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In reply to the discussion: Lieberman: ‘Our enemies are cheering’ after Obama consulted Congress on Syria [View all]Ocelot
(227 posts)25. Naturally KARL ROVE is one of the Syria Cheerleaders also..
I've been saying it all along, the push to attack Syria is being orchestrated by Karl Rove, Joe Lieberman and lots of other familiar Neocon assholes who want to relive their Iraq "glory days" all over again. You can bet that Rove is scripting many of the embedded internet trolls you see pushing for airstrikes.
On Wednesday, the Foreign Policy Initiativewhich was started by Bill Kristol, Dan Senor, Robert Kagan, and other hawkish-minded policy wonkssent a letter to Obama, urging him to slam Assad in response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria: "At a minimum, the United States, along with willing allies and partners, should use standoff weapons and airpower to target the Syrian dictatorships military units that were involved in the recent large-scale use of chemical weapons."
But the letterwhich was signed by Elliott Abrams, Fouad Ajami, Max Boot, Ellen Bork, Eliot Cohen, Douglas Feith, Joseph Lieberman, Clifford May, Joshua Muravchik, Danielle Pletka, Karl Rove, Randy Scheunemann, Kristol, Kagan, Senor, and dozens of othersdemands that Obama go further. It calls on the president to provide "vetted moderate elements of Syria's armed opposition" with the military support necessary to strike regime units armed with chemical weapons. That is, the neocons and their allies have CW-ized their pre-existing demand for the United States to arm the rebels.
But the letterwhich was signed by Elliott Abrams, Fouad Ajami, Max Boot, Ellen Bork, Eliot Cohen, Douglas Feith, Joseph Lieberman, Clifford May, Joshua Muravchik, Danielle Pletka, Karl Rove, Randy Scheunemann, Kristol, Kagan, Senor, and dozens of othersdemands that Obama go further. It calls on the president to provide "vetted moderate elements of Syria's armed opposition" with the military support necessary to strike regime units armed with chemical weapons. That is, the neocons and their allies have CW-ized their pre-existing demand for the United States to arm the rebels.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/08/neocons-push-obama-go-beyond-punitive-strike-syria
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Lieberman: ‘Our enemies are cheering’ after Obama consulted Congress on Syria [View all]
Galraedia
Sep 2013
OP
If he could, he would. He was from my state...I do not ever want to see him in government again.
Jefferson23
Sep 2013
#44
"War hawk"? He's listed as a chickenhawk on the Chickenhawk Hall of Shame web site:
AnotherMcIntosh
Sep 2013
#78
Wow, you have summed it up with the least amount words better ...
Rebellious Republican
Sep 2013
#14
Many have said that the politicians should be like NASCAR with their sponsors on their clothing
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#74
I'll co-sign that statement. Any nays? Bueller? Alrighty then, the motion carries. Joe
Erose999
Sep 2013
#120
Screw you, Joe. You are one of the main reasons that Gore wasn't in the WH in 2001. nt
Mnemosyne
Sep 2013
#16
I know of the theft, quite well. I helped post in the election reform forum, several years ago. I
Mnemosyne
Sep 2013
#99
American democracy works best when it is confusing and dumfounding other nations.
OmahaBlueDog
Sep 2013
#30
This man seriously needs to go away. the aount of dmagae he has done to our country is
robinlynne
Sep 2013
#31
Bahwaaaa!!!! "How am I going to be able to criticize Obama for not following the Constitution now?"
W T F
Sep 2013
#37
His opinion now is meaningless. His opposition to the public option and then lowering Medicare age
andym
Sep 2013
#51
Actually Joe the enemies of American Citizens are rather sad after Obama consulted Congress on Syria
Snake Plissken
Sep 2013
#69
Lieberman will be judged as one of the most effective, and malevolent, senators in history.
last1standing
Sep 2013
#73
remember when the mainstream media in 2000 called him "The conscience of the Democratic Party" ?
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#81
Drop him over the presidential palace so he can bore president Assad to death.
Guy Whitey Corngood
Sep 2013
#93
yet endless war since then - Korea, Vietnam, wars in Latin America, Iraq I & II, Afghanistan.
wordpix
Sep 2013
#102
just glad Lieberman is "former" & not in any position of power. Big chickenhawk is
wordpix
Sep 2013
#101