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Lieberman compares terrorists to Nazis, calls for unity
AP ^ | August 10, 2006

Posted on 08/10/2006 12:12:42 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, in his first campaign appearance since launching his independent re-election campaign, likened terrorists to Nazis and called for Republicans and Democrats to work together to combat them.

"We are at war with a brutal enemy," said Lieberman during a campaign stop Thursday at a Waterbury pizza joint. "How the heck can we be in a battle in which we are fighting as Democrats and Republicans against each other when these terrorists certainly don't distinguish based on party affiliation? They want to kill any and all of us."

Lieberman lost by 10,000 votes in Connecticut's Democratic primary to millionaire businessman Ned Lamont, who ran on an anti-war platform. Although top state and national Democrats support Lamont in November's general election, Lieberman on Wednesday filed petitions to run as an independent candidate.

British authorities on Thursday arrested 21 people and said they thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.

Word of the plot instantly raised security levels at airports across the country.

"I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us - more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous that the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War," Lieberman said.

"I want to make sure that I satisfy my responsibilities and use my seniority in the Senate to make the future of the families of Connecticut safer than it would otherwise be. I don't think that Ned Lamont gets that and that's a serious difference between us.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: independent; lieberman; mdm; senate; terrorism
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To: West Coast Conservative

Joe is correct.


41 posted on 08/10/2006 12:28:04 PM PDT by BoBToMatoE
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To: CBart95

Oh please spare me your rapier wit. Pfft!


42 posted on 08/10/2006 12:29:00 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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To: libstripper; johnny7; CBart95
I thought he was still a Senator and that every Senator has a lot of authority.

CBart has grown very quiet since that was pointed out to him/her.

43 posted on 08/10/2006 12:29:06 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: AmishDude
A recap of Joe's positions:

This is the same Joe Lieberman who voted against all the Bush tax cuts, against banning same-sex marriage, against banning partial-birth abortion, against the confirmation of Judge Alito, against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in favor of the Kyoto accords. Oh yes, this was also the same Joe Lieberman who was the Democrats' own vice presidential candidate six years ago.

Yes he 'gets it' with respect to the war. But it's only because his party is so pathetic that he stands out at all.

I believe he will win in the general. Does he then caucus with the back-stabbing Dems who sought to throw him out?

44 posted on 08/10/2006 12:29:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: West Coast Conservative

And for all the partisan "detractors" that have tried to attack Leiberman and discourage conservative/Republican support here because he's not a "republican" even though they'd support the likes of McCain, Chafee, Specter, Graham, and on...they know who they are....take this as a strong rebuke towards yourselves.

I don't give a damn about attempting to elect a weak kneed RINO that would never support our national security as Leiberman has done, nor do I give a damn about exercising vengence for 2000 nor does this conservative and AMERICAN care to allow anti-American appeasement scum to win the CT seat to use as an election symbol for partisan purposes as they use Dean. I want Democrats AND Republicans in office that won't bend to polling, the MSM and outside pressure to weaken our survival in this war.

I support Leiberman's re-election because it's the only right coarse for someone that takes the WOT seriously.

Care to argue with me over that? Go ahead. I'll be as dismissive towards you as I am to the 51% that elected Lamont. Partisanship over this issue makes absolutely squat to me. Infact, it only engenders this disgust from this corner.


45 posted on 08/10/2006 12:30:04 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Compares terrorists to nazis? Duh!

See my tagline. If only they were so benign.


46 posted on 08/10/2006 12:30:27 PM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is more dangerous to the world now that Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: JennysCool
I think we've got a live one, here.

All I know is I have a rash after dealing with him/her/it.

47 posted on 08/10/2006 12:30:48 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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To: Rummyfan

He said he would caucus with the Dems.

Like I said, Joe isn't a deep thinker.


48 posted on 08/10/2006 12:30:58 PM PDT by AmishDude (Ned Lamont: Demzballah's first suicide candidate.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

We should treat Islam in the US the same way we treated the German American Bund before and during WWII.


49 posted on 08/10/2006 12:31:25 PM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is more dangerous to the world now that Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I see a Conservative Popular Front in the making.


50 posted on 08/10/2006 12:31:44 PM PDT by AdvisorB (For a terrorist bodycount in hamistan, let the smoke clear then count the ears and divide by 2.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Joe is a clever, if usually mistaken, guy. He's obviously realized that he can't win amongst the Democrats, so he's trying to peel away some GOP votes. I predict he wins if he continues this rhetoric.


51 posted on 08/10/2006 12:32:11 PM PDT by TeenagedConservative
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To: JennysCool

I think you flushed a troll out Jenny...


52 posted on 08/10/2006 12:32:31 PM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: rabidralph

Joe has gotten the national security aspect of it for a long while, or have you been absent?


53 posted on 08/10/2006 12:32:43 PM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: JennysCool

Yes, he's been there all along, concerning WOT but he votes as a liberal on all other issues. Oh well.


54 posted on 08/10/2006 12:32:44 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: johnny7

Amazing! And I was just minding my own business, when suddenly ...!


55 posted on 08/10/2006 12:33:28 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: JennysCool

Right you are. And a fine example at that. One of the rare and few Dems who are admirable.

Integrity in the face of the utter devastation of the Dem party,he stands out as a very attractive American in our political scene. His example gives us reason to hope for a renaisance of political accord and civility of our two-party system.

America needs men of his maturity and stature to assume the mantle of leadership in the difficult times ahead of all of us.

All of this from an ultra-conservative Republican.


56 posted on 08/10/2006 12:33:43 PM PDT by CBart95
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To: AmishDude

It must be difficult to run for office in a state where 50% of the people are certified kooks. They don't call it the nutmeg state for nothing.


57 posted on 08/10/2006 12:33:50 PM PDT by AdvisorB (For a terrorist bodycount in hamistan, let the smoke clear then count the ears and divide by 2.)
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To: rabidralph
Joe "gets it" because he got his butt kicked. I guess you missed every word Leiberman has spoken and written up until Wednesday then? It's exactly because he DOES "get it" and has for sometime that his "butt was kicked". Albeit NARROWLY.

Statement rejected.

58 posted on 08/10/2006 12:33:53 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: TeenagedConservative

This "rhetoric" has been Lieberman's position since Sept. 11, 2001. This isn't a put-on for political reasons.


59 posted on 08/10/2006 12:34:25 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

If the Egyptian Eleven make it to LA will Special Order 40 be rescinded to allow LAPD to make an arrest?


60 posted on 08/10/2006 12:34:42 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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