The Good Democrat
By Mitch Berg
The United States should launch military strikes against Iran if the government in Tehran does not stop supplying anti-American forces in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday on Face The Nation.
“I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,” Lieberman told Bob Schieffer. “And to me, that would include a strike into… over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers.”
The Indepedent former Democrat from Connecticut said that he was not calling for an invasion of Iran, but he did say the U.S. should target specific training camps.
“I think you could probably do a lot of it from the air, but they can’t believe that they have immunity for training and equipping people to come in and kill Americans,” Lieberman said.
How long do we tolerate Iranians indirectly (?) participating in a war against the US?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:45 am
How long?
Apparently since 1979 when Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter gave them the green light to do so!
June 13th, 2007 at 6:32 am
And 1980 when the guy who sold the Iranians a shit load of weapons took over the White house.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Hey Doug … perhaps if Carter hadn’t bungled support of a close friend of the U.S. Reagan might not have ever been put in that situation.
In the words of Gaddis Gaddis, Yale history prof, “President Carter inherited an impossible situation — and he and his advisers made the worst of it.”
June 13th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Um, Doug, Reagan “took over” in 1981. After he kicked the peanut farmer’s sorry ass. Facts, Doug, fatcs.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
“How long do we tolerate Iranians indirectly (?) participating in a war against the US?”
As long as we are powerless to stop it, which is as long as our Army is bogged down in Iraq and dependent on an Iraqi government more sympathetic to Iran than to the U.S.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Rick seems to misunderstand powerless to stop it versus unwilling to stop it. We could turn enough of Iran to glass to remove all threat if we wanted to do so (i.e. apply power), but we don’t (unwilling). Further, we could raise an army (conscription) and invade if we wanted. We’re hardly powerless to make it such that Iran couldn’t bother us, we simply are choosing not to do so at this time. It seems from Rick’s point of view that we should never do so, however. I also suspect he doesn’t understand the difference between “Can I go there?” and “May I go there?”