Sen. Lieberman: US could attack some of Iran's nukes

[ECH1969]

The US is probably incapable of completely destroying the Iranian nuclear program, but as a last resort it could attempt to knock out "some of the components" in order to "delay and deter it," Senator Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice presidential candidate and a serving member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told The Jerusalem Post.

He said, there was skepticism in Congress about the likelihood of the UN Security Council taking "economic or diplomatic action."

Lieberman, who also sits on the Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, added, "The very fact that there is active discussion of the potential - this is not, you know, sort of set war plans, but the discussion of options - does say something. We've come some distance here with regard to Iran, fairly quickly, and I'm not saying that it says without doubt that there'll be military action, but there's been movement... We're taking this very seriously."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498871794&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[xultar]

1. Joe, JOE, JOE...how do you nail your coffin from the outside?

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Great line- LOL!

[xultar]

30. I was astonished by Joe's recent quote. The guy surely wants to

end his career on the lowest fuckin note on any audible scale known to animal-kind.

I was struggling with a way to describe what Joe was doing in this latest gaffe and nailing his own coffin from the outside seemed to be the only description.

[Cronus Protagonist]

23. Strangely enough, he's doing a great job of it too! n/t

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[marmar]

2. Lieberman seems to love war as much as the PNAC crew...

:argh:

[saigon68]

29. Joementum will always send someone else to die for idiocy

I could say more but I don't want to be Banned

[bemildred]

3. Brilliant.

Let's just piss them off a bit.

[saltpoint]

4. So is this a reminder to Dubya that if Uncle Don is shoved aside that

Holy Joe is available for that position?

Or is he just raving again because he thinks the Red Reich will bless him for it?

If I'm Lamont HQ this evening, I'm already issuing a blistering press release about the warmongering incumbent putting the futures of Connecticut citizens at increased risk.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Holy Joe would like to replace Rumsfeld or... Cheney

I can't believe this PNAC loving puke was in the Democratic ticket.

[saltpoint]

15. Hi, IndianaGreen. Good point. I wonder if Joe saw that he was not

going anyplace within his own party and made a decision to lean right, so that he alone would tend to stand out as the "reasonable, right-leaning" Democrat, the one lone soul in the party, etc. who would work with "the war time president" to "fight terra," etc.

Who knows? In any case, I'm kinda gettin' sick of his right-wing mouth shooting off at exactly the times we need to stick together as a party.

Nice to bump into you tonight on DU.

[IndianaGreen]

22. Nice to bump into you, too!

Holy Joe sounds more and more like Zell Miller.

[windy252]

5. Oh, that's just great

The Iran "movement."

[anotherdrew]

6. sure Joe, we could have done that with Pakistan too

I say let Iran have some nukes, maybe they'll calm down and not feel so threatened all the time and just concentrate on improving quality of life in their country.

[MissWaverly]

7. definitely a kool aid overdose

[IndianaGreen]

9. Why don't we use Holy Joe as a bomb?

Drop the sorry ass sob from a B-2 bomber head first and see what happens when his head hits the ground.

[lvx35]

11. This is such a retarded situation, why is Joe making it worse?

Iran shouldn't have nukes. Its really dangerous for Israel and pretty dangerous for US and everybody else. But lets look at the facts:
"He said, there was skepticism in Congress about the likelihood of the UN Security Council taking "economic or diplomatic action.""
really? LET'S LOOK AT WHY NOT. Could it be because wingers called them an outdated debating society, humiliated them, ignored them in starting the Iraq war? Could it be that Bush turned the world against us by trying to render them powerless? And now, lo and behold, Iran is building nukes and NOBODY WANTS TO HELP US. So all the sane options for controlling this situation fine are "off the table", because Bush fucked up. But Lieberman wants to keep nuclear first strike options "on the table", not realizing that having them "on the table" pushes other things "off the table" such as Iran co-operating and nt making them, a situation which could only happen if they didn't feel threatened.

[spindrifter]

12. Yeah, Joe, that's a great one for Trump's next

Apprentice show--you can head up the team that tries to figure out which components to attack.:puke:

[Inland]

13. *blink* Lieb. ALREADY lowering goals for striking Iran!

It took months for Bush to lower the goals for our Iraq war, but Lieberman is already making the goal of a strike merely SLOWING the Iran nuke program.

Hey, Joe, you're supposed to wait until after the strike fails before you claim that slowing down the program is what you planned all along.

If we are planning on Iran getting the bomb someday,why would we start a nuclear blood feud by killing a few thou Iranians just to slow down the bomb making? It's the reason why the Bushian strike is a bad idea, but Lieberman just makes it seem like the PLAN.

[LynnTheDem]

14. WHAT "Iran's nukes"??? Joe...please...

go fuck yourself, moran.

[Oversea Visitor]

16. Woh what super brialliant

Attacking Iran means war
You just cant bomb a country and then say Mission Accomplish
You cant win a war until you CONQUER, OCCUPY, and PACIFIED the country

Vietnam ...... pacification fails
Iraq ...... pacification in progress, hmmm last throes my ass

What is wrong with peace
Why does he loves going to war
Why dont he enlist in Iraq
Since he loves war so much

Oh well all this tough talk waste of time
Go in if you want
Fools can never get fool again..... yeah right

[joemurphy]

17. This man is a fool. Please, Connecticut, get rid of him. n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. No CT, please keep him. We don't want him to take Rummy's job

[Theres-a]

19. We're trying!

[yourout]

20. He is more Republican than alot of the ones with the big R behind...

their name.

[Jose Diablo]

35. You got it, about Joe being 'R'

Now think about this.

Somehow this poseur was selected to be on the Democratic Party ticket in 2000 as vice president. Now how did that happen if Joe is really an 'R'? Do you see a problem with this picture of reality?

Edit to add: Here is the deal. The spectrum of what parties represent in the case of making war are not that different between D and R. The war hawks are spread throughout both parties. Socially Joe is a Dem. But when it comes to war and protecting his precious Israel, well Joe loves war. It makes him rich, rich I say.

I should also say, that Joe votes social, unless it interfers with profit, then he is conservative.

[fujiyama]

21. Where are the components?

And why should I or anyone else believe that any intel they'll feed us for "evidence" won't be cooked like the last time?

Hey Joe, go fight this war yourself.

[TankLV]

24. Please, please CT - get RID of this repuke-lite!

Put a REAL Democrat in office!

[leesa]

25. Anything for his homeland, Israel. This guy's one sick MoFo.

[Zhade]

26. Notice what paper he gave this info to.

Now, consider this: Richard Perle is on the Board of Directors of the JP.

Coincidence? Surely you jest.

[genieroze]

27. Oh shaddup Senator LIEberDINO. Please switch parties!

[Tesha]

31. Why would he do that? Likud is down and out these days. (NT)

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[goforit]

32. Joe, Joe, Joe........amoral all the way!

[Roland99]

33. The last resort must remain diplomacy. NO WAR WITH IRAN!

[Arugula Latte]

34. Words can't express the contempt I have for this man.

:grr:

[Jacobin]

36. Noticeably absent from his warmongering is the discussion of

the CONSEQUENCES of such a bombing campaign.

These neo-cons (oh yes, he's a fucking neo-cons) NEVER think through their infantile actions. NEVER>

[saigon68]

40. In addition to his new Tan

He can light the way for small children

With his "Glow in the Dark" personality

[Notoverit]

37. A bit of nuclear war is like a bit pregnant Joe.

[VegasWolf]

38. Wow, the FReepers sure admire Lieberman. nt

[neuvocat]

39. I wish I lived in Conneticut

for no other reason than to vote against him.

[TexasLawyer]

41. Last resort

We've already seen what counts as a "last resort". Unbelievable.

[madmark]

42. more bullying against a non-nuclear power when a real malevolent

nuclear power, NK, continues to develop nuclear devices and perfect icbm missile technology unmolested. The unreconciliable difference in positions towards NK versus Iraq/Iran exposes the central falsity and incoherence of the Bush Iraq/Iran policy.

[anakie]

44. the real malevolent nuclear power in the world today

I am afraid to say is the good ole U S of A. Bush will see to it one is dropped somewhere before his time as pResident is up.

[madmark]

46. as long as the current idiot is in power; he is pissing away whatever

high ground our country has held.

[dolstein]

43. Actually, what Lieberman says here makes sense

Of course, the overwhelmingly pacifist DU community would naturally rule out any and all military action against Iran regardless of the circumstances.

But those of us who still live in the real world understand that force is always an option. Lieberman is particularly realistic in this regard, noting that the military option in Iran is basically limited to air strikes and that at best those strikes would delay rather than destroy Iran's nuclear capability.

Seriously, Israel knocked out Iraq's nuclear capability in the 80s when it bombed a nuclear reactor. So airstrikes have been used before.

I swear, all you have to do is put Lieberman in the subject header and DU'ers go ballistic. It really would be comical if it weren't so disturbing.

[IndianaGreen]

47. We opposed the war in Iraq, you and Holy Joe supported it

Having 2,300 GIs killed for nothing is not enough for Holy Joe so he now wants us to get more people killed for nothing again.

If this was a football team, you guys would have been fired a long time ago!

[geniph]

45. How about if we take out some of the components

of Israel's nuclear program too, while we're at it?

That be okay with you, Joe, you schmoe?

[MisterP]

48. only if he rides the first one down a la Slim Pickens

[lovuian]

49. Joe is war cheering for Bush!!!

WWIII WWIII WWIII WWIII!!!
:nuke:

He'll do ANYTHING to protect Israel!!!

Theres more than a few Israeli spyies in washington just some got caught!!!

[Canuckistanian]

50. And Joe could be "partially" committed to an institution..

I'll bet that would "delay and deter" his campaign.

[Placebo]

51. HELP DEFEAT LIEBERMAN IN THE DEM PRIMARY! SUPPORT NED LAMONT!

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If you really want to see this DINO gone come next year, we need to beat him in the primaries.

Support Ned Lamont! Contributions are encouraged.

[ckramer]

52. Why is Joe still in the Senate?

Let's elect a real democrat, please.

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