He's Up To It Again

From Huffington Post:

"Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn) a renowned hawk and one of the foremost champions of the invasion of Iraq, warned on Sunday that the United States faced "danger" unless it pre-emptively acts to curb the rise of terrorism in Yemen.

"Somebody in our government said to me in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, Iraq was yesterday's war. Afghanistan is today's war. If we don't act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow's war," Lieberman said, during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday". "That's the danger we face....

Lieberman also argued that the botched attack should compel the Obama administration to abandon efforts to transfer suspected-terrorists out of the holding facility at Guantanamo Bay..."

So, lets take our eyes off the ball again, and have another unwinnable war. That sounds like a really good idea.

Was there ever anyone on Earth who combined stupidity and sheer hatred for what's right in the same quantities that we see in this worthless specimen of humanity? Seriously, I'd take Charlie Manson in the Senate rather than him. At least, with that swastika on his forehead, Charlie couldn't go around lying about which side he's really on.

Comments

Derek said…
He said that we could avoid the war should we act preemptively. In all honesty, we could muscle Yemen into changing their policy. They don't have a terrorist organization running their country nor do they have a crazy dictator and therefore are more sensible. Why not flex a little to push our interests?
December 28, 2009 at 4:26 AM
magpie said…
What does "act" mean?

A hundred troops? Ten thousand? Doing what? For how long?

Lieberman has no fricking idea, because he's comfortably in the position of not having to specify what such an anything/nothing word such as "act" ("flex"?) would mean. He's just tugging the chickenhawks their daily habit of intimidation fantasy.

"yesterday's war"...oh that's sick. It really is.
'All that death is like, y'know, so last administration...'
December 28, 2009 at 6:11 AM
Derek said…
Flexing our muscle can be a number of diplomatic actions, it doesn't necessarily mean invasion. Simply maneuvering warships and carriers off the coast of Yemen while issuing statements to their government saying that we want to help eliminate terrorism in their nation but want them to be the leader in the action would suffice.
December 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Green Eagle said…
Derek, you know next to nothing about the mindset of countries in the mideast, and particularly Yemen, if you honestly believe this.

I first really became concerned about what was going on in Yemen when I lived in the mideast some years ago, and ever since, I have been waiting for it to explode. Once again, the miserable Bush administration took its eyes off the real trouble spots in order to have its war for revenge/oil, and Obama is now going to have to clean up one more of their messes, while you guys try to blame it all on them.
December 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Derek said…
"to have its war for revenge/oil,"

You have said nothing about Yemen, and you didn't explain why us showing from diplomatic pressure wouldn't help. Also, how was the war about oil when we have spent more on the war then we could have gained from oil? That's what we called a fallacy.
December 28, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Green Eagle said…
"We" spent the money on the war. The profits would have gone to Bush's real constituency, the oil companies. Two different things there, buddy.
December 28, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Derek said…
"The profits would have gone to Bush's real constituency, the oil companies."

Any evidence of the oil going to Bush's constituency? The oil fields were out of commission for quite some time after the invasion.
December 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM
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