Lieberman Wants To Bomb Iran
The Chicago Tribune reports today ex-Democratic, neo-Independant turncoat Senator Joe Lieberman wants to play rough with the Iranians:
"I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," Lieberman said. "And to me, that would include a strike 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."
"We’ve said so publicly that the Iranians have a base in Iran at which they are training Iraqis who are coming in and killing Americans. By some estimates, they have killed as many as 200 American soldiers," Lieberman said. "Well, we can tell them we want them to stop that. But if there’s any hope of the Iranians living according to the international rule of law and stopping, for instance, their nuclear weapons development, we can’t just talk to them."
He added, "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."
Who voted to put the troops in harms way, Joe? Who’s ultimately responsible for American deaths in Iraq? The Iranians want us out of Iraq. The Iraqis want us out - they’ve voted on it, even! Americans want the troops home. I’ll venture to say that the troops themselves would rather be home. That’s an overwhelming majority by any count.
Maybe if we start to bring home our soldiers, the American death toll will lessen. Do you think so, Joe? Maybe if we admit we screwed up Georgie’s Daddy’s War, we can start a healing process. It is a sign of maturity that a person can admit mistakes, apologize and make amends. It’s a sign of mature leadership, of sane statesmanship, too.
But you wouldn’t know about that, would you, Joe?