Lieberman: Surge of U.S. troops in Iraq is working

[bif]

Source: The Advocate

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman renewed his long-standing support for U.S. troops in Iraq on Sunday, days after a leading Republican on foreign affairs broke publicly ranks with the Bush administration.

Sen. Richard Lugar, of Indiana, said he had reached the conclusion that sticking with the current strategy will not serve U.S. security interests. He also said it is almost impossible to establish a stable government in Baghdad in a reasonable time. Other prominent Republicans, such as Sen. John Warner of Virginia, have indicated their patience is running out.

But Lieberman, I-Conn., whose support of the war cost him the Democratic nomination in his own state, said the recent surge in U.S. troops there is effective and that "we've got the enemy on the run."

"Time may be running out politically in Washington, but it's not running out in Iraq, and that's the tragedy here," Lieberman said Sunday on "This Week" on ABC. "The fact is that the surge has just been fully implemented in terms of personnel being there. On the facts, reduced violence in Baghdad and incredibly reduced violence in Anbar province to the west which Al Qaida in Iraq was in control of about a few months ago. The surge is working."

Read more: http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/07/07/lieberman-surge-of-us-troops-in-iraq-is-working/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stamfordadvocate.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fstate%2Fhc-01122603.apds.m0664.bc-ct--liebjul01%2C0%2C4707026.story%3Fcoll%3Dhc-headlines-local-w

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What a tool! Over 150 civilians were killed yesterday and he has the gall to say the surge is working. Even the Republicans are beginning to see the light.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Can the stat e of Connecticut declare him mentally insane

and lock him up there? Force him to resign in disgrace and Rell (R) should appoint Lamont in his place out of respect for the electorates.

Hawkeye-X

[ladywnch]

31. can't they at least push for a recall vote? eom

[Quixote1818]

2. Oh, for god fucking sake!

Go away Joe!:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[CountAllVotes]

3. resign/quit now HOLY JOE

:kick:

[gizmo1979]

4. Is this man on drugs?

Why the company line?I don't get it.

[phantom power]

5. Can the Democratic party officially disown him? Seriously, is there an official mechanism?

[papau]

8. Joe is pro-union and liberal on all things except insurance where he is owned by the Conn. ins co's

He is also knee jerk hawk and pro-war anywhere.

[pettypace]

30. So he's a hawkish Democrat

I wish I knew more about Lieberman's record, but going by what you say he's simply a Democrat thats hard on defense.

If 9-11/war-on-terror didn't exist, would it be fair to say Lieberman would be considered another run-of-the-mill liberal?

I'm just trying to understand if there are other issues besides Iraq that the senator agrees with the GOP on...

[Pastiche423]

33. He is NOT a Democrat

He switched parties. He is now an Independent.

[flaminbats]

52. he's a sore loser, not an independent..

Joe didn't switch, he just wasn't renominated.

Lieberman said he found the position of the leading Democratic candidates disappointing in respect to the Iraq war. Both Sens. Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama voted against the latest funding bill because it didn't have a timeline for troop withdrawal.

what funding bill? Clinton and Obama were against the CUT TAXES and MAKE SOMEONE ELSE PAY FOR IT bill! if Lieberman hopes to be taken seriously, he'll tell his friends in the White House to repeal their taxcuts.

"It does seem to me now that the leading Democratic candidates for president are competing with each other to see which one can more quickly pull more of our troops out of Iraq, while our troops are there fighting and now succeeding with a lot on the line," Lieberman said.

as we already know, Lieberman isn't hawkish or moderate..his skin is just far too thin to be called a tax and spend liberal or unpatriotic for ending a war that isn't being paid for!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

34. No, do NOT go by what papau says. Take this, for instance:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/lieberman-betrays-rape-vi_b_17312.html

Liberal? Yeah, right.

[papau]

37. Is Lieberman a conservative Republican? He is pro-choice but also

is willing to permit the religious based charities to continue to function as they have, saying that "hospitals that refuse to give contraceptives to rape victims for "principled reasons" shouldn't be forced to do so...In Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital." - per the Huffington Post link you provided.

As a poster there noted, there are limits to both free speech and to religious expression when those actions are considered contrary to the greater common good, examples being the oft used yelling fire in a crowded theater and on the religion side the outlawing of polygamy, forbidding the use of banned drugs part of public worship, and saying there is an obligation of parents to seek medical attention for children rather than relying solely on "faith healing".

Joe is on the wrong side of this issue - in my opinion at least and I suspect in the opinion of almost all on DU - but does that make him a conservative republican pretending to be a Democratic Party member ?(granted that he is now "independent" and mauy well prove to us that past positions were a sham as he turns right wing on everything in the future - but he has not done so as yet).

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

43. You said he's all liberal except for war and insurance corps.

I offered additional information for pettypace and others judge for themselves.

You think THAT was liberal of him?

[papau]

44. You are correct - Joe is not as liberal as I'd want - and the info you offered shows that - Thanks

But unless Joe is a complete con job, he also does not seem a good fit in the GOP - his knee jerk bow to the insurance companies is no worse that Gephart, and the Nelson's are more conservative on social issues.

I don't think he fits the Olympia Snowe mold either. But we will see how he plays the 08 election soon.

[MiserableFailure]

47. Yes, I'm sorry but that is awful

We need to push these Catholic hospitals around. make them do what we want them to with legislation, and if they don't comply, fine them and/or shut them down, confiscate their assets, and build new hospitals. the catholic church is very wealthy

[Zhade]

40. NEOliberal, maybe.

NT!

[kurth]

6. Sen. Joe Lieberman enjoys sticking his head in the toilet

Too bad he doesn't flush.

[aggiesal]

7. Let's drop him in the middle of Baghdad, and let him try to get out. n/t

[Vinca]

9. Lieberman is living in a parallel universe where everyone worships

King George and cheerleading is the major sport.

[proReality]

10. It would work faster...

if LIEberman would go over with the intent of staying and helping our troops accomplish the "surge".

[Cha]

11. lieman wakes up in the morning

and thinks about all the lies he's going to tell that day from his latest nightmare.

lieman is delusional that anyone would even put an iota of credence in what he blabbers to the whorepress or his little audiences.

There will be a world without lieberman and bushcheney utterings in our future? Please make it a reality!

[ixion]

12. got'em on the run, turning the corner, last throes, democracy on the march

blah blah blah blah blah and more people die in our name, using our tax dollars.

[saigon68]

24. A tool of the NeoCons -------Accorfing to Limpmann

"Freedom is on the march"

[FVZA_Colonel]

13. At this point, I don't think he can say anything but that.

I don't feel sorry for him in the least, but he's invested so much in this so far that it seems that at this point he just has to ride it out until the very end.

[MidwestTransplant]

14. Hey Jomentum, the truth will set you free.

[EST]

15. A bright light in all the slime-

Lieberman will do more to invalidate himself and to consign himself to the "dustbin of history" than anything we can do.
The m$m will not be able to rescue and resuscitate him.

Too bad he still has five and a half years to go, but, after the next election, he will be essentially irrelevant.

[BearSquirrel2]

16. I feel sorry for Joe ...

The man is positively deluded. At this rate it will be him and President Bush at the end.

What do you think the odds are that if we impeach Cheney, Bush will try to nominate Joe Lieberman to fill the VP office?

[ckramer]

17. How could Al Gore select this fool as VP?

Unbelievable!

[AlinPA]

20. That still puzzles me, What was Gore thinking?

[assclown_bush]

51. That is not a question Gore-for-president fans ask themselves...

Probably because they are afraid of the answer: When given a chance to pick a veep, Gore CHOSE unwisely.

[Joe Bacon]

18. What do you expect from a fool who floats in a LASSEIZ FAIRYLAND?

LIEberman floats up up up in the rarefied air of his LASSEIZ FAIRYLAND where the pimps who call the shots for the Nazi Republican Party reside.

If only John Edwards had stayed in the senate, we would have been able to jettison this worthless ass...

[Dem_Wit]

19. Oh yea.

We have soldiers dying every single day. We have mass numbers of innocent people being blown up every single day by suicide bombers, yea the surge is working just fine...for them!!

Bring 'em on!

Geeze what a duffo.

[Jade Fox]

21. He's becoming a better Republican than the real ones.......n/t

[jfkraus]

22. He's not supporting the troops!

"Sen. Joe Lieberman renewed his long-standing support for U.S. troops in Iraq on Sunday"

How is lying about the surge to keep the troops in harms way actually supporting the troops? They are the ones who are dying. He's supporting Bush and his policies. No media outlets understand basic logic anymore.

[emilyg]

23. Mindless ass*ole

[Maestro]

25. He makes me sick to my stomach!

At least there is an I by his name and not a D.

[orleans]

26. kill me! n/t

[Xipe Totec]

27. It's the Metamucil talking; the guy can't tell a surge from an urge. nt

[Danger Mouse]

28. Lieberman will keep his lips firmly planted on Bush's ass all the way to the gates of Hell.

Bush once said he'd keep to the path he was on even if the only ones still supporting him were Laura and his dog. He need not worry, however, because his most faithful pooch, Joe Lieberman, will always support him faithfully, no matter what. Good boy, Joe! Have a biscuit!

He is a loathsome fleck of slime and makes me want to vomit.

[truthisfreedom]

29. Time may be running out politically in Washington, but it's not running out in Iraq, and that's the

tragedy here..."

The tragedy, Joe, is you.

[blitzen]

32. Hey Joe, read the news: "Violent Weekend in Iraq kills 220"

Heck, maybe that's Joe's idea of the "surge working"


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6765628,00.html

[BenDavid]

35. Joe is meshuggener . As long

as the deaths of American soldiers increase each month since this so called "surge" went into effect, then this so called "surge" is not working.The total deaths of American soldiers has now reach 3,606....No news from the MSM even said in passing the total. I guess these deaths are only numbers as the bush white house said they were.....
7-2007 28
6-2007 101
5-2007 126
4-2007 104
3-2007 81
2-2007 80
1-2007 83
12-2006 112

What makes me angry is come later this month or in early August the main street media will begin reporting that iraq is doing better and the troop build-up is working....This of course will be a false story....but the MSM has a lot of sway with folks.....Just look at how the public perceives the new democratic congress...below 30% approval....Why? Because the MSM gives the public the same old re-wrapped version of what is not going on in Congress. Whereas they should be reporting the Dems in both Houses received the 07 budget not even passed and the dems had to take that up first before they began working on the 08 budget.....
I fault the dem leadership for not speaking out more the mess they found when they took over.Plus, also explaining about the over-sight that had been lacking for 6 years.....But no, the dems lets the repubs get out their message, and even in Saturdays address bush blamed the dems for not doing the work on the 08 budget....

I do thank you
Ben David

[samsingh]

36. liebs a freak

ironically he could have been vp.

ironically, a 'dick' cheney would have been vp even if Al Gore had assumed his rightful place as vp.

But Gore would have been able to contain his evil vp instead of joining him.

[Arugula Latte]

38. ...and the Messiah is coming back tomorrow... n/t

[LynnTheDem]

39. Sure is working!

For Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda.

[Roy]

41. Somehow delusion and lying = support for the troops?????

"Sen. Joe Lieberman renewed his long-standing support for U.S. troops in Iraq"

[SKKY]

42. Joe and Cheney must have the same speach writer...

...he's off his rocker if he actually believes the crap he's spewing. It's hard to believe that, not so long ago, I voted for a ticket with this guys name on it.

[Javaman]

45. Please someone get him back on his meds...

his constant puking and head spinning is really getting old.

[classysassy]

46. The replacement

for Zell Miller.

[Boo Boo]

48. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I - Aminsane) /nt

[assclown_bush]

49. Joe Lieberman: Al Gore's hand picked running mate for the 2000 election!

FYI:rofl:

[Skittles]

50. Skittles: Leiberman is a Class-A Bush Whore

:puke: