Eject him

Harry Reid, don't give Joe Lieberman any chairmanships please. Just don't. He campaigned for McCain, and is pining for an Iran invasion. Why would you put one of McCain's main men in one of the most influential positions on foreign policy? He is still extricating his shit stained nose from the GOP's ass now that he sees the wind is blowing the other way. The election buzzword was change and Lieberman is anything but that.

Not likely to change much

The recent NIE that says Iran has stopped its newkyuler weapons program in 2003 probably won't change much. Bush has usually said, and is doing so almost exclusively after the report, that it is the newkyuler knowldge to make a bomb not the bombs themselves that Iran must be prevented from getting, with force if necessary according to Cheney and Lieberman, if we want to avoid WWIII. And not everbody believes the report.

Talking Heads Vol 1

Todays match-up:
George Bush vs. Joe Lieberman

Tonight's question:
The U.S. hasn't invaded or liberated a foreign country for 4 years, has the time arrived to do so again? If so, where?

"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,"




"We will disrupt the attacks on our forces... And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq." 1





"By some estimates, they have killed as many as 200 American soldiers,"



"I would like to be at the -- have been given a chance for us to explain that we have no desire to harm the Iranian people." 2




"If they don't play by the rules, we've got to use our force, and to me that would include taking military action to stop them from doing what they're doing."





"It doesn't mean force necessarily. In this case it means diplomacy." 3





"...we can't just talk to them,"



"I strongly disagree -- strongly disagree with his assessment. I have told the American people, like the Iranian issue, I wanted to solve the North Korean issue peacefully, and that the President has an obligation to try all diplomatic means necessary to do so." 2



"they'll take that as a sign of weakness on our part and we will pay for it in Iraq and throughout the region and ultimately right here at home,"



"...if I thought we could achieve success, I would sit down." ... "Look, this is a world in which -- and I'm not suggesting you're this way -- but this is a world in which people say, meet -- sit down and meet." 2





Mr. President, about Iran?



"First of all, I don't think I called for a deadline, I thought I said (timetable)," ... "I did, what exactly did I say? I said deadline? OK ... Then I meant what I said." 4





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"Listen, thank you for your time. I enjoyed it very much."