Every time Joe Lieberman opens his mouth, the whole world gets a little stupider. The president not only did something Lieberman’s buddies Bush and McCain could never have done in killing Usama bin-Laden, but he’s expanded the war on al-Qaeda exponentially and laid waste to their organization. I’m all for hunting down anyone who plots to kill Americans, but even I am troubled by how expansive and aggressive this president has been. In Obama’s first year in office he killed as many people in drone attacks as Bush did in eight years. In 2010, there were a reported 118 drone attacks that killed somewhere between 600-1000 people. We have special forces hunting down these bastards every single day. We’re building runways in Saudi Arabia so we can blast people in Yemen and Somalia to Kingdom Come. If you are an Islamic terrorist, there are no truly save havens anymore because we’ll invade almost anybody’s sovereignty to hunt them down. And despite this unprecedented strategy of extreme aggression, Lieberman is giving us semantic nitpicking.
The Obama administration’s fear of offending Muslims will hurt the U.S. war against terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Thursday in a speech blasting the president’s new counterterrorism strategy…
…The four-term senator and one-time presidential candidate said one of the key problems with the Obama administration’s strategy was that it continues to call terrorism that aims to harm the U.S., “violent extremism” instead of “violent Islamist extremism.”
The man has transformed the CIA into a killing machine ‘one hell of an operational tool.’
“You’ve taken an agency that was chugging along and turned it into one hell of a killing machine,” said the former official, who, like many people interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters. Blanching at his choice of words, he quickly offered a revision: “Instead, say ‘one hell of an operational tool.’ ”
And Lieberman has the gall to claim his policy is weak because he doesn’t scapegoat an entire religion for the sake of a few extremists?
I cannot wait for this man to retire. I’d rather have Sen. Chris Shays. Honestly.
Thanks again, Harry. This gift from the Dem leadership just keeps on giving … to the right wing.
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My diary says it all – Fear Inc: Funding Islamophobia in America
Geert Wilders is a paid hack to attack Muslims and expand right-wing extremism. Breivik can be mentioned in the same extreme of hatred and violence. All these people are void of humanity and fill a stench ridden cesspool of extremism under the disguise of religion.
You must be well aware most Al Qaeda leaders in drone killings worldwide are veterans of Daddy Bush and Reagan’s war on the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the eighties.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I have to find time to read that CAP report.
I guess Holy Joe thinks he’s sucked up to the teabeggers enough that he doesn’t have to worry about Rudolphs or McVeighs?
Dude, you said “sucked up to the teabaggers” and grossed me out.
Just wait until we get Chris Murphy in there. He’s an excellent Rep, very bright guy, very talented pol and principled person.
As a Nutmegger myself, my only regret is not getting to vote Sloppy Joe out of office.
Yes, he’ll be a big improvement. I’m waiting for the McMahon-Shays fireworks.
just figure that whenever they get a lot out of Obama there’s always more he will give.
From the NYT:
Emphasis mine.
The “speech illusion” has been seen often around here. The idea that Obama can cure all ills and “knock it out of the park” with a mere speech.
And how about the assertion in the 2008 primaries that Hillary Clinton was not as “progressive” as Obama? If she had comitted any of the myriad capitulations we’ve seen out of Obama people on this site would have had to invent new words to express their condemnation of her.
And yet “the one” gets a pass.
Wouldn’t it be nice if people wrote on-topic comments instead of treating every thread as their own personal “How I feel about Barack Obama today” blog?
replied.
The original post was about Lieberman not being happy with Obama even though he was killing more terrorists than Bush. My post merely stated what I see as Holy Joe’s reasoning – if we get a foot out of Obama we can get a yard because there’s no limit to his appeasement of Republicans.
Your post “merely” did nothing but parrot anti-Obama talking points.
“The one?” “Obama is weak?”
Why don’t you just call him the biggest celebrity in the world while you’re at it.
You’re throwing out canned talking points.
Says it all about this failed Presidency.
good riddance to bad rubbish
Would it be correct to consider Mr. Liebgerman a flaming bigot? He’s obviously not an antisemite. It’s just that Islamic thingy that sticks in his craw. This is only a 9/11 warmer-upper. within days a lot of creeps will be crawling out the woodwork to enlighten us.
There is a term for him. It’s just that people are afraid to use it.
People like David Duke call themselves White Supremacists. Similarly, people like Joe Lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu are Jewish Supremacists.
I don’t think that’s quite right. Have you ever seen Lieberman demonstrate any prejudice against Christians, Latinos, African-Americans, or anyone except Muslims?
I think his bigotry has a quite specific target.
His bigotry against Muslims is the exact reflection of his sxtremist Israeli nationalism, even though he works for the US government. He is such a small-minded weasley xenophobe when it comes to Muslims=Arabs. All power to the Turks and their pursuit of legal condemnation of the Gaza blockade.
That’s a fair comment. But there are more subtle indications that overt statements. Consider, for example, that he’s very glad to have American soldiers (predominantly Christians, with overrepresentation of poor blacks and Latinos) risking their lives for Israel. I don’t think there can be any doubt that his value system treats people outside his tribe as of lower worth than those in his tribe, although he will disguise that believe if necessary to get what he wants. In that way he’s like any other ethnic supremacist.
Joe Lieberman WANTS the war against al Qaeda to be a civilizational war between Islam and the West. Obama is pursuing a policy of driving a wedge between the few thousand violent jihadists in the world and the billion ordinary Muslims. THAT is what Lieberman objects to. He WANTS those Muslims – both in their eyes, and in ours – to be on the same side as al Qaeda.
Because Joe Lieberman has a whole lot of violent agendas in the Muslim world, and like Bush, is more interested in exploiting the threat of al Qaeda to push that unrelated agenda than in actually succeeding at beating al Qaeda.
Joe is a wanker every day.