Rep Rob Simmons R-CT(2nd District), Sen. Joe Lieberman stress united front

[Larkspur]

Simmons said those responsible for Tuesday's attack are 'anti-Western in every respect.'

from The Norwich Bulletin
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20030820/localnews/92591.html

Tuesday's suicide bombing of the United Nation's headquarters in Baghdad is indicative of the importance of the United State's efforts to root out the remaining factions of Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, R-2nd District, said.

"One would presume that if those remaining members of Hussein's regime were simply anti-American that they wouldn't be attacking U.N. representatives," Simmons said. "What this demonstrates to me is that these unconventional forces are anti-Western in every respect, willing to kill and disrupt."
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U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., agreed.

"The bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad is a powerful reminder that terrorism is not directed at the United States alone, but against the world community of freedom-loving peoples," Lieberman said.

Simmons, who spoke with the Norwich Bulletin by phone from Florida where he is attending a congressional field hearing on health care, said the world community must unite and eliminate those elements "fighting the last battles of the war."
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The World didn't want this frick'n war Simmons and Lieberman.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. can't be said enough times

Lieberman is a slimy ass.

[malachi]

10. Lieberman is a slimy ass.

[Voltaire99]

23. Lieberman is a slimy ass.

With Dems like him, who needs Republicans?

[Chico Man]

2. One must ask: "Who is anti-UN?"

The current administration?

[lcordero]

3. Heh!

You can keep your aggressive looting and raiding war on brown people, Joe.
Screw you, Joe.

[Khephra]

4. More examples of the simplistic thinking that got us into this mess

and the same type of reasoning that starts ethnic/religious/culture wars.

[revcarol]

5. Is there something in the water there?

SOOOO SICK....SOOOO SICK....

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Something is very wrong here.....

......these comments sound very much like the things Maria Cantwell was saying on TV last night. It's like they all seem to be reading from the same PNAC cue cards.

This whole thing is beginning to smell like a fucking setup :grr:

[lumpy]

7. These fools in position of power

don't know what the facts are any moreso than we do, and probably less since we are not in the business of spending time campaigning for the next election. It is amazing how little our pols/ representatives know about what is going on in the world. They pick a stance and run with it neglecting to investigate any situation in depth. Scan the headlines, make a statement, that's it.

[lanlady]

8. Our elected reps think the world is waiting with baited breath

to hear pearls of wisdom dripping from their mouths.

This is why we're up the creek without a paddle. Too many clueless assholes like Lieberman.

[the masses against the classes]

9. the Bush administration

with support from Lieberman have been more than "willing to kill and disrupt"...I guess it all depends what side you are on to whether killing and disrupting is allowed...

[GainesT1958]

11. Al Quaeda didn't have a presence in Iraq BEFORE the war...

But, boy, it suuuuure does now!:mad:

Thanks, of course, to Dub, Grumpy Rummy, Wolfowitz, Perle, and the rest of the Neo-Con Liars Club! :grr:

Don't you know what all the families of the U.N. staffers killed yesterday would like to give Dub as a "thank-you note" today? :mad:

And "Brutus" Lieberman can take his thinly-veiled anti-Arab racism and SHOVE IT! :nuke:

B-)

[jiacinto]

12. More double standards

But then again, even though Kerry and Edwars voted for the war resolution, I guess Lieberman is to be singled out because he is Jewish and is pro-Israel.

[lumpy]

15. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say

Lieberman is pro-Sharon.

[eablair3]

26. what's wrong asking about the effect of his being jewish and pro-Israeli

there are a whole host of reasons that "Lieberman is a slimy ass." Most of them have to do with his DLC role and his support of big business interests, and has nothing to do with his being Jewish and pro-Israel.

but, what's wrong with making that part of the discussion and asking what his being Jewish and pro-Israel will have and has had on his performance? Isn't that something that should be on the public debate table? It's an issue as well.

As far as the "pro-Israel" part of your comment, I don't happen to think we should be supporting Israel like we do. Why is this topic not being brought up in the mainstream media? Why can't this be debated in the open? Israel is after all a FOREIGN country. On top of that it's country that brutally occupies and suppresses a people that they kicked off their land. And, on top of that, Israel has been taking more land and building even more civilian settlements today on the land that the Palestinians were kicked to. They call these civilian settlments "buffer zones" and then it makes comments about the Palestinian "terrorists" hiding behind women and children. Seems to me like these settlements Israel's putting up is putting women and children in harms way. And, then that makes for an excuse for the Israeli military to move in. It's still building those settlements today. And, Lieberman supports this? Why is this topic not on the table?

As far as his being Jewish, why isn't that one of the issues that is open for discussion? It's an issue when someone like Bush is a fundamentalist Christian. It's an issue when the attorney general William Pryor from Alabams (iirc) is a Catholic. Pryor is the attorney genreal from the south iirc that was up for a federal judge position, and he was questioned right in the Senate Judicial Committee about his religion and his being a Catholic. I think Charles Schumer even quesitoned him on that. Many others are questioned about their religion and the affect it will have on their performance in the offices that they seek. Why is Joe Lieberman being Jewish not similary talked about? What does Joe Lieberman's religion mean for foreign policy and the U.S. support of the "jewish state" of Israel? It's a legitimate issue to be asked about and debated. Why is Leberman not being asked about the affect that his being Jewish will have on his support for the jewish state of Israel?

It's far from the only issue that should be discusses with Jumpin Joe, but it's certainly one of them, imho.

btw, do you know if Joe Lieberman is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel? I know that Jewish persons from anywhere automatically are granted citizenship in Israel when they step foot on Israeli soil. This was an issue recently brought up in the media wrt Arnold S .. his possibly being a dual citizen of Austria and the U.S. Is it not legitimate to ask that wrt Lieberman?

[AndyTiedye]

18. Northern Iraq was not under Saddam's Control

> Al Quaeda didn't have a presence in Iraq BEFORE the war...

There has been some evidence that there was.

The trouble is, that was in NORTHERN Iraq. The no-fly zone.
The autonomous area that Saddam didn't control.

Al Quaeda was operating in Iraq under *our* protection!

[Jacobin]

13. Holy Joe's Holy War Going Just Fine According to Holy Joe

I wish he would put a sock in it.

Everytime I think I pulled the lever for him as VP I get nauseous.

Scumbag Warmongering PNACer from Hades.

[Mari333]

14. How many more blow jobs, Joe?

The GOP stands in a line, waiting for you every day when you open your mouth, and you always accomodate them.

[dolstein]

16. It's a good thing DU'ers are willing to stand up for terrorists

After all, with right-wing fascist John Ashcroft at the Department of Justice, and Holy Joe LIEberman working his Israeli mojo on the foreign policy establishment, terrorists just can't get a fair shake any more.

[Sagan]

17. He sounds just like Chimpy...

I try not to bash Holy Joe, but come on...

Can we get some honest assessment of our policies and their results, please?

[SideshowScott]

19. United front only if you bow down before the right they mean...

Who is lieberman fooling really!?!?! Oh sure they want a united front as long as the GOP gets thire way..Lieberman condems anyone left of MaCain and does not want any of the MANY MANY voices of the left heard..
Lieberman has NO chance of becomeing the democratic nomiee and if he does he wont win beacuse he wont have to support of anyone on the left. Beacuse as 2002 has shown repub-lite wont win..

[Lori Price CLG]

20. Joe LieberBush is sickening...

Mega barf alert!
Joe LieberBush needs to switch parties as he is a Republican in Democratic clothing.

-Lori

[jiacinto]

24. Another dishonest statement

Then again why doesn't it suprise me? People don't care about the facts when it comes to Lieberman.

[Rose Siding]

25. Lieberman is a chickenhawk

And that's a fact; an old man who sends our youth to die for lies.

[rooboy]

21. I have a question...

why does the media persist in putting a 'D' after Joe Lieberman's name?

[lumpy]

22. Interesting, the Repubs praying Lieberman

will get the nomination. They know he would not get elected.