Lieberman's support for McCain will cost him in the Senate
condi ricecakes said 09/03, 11:24 AM
As David Von Drehle writes: "Lieberman's weird, winding road to St. Paul is a story for another day, but a lot of it comes down to the fact that he and John McCain believed the U.S. should do more in Iraq at a time when most of America ??? and nearly all of the Congressional Democrats ??? wanted to get out." http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838224,00.html
Juanbo said 09/03, 02:34 PM
Lieberman's criticism of Obama's lack of support for the troops by way of funding is a way of saying, "This man should not be commander in chief." First, the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which called for a regime change in Iraq was signed into policy by Bill Clinton. Alot of criticism has been forced on Bush for stupid intelligence. Unfortunately, President Clinton cut both the Military budget and agency budgets to include Intelligence; the result was lackluster intelligence. However, Iraq had failed to meet the conditions of the 1991 cease fire agreement. Therefore, we had to finish the job and --key, finish it. A man who has no faith in our military--the best in the world--should not be commander in chief. Think about this. In response to assertions that Gov. Palin had more executive experience than Senator Obama, their campaign stated that he has equal experience because of his presedential campaign. I'm sorry, but the fact that he compared running the executive branch of a government to running a campaign is ludacrous. Lieberman came to the realization that Obama cannot handle running a country to include the world's most powerful army; he does not have faith us.
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Juanbo, I think there are some basic geopolitical facts which you are ignoring or simply are not aware of. The U.S. funded the Iraq war against Iran to keep Iran in check. Bush Sr. and Clinton then kept this new heavily armed bad boy in check. Mission Accomplished... until Dick Cheney comes along. The invasion of Iraq has not empowered Iran and drastically reduced U.S. influence in the Middle East. Using the U.S. Army is not the issue. Using the U.S. Amry to empower our foes is. Lieberman and McCAin are not willing to stop there. They want to keep chest beating and keep threatening future invasions. They are war zealots and dangerous people.
Lalo23 | 09/03/08
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Am I the only one that notices that Juanbo's response is actually irrelevent to the subject posed by the question? Although I have to say his method of turning it into an attack on Obama is impressively done, if a poor choice to begin with. After all, dodging issues has gotten so tiresome.
Teh_Chron | 09/03/08
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lalo23, read the Resolutions and agreements. The only issue in question is...whether these agreements and resolutions mean anything in the first place. If they do, we are justified in Iraq and finishing, because we don't want people thinking we cannot do anything right. If they don't, then we have a problem because that is exactly what Obama wants to do in the first place--forget doing what congress resolves by way of policy and result to diplomacy....To address the prompt, he will get heat in the senate. However, I really hope not, because that would mean he's getting heat for crossing political boundaries and not rooting for the home team. This is not about which party should be president; it's about which person should be president. Many times, when you debate, the winner is determined by sub questions. The argument is "why will he get heat?" not will he. Obama is a very intelligent speaker and author. I'm not attacking Obama. I am making an argument on why Lieberman will get heat and whether it's justified.
Juanbo | 09/03/08
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Cost him what? Until they win more seats, Democrats can't afford to penalize him, because if Lieberman were to move over to the Republican caucus, control of the Senate would change, because a 50-50 tie would be broken by Cheney.
Warhaft | 09/05/08
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