Lieberman on War in Iraq
Senator Joseph Lieberman's comments from the Wall Street Journal earlier this week:
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there . . . Progress is visible and practical . . . It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists . . . If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority . . . every time the 27 million Iraqis have been given a chance since Saddam was overthrown, they have voted for self-government and hope over the violence and hatred the 10,000 terrorists offer them . . . None of these remarkable changes would have happened without the coalition forces led by the U.S. and I am convinced almost all the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if those forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country . . . I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war . . . than they are concerned about how we continue the progress . . . What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to chose this moment in history to lose its will . . . to seize defeat from the jaws of victory . . . Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? . . . Yes we do . . . The Administration's recent use of the banner "clear, hold, and build" accurately describes the strategy as I saw it being implemented last week . . . After a Thanksgiving meal with a great group of Marines at Camp Fullajah in western Iraq, I asked their commander whether the morale of his troops had been hurt by the growing public dissent in America over the war in Iraq. His answer was insightful, instructive, and inspirational: "I guess that if the opposition and division at home gone on a lot longer and get a lot deeper it might have some effect, but, Senator, my Marines are motivated by their devotion to each other and the cause, not by political debates."
I'm sure you can "google" Lieberman and find the complete article but I'm also sure I got the most relevant stuff.
So now President Bush, at least 403 Representatives in the House including Rep. Jack Murtha, Sen. Clinton, and now the Vice Presidential candidate from the Democrat's ticket in 2000, Sen. Lieberman, all agree. The bus is getting crowded. The liberal media must be apoplectic.
Senator Joseph Lieberman's comments from the Wall Street Journal earlier this week:
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there . . . Progress is visible and practical . . . It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists . . . If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority . . . every time the 27 million Iraqis have been given a chance since Saddam was overthrown, they have voted for self-government and hope over the violence and hatred the 10,000 terrorists offer them . . . None of these remarkable changes would have happened without the coalition forces led by the U.S. and I am convinced almost all the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if those forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country . . . I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war . . . than they are concerned about how we continue the progress . . . What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to chose this moment in history to lose its will . . . to seize defeat from the jaws of victory . . . Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? . . . Yes we do . . . The Administration's recent use of the banner "clear, hold, and build" accurately describes the strategy as I saw it being implemented last week . . . After a Thanksgiving meal with a great group of Marines at Camp Fullajah in western Iraq, I asked their commander whether the morale of his troops had been hurt by the growing public dissent in America over the war in Iraq. His answer was insightful, instructive, and inspirational: "I guess that if the opposition and division at home gone on a lot longer and get a lot deeper it might have some effect, but, Senator, my Marines are motivated by their devotion to each other and the cause, not by political debates."
I'm sure you can "google" Lieberman and find the complete article but I'm also sure I got the most relevant stuff.
So now President Bush, at least 403 Representatives in the House including Rep. Jack Murtha, Sen. Clinton, and now the Vice Presidential candidate from the Democrat's ticket in 2000, Sen. Lieberman, all agree. The bus is getting crowded. The liberal media must be apoplectic.
posted by Zack at 7:48 PM
1 Comments:
Lieberman is still pissed that democrats ignored his presidential ambitions and will do just about anything to "stick it" to them. The fact of the matter is he lacks credibility having never served, nor been shot in the rear-end in Vietnam...just as Sen Kerry.
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