Lieberman compares terrorists to Nazis, calls for unity

AP ^ | August 10, 2006

[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.

[Fiddlstix]

Sounds like 'ol Joe finally figured it out

[AdvisorB]

Yes, half sane, the other half, insane.

[Soul Seeker]

Nov 29, 2005

Leiberman Editorial Excerpt...

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007611

I am convinced, almost all of the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if those forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country.

The leaders of Iraq's duly elected government understand this, and they asked me for reassurance about America's commitment. The question is whether the American people and enough of their representatives in Congress from both parties understand this. I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November's elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead.

Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory.

Let NO poster state he hasn't been a strong defender of this war or taken even his own to task before now. And this is mild next to some other remarks he's made.

[bcsco]

I wonder how the Lieberman/Lamont contest would have looked if this thwarted attack had been uncovered two weeks ago.

Or as late as Monday. I have no doubt in my mind Lieberman could have pulled it off.

Anti-war sentiment has always been strong in the Democratic Party, going back further than Vietnam. Think of Joe Kennedy prior to WWII. Look at Lamont's family history.

OTOH, the Democratic Party had, for a long time, a national security conscious wing. But that wing has died off in the last several decades. Thus the party has drifted more to the moonbat corner as time progressed, to where we now have a seated Senator (and their VP candidate 4 years ago) who lost a primary election he should have won handily. Simply because the one issue he didn't tow the party line on WAS national security. All in the midst of a war on terror they refuse to recognize. This should go down as one of the worst cases of political timing ever seen.

[Soul Seeker]

I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November's elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead.

BTW, for people complaining he dares critisize Republicans? I dare you to deny this critisism isn't valid. If Republicans in the Congress weren't so damn concerned with election more then they are with success in Iraq they would NEVER have supported the watered down warner resolution the last year leading to the House to have to save their butts.

And, Leiberman wouldn't be the most well known Iraq war supporter in Congress. Sure, the Reps crawl out of a hole when something good happens, but many of them crawl back in when the news is bad. Leiberman does not. To his credit, neither does Santorum.

[mallardx]

"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."

Umm, I think he'd be fairer if he stated "how can we be in this battle when the Democrat party does all it can to undermine our troops and country every day?"

Joe LIEberman is a despicable greasy politician that happens to have a slightly higher clue than his moonbat brethren in the party of treason. He should be hung by a lamp post, like Mussolini.

[M. Thatcher]

Oh! Great. A man with no office or authority playing sidewalk supervisor. That impresses you.Huh?

He's a sitting Senator defining the choice for voters, at the outset of a race in which he is running. This is absolutely legitimate politics, ace.

[wolfcreek]

Joe's gettin real but, I don't know if this will get him re-elected....... not in that RAT state.

[I_like_good_things_too]

Yep-- I've become pretty much a one-issue gal. National security. It's hard to debate the other stuff if you're dead.

[nutmeg]

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