Lieberman Urges Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi to Denounce Moveon.org Attack on General Petraeus

[The Straight Story]

Lieberman Urges Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi to Denounce Moveon.org Attack on General Petraeus

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) issued the following statement in response to the Moveon.org ad attacking General Petraeus in today's New York Times:

"The personal attack on Gen. David Petraeus launched today by Moveon.org is an outrageous and despicable act of slander that every member of the Congress -- Democrat and Republican -- has a solemn responsibility to condemn.

"General Petraeus has served his country honorably and selflessly for over thirty-five years. He has risked his life in combat and accepted lengthy deployments away from his family to defend our nation and its citizens from its enemies. For this, he deserves the respect, admiration, and gratitude of every American -- not the disgraceful slander of Moveon.org.

"It has been widely reported that Moveon.org has worked closely over the past months with many members of the Democratic Party in coordinating their efforts to derail the strategy that General Petraeus has been leading in Iraq.

"I do not know whether the Democratic leadership was consulted in any way or informed by Moveon about this personal, political attack on General Petraeus. That is not the point. The point is that when partisan political attacks which have already divided and weakened our nation in many ways are directed at a non-partisan, non-political commander like General Petraeus, everyone has a responsibility to shout, "Stop. Enough."

"As a member of the Senate Democratic caucus, I therefore call on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to denounce Moveon.org in no uncertain terms for its vile attack on Gen. Petraeus. General Petraeus deserves no less.

"Regardless of our disagreements on the way forward in Iraq, the claim that one of our most decorated and accomplished soldiers -- whom the Senate unanimously confirmed in his command -- would "betray" his country is an insult to the honor of all of our brave men and women in uniform who are fighting today in Iraq.

"As we debate our Iraq policy in the days ahead, we should leave no doubt that Democrats and Republicans stand united behind our troops and the commander who is leading them. We must reject the slander of this brave soldier and patriot."

http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=282115

[AlCzervik]

1. bullshit.

[hobbit709]

2. Did someone yank his chain?

[mikelgb]

3. ah, they have pulled their pawn forward

expect party change soon...

[rainy]

4. They should do no such thing. Until the repugs apologize for what they

did to our hero's like Max Cleland and John Kerry we will never apologize for telling the truth. They lied and no one demanded they repent, we tell the truth and everyone is offended by it. Too Bad!

[bunkerbuster1]

5. We don't have to "Stand united behind our troops," asshole.

Some of the troops are asswipes like you. Betray-Us is one of them.

[spanone]

6. joe, please shut the fuck up

[truebrit71]

17. I second that....

...That filthy rat needs to fuck off back to the cess-pit he immersed himself in and ne'er be heard from again...

[dipsydoodle]

7. I agree,

refering to him as Wayne Kerr might have been more appropriate.

[Quixote1818]

40. Everyone write Lieberman and tell him to FUCK OFF! (link here)

http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm?regarding=issue

[cali]

8. Fuck him

underhanded, undermining piece of crap. They should do no such thing. And I thought it was a tone deaf thing for MoveOn to do, but they should NOT come out and condemn it. God I detest lieberman.

[LittleClarkie]

27. Thanks no

We'll have to distract him some other way.

[Demit]

9. "non-partisan, non-political commander like General Petraeus"? Oh please.

I'll accept my responsibility to shout 'Enough'—at Lieberman's ridiculous concept that a military officer can't possibly be maneuvering to boost his career advancement by being political. LOL!

[stillcool]

10. and he should be listened to why?

lying, back-stabbing, hypocritical, war-mongering fool.

[Nutmegger]

11. No LIARman, your irrelevant ass should be shipped off to Iraq.

The sooner the better.

[doublethink]

19. LIAR-MAN ...... YEA THAT'S IT!!!

:rofl: ...... love it. We need to get this one out there today with the Betray Us Report too ASAP .... someone get on it. Gotta love it! :thumbsup:

[Nickster]

12. Is Joe really trying to blame the Democratic Party members of Hatch Act violations?

Does he really believe that MoveOn is piped into the Democratic Party and is getting marching orders from Harry Reid?

Joe why are you so afraid of the voice of American voters? MoveOn doesn't get big money from the likes of the Heritage Foundation, AEI, or Richard Scaife.

Oh yeah BTW Joe, quit conflating Petraeus and the American Military. Calling out the General, doesn't mean anything about how we feel about the troops. We are calling out yet another slimy politician who is using our troops to boost his own career. If Petraeus had any real leadership qualities he would resign his position rather than continue down this path that will tear apart our military for years to come. He can't possibly be that blind to what he's doing to the military.

[The Magistrate]

13. Lieberman, Sir, Needs To Sit Down And Shut Up

The reptile is a disgrace to such gentlemen as the rattlesnake....

[The Straight Story]

14. he is a bush bot

a sick twisted little man.

[atreides1]

15. Lieberman is either a liar or an idiot

These staements are pure fiction, which makes Lieberman an idiot who lies!!!!!


He has risked his life in combat:

Although Petraeus did not see combat before his 2003 deployment to Iraq, he completed three overseas assignments short of war earlier in his career. In 1995, his Georgetown fellowship was cut short when he was assigned to the United Nations Mission in Haiti Military Staff as its Chief Military Operations Officer during Operation Uphold Democracy. Four years later, as assistant division commander for operations, he deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait as part of Operation Desert Spring, the continuous rotation of combat forces through Kuwait during the decade after the Gulf War.

During 2001-02, as a brigadier general, Petraeus served a ten-month tour in Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of Operation Joint Forge. In Bosnia, he was the NATO Stabilization Force Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations as well as the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force, a command created after the September 11 attacks to add a counterterrorism capability to the U.S. forces attached to the NATO command in Bosnia.


...and accepted lengthy deployments away from his family to defend our nation and its citizens from its enemies:

I wasn't aware that the Haitians or Kuwaitis were enemies of the US, and with the exception of the above assigments he has spent most of his career either in the US or in Europe, and most if not all of those assignments his family was there with him, or just a short plane rider away.

And now Lieberman wants to silence Free Speech, you know for someone who claims to be such a "patriotic" American, he sure likes to resort to pissing on the US Constitution when things don't go his way.

Senator Lieberman, go bugger yourself!!!!!!

[NewJeffCT]

16. This will be the RW mock outrage topic of the day

Pelosi & Reid will get calls and letters from Dittoheads, and their ilk, urging them to apologize.

the media will join in about this and by this time Wednesday, at least one of them will have at least distanced themselves from MoveOn.

[rainy]

20. all the while the swift-boaters were never asked to apologize and were giving

way too much air time for their lies. At least moveon tells the truth.

[NewJeffCT]

22. don't forget, a few years back

the mock outrage over two member-submitted ads - out of THOUSANDS of submissions - that compared Bush to Hitler. MoveOn took the offending ads down fairly quickly because of the amount of mock outrage.

Meanwhile, we spent months writing letters to our representatives, letters to every media outlet in the world, blogging, etc. all just to get a few peeps in the mainstream about the Downing Street Memo.

[snappyturtle]

18. IF Reid and Pelosi were to do what lieberman is asking

they would be, in effect,making an admittance to conspiring or to consulting with moveon.org and then all hell would break loose!I hope that Pelosi and Reid will instead, in firm language, declare that moveon.org is an independent organization with independent views.....but I wouldn't bet on it.

[book_worm]

21. Just jump ship already, Lieberfuck

[LeftishBrit]

23. Bush needs another colonoscopy...

Looks like there's ONE polyp that the doctors failed to remove from his rear end!

[Bitwit1234]

24. Well the attack on John Kerry's war service and medals

by bush and rove's swiftboat team continued, even after the democrats asked the bush administration to denounce. In fact rush and the Fox Trash kept on promoting it.

[simmonsj811]

25. SHORT ANSWER NO

LONG ANSWER HELL F$%#&^% NO!!
TO HELL WITH JOE YOU BOOT-LICKING COWARD!:mad: :puke:

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Here with more on the subject is Ann "Liberals should be rounded up & shot" Coulter.

Ready for some serious hand-wringing about "irresponsible rhetoric" from the Left.

[Beelzebud]

28. Hey Joe, go piss up a rope, you stupid bastard.

[mod mom]

29. Better yet...DENOUNCE LIEBERMAN!

[simmonsj811]

33. CAN HARRY REID

CENSOR THE TURNCOAT OR REMOVE MOVE HIM FROM HIS COMMITTEE SEAT?

GET RID OF THIS COWAERD

[EnviroBat]

30. Shut your fucking mouth you gimpy little prick.

Don't speak unless spoken to asshole.

[porphyrian]

31. Fuck what that turncoat piece of shit thinks. - n/t

[Individualist]

32. The darling of the DLC speaks out again,

enabling the neocons in every way he can.

[TheCowsCameHome]

34. Yeah, right Joe - You mean honorable stuff you'll never be noted for doing?

POS - get lost.

[librechik]

35. librechik urges Lieberman to check his party registration

and STFU.

[AngryAmish]

36. not jusst no but FUCK NO

Don't give in to these NAZIS!!!!

[nykym]

37. MAYBE WE SHOULD

Email this thread to Ol' Holy Joe, who knows maybe he'll get the message?

[MiniMe]

38. I have a GREAT idea

Everybody send a thank-you email to LIEberman's office. Say that thanks to the free publicity he has given move-on.org, their membership has swelled by thousands and donations made today are waaaay up. Ask him to keep mentioning their name so they can afford to do more commercials. That should shut him up pretty quick. :evilgrin:

[Beausoir]

39. God..the drama! Poor Joe! I hope he'll be able to shrug off the outrage!

[madrchsod]

41. how about a cup of-

"shut the fuck up" joe. does anyone care what he thinks?

[malaise]

42. Denounce Lieberman instead n/t