Would you be surprised to learn that, of all the hundred senators willing to offer their views on Iran to a TV audience, Face the Nation picked Joe Lieberman? No? Would it surprise you to know that he said this:
"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq. And 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."
hummm. a crunchy-con. ...a strike into... over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base...
Just a minor strike, you know. No worries about retaliation. And we have good evidence too (but the general on the ground says we don't). Joe got his evidence in the chow line at the Green Zone cafeteria, where he overheard somebody saying that a friend of his was saying that a friend of a friend heard that from his NCO.
The whole lineup on the cable teevee today would make you think that the Repub/Conserv. had majority control of the Congress with 80% approval, and Bush was running 75% approval.
Interesting question: has Joementum actually contact with reality, or can he be that cynical with the lives of American forces in Iraq?
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | June 10, 2007 at 02:31 PM
damn, forgot the closing tag (yet again).
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | June 10, 2007 at 02:32 PM
haha!
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | June 10, 2007 at 02:32 PM
I've begun to think that this has become deeply personal for Lieberman - that every opportunity to get media attention becomes an irresistible opportunity to deliver a smash in the face to the faithless liberals who dared to think that free elections meant they were free to challenge him in a primary.
I hope those constituents in Conn who supported him and assured the rest of us that Joe was indeed a true liberal, and in addition, had been a critic of Bush's Middle Eastern policies, are paying attention.
BTW, my blogmate, MJS, had his own take on what to do to slow down Joementum, or at least to harness it; might amuse you.
Posted by: Leah | June 10, 2007 at 07:35 PM