Thursday, December 01, 2005
The Joe Lieberman Beat-Down Session
I was listening to Don Imus beat Joe Lieberman like a diseased cur earlier today. I must say listening to Imus ask Joe four or five direct and pithy questions had the beautiful sound of a pealing bell to my oft-abused ears.
Joe was for the war against Saddam. “Mistakes were made after the invasion.” Wake up Joe. The invasion WAS a mistake.
Drawing down troops has to be due to the situation on the ground, according to Joe. Joe sees a lot of progress in Iraq. Imus said he’s talked to many journalists and they all say that the situation is not getting better. Joe says that entire world thought he had weapons of mass destruction, etc., a lie I and many others before me have repeatedly debunked. But what good was removing him?
“Saddam was a mass murderer,” Joe solemnly reminded us. He supported terrorists (he paid money to families of suicide bombers, like many in Saudi Arabia do).
Imus asked Joe what evidence do we have that Saddam worked with terrorists. Saddam convened conferences with terrorists after the Gulf War and maintained contacts. Really? How about some dates, times, and names, Joe?
“I think it’s a profile in courage for me to come on this program today,” Lieberman says near the end.
“With this nonsense of course it is,” Imus laughingly replied.
Don Imus brings the pimp hand!
I enjoy humiliating a man who won office by attacking his Republican opponent from the right (“You’re closer to Fidel Castro than Ronald Reagan!”). This guy has been carrying water for the GOP for too many years. He’s also not in agreement with some people that should know. Check this quote out from Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware:
Speaking of the mess in Iraq, how many Iraqi troops are ready for mobilization? Check out this video of CNN’s Anderson Cooper pointing out more inaccuracies in the President’s most recent speech. The number is all over the map and has been for years. David Corn recently wrote a great article on this here. Why do I still have confidence that the troop withdrawal will begin next year? Mid-term elections, my friend. This war is an albatross around the neck of the administration and the GOP and they don’t care about public opinion until right before an election. Reich pointed this out on Hannity and Colmes, and he is rarely wrong on these matters.
The continued stonewalling of the Republican-controlled congress, however, will not ebb next year. The unwillingness of Congress to initiate investigations is appalling. These gangsters apparently feel that Whitewater was a more important issue to the country than the “faulty” intelligence leading to the war, the disaster of the Bremer Occupational Authority (9 billion dollars gone), and the torture of prisoners across Iraq, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
Hypocrisy hat tip to Duke Cunningham. He pled guilty to bribery charges and blubbered like a child on national TV, begging for forgiveness. This was after this typical Republican firebrand led House efforts to get a constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning, decrying flag burning on the floor as an affront to the nation. How about taking 2.4 million dollars in bribes, Duke?
Joe was for the war against Saddam. “Mistakes were made after the invasion.” Wake up Joe. The invasion WAS a mistake.
Drawing down troops has to be due to the situation on the ground, according to Joe. Joe sees a lot of progress in Iraq. Imus said he’s talked to many journalists and they all say that the situation is not getting better. Joe says that entire world thought he had weapons of mass destruction, etc., a lie I and many others before me have repeatedly debunked. But what good was removing him?
“Saddam was a mass murderer,” Joe solemnly reminded us. He supported terrorists (he paid money to families of suicide bombers, like many in Saudi Arabia do).
Imus asked Joe what evidence do we have that Saddam worked with terrorists. Saddam convened conferences with terrorists after the Gulf War and maintained contacts. Really? How about some dates, times, and names, Joe?
“I think it’s a profile in courage for me to come on this program today,” Lieberman says near the end.
“With this nonsense of course it is,” Imus laughingly replied.
Don Imus brings the pimp hand!
I enjoy humiliating a man who won office by attacking his Republican opponent from the right (“You’re closer to Fidel Castro than Ronald Reagan!”). This guy has been carrying water for the GOP for too many years. He’s also not in agreement with some people that should know. Check this quote out from Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware:
I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he's completely lost the plot or he knows he's spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he's not talking about any country I've ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting.
Speaking of the mess in Iraq, how many Iraqi troops are ready for mobilization? Check out this video of CNN’s Anderson Cooper pointing out more inaccuracies in the President’s most recent speech. The number is all over the map and has been for years. David Corn recently wrote a great article on this here. Why do I still have confidence that the troop withdrawal will begin next year? Mid-term elections, my friend. This war is an albatross around the neck of the administration and the GOP and they don’t care about public opinion until right before an election. Reich pointed this out on Hannity and Colmes, and he is rarely wrong on these matters.
The continued stonewalling of the Republican-controlled congress, however, will not ebb next year. The unwillingness of Congress to initiate investigations is appalling. These gangsters apparently feel that Whitewater was a more important issue to the country than the “faulty” intelligence leading to the war, the disaster of the Bremer Occupational Authority (9 billion dollars gone), and the torture of prisoners across Iraq, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
Hypocrisy hat tip to Duke Cunningham. He pled guilty to bribery charges and blubbered like a child on national TV, begging for forgiveness. This was after this typical Republican firebrand led House efforts to get a constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning, decrying flag burning on the floor as an affront to the nation. How about taking 2.4 million dollars in bribes, Duke?
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 8:01 PM 
