http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/02/26/lieberman/index.htmlGlenn Greenwald
Monday February 26, 2007 07:46 EST
Joe Lieberman's dishonesty: The Iraq tragedy in a nutshell
When historians endeavor to understand how America embarked on this dark and disastrous period in our history -- how we not only collectively made our worst strategic mistake by invading Iraq on multiple false pretenses, but also proceeded to re-elect the President who did that and long embraced the obvious delusion that the chaotic occupation was going well -- they can begin with this Op-Ed in this morning's Wall St. Journal by Joe Lieberman. The Op-Ed is an act of dishonesty and corruption as audacious and disgraceful as one can find.
Lieberman has stood up today to assure us that we now have a great, brand new strategy in Iraq, that the fundamental problems with our prior tactics have been fixed, and that it is therefore our duty as Americans (still) to keep our mouths shut and be led to Victory:
And a new strategy is being put into action, with thousands of additional American soldiers streaming into the Iraqi capital. . . .
If we stopped the legislative maneuvering and looked to Baghdad, we would see what the new security strategy actually entails and how dramatically it differs from previous efforts. For the first time in the Iraqi capital, the focus of the U.S. military is not just training indigenous forces or chasing down insurgents, but ensuring basic security--meaning an end, at last, to the large-scale sectarian slaughter and ethnic cleansing that has paralyzed Iraq for the past year. .lots more...........
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