As I drove to Virginia today to visit my Mother, I had the car radio on C-Span FM. For a while I was listening to a hearing on Mental Illness in the House of Representatives, then they cut to a 15 minute speech by Holy Joe Lieberman.
Joe was responding, negatively, to what seems like a new trickle of Republicans coming out against the war in Iraq. The purpose of his speech was to convince the rest of the Senate that getting out of Iraq before Petraeus’ written report in September is cowardly and makes us losers. And he kept stressing who wins if we leave Iraq: Al Qaeda and Iran, the two groups he repeated called “our worst enemies”.
I can see being against Al Qaeda. In fact, for a period of years longer than it took FDR (and Truman) to sink the Nazis and the Japanese in WWII, Bush and buddies have still not captured, killed or otherwise stopped Bin Laden. We could be going after Al Qaeda in Pakistan or Afghanistan… but if we leave Bagdad it will make little or no difference.
It’s Iran, of course, that Holy Joe is stressing. Like the Neocons, he is up for a new war… a new attack. And he will base it on Fear. He wants to make Americans afraid enough to support the start of another “destined to lose” situation.
Of course, no one wants our troops back home more than Holy Joe. I know. He said so. And he said “Trust me” about five times as he laid out his cause.
Well, Joe, I don’t trust you.