And I started jumping up and down on the group Dubya bench, yelling “kill” “KILL!”
I’ve just spent 10 days traveling in the Middle East and speaking to leaders there, all of which has made one thing clearer to me than ever: While we are naturally focused on Iraq, a larger war is emerging. On one side are extremists and terrorists led and sponsored by Iran, on the other moderates and democrats supported by the United States. Iraq is the most deadly battlefield on which that conflict is being fought. How we end the struggle there will affect not only the region but the worldwide war against the extremists who attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001.
Because of the bravery of many Iraqi and coalition military personnel and the recent coming together of moderate political forces in Baghdad, the war is winnable. We and our Iraqi allies must do what is necessary to win it.
Got that? The extremists who attacked us on 9-11 have something to do with Iraq, where Al Qaida incited a civil war (nearly, but not yet) and if we don’t end that struggle by killing lots more people, all the terrorists Iran controls will win, along with Iran.
Joe’s not really that stupid, but he continues to believe that you are. He also believes Connecticut is rural Alabama. And maybe enough folks from Connecticut really are that easily fooled. If so, it’s time they knew Joe’s a Communist spy who thinks Yalies are sissies and insurance companies are capitalist stooges.
December 29th, 2006 at 5:26 am
Yalies are sissies.
December 29th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Best post headline I’ve read in a long time. Sadly, I’m not sure the kiddies will get the reference.
December 29th, 2006 at 6:45 am
And they have their god-damned imple-ments of destru-ction!
December 29th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Since over 70% of Lieberman’s electoral success in 2006 consisted of Republicans looking to ensure Ned Lamont’s loss, Lieberman is still in the Senate and not representing the Democrats’ interests OR the American people’s will when it comes to Iraq. Liberman is a fool if he actually believes that “basic security” is the panacea that will lead us to some imagined improvement in our own national security. For those who have forgotten, our own national security is what this war on terror is supposed to be about. I am afraid that, as long as he continues to refer to civil war as “gang murders “, Lieberman is no more than a ghastly dreamer and a sucker that will climb on board the escalation train bound for hell and embroil our sons and dughters in Iraq’s civil war, making them accomplices in taking the lives of hundreds of thousands more innocent Iraq civilians. For the love of God, will someone please tell Lieberman he’s about three years behind when he says “If Iraq descends into full-scale civil war, it will be a tremendous battlefield victory for al-Qaeda and Iran”? If?!?! I mean, hello???? What the hell is it NOW?
To turn around the crisis we need to send more American troops
To turn around this crisis, we need to turn our troops around due west and get them the hell out of there.
In Baghdad and Ramadi, I found that it was the American colonels, even more than the generals, who were asking for more troops.
The colonels don’t want their men and women to die. It doesn’t mean they don’t hope the generals will not act like GENERALS and speak the truth about the stupidity of escalating the bloody violence in this immorally-begun disaster in Iraq. The war was wrong from the get-go and no temporary surge from a broken army will ever stop the people of Iraq from finishing this civil war, which has been happening before “our lyin’ eyes’ for three years now.
Lieberman can’t face the truth and he doesn’t have the balls to come out and say that there are some victories that can only be won only by admitting that your nation must “lose.” I strongly suggest that Lieberman read Gregory Copley’s book “The Art of Victory.” In this ever-changing world, our global survival depends not only upon our own American society’s survival, but upon our ability to cooperate with all other nations. 20th century minds like Lieberman’s are going to sow seed of Western death. We desperately need 21st century thinking or before long, we will only be resigned to the annals of history, signs of our once-brilliant ideas about democracy and leadership buried in the sands alongside those of ancient Egypt and all other societies that have suffered the same fate. While President Gerald Ford is screaming from the grave that we were wrong….while there are increasing vigils and anti-war protests out in the US heartland, Lieberman is showing us that he’s willing to have our fighting men and women kill in the name of Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, increasing the likelihood that we’ll be responsible for radically destabilizing Iraq, the Middle East… the whole oil-producing Gulf if we take Lieberman’s route.
Lieberman’s just one of the Republitards now. All of the dark obstacles in our way have been removed by Lieberman’s stunningly bold-in-the-face-of-truth attempt to re-connect the war in Iraq with 9/11. As Johnny Nash sang, “I can see clearly..”
December 29th, 2006 at 7:27 am
Senator Lieberman (McCain-Lieberman party) CT is wrong. Not one more American soldier should die or be wounded in this folly, no, travesty, no, disaster, of an occupation. First, a definition. What the hell is a full-scale civil war? Are we waiting for General Lee to march 50,000 troops to the Green Zone? If so, there will never be one. This civil war is different, a war of snipers, IEDs, and suicide bombers. More soldiers cant stop these things from happening. More American soldiers only means more targets. The Iraqi army/police force is so infiltrated that nobody has any body’s back. In addition, fake soldiers and police make it so that no one can trust that the roadblock up ahead is legal or an ambush. Soldiers will always think any war is winnable, that is how they are trained. If they aren’t winning, there is a reason too few troops, too few weapons. Maybe, if there were a half a million soldiers at the beginning of the occupation, the story would have been different. Too late for that. We are now at the Yanqui go home phase of the war. We don’t speak the language, we cant tell the good guys from the bad guys, all we can do is kill indiscriminately.
Kill them all. God will know his own.
This war was ill-conceived, ill-considered, and ill-managed. And it makes me ill to think that a US Senator is so delusional that he thinks that this can end up any other way but badly. More soldiers means more casualties, not victory. We won the war but lost the occupation. There is nothing one more soldier’s death will do to change that.
December 29th, 2006 at 7:40 am
My favorite comment in the WaPo following LIEberman’s article was from someone identified as “Open”.
He said, “Nuts.”
December 29th, 2006 at 8:24 am
That headline just jumps right out there, doesn’t it? Leave it us to pick up the garbage.
Once again I ask, what exactly is it we need east of the Rockies and south of the Alvord?
December 29th, 2006 at 10:01 am
# Thomas Ware Says:
December 29th, 2006 at 8:24 am
That headline just jumps right out there, doesn’t it? Leave it us to pick up the garbage.
Once again I ask, what exactly is it we need east of the Rockies and south of the Alvord?
Alvord?