Lieberman Declares Mission Accomplished: ‘The Tide Has Turned In Iraq,’ ‘We Are Winning’

[RedEarth]

While the violence rages in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is ready to declare mission accomplished. Yesterday, speaking to an audience who greeted him with “warm applause,” Lieberman declared that the U.S. was turning the corner in Iraq:

“I’m proud to say that the tide has turned in Iraq and we’re winning that war,” Lieberman said. “And if we don’t let down our troops, they’re going to bring home a victory that will protect us here at home from today’s threat — totalitarian terrorist Islamism that’s trying to take our liberty from us.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/06/lieberman-winning-iraq/

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[niyad]

2. wow--been taking alliteration lessons from spiro, I see.

"today's threat--totalitarian terrorist trying to take. . . ."

[madinmaryland]

3. Boy, the audience looks pretty excited...

:rofl:

[Bright Eyes]

4. Mission Accomplished!

I seem to remember hearing that somewhere before, and it didn't end well....

[peacetalksforall]

5. I sat and looked at your subject line and could not think of one way that

it could be said we are winning. Then, without reading, I understood Leiberman. He can't be the key guy to win the bombing of Iran if Iraq is doing poorly. They (he and his pnac friends) can't get support for bombing Iran with citizens feeling uncomfortable with the pnacer-baron war. Why expand a losing and questionable endeavor. If we are planning to takeover the government like we did in Iraq and if we will we be building prisons for waterboarding and wiring up, then Leiberman must say it's good in Iraq. So that the people will believe it will be good for Iran.

[theoldman]

6. Joe forgets that the tide turned in Israel in 1967 but the war is

still going on 40 years later. What will Joe's grandchildren say 40 years from now.

[riverdeep]

7. Hey Joe, where you going with that gun of yours? Iran, maybe?

Of course some of the violence in some areas is going to go down. They've run out of people to kill. They have either been 'liberated' or they are refugees. But Joe, this had nothing to do with 'keeping us safe' and you know it.

[trof]

8. I thought it was "totalitarian terrorist Islamofascism".

I'll have to check the memo again.