What's Going On Here Joe?
Joe Lieberman: U.S. Prepared for Iran Strike
Newsmax:
Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to deal with the Iranian nuclear crisis militarily - even if the war in Iraq continues to require a substantial American troop commitment.
"We have the most powerful military in the history of the world," Lieberman told CBS's "Face the Nation."
Joe Lieberman (D) Conn.
"We are capable, if necessary, of continuing to pursue our aims militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere and, if necessary, conduct a military attack on Iran."
Lieberman said the he hoped an attack on Iran, if it should come, would be carried out "with the assistance of our coalition allies in Europe." But he noted that any assault on Iranian nuclear facilities "would be primarily an air attack. It's not going to involve massive use of ground forces."
Asked about reports that the U.S. would let Israel take the lead in any attack against Iran, the Connecticut Democrat told CBS:
"The United States is a strong enough country that we never want to be in a position to have to essentially contract out protection of our national security, vis-a-vis Iran, to another country like Israel."
He noted also the Israelis "don't have the same aircraft capacity that we do, capable of doing it."
Lieberman said that while the military option remains a last resort for the U.S., "I want the people who lead Iran to understand that it is on the table. We deem their pursuit of nuclear weapons to be dead serious."
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Joe Lieberman is one of the extreme few Democrats I actually like.
But Joe, you Democrats pick NOW? to get ambitious???
Newsmax:
Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to deal with the Iranian nuclear crisis militarily - even if the war in Iraq continues to require a substantial American troop commitment.
"We have the most powerful military in the history of the world," Lieberman told CBS's "Face the Nation."
Joe Lieberman (D) Conn.
"We are capable, if necessary, of continuing to pursue our aims militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere and, if necessary, conduct a military attack on Iran."
Lieberman said the he hoped an attack on Iran, if it should come, would be carried out "with the assistance of our coalition allies in Europe." But he noted that any assault on Iranian nuclear facilities "would be primarily an air attack. It's not going to involve massive use of ground forces."
Asked about reports that the U.S. would let Israel take the lead in any attack against Iran, the Connecticut Democrat told CBS:
"The United States is a strong enough country that we never want to be in a position to have to essentially contract out protection of our national security, vis-a-vis Iran, to another country like Israel."
He noted also the Israelis "don't have the same aircraft capacity that we do, capable of doing it."
Lieberman said that while the military option remains a last resort for the U.S., "I want the people who lead Iran to understand that it is on the table. We deem their pursuit of nuclear weapons to be dead serious."
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Joe Lieberman is one of the extreme few Democrats I actually like.
But Joe, you Democrats pick NOW? to get ambitious???
posted by Marie's Two Cents | 1:37 PM
7 Comments:
George W: meaner than Nixon, dumber than Ford.
anonymous is just a mean, dumb poster.
clinton - monica
bush - iraq
which is harder to swallow?
Good point Anon, I better leave the that answer to Monica! She did pretty well at swallowing from what I understand!
"She did pretty well at swallowing from what I understand!"
while urban lengend has it that the former president did have a rather large phallus, i find it hard to believe that it was the size of a war-torn nation. hell, it probably wasn't even the size of that nation's oil reserves....
KEvron
I am still failng to see what any of this has to do with Joe Lieberman getting Ambitious about going to war with Iran!
I mean this hasnt even gone to the UN (Worthless as they are) Security council and Lieberman think's we should go marching into Iran right this minute! Stunning.
i fail to see what it is you are failing to see. i'm simply following the conversation, as best as i can understand it.
KEvron
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