Lieberman defends comments on Iran

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by: Sue @ Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 16:46:55 PM UTC

Tough talk (0.00 / 0)

"Backed with a credible threat of military consequences"

Probably a little more than what it took to buy a pair of sunglasses during a nice stroll through the market?

That'll show 'em.

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by: notcho @ Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 21:04:00 PM UTC

Let's Call it What It Is (4.00 / 1)

Lieberman is declaring war on Iran. Recommending military action is recommending an act of war. The media should call him on it.

And fellow Congressmen -- Chris Dodd, Hillary, Barack .... where are you??? -- should tell him to blow it out his ear.

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by: CaptCT @ Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 21:50:11 PM UTC

As usual (0.00 / 0)

Glenn Greenwald nails it, taking a lazy NYT article to task.

And then there are the multiple vital facts which the article does not include, beginning with the highly provocative steps the U.S. has taken towards Iran -- from our reported support for groups inside and outside of their country seeking regime change to our detention of multiple Iranian officials in Iraq to our military attacks on an Iranian consulate in Iraq to the administration's wholesale rebuffing of Iranian efforts to negotiate all issues of dispute back in 2003 (a step which, quite predictably, accelerated Iran's enrichment efforts).

And that is to say nothing of the increasing overt war threats emanating from the likes of Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman, the song merrily sung by John McCain about bombing their country, and the multiple military maneuvers undertaken by the U.S. with the clear intent of threatening Iran.

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Of course, questions such as whether we ought to be doing any of that, whether such actions are justified, whether Iran or the U.S. is the more provocative party here, are all questions which can and should be debated. And nobody doubts that Iran -- like large numbers of countries around the world, including some of our most important allies -- is internally repressive. But no account of a potential U.S.-Iran war can possibly be complete -- or even accurate -- without including all of those facts about what we are doing to provoke the Iranians into conflict.

Yet the Times article contains none of that. It presents a view of Iran that adheres almost completely to the administration's depictions -- namely, that "Iran is emerging as an increasing source of trouble for the Bush administration," as though it is unilaterally and without provocation running around waging war against the U.S. In doing so, the article repeatedly asserts as facts propositions which are nothing more than unconfirmed administration claims.

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." - Warren Buffet

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by: joesaho @ Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 23:16:41 PM UTC