Posted on 02/27/2007 2:43:10 PM PST by pissant
“I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria.” — Sen. Levin, today at an Armed Services Committee hearing.
Get ready for Carl Levin to get shot by Cindy Sheehan or some other angry lefty. I'm not sure what happened to him, but he's making sense right now. On Sunday's Meet The (De)Press(ed), he finally admitted that Al-Qaeda is in Iraq and American troops needed to stay there for "a counter-terrorism purpose."
Today, he got bolder and and called for escalation of the offensives against both Iran and Syria. Bravo. Speaking at a Senate Armed Services Committee meeting, Senator Levin said to John Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence,
I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria and any other source of weapons coming in, obviously Iran is the focus – but it shouldn’t be the sole focus.
Folks, did you get that? In addition to admitting we need to keep troops behind in Iraq, Carl Levin now says we need to go after Syria and Iran. In fact, in asking John McConnell about what steps were being taken to cut off weaponry coming in from Syria, Levin went so far as to ask this question:
I was just wondering, does the military have a plan to, if necessary, to go into Syria to go to the source of any weapons coming from Syria?
And he wasn't arguing against such a plan. My first quote from him came after that. After asking if there was a plan to go into Syria, Carl Levin, yes *that* Carl Levin, said "I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria."
I'd like to congratulate Carl Levin for undercutting several of the major Democrat talking points and I'd like to thank Senator Levin
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Carl Levin never enlisted. He's never been in the army, navy, marines or air force. He hasn't served in the Nat Guard or Reserves.
So.....doesn't he qualify as a chickenhawk according to his own party and lefty supporters?
Bump to your post.
Levin has been making sense for a few days now. Some time ago, he said that he would not support the conditions that POS Murtha wanted to attach to funding for the troops, and that he would fund the troops for as long as the CIC wants to keep them there.
I must be dreaming.
The AQ comments were from sunday's Meet the Press, not from today's committee hearings, according to the first paragraph of the article. You would need to read that transcript to verify. Redstate is usually very accurate
These liberals are harder to follow then gas prices and the stock market.
Did he bump his head?? Guess he's not voting for the Run & Hide bill.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Levin is. Up and down. He's shrewder than most of his colleagues and has access to all the intel.
This is clearly not in the liberal democrat playbook, and I suspect someone will be taken out behind the woodshed to be re-educated very soon.
This is a joke.....right???????
Any chance this is connected to the stock market drop?
Could it be that DC has heard something we haven't?
This some kind of joke????
A bit early for April Fool's Day, isn't it?
Not if the SM makes up the ground in the next few days, which I think it will.
Levin yesterday was talking about us pulling out. I don't see him switching sides in 1 day.
I recall hearing that UBL sold off large quantities of stocks prior to 9/11.
I guess he's for an eventual pullout, but to do the dirty work why we are there?
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