This week the public continued to get signals from our leaders that we may be in for yet another war. This time it would be Iran. In an interview this week, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) uttered the words that many peace advocates fear: “regime change.” In response to public moves by Israel to attack Iran “before the U.S. elections,” Lieberman took to the air to assure the public that “we” can defeat Iran and “hope and pray” for a regime change. Sounds tragically familiar.
Many of us have been watching with rising concern the moves toward a war with Iran, including the reported desire of the Netanyahu government to secure the approval of a leading Rabbi. There seems a concerted effort to prepare Americans for such a war. Israel is counting on the current presidential campaign to dampen down opposition to its launching an attack and is clearly confident that we will eventually hand over the billions that it will want to replace weapons and help pay for the war. More importantly, the chances that we could get pulled into the war are high since an Israeli attack could easily provoke Iran into attacking U.S. personnel or assets.
Lieberman told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty this week that he thinks the chances are “high” that there will be a war with Iran and stressed “I think we have the capability either to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program or to disable it in a way that it will be delayed for enough years that we may hope and pray that there will be a regime change and that there will be a more democratic and friendly regime.”
Of course, Lieberman can be suggesting that we could attack Iran and not call it a “war” — a tactic used by the Obama Administration in the Libyan war.
Of course, the decision for the war will not be made by Americans and the American people will once again be given a fait accompli that we must support our allies and our own troops now that a war has started. Thus, as Camden is now moving to eliminate its police force for lack of money, we will likely be sending billions again to another war abroad with U.S. troops likely to follow.
Source: Thinkprogress
itchinbayDog 1, August 29, 2012 at 11:48 am
“Here we go again with Turley attacking President Obama for things said by someone else. When the garbage is late, the mail is delayed, the blame game on Obama goes off like a bell.”
The article is about super-hawk-for-Israel Lieberman. No mention of Obama. Please explain how this has anything to do with Obama.
asl3676 1, August 29, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Spoken like the true draft dodger Lieberman is….I wish he would go away…
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Yeah baby, it is the draft that went away.
Everyone misses it terribly you think?
The Joester, however, any you evidently, don’t miss it.
So long as it does not “tax” the 1%, if ya know what I mean Asl of 3676.
Guess why and we just may have busted your House Representative, A. Strawman (R-Bullshitistan).
Could someone take Lieberman’s hand and show him the way to Israel, but don’t take the short-cut
Sir Winston Churchill was a capable strategist, as those who fought the more holy war than the other twenty-seven wars, will remember.
So, another enlightened comment by Sir Winston Churchill, for those who speak of this Lieberman beatific vision (a.k.a. military strategy):
(Diagnosing The Dogs of War – 2). So how is all that woof woof, meow meow, and grunt grunt working out for ya Ralph – Son of Adam?
Spoken like the true draft dodger Lieberman is….I wish he would go away…
R. ADAMO
Obama only backs Ahmadinejad or the Muslim Brotherhood in Iran.
In Iran ? Muslim Brotherhood ? Where did you get that from ?? Muslim Brotherhood in Iran ? Not so Fast Adamo, that’s AFTER the Regime Change !
I hope and wish that you and Lieberman would sh.. up.
Ralph Adamo 1, August 29, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Jonathan T. and the Leftists are rooting for Iran.
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Rooting is a strange word that reminds me of Sir Winston Churchill, one of my favourite historians (“A History of the English Speaking Peoples”):
Pigs root for anybody … to use your yappage (“rooting”).
What is wrong with being an equal, svinehund?
A common comma, in other virds?
Ralph Adamo 1, August 29, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Jonathan T. and the Leftists are rooting for Iran.
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Rooting is a strange word that reminds me of Sir Winston Churchill, one of my favourite historians (“A History of the English Speaking Peoples”):I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Pigs root for anybody … to use your yappage (“rooting”).
What is wrong with being an equal, svinehund?
A common comma, in other virds?
Jonathan T. and the Leftists are rooting for Iran. But in case they had their heads in the hole in the ground as usual, they would have learned that there was a popular uprising in Iran that was NOT associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Of course, Obama, the Leftists, would have NONE of that. Obama only backs Ahmadinjad or the Muslim Brotherhood in Iran. Period. Which is just the way Jonathan T. and other Leftists like it.
The neoCon elements in U.S.eh? propaganda literature and discourse are like a rusty old radio from the transistor daze:
(The Fruits of A Celebrity World of Illusion, quoting Christian Science Monitor). Every fruit wants to be a star that burned out long ago.
PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR EMAIL LIST IMMEDIATELY! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
WMD!, WMD!, WMD! Let’s all panic, start a war, and pay for it with tax cuts.
Call out for George Romney’s son, W.
[Williard “Mitt” Romney]
mespo,
China has nukes. China is imperialist, constantly threatening surrounding countries. Obliterate them! Or would that take courage?
@mespo727272 “Minimizing threats to national security doesn’t help your cause.”
Yes, I think there is some substance here and this is, or perhaps this maybe, a sticky situation.
But as a practical matter, how many more victories like Iraq and Afghanistan can we really afford?
At some point I think we have to ask ourselves does real security lie in confronting every threat or does it lie in conserving our limited resources for a major test.
To me this is complicated stuff and there are no easy answers.
Is Iran a major test that requires all our effort of just one more example the kind of international challenge that will continue to appear year after year?
Here we go again with Turley attacking President Obama for things said by someone else. When the garbage is late, the mail is delayed, the blame game on Obama goes off like a bell.
If you want to criticise President Obama then criticize him for trying things short of war to stop those nutcase Islamic turbin head idiots from getting a nuclear bomb. Remember the Saturday Night Live Song of 1979 or so: Bomb, Bomb. Bomb, Bomb bomb Iran….
to the Beach Boys song tune of Barara Ann.
Richard C:
Not sure how it follows that involving Romney’s sons implies we shouldn’t protect our national interests against a nuclear threat from a rogue, ideological regime. Maybe you could enlighten me? If you mean we should share the burden of service equally among the citizenry, then you are calling for a draft of all military aged persons. Perhaps you could explain how that makes any sense, too?
That does it, I’ve decided to sell everything and live like a hermit on my 34ft yacht some-where around the Cook Islands.
The first five people I’d nominate to restore America’s military might and lead the forces to Iran are Tagg Romney, Ben Romney, Matt Romney, Craig Romney and Josh Romney. Mr. Romney could surely lead by example and dispatch his sons since the billionaires never seem to serve, but are quick to send everyone elses’ sons and daughters to die or suffer permanent disfigurement.
War is good for the soul of the American wallet……
And the continued validation of the MIC…….
Iran is hardly a “tiny, defenseless country.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28668
Minimizing threats to national security doesn’t help your cause.
“Oh lord, we beseech thy blessing on our holy crusade to smite the evil Cubans…no, Vietnamese…no, Panamanians…no, Iraqis…no, Afghans…no, Libyans, no, IRANIANS! That’s the ticket.”
So difficult, keeping track of tiny, defenseless countries.