Lieberman uses the foiled UK terror plot to attack Lamont

[sabra]

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-101...

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Lieberman also compared the terror plot to the Iraq war.

"If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again."

[Kutjara]

1. I think Joe has been reading Berlusconi's book on grace in defeat. n/t

[TAPat]

2. Just one emoticon for that...

[MrCoffee]

3. Wow that happened fast!

Didn't the Falafel King say the same thing this morning?

[mom cat]

44. KKKarl must have written it last night.

[Generator]

4. Someone should ask him

How our national guard and soldiers being in Iraq keeps terrorists off planes?? I can't figure that out!

[MrCoffee]

9. ony one thing keeps them off the planes.

Samuel L. Jackson.


Nuff said.

[TAPat]

26. We got MF alerts on the MF planes! nt

[progressivebydesign]

5. He IS Karl Rove. better suits, but he's the same guy. n/t

[WI_DEM]

6. this is predictable and the same line as Bush peddles

[Hugin]

7. Jeeze, only this morning there were people on DU telling me this had...

nothing to do with Lamont/Lieberman.

[jonnyblitz]

14. NO, we were saying we doubted the UK was involved in an

international plot to take the Lamont thing off the news. NOBODY said that Lieberman and the GOP wouldnt use this news to do some spinning!!! don't be so sloppy.

[Hugin]

20. Sorry, this loss of 'personal hygiene supplies' has upped my sloppiness.

[jonnyblitz]

36. LMFAO!!

[unpossibles]

28. but then it turned out that the US apparently tipped off the UK

about the immediacy of it.

[jonnyblitz]

35. I didn't know this at the time of my post. nt

[TankLV]

64. Noticed that too, huh? Seems like they're NOWHERE to be found now.

I wonder why!...

To every single one of those asswipes I have nothing but condemnation and a few choice words to say to them...

[Tin Man]

8. Joe is now channeling Darth Cheney

...what a fucking traitor to Democrats.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. Darth Cheney. I must remember that.

I agree.

And bonkers, totally bonkers!

[Rex]

10. Ya know...

naw...fuck Joe, fuck Joe in the ear with a corncob. So...is Joe on Bush's 'side' now? Spewing the fear-mongering we are so use to watching from the RWingers?

I see a Zell-Lieberman ticket in 2008. It would be entertaining.

[Bretttido]

29. Traitor Joe is filled with corn!

[Avalux]

11. Cheney said the same thing this morning.

I don't EVER want to hear the name Lieberman associated with the Democratic Party again.

[PaDem]

12. Think about the logic here..........

we pull out and get out of "their" business and they will be more inclined to attack us. But, if we stay and continue to dump gasoline on the fire "they" will be inclined to leave us alone.

[PegDAC]

52. It's only logic

in the Orwellian sense.

[TayTay]

13. What a jerk

I hope that Mr. LAmont asks Sen. Lieberman in return exactly what he has done in Congress to make the borders more secure. Which airports in Connecticut or in neighboring states have had increased security added to them or better detection material.

Hasn't all that money gone to Iraq? Lieberman is the sitting Senator, he, not Lamont bear the responsibility for making thimgs better, especially since Lieberman is the one with the 'security credentials.'

[countingbluecars]

15. Shame on Lieberman.

How low can he go?

[IChing]

16. kIcked nominated and linked to this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[wisteria]

17. Oh, no surprise here, he will be feeding off all the Repub crumbs. n/t

[Iniquitous Bunny]

18. Lamont not agreeing on BushCo's foreign policy has nothing to do with this

Actually, the policies of BushCo have made things more dangerous for us. He continually ignore the real dangers and goes after some other agenda.

Not supporting the war in Iraq means nothing in terms of unwillingness to fight terrorism.

Important reminders:

What did Iraq have to do with 9/11? Nothing.

Where's Bin Laden? I sure as Hell don't know either.

Are our ports secured? Um... Don't think so.

BushCo and Lieberman have have five years here. Five years! Measures in place to make us safer are not there and our entire military is off fighting some war we never needed to fight in the first place.

[calico1]

19. I guess Lieberman has been away from CT

for so long that even now, he has no clue. We voted him out mainly because of his clueless positions. I hope he continues this "terra, terra, terra" campaign. It will only help Lamont.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. He's been reading the Repubs ads again.

[ComerPerro]

23. trying to get a book deal and gigs at RNC meetings

maybe Faux News will offer him a job.

[izzybeans]

24. So Iraq had something to do with 9/11 Joe?

[Individualist]

25. Surprise, surprise

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=vi...

[mhatrw]

27. Breaking: Joe hires Karl Rove as his new campaign manager.

Terror Alert at 11:00.

[Horse with no Name]

30. Someone ought to point out to Ass-joe

That this was OBVIOUSLY planned WAY before Lamont won.
On his watch--that's why he needs to go.
He can't keep us safe.

[WiseButAngrySara]

31. Hey Joe, MOVE to Israel where your true allegiances are! ....n/t

[Nikki Stone 1]

32. If we ever had any doubts about this clown....

...

[BlueStater]

33. And staying in Iraq will make us less likely to be attacked...how exactly?

What an ass. Now he's using GOP talking points.

Get over it. You lost. Be a man and suck it up.

Political debate has really deteriorated since the time of Lincoln. I can't believe a US senator would say such stupid, simplistic, and defamatory shit.

[MAX 1]

34. LIEberman

A page out of the Rovian textbook

Lieberman:
He voiced his opinion against the war BEFORE he supported the war.

Rove calls LIEberman and offers his help.
HELP???

Fear mongering 101
Admonishment mongering 101
Democrat mongering 101

WTF Joe, you don't care about the Democratic party, otherwise you wouldn't label them as "LEFTISTS"
WTF Joe, you don't care about the Democratic party, otherwise you wouldn't undermine the party with divisive rhetoric.
WTF Joe, you don't care about the Democratic party, otherwise you wouldn't perpetuate the disunity that the GOP proclaims exists in the DNC.
WTF Joe, you don't care about the Democratic party, otherwise you wouldn't talk like a Republican.

[DemonFighterLives]

70. Welcome to DU!

Joe is waiting for his little kiss from rover.

[InvisibleTouch]

37. What in the worlds...

...did Al Gore ever see in this guy????

[Imagevision]

38. Bring the troops home ASAP then fight the real terror war instead of

getting involved in nation building.

[cyclezealot]

39. Dont let him get away with such bs

Our war on the world. Never has the US been so hated by so many overseas. And Bush is the cause. The way to lessen tension is not war, but diplomacy as the first course of action.

[truebrit71]

40. Hey Joe, you stupid idiot what does the Iraq war have to do with 24 Brits.

...in London and Birmingham?


How about absolutely FUCK ALL?


Your head is soooooooooooooo far up *'s rectum you can't see straight....


I am THRILLED that CT Dems kicked your pathetic arse to the curb.

[stevedeshazer]

51. Well said, friend.

Liberal Americans love a good arse-kicking.

[MODemocrat]

41. OMG, Lieberman really is a Republican, just as I thought

He's still in love with Bush, and coming off sounding just like an echo of Cheney; who by the way, is
brain-dead.

[Hoping4Change]

42. I would live to know Gore's reaction to all this.

[mtnester]

43. Blowback - "Joe, what committee do YOU sit on? Should we not be

blaming YOU for this? Think about it bud...and what about your new found friends? Are they not in CHARGE right now and have been for quite some time? So, howya think they are doing on making us safer in this world?"

Kids, the Repubs are in charge and the Dems should be shoving this back RIGHT into the facesd of the Repubs....the unsafe situation we have is on YOUR watch dammit...YOUR EFFING WATCH!

[loveandlight]

45. Joe theme for the election is going to be the Repub theme

This just proves what we all know, Joe is a Repub at heart. He will take all the Repub talking points and use them endlessly against Lamont until election day. He doesn't get that this is exactly why he lost! How does the saying go... a crazy person is someone who keeps doing the same thing over and over even though it gets no new results. Down he goes on this kind of theme, I hope, as he did in the primary

[Zech Marquis]

46. speechless

I can't believe just how quickly these mouthbreathers are exploiting today's events and to think that once I actually lIKED Joe Blow makes his statements even worse

[bigwillq]

47. Give it up Joe.

Your choice of words make you a prime candidate for an anchor job at Faux Snooze.

[pyro858]

48. The Lieberman Strategy Has Worked Great

Hasn't it? Why did joe really vote for the Iraq war?

[UrbScotty]

49. I'm so proud of Lieberman

I think I'll move to CT just to vote for him!!!!

[xchrom]

50. lieberman is a tapeworm.

trying to suck a living off of the american people in every manner that is exactly like bushco.

a mendacious and deceitful parasite, that's joe lieberman.

[Peanutcat]

53. Well.

That didn't take long, did it?

[Bette Noir]

54. Moderate?

My local newspaper keeps referring to Lieberman as a
"moderate." As near as I can tell from his words
and actions, he's an effing Nazi.  

No American of conscience can call for a continuation of the
imperialistic war of agression Bushco is waging throughout
Central Asia and the Middle East.  We had no business there
in the first place.  Now, every day we remain is another
murder to be atoned for.  

[DemonFighterLives]

71. Welcome to DU!

Joe is a bloody handed repuke

[bridgit]

55. Lieberman should be blaming Bush...

[Peanutcat]

56. But he can't be blaming his boss!

[bridgit]

57. good point...

[alvarezadams]

58. How they count on ignorance!

For one thing it is patently clear that Ct did the right thing in getting rid of this cretin. His DLC/neocon stance has helped make the world a far more dangerous place - and to blur the already narrow boundaries between the GOP and the DNC in the two areas that mean the most (economics and foreign policy).

Almost as bad as Lieberbush's statement was the WH's jumping on the bandwagon. That tired old warhorse of "soft on national security" is being bandied about as if Nixon was running against JFK again. But instead of a "missile gap" we have the wierd mental gymnastics of equating Iraq, Al Qaeda and that tactic we are currently fighting a war against.

I am shocked at the incredible cynicism of both the DLC and the WH/GOP that STILL try to tie Iraq to terror. Cynicism or cognitive dissonance that is, because to claim that Iraq is the frontline of terror implies that the invasion was a mistake, an admission neither will ever make.

I am in awe of the ignorance of the electorate even more than I am shocked by the cynicism of the American rw. It seems that around 50% of the electorate still believes that Saddam had wmd's... and that they've been found. It also seems that an incredibly large margin think that Iraq is part of the war on terra. Judging by the platforms/battleplans published by the GOP, they are banking on this ignorance.

I am not at all sanguine about the upcoming elections because of this. The anti-war groups have been painted as extremists, the ground is being prepared to take the bottom out of whatever remains of the progressive nature of the DNC. Lieberbush's decision to go against the will of his constituents shows that democracy has nothing to do with the agenda of the right.

[ktlyon]

59. and if we stay they will strike again

come on Joe get a grip

[RagAss]

60. psst...It's Connecticut Joe, not Mississippi......you ASSCLOWN

[Borgnine]

61. This is fantastic.

You see, I'm not pissed at Joe for doing this. What we're witnessing is Lieberman's self-destruction. Him saying this shit only harms him even more. His true colors are finally showing, and I for one couldn't be happier.

Further to the right, Joe! Move further to the right!

[Mr_Spock]

62. Republican talking points. Goodbye Lieberman, only Repukes will vote

for you now. Even Ed Schultz permanently wrote you off today after he heard those comments.

You are done.

Toast.

Finis.

[ladym55]

63. And when did Joe jump off the crazy bridge?

First--who has been running the show during all the terrorist mess? Gee. I do believe it is Joe's beloved leader. Oh, PUH-leez. Then ol' Joe doesn't pause before using this latest event to attack the man who had the unmitigated nerve to beat the great Joe in the Democratic primary.

Joe was the great statesman who announced after the 2004 election that there was no second place in politics. Then we HE loses, he whines and won't withdraw. What a crybaby! What a jerk!

[Orion The Hunter]

65. How do you spell "Desperation" in CT...

..L-I-E-B-E-R-M-A-N.

[calico1]

66. I think that going negative on Lamont

really hurt Lieberman. Let him keep it up. So far the two things he's been able to say about Lamont is that he is rich (so were JFK and FDR) and that he belonged to an exclusive club. Now he is using the ever more tiring argument of Liberals soft on teror. As the days and weeks go by Lieberman will get more negative, more shrill, more whiney. In the meantime Lamont is looking more cool and composed, more confident and more positive about the future.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

67. LieBerman should 'just pick up and go on over there'

We need him and Iraq needs him,Over There! Why doesn't he take a video camera and an interpreter and ask the ordinary Iraqi on the street if they want us to stay. He can ask them to sign his petition.

[LeahMira]

68. His right...

... to think that, but it's the right of voters who disagree to vote against him.

Frankly, I doubt the U.S. presence in Iraq works to protect either England or the U.S. from English individuals who want to blow up U.S. airplanes. Does Joe now want the U.S. to occupy England to keep an eye on these individuals?

I do think that whether the U.S. stays in Iraq or withdraws there will be terrorist attacks. The U.S. can't simply withdraw and imagine that Iraqis will forget all that has happened over the past ten or fifteen years, and they aren't stupid enough not to know who has been responsible for what. They may want to punish Hussein, but they may also want to punish Bush and Blair.

[DemonFighterLives]

69. Clueless Joe doesn't get it

I hope Lamont just puts him on Ignore.
Lieberman Party of 1 = totally irrelevant

[norml]

72. Best argument against how the Reich Wing Nuts are spinning these arrests

Were any Humvees involved in making these arrests?

How about Black Hawk helicopters, were any of those involved?

Did invading and occupying any countries aid in making these arrests in any way?

Was suspending the rule of law, allowing leaders to be above the law, to interpret the law any way they like, to have no review or oversight of their actions to show that they were warranted?

Torture, was the information required to make these arrests obtained by torture, rape, murder?

Was not the information that exposed this plot to blow up airlines, using liquid explosives, provided by a muslim who did not require being tortured in order to provide it?

Were not these arrests a result of what they call "pre-9/11 thinking"?

Did not these arrests result from treating it as a criminal matter, something handled by the police, not the military, following the rule of law, not suspending the rule of law, using diplomacy, not requiring waging wars of aggression or committing crimes against humanity in any way?

So why are the right wing media whores and the puppets they support saying it justifies doing criminally incompetent things which had nothing to do with making these arrests?

Then why are you not making these arguments against their insults misrepresentations and lies?


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[and-justice-for-all]

73. Lamont kicked your repuke ass!!!

What did they use to tell us "get over it, you lost!" Well, guess what repuke smucks, your on the express out of the Oval Office!

Stay tuned, because there is more to come..I can smell the Impeachment from here.