to the security of the United States any more than Saddam was. Then again, you were a big cheerleader for that war too (and still are, obviously), so I guess your delusions are too firmly entrenched to change at this point. Fearmonger away. Just don't expect it to work this time.
 

Specter Gives Lieberman A Lesson On Foreign Policy

Someone needs to throw Joe off the bus already. At least he's not wearing that "D" behind his name anymore.

And...via Think Progress (watch the video):

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), who traveled last week with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as part of her delegation to the Middle East, said this morning on C-Span that Pelosi told Bush of the trip to Syria a day before they left, and Bush did not object.

Rahall said, “The Speaker had met with President Bush in the halls of the U.S. Capitol just the day before we left and mentioned to him that we were going to Syria. No response at all from the President.”

Despite the White House’s public rhetoric that the trip was a “bad idea,” President Bush “did not tell her not to go, nor did the State Department tell us not to go,” Rahall said. “The State Department was certainly aware of our traveling to Syria and our full itinerary. And there were State Department officials in every meeting that we had on this codel. So that is all hogwash as far as I’m concerned.”

So, that was all much ado about nothing, obviously.
 

Quote du Jour: Delusional Lieberman

"What's happening in Iraq today does not look like failure to me."

That's what Joe Lieberman - Independent wanker and Bush bootlicker - said on the floor of the senate today.

What exactly does failure look like to you, Joe?

I'd say it look a lot like this: Tuesday: 103 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed, 31 Wounded