Iraq finally looking up — again and again

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http://www.connpost.com/hughbailey/ci_5611892

Iraq finally looking up — again and again
HUGH S. BAILEY
Article Launched: 04/09/2007 12:17:03 PM EDT

He has to assume no one is paying attention. Otherwise, there's no way Joe Lieberman could maintain his record of dissembling, prevarication and misrepresentation he's been peddling about Iraq for the past four years.

His new statements flatly contradict his old ones. He tells us things are finally turning around — but he said that a year ago, and two years ago. He has no credibility left.

In a March 29 opinion piece in USA Today, Lieberman decried the idea of setting a date for troop withdrawal: "Just at the moment things are at last beginning to look up in Iraq, a narrow majority in Congress has decided that it's time to force our military to retreat."

Forget the ridiculous verbiage; this isn't a battle over territory, it's an occupation, and it's impossible to retreat when you hold no ground other than that on which you stand. The real problem here is that things were supposed to be looking up last July.

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Just sit back and see what happens, he says — let people continue dying, let the country continue to spend billions of dollars each month. It's a profoundly unserious proposition to ask that Americans, four years into what was promised to be a quick and easy victory, would suddenly stop questioning just what in the world we're accomplishing over there. It defies every instinct of a democratic society.

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[blm]

1. Really - we need to give it another 6 months.... just as we've been saying

for the last 3 years.

[Monkeyman]

2. Most Likely two more years

[MistressOverdone]

3. I hope he is right this time.