History Forum / General / British History / June 2007

Bingo!

Joe Lieberman is spot on.

If we can identify camps that are being used by Iran to train and equip
terrorists who are killing Coalition Troops in Iraq -- we should take them
out.

Further, if we can identify sites that are being used to build or provide
components for IED's and other weapons being used to kill and maim Coalition
Troops in Iraq -- we should take them out.

DSH

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Lieberman Repeats Calls For Military Action In Iran

By Stephen Singer , Associated Press Writer

16 June 2007

East Hartford — Sen. Joe Lieberman repeated his call Friday for the
United States to use “limited military action” against Iranian camps
suspected of being used to train and equip terrorists who are killing
coalition troops in Iraq.

Speaking to reporters after an appearance at a rally supporting jet
engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney's competition for a military contract,
Lieberman said U.S. diplomatic efforts are important, but military action
also must be an option.

Military action should be limited to halting Iranian training of
terrorism, not to eliminate possible nuclear sites, though force could also
stem Iran's nuclear ambitions, he said.

“If we don't figure out first through diplomacy and, if necessary,
through limited military action how to stop the Iranians from killing
Americans and our Arab allies today it's going to be impossible for us to do
what everybody in both parties and all ideologies say we have to do
tomorrow, which is to stop them from getting nuclear weapons,” he said.

"Iran has effectively begun to carry out military action against
American soldiers and a lot of our allies in the Arab world and if we just
sit back they're going to continue to move forward,” he said. “They're going
to take it as a sign of weakness.”

Lieberman first raised the issue of military strikes on Sunday. He
said Friday he did so to introduce the matter into policy discussions in
Washington and “to ask everybody to open their eyes to what's happening
elsewhere in the Middle East.”

Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000 who was
re-elected to the Senate last year as an independent, said intelligence
shows that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is responsible for training and
equipping terrorists operating in Iraq and that the head of the
Revolutionary Guard reports to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

He cited the violence in Gaza between Palestinian factions and the
assassination on Wednesday of anti-Syrian lawmaker Walid Eido in Beirut.
Iranian support of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon is behind much of
the violence, he said.

“This is outrageous stuff going on and it's going to affect our
security,” Lieberman said.

Earlier, Lieberman, Gov. M. Jodi Rell and officials of Pratt & Whitney
and the Boeing Co. spoke before several hundred Pratt & Whitney employees
and others at a rally to support the two companies' partnership seeking to
build the U.S. Air force's new tanker aircraft fleet.

Boeing would build the KC-767, which is designed for aerial refueling
of aircraft and is able to move cargo, passengers, patients and medical
staff. Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., would
build the engine.

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Joe Lieberman, Yale '64, looks as if he's enjoying himself.

Shades of _Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964) _ and Slim Pickens as Major T. J. 'King' Kong, U.S.A.F. -- the
B-52 pilot who drops the big one...riding it down himself...

Thereby triggering the Doomsday Device.  <g>

[Note clever Mediaeval Referent.]

DSH

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