Lieberman On Appointment Of Kiley: ‘It’s A Good First Step’
Lieberman On Appointment Of Kiley: ‘It’s A Good First Step’
This morning on his radio show, Don Imus questioned Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) about his reaction to the conditions at Walter Reed, saying, “If you’re somebody who thought the war was such a wonderful idea, as you did, and continues to support this idiotic exercise…[you] have a special responsibility to know what the hell has happened to these kids.” Lieberman responded, “We all ought to be doing mea culpas. ”
Lieberman also claimed the replacement of Maj. Gen. George Weightman with Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley at Walter Reed was “a good first step.” Imus responded, “It’s an absurd first step. [Weightman] didn’t have anything to do with this. He’s been in charge — that’s a big scapegoat deal and you know that.” Watch it:
Transcript:
IMUS: I had Senator John McCain on — I can’t remember when it was. It was yesterday…
LIEBERMAN: Yes.
IMUS: … or the day before. And I asked him — and he’s the one who took me and Charles and Bernard over to Walter Reed. He told me he didn’t know what was going on there.
LIEBERMAN: Yeah.
IMUS: And do you think he is telling me the truth?
LIEBERMAN: I do. Of course, I do.
[...]
IMUS: It would occur to me, Senator Lieberman…
LIEBERMAN: Yes, sir.
IMUS: … that, particularly if you’re somebody who thought the war was such a wonderful idea, as you did, and continues to support this idiotic exercise that you — and probably you sit on some of these oversight committees…
LIEBERMAN: Yes.
IMUS: … that you would have a special responsibility to know what the hell has happened to these kids.
LIEBERMAN: Yes.
(CROSSTALK)
IMUS: It’s not enough to say you didn’t know or you didn’t ask the right questions. I mean, that’s why we elected you.
LIEBERMAN: We all have responsibility. And I will tell you very personally, because I have supported the war and continue to believe that we’ve got to do everything we can to have it end successfully, I have a special responsibility. And so, you know, we all ought to be doing mea culpas.
[...]
IMUS: How do we get this fixed?
LIEBERMAN: Well, I think the first thing is to hold people accountable. And, you know, General Weightman going is a good first step. The Armed Services Committee…
IMUS: Well, it’s an absurd first step. He didn’t have anything to do with this. He’s been in charge — that’s a big scapegoat deal and you know that.
LIEBERMAN: Your questions about General Kiley are very good questions, and I’m going to ask him. Because this, after all, is the guy that was in charge for a couple years.
IMUS: Well, he’s a lying skunk. He ought to be forced to resign today, Senator.
LIEBERMAN: Of course, I don’t have that exact authority.
(LAUGHTER)
But I will tell you that — I’m on the Armed Services Committee. The Armed Services Committee oversees the medical hospitals. And a group of us on the committee are going out there this afternoon. And I am going to ask some of the tough questions that you and a lot of others…
IMUS: See if they’ll let you, Senator Joe Lieberman, walk around without being escorted by four or five of these generals who’ve known about this for years.
LIEBERMAN: Yes.
IMUS: I mean, did you read Dana Priest and Anne Hull story in The Washington Post yesterday, that General Kiley’s been up there testifying before your committee and lying to you, Senator…
(CROSSTALK)
IMUS: … lying to you and these other people. He’s lying to you.
LIEBERMAN: I agree.
Look, this is the guy that was on top of the institution. It is not — it’s a good sized hospital, but it’s not a city. And this was a building that was an important part of that. So, look, he should have known.
[...]
LIEBERMAN: Part of this, Don, was that the whole response never lived up to the increasing demand on the Army medical system or the military medical system after Iraq.
IMUS: Well, that’s not a good excuse.
LIEBERMAN: Well, no, it’s not an excuse. It’s an explanation.
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Given his broken barometer I would expect such a misjudgement. Why does Droopy hate the troops?
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pmthis dumb a*shole doesn’t know jack…
…about jack…
…all he’s interested in is…
…enhancing his Bushballickin’ skills…
…to protect that rental property he owns in Gaza…
Hopefully next time he visits Baghdad…
…he’ll be a permanent resident…
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pmLieberman is nothing, if not consistent.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pmOf course LIEberman thinks that appointing the person who was priorly responsible for the disgusting mistreatment of veterans at W.R. back into the driver’s seat is a ‘good first step’. Nothing Lieberman does anymore surprises me, although it does continue to sicken me.
What does surprise me, however, is Imus’ conduct. It looks like he’s finally shaken off the kool-aid and figured out that this criminal administration was playing him for a sap, and he’s out for blood. Good on you, Imus. Please…keep it up.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 pmgo don – punk that mofo.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 pmI love how the wingnuts (and, yes, Lieberman qualifies for that distinction now), when their culpability is pointed out to them, choose one of two tactics: either smear whoever is making the charge or the more civilized choice, as Lieberman demonstrates, is to point out how EVERYBODY was wrong (even when that is a LIE) and thus, it’s not so bad that I was wrong, see?
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:35 pmLieberman is truly disgusting–only cares about Israel. That’s not an appropriate reason to destroy the U. S. Y’know, I wish people like him who care more about a different country, would just go there and make room for real leaders who want to save the U. S.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:35 pmLieberman says something – Imus slaps him down in the rudest, most confrontational way he can – Lieberman sounds like they’re having a nice friendly chat and immediately changes his position to match Imus’s – Imus slaps him again …
It’s some kind of S&M thing and Lieberman, in addition to being a self-obsessed, spineless pig, is also getting very senile very quickly.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:36 pmAnd in related news, Lieberman suggests that if the surge in Iraq doesn’t quell the violence, Robert Gates ought to be fired and replaced by Don Rumsfeld.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:38 pmOf course he thinks McCain’s telling the truth, McCain’s a Republican. He’s probably hoping McCain will ask him to share the Repug ticket. What a neocon twerp!
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 pmI’m not an Imus fan, but occasionally he does deliver a much-needed smackdown. Thanks, Don.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:40 pmCorrective action for the sake of corrective action is a bullshit show. Welcome to government.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 pmIt is a sign of extreme desperation that the only audience Lieberman can get is with rancid talk radio shows…. McCain as well, going on a late night TV show (no offense to Dave) to announce his candidacy (again) for the Presidency……..
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pmShorter Lieberman: I heart liars.
Explains pretty everything you need to know about Joe.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:44 pmThanks Don Imus.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm#8, agreed completely. It’s very revealing about how easily Lieberman can be bullied. He tries to stick up for Dubya, but Imus the bully is closer and keeps pushing so hard!
Lieberman is nothing but a lickspittle.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pmGood ‘ole Joe can take it on the chin. Oh, I forgot… He doesn’t HAVE a chin (or a backbone, or testicles… ). Money talks, whining wanks walk. I fart in your general direction, Lieberman.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:50 pmWere the CT voting rigged. How could they have voted for such a lying weasel?
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pmLieberdick should STFU and pander to Israel in private.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 pmNice to hear LIEberman squirm and shuffle. Wait until more comes out about the cooked intelligence and rationales for going to war. He’s over.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:12 pmI wouldn’t doubt that CT voting was rigged. The place is filled with wealthy white people who are told what to think by thier neighborhood association and country club peers.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm21 – Hasn’t CT always “belonged to” the Bush family anyway?? Joe’s just observing local custom, by kowtowing to the Baronial masters of his State.
what a p.o.s. – FU CT!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:32 pmLieberman doesn’t back Israel. He backs the rightwingers in Israel who think war is the answer to all their problems. At least 50% of Israelis don’t support the policies of the goon squad.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:43 pmCarefull Posters. The Censors will be forcing the host of think progress to delete you. There is a concerted campaign afoot to silence any blunt remarks. Several blogs have already caved.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 pmIMUS: It would occur to me, Senator Lieberman that, particularly if you’re somebody who thought the war was such a wonderful idea, as you did, and continues to support this idiotic exercise that you — and probably you sit on some of these oversight committee that you would have a special responsibility to know what the hell has happened to these kids.
LIEBERMAN: …(LAUGHTER)
That says it all.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:59 pmWhat a chameleon Lieberman is. Too bad Imus didn’t bait Joe by saying how great a job he was doing on this issue. Bet Joe would have agreed with Don real quick on that. Then he should have nailed his sorry ass.
Democrats ought to kick Joe out of the caucus and take away his Chairmanship. Stop giving this embarrassment political cover. He’s only looking out for himself.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:11 pmLieberman is reliably a lying scumbag.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:15 pmTHANK YOU, DON IMUS!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:16 pmNo chin, no backbone, no testicles, no morals, no ethics and, “No more soup for you”!
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:20 pmLieberman doesn’t know his as from a hole in the wall. To say Kiley is a good first step is to demonstrate just how ignorant he is on the facts.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:30 pmDumbass.
If Lieberman lived in Germany in 1940 he would be a Nazi sympathizer!
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:39 pmnot a fan of Imus at all… but I must admit… this was wonderful!
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pmDon:
Ask Joe Lieberman all about the whereabouts of former Comverse CEO Kobi Alexander. Ask Joe why Uncle Dick has got him sequestered in the Witness Protection Program when he’s wanted on Federal charges.
Next ask him where his partner in crime, Dov Zakheim is. It seems that when old Dov (the PNAC Zionist) was the Comptroller under Rumsfeld, he “disappeared” upwards of $7 TRILLION and shipped it off to Israel. That was Department Of Defense money that might have been use to protect the troops with better armor in the first place.
Yup, Joe and Kobi and Dov are ALL ON THE SAME TEAM along with Libby and Pearle and Wolfowitz and Feith and Wurmser and on and on and on.
They’re just not on YOUR team.
I want my money back.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:56 pmImus is a slow learner…it’s taken him four years to understand that we were all conned by the NeoCons. Imus should have known long ago that Lieberman doesn’t give a shit about those young Americans who are getting killed and wounded in support of his grand plan for the Middle East. Do Senators not take an oath to uphold the best interests of the American people?
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:22 pmNot an Imus fan either but credit due where credit earned. This is the kind of smack that all of the MSM weasels ought to be giving all sorts of people.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:23 pmToo bad New Orleans residents don’t have Imus shaming Lieberman into providing oversight (aka doing his job). Where are the residents of Connecticut? Get your man in line and MAKE HIM do his job. HE WORKS FOR YOU!
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:27 pmJoe LIE-berman thinks Kiley is a good first step–THAT’S A BIG LAUGH!!!!! Kiley is JUST AS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE Walter Reed MUCK-UP, AND THE FASTER Kiley AND LIE-berman’s SORRY ASSES ARE BOOTED OUT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICES, THE BETTER!!!!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:58 pmKucinich/Slaughter would make a great ‘08 ticket.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:03 pmI worked with and for Kevin Kiley and I know George Weightman well. I was an AMEDD major subordinate commander at the same time that George was; we both worked for Kiley. George is one of the best general officers that the AMEDD has produced in the last 25 years. Kevin is very witty with a biting sense of humor that I enjoyed, but he is impossibly arrogant and self-involved. If you understand the AMEDD, then you know that there is no one more responsible for the shame of Bldg. 18 than Kevin Kiley. MG Weightman had only been there for six months. Kevin threw poor George, our finest, under the bus in effort to save himself. George is the purest scapegoat. I love Sen Lieberman. I’m a conservative conservationist, but Sen Joe is a great man. He will figure out Kiley soon enough.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:13 pmWhy do they get spineless twerp senators to comment on military matters? It’s quite obvious he didn’t care two bits about the soldiers in this war otherwise he wouldn’t support it.
He thinks he’s playing with GI Joe toys in Walmart.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:35 pm#38 Tell me why ‘Sen Joe’ is such a ‘great man”. You conservatives are always making definitive statements without backing them up.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:25 pmDon Imus is a disgusting racist and I have absolutely no interest in anything he has to say.
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm# yeah #38…real great man…! this is the dipshit that visited Baghdad and commented that the situation was improving because he noticed all the cell phones and satellite dishes…probably watching through binoculars while in the Green Zone…
great man my ass…LIEberman, along with his kissy face boy friend lil georgie are two of the biggest stains on our centuries old flag…both poster people for the term scum bags
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:39 pm…
“…that’s a big scapegoat deal and you know that.â€
Watch it:
the only thing i’d want to watch is LIEberman choking on that sentence…
my gawd… how can these people be so slimy…?
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:49 pm…
#41 is a judgemental, sanctimonius prick and I have no interest in what he has to say.
It’s idiots like #41 who are just too holy and righteous to see any good in people who fail to measure up to their own standards that we got in this mess in the first place. Tell me dude, how does it feel to be perfect?
I often wonder how many people were conned into voting for Bush because they were sick of being lectured by liberals on how racist/sexist/stupid they were? Probably alot.
The right wing propagandists sure picked up on that angle with the “Bush is a good guy to have a beer with” message. What that means is “Bush won’t accuse you of being a bigot for telling a racy joke or two.
Not saying that the right isn’t just as bad, in fact they’re far worse. But the media is owned by the GOP and they seldom show that side of the story. My point is, at this point how can any sane person be concerned over Imus not being sensitive enough? Are you serious? The country is going to hell and you’re upset that Imus is too mean?
Imus isn’t the problem. He’s really not that bad of a guy. Priorities, dude.
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:52 amWhy must we be inundated with the supposed “thoughts” of Joe Lieberman on every subject under the sun? Has he been promoted national expert on the universe? Day after day, he appears, in videos, on TV, the ever available leech from Conneticut.
Is there any real reason we should be subjected to whatever trickles through his mind?
Enough is enough!
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 amclueless Joe just hangs around like a painful zit on a virgin butt.
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March 3rd, 2007 at 1:12 pmFan of Imus – he started this whole thing by giving a shit. Nice job. But Imus, you have to dump Leiberman. Come on now, the guy has driven off the road into the desert.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:05 amI’m really getting to like Imus lately.
In their faces, Don!!!
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