Lieberman obfuscates

by: Scarce

Tue Mar 27, 2007 at 20:08:15 PM EDT

Lieberman voted with the republican warlords once again, of course. The senate democrats managed a narrow win, 50-48

Transcript:

  The immediate question before us is direct: Should Congress impose a deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq? To that question, I answer, no, no, no.

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  First, proponents of withdrawal keep returning to the proposition that American soldiers shouldn't be policing a civil war. Surely, my colleagues don't mean to say that the United States military has never or should never police a civil war.

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  Clearly, our military has policed civil wars in the past and will do so and must do so in the future. So why do proponents of withdrawal from Iraq keep insisting that it shouldn't happen now? The answer I think has to do with the way some people choose to characterize what's happening in Iraq. When they suggest our soldiers are stuck in a civil war, it suggests that the conflict has become hopeless, a pit of violence where there are no heroes, only villains. And where our military cannot possibly do any good.

  Is this really the case? I think the facts suggest not.

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  The truth is we are confronted in Iraq today with a deliberated, calculated campaign, murder of civilians often on the basis of religious identity alone by insurgents and terrorists.