Lieberman Support for Bush, Israel, Iraq [War] and Mujadeen

WASHINGTON D.C. (WaPo) June — Joe Lieberman:

“I know I’m taking a position that is not popular within the party, but that is a challenge for the party — whether it will accept diversity of opinion or is on a kind of crusade or jihad of its own to have everybody toe the line. No successful political party has ever done that.”

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July 3 -- Lieberman on CNN: Worried not enough Democrats will vote

“It’s time to come together and support our great American men and women in uniform and their Commander-In-Chief.”

Joe Lieberman at ease with George Bush

“It has been my view for 12 years that Saddam Hussein must be removed from power if we are to have a more peaceful world and more secure America.”  

LIEBERMAN: Voted YES on ending the Bosnian arms embargo
Ending the Bosnian arms embargo.
Status: Bill Passed Y)69; N)29; NV)2
Reference: Bosnia Herzegovina Self-Defense Act of ’95; Bill S. 21 ; vote number 1995-331 on Jul 26, 1995

Lobbyists for Arming Bosnian Muslims – Richard Perle and Douglas Feith

A mentor to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Defense Policy Board member Richard N. Perle and several other prominent conservative defense thinkers, Albert Wohlstetter became Luti’s entree into their world. From there, while still in the Navy, William J. Luti became a congressional fellow in the office of then-Speaker Gingrich. His time there, in part spent working on legislation related to arming and training Bosnian Muslims, again brought him into contact with interventionist conservatives.

U.S. Allies Fed Pipeline of Covert Arms to Bosnia – Created an Al Qaeda cell in Bosnia

On the possible secret use of the airport for weapon shipments to Bosnian forces with so-called ‘black flights’, see the Appendix Intelligence, Chapter 4 ‘The Croatian Pipeline and Black Flights on Tuzla.

The indirect American support of the ABiH by looking the other way in the presence of direct arms supplies and the Croatian pipeline were described as a sort of ‘Vietnamization’ of the war. In other words: a strong ABiH was created, which was able to compensate for the lack of American ground forces with a robust mandate.[7] Something similar happened at the end of the war in Vietnam.

It is not strange that different views existed within the Clinton administration on arms supplies to Bosnia and the influx of Mujahedin. There were also greatly divergent views within the CIA on a comparable operation during the Reagan administration, when Stinger missiles were supplied to the Mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan. The then Head of Operations for the Middle East at the CIA, T. Twetten, described the supporters of collaboration with the Mujahedin fighters within the Reagan administration as ‘strange people developing strange ideas’ at the time.[8] Now too there were dangers attached to illegal arms supplies, which some certainly did recognize.