Lieberman Says Pelosi Syria Visit Was ‘Bad For America,’ Suggests Syria Was Behind 9/11
Lieberman Says Pelosi Syria Visit Was ‘Bad For America,’ Suggests Syria Was Behind 9/11
Today on CNN, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said he “strongly disagrees” with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) bipartisan delegation to Syria, calling it a “mistake” and “bad for the United States of America.”
Lieberman added, “I say this because we’re in a war. We’re in a war against the Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9-11-01.” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer responded, “But they had nothing to do with 9-11.” Lieberman dodged the issue and changed topics.
Watch it:
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who visited Syria last year, defended Pelosi’s trip. “I believe in the maxim, hold your friends close and your enemies closer,” Specter said. “President Ronald Reagan declared the Soviet Union to be the Evil Empire. Immediately thereafter he undertook negotiations with them.” Specter said he has been to Syria 14 times over the last two decades “and have been able to be helpful in a number of situations that I can document.”
Transcript:
SPECTER: I believe that Assad can be negotiated with. I’ve made 14 trips there, Wolf, in the last two decades, and have been able to be helpful in a number of situations that I can document. And I think opening discussions with Syria are very, very important, and I’d rather Condoleezza Rice did it, but if not, it’s up to Speaker Pelosi and Arlen Specter and others.
BLITZER: What about Senator Lieberman, what do you think?
LIEBERMAN: I respectfully and strongly disagree with Arlen Specter and with Nancy Pelosi. I believe her visit to Syria was a mistake, that it was bad for the United States of America and good for the Syrians. And I say this because we’re in a war. We’re in a war against the Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9-11-01. Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism.
BLITZER: But they had nothing to do with 9-11.
LIEBERMAN: But they have — but let me tell what you they have to do with what we’re into now. The Bashir Assad Syrian government has allowed terrorists and arms to flow across its country into Iraq that are being used to kill Americans today. Syria has been implicated in the assassination of a very strong popular Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Syria is supporting Hezbollah, which is trying to unseat our ally, Senora, in Lebanon. Syria is supporting the terrorist group Hamas against our allies in the Fatah Palestinian movement, and of course, Israel. The administration, in all fairness — people in Washington should know, if they don’t know, the administration has been trying in many ways, in diplomatic discussions with Syria since 9-11, to get Assad to change his behavior and he has not. When Nancy Pelosi goes there, she sends a message of disunity. She legitimizes the Syrian goverment.
BLITZER: So I assume you disagree with Senator Specter’s decision. I want Senator Specter to respond. Why do you think Senator Lieberman, Senator Specter, is wrong?
SPECTER: I believe in the maxim, hold your friends close and your enemies closer. President Ronald Reagan declared the Soviet Union to be the evil empire, and immediately thereafter undertook negotiations with them. Look, Assad is not a boy scout, but we have to deal with him. he’s there. In my conversation with him, I think there are ways to get him to stop arming Hezbollah and to stop arming Hamas. They came on the brink of a solution to the Golan Heights in 1995 and again in the year 2000. That was done by active negotiation that President Clinton engaged in. So there are ways to move through it, and to isolate them has not been successful.
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Say it ain’t so,Joe.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:16 pmAnd of course the CNN Chyron labeled him as a (D).
April 8th, 2007 at 12:16 pmSomeone tell me…
Other than the media talking cheeseheads, the White House itself, and now Lieberhack…has anyone in the actual government denounced the trip?
It seems like almost every Republican Congressman quoted viewed the trip positively.
Lieberman is quickly descending to deeper depths of hackery it seems.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:17 pmWhat a snake. We have got topick up at least two more seats in 08. Reid needs to stop working with that prick. He’s had for the party and bad for the country.
Thanks CT.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:19 pmSyria?
How hard is it to comprehend that the plan was plotted by and planes were filled with SAUDIS?
Really, how hard?
April 8th, 2007 at 12:20 pmSo why did we not go after Syria in the first place? Woops.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:21 pmNow wait a minute, I thought Iran was supposed to be behind 9/11? According to Guiliani?
April 8th, 2007 at 12:21 pmThese liars need to get together and decide on which lie to use this week, they are confusing us!
Such steaming loads of… cabbage.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (Traitor-CT): Derpa, derpa, derpa….
April 8th, 2007 at 12:21 pmThe Bashir Assad Syrian government has allowed terrorists and arms to flow across its country into Iraq that are being used to kill Americans today. Syria has been implicated in the assassination of a very strong popular Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Syria is supporting Hezbollah, which is trying to unseat our ally, Senora, in Lebanon. Syria is supporting the terrorist group Hamas against our allies in the Fatah Palestinian movement, and of course, Israel.
No 9/11 connection yet, Lieberman…
April 8th, 2007 at 12:22 pmAnother thing that amazes me is that, by definition, USA has the faculty to judge, make opinions, and be hostile towards any government in the world. Just like that. Well, all empires fall.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:23 pmMakes me think somebody, like Rove, has some really good dirt on Lieberman. Go ahead Rove, this time we won’t even be mad at you.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:30 pmMadeline Albright just said on CNN that she disagrees with Joe and on VP Cheney (paraphrased), “Why would anyone believe anything he says?”
April 8th, 2007 at 12:31 pmApparently some Senate democrats dont want an end of a war of aggression started through the presentation of FRAUD to the American people….
If bush vetoes then take out the part about pulling the troops out on a deadline.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:33 pmyo… methinks thats the first time ive ever heard a repubilcan mention bill clinton, and not mention monica lewinsky in the same breath!!! mad props for arlen spector for using sense and not partisanship. if only more people in washington would follow suit…
April 8th, 2007 at 12:33 pmSyria, Iran, Iraq….
Like ‘unbelievable’ posted up at #5, no one seems to want to point out that most of the hijackers, not to mention the mastermind himself, was SAUDI. Not to mention that Saudi Arabia has one of the more wretched combinations of Islamic interpretation and cultural law in the region. Yet seems like we’re willing to coddle them, while accusing the rest of the Islamic world of being “EEEEEEBIL!”
Smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors. And Droopy Joe’s plugging his ears and petulantly demanding that it’s all real.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:33 pm[…] Video via Think Progress. […]
April 8th, 2007 at 12:34 pmThe Bashir Assad Syrian government has allowed terrorists and arms to flow across its country into Iraq that are being used to kill Americans today.
America doesnt belong there so get out.
Syria has been implicated in the assassination of a very strong popular Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
In other words we must join the zionist dominion…
Syria is supporting Hezbollah, which is trying to unseat our ally, Senora, in Lebanon.
In other words we must join the zionist dominion…
Syria is supporting the terrorist group Hamas against our allies in the Fatah Palestinian movement, and of course, Israel.
In other words we must join the zionist dominion…
Where exactly does his loyalties lay?
April 8th, 2007 at 12:38 pmMore evidence LIEberman is following his buddy, McCain, into unreality.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:38 pmWho cares what this mealey mouthed fuck has to say…
April 8th, 2007 at 12:39 pmHe just another one of the Bushies that has to go.
I’ve got news for you people.
Thats not Joe Lieberman.
Someone must have snatched him and replaced him with Elmer Fudd.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:40 pmExactly which posts get disappeared says alot about the people monitoring this site.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:45 pmWhat a crock of crap, all these wannabs parading around to get their 15 minuet’s of fame on all Sunday show’s is getting down right disgusting…
Say, Madam speaker can you and the house pass a bill demanding all war monger’s on the preaching genocide circut must go to war before they preach it….Better yet, how about putting impeachment back on the table now…..Blessings.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:47 pmComment by Gerald Gibson Jr — April 8, 2007 @ 12:33 pm
Thanks for the link.
It looks like Democrats are saying no to impeachment, and no to ending the war.
So we have hearings. We learn about all the crimes, all the malfeasance. And nothing really changes.
Perhaps it is time to drive the moneychangers from the halls of our government.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pm[…] himself to peddle the Hannity-Limbaugh Brand Talking Point to bash Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi. ThinkProgress has the transcript: LIEBERMAN: I respectfully and strongly disagree with Arlen Specter and with […]
April 8th, 2007 at 12:49 pmNot to mention that Saudi Arabia has one of the more wretched combinations of Islamic interpretation and cultural law in the region.
Comment by Kryptik — April 8, 2007 @ 12:33 pm
Excellent point. When I lived in California, I worked with a married Muslim couple who were from Iraq. The husband was educated at a BS level, while his wife had a Master’s degree in architecture, and although she was still culturally subservient to her husband compared to US customs, she had been allowed in Iraq, under Saddam, the same freedoms that I had in America… Compared to the American guy I worked with in my early career who had lived in Saudi Arabia for 3 years and told me horror stories about how they treat women there…
April 8th, 2007 at 12:55 pmPerhaps it is time to drive the moneychangers from the halls of our government.
Comment by Briseadh_na_faire
If only the Christians would go Taliban on Washingtons ass in that way instead of over war with iraqis…
April 8th, 2007 at 12:55 pmBnF, Yep! it’s looking like that’s what we need to do….Blessings
April 8th, 2007 at 12:55 pm[…] Senator ‘Squeaks’ Lieberman condemns Nancy Pelosi’s Syria trip. Thank you, Connecticut voters, for electing the Squeaker to the U.S. Senate. Why do I think he really doesn’t represent your hopes for America? It’s not only his support of this miserable war, but also his backing down from calling real hearings on the Katrina fiasco, that makes the Squeaker roar. * * * Image: (Squeaks) thebostonist.com - Please find the Think Progress story, transcript and video here. […]
April 8th, 2007 at 12:57 pmwe all know LIEberman is a terrorist promoting endless war, death, destruction, and suffering and accordingly, is for the neocon terrorist-supporting policies of all war all the time. LIEberman is sick, despicable, psychotic.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:58 pm.
Exactly which posts get disappeared says alot about the people monitoring this site.
Comment by Gerald Gibson Jr — April 8, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
What disappeared?
April 8th, 2007 at 1:01 pm2 days before Pelosi went, not one, but THREE Republican congressmen also went and met with Assad.
In other words this is a non story.
The only reason anyone is saying anything is because its Pelosi. The republicans can’t stand it that a democrat is standing up to them, much less a woman.
And Joe Lieberman is a republican.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:03 pmThink Saudi Arabia Mr. Lieberman. Remember? Do the math…….19 of the hijackers were from the Bush family’s favorite princedom. Forget Afghanistan, forget Iraq, our army should have marched on Saudi if anywhere! Here it is again for ya Joe because you get forgetful about what your doing, why, and for who….19 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. You know, the kingdom where films have show the Shrub HOLDING HANDS with the Prince of this country. Bush and his family love these people and its the country that should of been of deepest interest post 9.11.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:03 pmWhat disappeared?
Comment by unbelievable
A post I made about lieberman and his mostly “lets back whatever the zionists do BS” that he listed as reasons.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:04 pmKindly go “F*ck Yourself” Mr. Lieberman. If it’s Sunday, it must be “Meet the Republican” talking points. Apparently Joey boy got the Rove memo. I can’t believe the good people of CT voted for this right wing tool. What a disgrace.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:05 pmEver since Lieberscum became a proud “independent” he parrots ALL of the republiscum smears in order to slam Dems at every opportunity in any way he can. He’s a worse joke than he ever was, and now everybody knows it.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:06 pmWhen you look at his hilariously obvious lies, his blatant hypocrisy, and most especially his self-serving sanctimony, all you can say is that Holy Joe Lieberman is a pathetic dick.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:08 pmWhat disappeared?
Comment by unbelievable
I tried to resond to you, but that response disappeared also.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:14 pmIf Joe doesn’t know what’s bad for America, who does?
April 8th, 2007 at 1:15 pmAll of Joe’s parroting of Cheney talking points makes me think that Joe made a deal, keep groton and I will promote your war.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:19 pmWith Gordon Smith, Chuck Hagel and others voting with the Dems, what Lieberman says and does is less important now. Lieberman doesn’t have a tie breaking vote.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:22 pmHe’s just one more Republican Vote in the Senate.
I tried to resond to you, but that response disappeared also.
Comment by Gerald Gibson Jr — April 8, 2007 @ 1:14 pm
It’s like someone putting their hand over your mouth while you’re trying to tell someone something that they don’t want you to say… Frustrating.
Must have been important…
April 8th, 2007 at 1:24 pmMust have been important…
Comment by unbelievable
I think the word zionists gets people to riled up… should I instead say fundamentalist jewish religious wacko?
April 8th, 2007 at 1:30 pmLieberman is a prime reason I look forward to 2008. The Democrats are sure to take enough seats in the Senate that they can stow this traitor in a closet somewhere for the rest of his term. Lieberman is a pathetic, sick, lying Republican weasel.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:37 pmLieberman is a typical Neocon pussy.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:38 pmI find occasional post will dissappear, so I copy my messages before I post them. Then if it dissappears, I paste it and resubmit it, then it will appear. I don’t think it is moderators as much as it is a crappy system.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:39 pmoh JEW LIEberman, you so silly, have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up you parrot.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:44 pmBlitzer; Senator, just who WAS responsible for 9-11?
Lie-berman; Well, Wolfie, Saddam was behind it all.
No, wait, it was Syria
April 8th, 2007 at 2:01 pmtired & old, clueless Joe is now an absurdity. But we have to question the intelligence of the Connecticu electorate for re-electing this fool. Are they just as clueless ?
April 8th, 2007 at 2:02 pmNo, it was……. (fill in the blank).
Comment by Uncle Ho
No, it was……feminists, single mothers, and homosexuals. :-)
April 8th, 2007 at 2:06 pmHow’s come no one here ever presents the truthabout Lieberman? He is an agent of a foreign power and needs to register as such. He will do anything he can to keep this war going because that is Zionist policy. Bush talks about “fighting the terrorists over there rather than over here”. But Israeli policy is “letting the Americans do our fighting so we don’t have to.”
April 8th, 2007 at 2:06 pmYesterday , Guiliani:’Iran behind 9/11″….Today, Libereman:’Syria behind 9/11″… It only Neocons talk…!
April 8th, 2007 at 2:12 pmIs there something going on with Lieberman that we are not in on? Can he really be that obnoxious and be for real?
April 8th, 2007 at 2:16 pmWhat will the Democrats in Congress do when Lieberman starts campaigning for the Republican Candidate for President ?
April 8th, 2007 at 2:17 pmsomeone flush this turd
April 8th, 2007 at 2:18 pmHiya Zooey! I got some names for the babies. Good, Hippie names. Free, Rainbow, Rain Dancer, Mountain Girl, Chelsea Morning, Patchouli, Indica, Om, Cosmic Rainbow, Sugar Magnoia.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:20 pmNo Go Joes’ tiresome toe-the-line blather could put Lunesta out of business.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:20 pmFirst of all I wish SOMeBODY would correct Lieberman the NEOCON, it hasn’t been PROVEN that Syria had anything to do with Rafiq Hariri being assassinated. In fact, this blaming Syria canard started the SAME day he was assassinated, BEFORE ANY INVESTIGATION. Who BENEFITED, from the assassination, ISRAEL.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:26 pmThe fact NEOCON lieberman would put Israel’s foreign policy above a “fellow” democrat, is disgraceful, reprehensible and points out, he’s as much a neocon, wanting the Syrian government over thrown, as well as the Iranian government over thrown, (being on the Clear and Present Danger committee),as cheney and bush.
To go out of his way, to smear Pelosi by saying it was “bad for America”, no NEOCON LIEBERMAN, YOU’er BAD, VERY BAD FOR AMERICA !
Pretty much what you should expect from a wet bag of dirt; a steady drip of dirty water….
April 8th, 2007 at 2:29 pmIt’s getting so that America is bad for America…
April 8th, 2007 at 2:35 pmHiya Zooey! I got some names for the babies. Good, Hippie names. Free, Rainbow, Rain Dancer, Mountain Girl, Chelsea Morning, Patchouli, Indica, Om, Cosmic Rainbow, Sugar Magnoia.
Comment by Uncle Ho
Hey Uncle Ho,
Excellent! Some of those can be used for girls or boys!
I’ll add to your list: Sunshine Karma Goodvibes & Cellar Door Hinge
Is it weird that I’m gonna have babies with someone I call “Uncle”…..?
April 8th, 2007 at 2:39 pmHow can it be possible that this man doesn’t realize he has absolutely ZERO degree of credibility left anywhere with anyone? He’s probably even considered a joke in the WH, behind his back.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:39 pmI tried to agree with your earlier post, Gerald, and added a comment of my own, but that one never made it past the filter….
April 8th, 2007 at 2:46 pmMore recycled Republican crap… coming from phony Lieberman.
What am I missing here??? Zooey and Uncle Ho having babies???
April 8th, 2007 at 2:46 pmCoffins, it was Zooey’s offer. A few days ago on another thread, she said “OMG, if I were younger, I would love to have your babies”. I’m taking her up on it.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:50 pmUncle Ho - right on - you never miss an opportunity that is presented to you :) LMAO
April 8th, 2007 at 2:53 pmCoffins; if I learned ANYTHING from the navy, that’s it. Never miss an opportunity. (:-D)
April 8th, 2007 at 2:57 pmRe-elected to the Senate by freakish circumstances, Joe Liebermann suddenly thinks he is George F. Kennan.
Kind of how Tucker Carlson has come to think frowning is a form of thinking.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:59 pmCoffins; if I learned ANYTHING from the navy, that’s it. Never miss an opportunity. (:-D)
Comment by Uncle Ho
Uncle Ho,
You did remember to requisition the shipment of “younger,” didn’t you?
April 8th, 2007 at 3:13 pm:-D
Zooey; As I recall, you made me an offer I just CAN’T refuse.
April 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pmHey Joe, lets talk about the dancing Isrealies watching the towers get hit. Damn traitorous fool.
April 8th, 2007 at 3:23 pmZooey; As I recall, you made me an offer I just CAN’T refuse.
Comment by Uncle Ho
Heh. We’ll just have to cross our fingers and try real hard. :-D
April 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pmLieberman, you’re SCUM. Go ahead and do us all a favor and change parties, to the war-mongering, NeoCon SCUM-Publicans
April 8th, 2007 at 3:37 pmAnd of course the CNN Chyron labeled him as a (D).
Comment by ignu
Saw that too. Is this another way of trashing the Dems?
Lieberman, you’re SCUM. Go ahead and do us all a favor and change parties, to the war-mongering, NeoCon SCUM-Publicans
Comment by David O.
LIEberman is SCUM so much so, even Specter is running from him. Do the Rape Public Cans want him?
April 8th, 2007 at 5:04 pmYou morons think conspiracy theory soooooo much - but you don’t think that Syria was behind anything to do with 9/11? What schmucks - no wonder why Leiberman beat the pants of you liberals in the general election - he realized you’re all a bunch of whack jobs!
April 8th, 2007 at 5:34 pmIt was that kiss or Lieberman has Dementia. The GOP has had every country they don’t like or who doesn’t believe in Bush/Cheney controlling the World, being the ones who bombed WTC. Now Osama said he was proud of who ever did the attack yet why would he be proud of something Bush/Cheney said he did? Now Joe sixpack says it was Syria. Who else would be charged with the 9/11 attack. I guess the White House will never tell us why Daddy Bush/Connie/Rummy and others were told not to travel by air on 9/11. Yes as Connie said about the memo heading, ” Bin Laden using planes to attack US’. AS Bush goes on vacation that memo was not important but the White House did make sure no GOP officials was taking a plane on 9/11 and after the White House made use all the friends and family of Bin Laden got out of the US safe as well as others like the Saudi’s. Yes no questions asked just leave and come back later after the plan goes in to act. WTC came down the same way the building set with dynamite come down in Vegas. But of course we must believe the true Liar-in-Chief. Don’t believe what you see and know believe only what our Dictator tells you to believe. WELCOME TO 1984 BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
April 8th, 2007 at 5:34 pmOf course he does not like it… He is a Zionist…. Israel and the Zionists don’t like peace b/w Syria and the US, because it is against their interest… Unless Syria gives up their right and turn the other cheek… they are going to stay “enemies” of the made up nation of Israel
April 8th, 2007 at 5:38 pmI’m normally a constant critic of Arlen Specter, who talks sense to the media then cooperates with the White House on whatever they are doing at the time. He basically says one thing for the public and then behind the scenes inserts what the Bush and Cheney want in the bill at midnight.
However, I have no complaint at all with him speaking the truth this way. Joe Lieberman obviously got his talking points from Dick Cheney. Not only did Specter shine in this interview, but Wolf Blitzer actually called Lieberman on his false claim that we are fighting the agents of terror that led to 9-11.
I may be naive, but I’m hoping that this represents a glimmer of hope for the cause of truth. This is the first I’ve heard anyone besides Keith Olbermann get this right.
April 8th, 2007 at 5:40 pmThis guy is getting to be a laugh a minute- he should try the Komedy-Klub Circuit and find out where the serious rewards are for his talent.
April 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pmOh- he’s doing Fox? Never mind, same circuit.
[…] (CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO OF JOE MAKING THIS CONNECTION) […]
April 8th, 2007 at 6:01 pm[…] in the Senate so we no longer have to entertain the rambling lies of a turd-stain warmonger like Joe Lieberman […]
April 8th, 2007 at 6:07 pmIt’s so hard to keep up with who the 911 perpetrators were.
First it was Afghanistan.
Then it was Iraq.
Last week it was Iran.
This week it is Syria.
Odd that all the 911 hijackers were Saudis and Egyptians and yet those 2 countries are just about the only ones, in the region, that have yet to be blamed for it.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:17 pmYou morons think conspiracy theory soooooo much - but you don’t think that Syria was behind anything to do with 9/11? What schmucks - no wonder why Leiberman beat the pants of you liberals in the general election - he realized you’re all a bunch of whack jobs!
Comment by CB
So now it is Syria that had something to do with 9/11? First it was Iraq, a few bought that story, and now Bush owns up to the fact Iraq HAD NOTHING to do with 9/11…. then we baited Iran in hoping to keep the PNAC blueprint going - so far that has failed… now Syria HAD SOMETHING to do with 9/11?????? The real morons are those who continue to buy into the war warmongering hype the PNAC crowd keeps putting out there. Since our infrastructure is crumbling, working class people actually dying from lack of health care, poverty in our country at an all time high, pensions being lost, education, health care, living standards going south don’t you think it is about time we invest the 2 billion a week we spend for this illegal invasion we did into our country instead? If we do not change the direction of things we, you too, will go down.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pmThanks Connecticut.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:35 pmIt’s not about delusion; and it’s not about stupidity. It’s all about deliberately spreading misinformation. That’s why, if there’s a hell, Lieberman will have a front row seat. But he keeps doing it because it’s effective.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:37 pmYou see it anytime you try talking with some moron who gets his/her news from Faux or their ilk. You share a fact; they counter with a falsehood that they believe is true because it’s been quoted so many times by a variety of people on “their” side. And they’ve been convinced to not venture beyond the “safe” news outlets, where they tune in to get their talking points. They’re certainly not going to bother to deal with any conflicting information that happens to drift past them.
This constant drizzle of misinformation is intended to confuse the simpleminded. And it’s working beautifully.
WHINY, WEEPY, DISGUSTING TRAITOR AND TURNCOAT Joe LIE-berman—WHAT A DISGUSTING CREEP THIS LYING PIECE OF CHIMPya and FRANKENCheney-ANUS-KISSING DETRITUS LIE-berman IS!!!! “Syria BEHIND 9/!!”? IF THAT ISN’T A CROCK OF SHIT, SWEET JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY!!!!! WHY DO THEY ALLOW A MADMAN LIKE LIE-berman TO SPOUT OFF HIS DESPICABLE LYING MOUTH AND SPREAD SUCH SWIFT-BOAT-SHIT-SMEAR LIES ABOUT SPEAKER PELOSI AND REPEAT THE Bushland Uber Allies LINE OF FALSEHOODS, CALUMNY, JINGOISTIC DEMAGOGUERY AND UTTER NONSENSE RUBBISH???? OH, THAT’S RIGHT, HE’S PART OF THE JEWISH neo-CON-men CABAL OF INSIDIOUS Bushland Uber Allies SUPPORTING CRAZED CONSERVATIVE JEWISH neo-CON-men, WHO ARE NOT PART OF OR NEVER HAVE BEEN PART OF THE MAJORITY OF LEVEL-HEADED AND HONEST JEWISH PEOPLE BOTH IN ISRAEL AND THE REST OF THE WORLD, AND IN AMERICA!!!! Ehud Olmert IS A PART OF THIS CABAL, A SMIRKING EPICINE CREEP WHO IS A BLACK-HEARTED neo-CON-man JEW, JUST LIKE LIE-berman—AND LET’S NOT HEAR ANY NONSENSE ABOUT THE trolls AND DUNG-dit repugnant-repub LYING pundits ABOUT “GANGING UP ON ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE”–IT’S THE neo-CON-men CABAL OF JEWS THAT WE E-WARRIORS ARE GANGING UP ON–HEY, WE DON’T LIKE EXTREMISTS FROM EITHER THE JEWISH OR ARAB SIDE, AND THAT GOES DITTO FOR TERRORISTS FROM EITHER SIDE AS WELL, ESPECIALLY neo-CON-men!!!!!
April 8th, 2007 at 6:38 pmJoe just STFU! You are irrelevant.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pmPlease don’t EVER give Specturd any praise.
He is a calculating SOB up for reelection in a state where he can very well lose if he faces a strong candidate.
ALL of his words know must be seen through a B.S. prism to get to any “truth” that he might actually believe. I don’t think he has ANY genuine positions (that he VOTES on). He’s bought and paid for, but he’s dangerous because he “appears” like a maverick no the boob tube when he bashes Bush. Don’t fall for it people of Pennsylvania! Replace the bloviating, sell out of a fool.
If he persuades enough Pennsylvanians that he’s Anti-Bush, he will probably get re-elected.
We MUST make sure Pennsylvanians know HOW HE VOTES, and how his votes over the past six years have enabled Bush at every step of the way (and that little Patriot Act thing that secretly happened out of his office - we must make a BIG DEAL out of it).
I hope and pray the Democrats in Pennsylvania are able enough to turn the bright rays of TRUTH on this dissembling bastard and get him out!
P.S. Lieberman, you’re still a tool.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:46 pmHey, Lieberschmuck, remember? Syria is where the neocon sonsofbitches who you hang out with rendered innocent prisoners captured and detained illegally without trial or habeus corpus, all in the name of God and Isreal. But I suppose you think that’s just a fine idea, you filthy bastard?
Can there be a more despicable human being? I mean, besides the ones Lieberschmuck works for: Bush, Cheney, Ohlmert, McCain, Gonzalez, Pearle, Wolfowitz, Kristol, and the CEOs of Exxon/Mobil and Chevron.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:07 pmWell, they keep beating around the Bush……. Iraq, Iran, now Syria…
April 8th, 2007 at 7:18 pmthey keep getting a little closer each time to that little rogue nuclear state on the far eastern shore of the Mediterranen Sea…..
For those who are not aware of some of the things Sibel Edmonds has talked about. Interesting stuff.
State Secrets Privilege Was Used to Cover Up Corruption and Silence Whistleblowers
The issues reported by Ms. Edmonds include:
· Espionage activities within the FBI, DOD, and the Department of State.
· Cover-up of information and leads pre and post 9/11, under the excuse of protecting certain diplomatic relations.
· Deliberate mistranslation of crucial intelligence by FBI translators and management.
· Foreign entities bribing government officials and elected representatives.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:38 pmhttp://www.antiwar.com/ blog/ 2007/ 03/ 07/ sibel-edmonds-and-james-bamford/
There’s only one way to put it. Joe Liebermann is a trader to the Democrats in Congress and to his own party. His head is so far up Bush’s butt, he can tell you what he had for dinner last night. This guy needs to be defeated next time he runs for reelection. He’s always been a Democrat in name only and now he’s shown his true colors. Apparently he doesn’t realize that he’d following the most unpopular President in American history. If Liebermann thinks that Dubya’s poll numbers are going to rebound because he’s selling out, I’ve got some Oceanfront property in Kansas I’d like to sell him.
I can understand being independent, but being a lap dog for Bush isn’t in his or the country’s best interest. This guy puts kissing up before what’s right for his own country. His decisions are based primarily on what he thinks will help Israel, and that’s why he’s a Bushy. Turtleman has sold the people of Conneticutt out for twenty pieces of sillver. The sad part about it is that all that glitters isn’t gold and he’s bought a load of bull that turned out to be fools gold. Keep up the kissing up Turtleman, your poll numbers can only go down like your good buddy Dubya.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pmThanks a lot Connecticut. Next time don’t give Jowls a hall pass. He needs to spend more time in class under direct adult supervision.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pmLieberman is losing any form of creditability with ct.
Tossed, as more and more believe him less and less.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:14 pmRaymond F- If you got something to say, SAY it.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:23 pmSpit it out and get it off your chest; you’ll feel better, you know, if you don’t keep it all bottled up. Really.
Joe, who did exactly attack us (the USA) on 9-11?
Islamic extremists?
Islamic Militants?
SAddam Hussien?
The Islamic faith?
Disgruntled Mujahdeen?
Syria?
Iran?
Palestinians?
The boogeyman?
ANY strawman?
Get a grip Joe.
If we had kept the fight against Al Quaeda and not strayed to every country or faction that has an ax to grind with Israel, this thing would have nipped in the rear by now.
Instead, we have created the largest terrorist recruiting station in the history if the world: Iraq.
I am really very happy right now that Al Gore did not become President, solely for the reason that it kept Liebermann more than a step away from the button.
This guy is obviously nuts.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:32 pmre: Stay @ 74: “We MUST make sure Pennsylvanians know HOW HE VOTES, and how his votes over the past six years have enabled Bush at every step of the way…”
I’m all down with that, but the problem is that the local media will not report on this two-faced charlatan.
The guy at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Sherman) is just in love with Specter and will never report anything that would put him in a bad light. It just never gets mentioned. When he does something that Sherman thinks is good, well, we get a great big article with only half the story. I’ve complained bitterly to no avail. The other paper in town in the Tribune-Review, and they’re the Fox News of the newspaper business, so write that off immediately.
Local TV? Forget about it. Radio? Pretty much all right wingers who love Specter for his ability to look a person right in the face and tell them one thing and then go do just the opposite. No Air America here. We do get Thom Hartmann and a local called Lynn Cullen but by the time Hartmann is done giving valuable air time to the Ayn Rand freaks and Cullen is done whining about some bizarre indechiperable nonsense, there’s never discussion of Specter’s deplorable conduct.
So it’s gonna be an uphill battle — and by the way, to me it’s not a battle for Democrats, it’s a battle to get just out the simple truth — just the facts is all I’m asking — and let the chips fall where they may.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:32 pm78. Liebermann is a TRAITOR not a trader.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:36 pm“But they have — but let me tell what you they have to do with what we’re into now.”
Translation from 3-card-montyese: “Look over there!”
April 8th, 2007 at 8:58 pmWhich country will be the next to be blamed for 9/11? Tasmania? Ecuador? The Netherlands? Tycho Crater on the Moon? Jupiter?
Lieberman is nuts. Bush is nuts, and those who re-elected his ass is nuts!
April 8th, 2007 at 9:22 pmLIE-berman: “I say this because we’re in a war. We’re in a war against the Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9-11-01.â€
The little weasel is not only lying; he is showing his total ignorance of the Constitution. Congress has not declared “war” since the 1940’s. We have taken military actions in many places, but at NO time have we been at “war!”
LIE-berman has not noticed that there has been no declaration of war, because he has been too busy kissing the current demented, corrupt president’s behind!
What a shame the people of his State didn’t wake up to what a TOTAL loser he is! They need to recall him and replace him with an honest Senator who knows the difference between the TRUTH and a LIE!
April 8th, 2007 at 9:37 pmLieberman Says Pelosi Syria Visit Was ‘Bad For America,’ Suggests Syria Was Behind 9/11
BS you lying hacks.
He said nothing of the sort.
He said the US is fighting a war on terrorism and Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism.
Neither of these facts are in dispute.
In fact an interesting research project for you, if you can take time out of lying about things, would be to try and find out what year anybody last left Syria off a state sponsors of terrorism list.
I don’t know what year that would have been but I know Hendrix would have still been known for his day job back then.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:43 pmThis thread is much like those polls of Fox News viewers after 2003, where large majorities were shown to believe in obvious falsehoods about 9/11 and the Iraq war because their news source lied to them and they never questioned it.
Here we have a TP post claiming that someone made a specific claim, a posted transcript showing that they said no such thing, and 87 comments, not one of which dispute, question or even refer to this clear contradiction of the topic in question.
I can’t imagine that you would see anything but an overwhelming majority here responding that they believe a lie about something that never happened if they were polled.
TP. Progressive like a Fox News hack.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:58 pm[…] what he said in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that also involved Arlen Specter (there is video): Lieberman Says Pelosi Syria Visit Was ‘Bad For America,’ Suggests Syria Was Behind 9/11 SPECTER: I believe that Assad can be negotiated with. I’ve made 14 trips there, Wolf, in the […]
April 8th, 2007 at 10:33 pmTraitor Joe Lieber-trash can go straight to Hell. He is a sick Bush lover.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:48 pmAll of the sudden, there is this concern about not “legitimising” the Syrian government, and the Bush administration and its minions are all bothered because Pelosi had the audacity to travel over there.
They certainly were not concerned about the legitimacy of Assan’s regime when they were secretly “renditioning” prisoners to Damascus to be tortured. And the Syrian secret prisons didn’t bother them either.
Do as I say, not as I do is this administration’s official motto.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:06 amYeah, Joe, Dick-less says (on rush limp-bough, no less) that al Qaeda was in Eye-Rack before 9-11 the same day the Pentagon’s IG report said it was bullshit. Go ahead, lie to the 29-% ers.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:08 amthey love living in foKKKs “news” happy-land.
… Joe believes it is the duty of every American to fight and die for Israel because Orthodox Judaism has always been more sacred to him than some little ole oath he swore (— on the Torah no less) to uphold and protect the US Constitution.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:26 amthe dummass voters in connecticut who voted for this assklown should just hang their stupid brainless heads in shame.
i mean, really, what the f*** were the dummass voters in connecticut thinking ??
can we force connecticut to secede from the union ??
can we ex-communicate them or something ??
this assklown is such a blot on the country - as are the complete brain dead good little reichers in connecticut.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:15 am#88 and 89 - Comments by Nasty, Slimy, Troll Kilo — April 8, 2007 @ 9:43 pm and @ 9:58 pm:
Lieberman Says Pelosi Syria Visit Was ‘Bad For America,’ Suggests Syria Was Behind 9/11
BS you lying hacks.
He said nothing of the sort.
LIEBERMAN: …We’re in a war against the Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9-11-01. Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism.
BLITZER: But they had nothing to do with 9-11.
LIEBERMAN: But they have
LIE-berman didn’t put those two thoughts together by accident. Like the NeoCons he fronts for, he could have left off the reference to 9/11, but he didn’t. Blitzer (who is NO mental giant) caught him in his subterfuge.
Nasty, Slimy, Troll Kilo needs a remedial reading course and a brain transfusion to wipe the NeoCon filth and lies from his so-called “brain!”
UNDER THE BRIDGE NASTY, SLIMY TROLL!
April 9th, 2007 at 3:21 amKilo = Seixon
April 9th, 2007 at 3:40 am#96 - Comment by troll alert — April 9, 2007 @ 3:40 am
Kilo = Seixon
A Troll by any other name is still a nasty, slimy troll!
Someone who tries to slime ThinkProgress by equating it to Faux Noise (Comment #89) can only be a troll! {:-)
April 9th, 2007 at 4:11 amYou could infer that I equated TP to Fox News in that both clearly lie to their audiences. The fact that they are lying here is what is relevant though, not how apt any comparison drawn is.
But instead I was actually comparing the readers of TP to Fox News viewers in terms of their gullibility and willingness to accept obvious lies as the truth as long as this serves their partisan viewpoint.
As I stated, when it reaches a point where everybody (and it is apparently 100%) is happy to read a lie about what a quoted body of english text contains and not only show no recognition of this contradiction, nor raise any concern, but actually respond as though the lie were true, then clearly you’ve matched Fox News viewers in terms of your willingness to accept bullshit as fact.
In fact, considering those polls of Fox viewers I referred to were a lot less than 100% acceptance of lies as fact, you’ve actually surpassed them. Way to go.
BTW feel free to continue calling me a troll if you like. Until you actually disputed the accuracy of what I wrote you haven’t differentiated yourself from me. Here, I’ll help you if you like. You could do this by saying:
“No, I believe that there are hidden words in the quoted transcript which would make TP’s characterization of its contents accurate.”
Or: “I believe that stating someone said something in a transcript that they clearly didn’t does not constitute lying about what they said, for unspecified reasons.”
Right now you haven’t even distinguished yourself from any of the FreeRepublic readers who scream “troll” at anyone expressing an independent thought over there. In fact, and once again, I would have to characterise you as worse.
You are after all calling me a troll for pointing out that words claimed to exist in a body of clearly visible, english text don’t actually appear in that body of text. For pointing out that rather than someone stating something outrageous, what was stated is actually something nobody disputes. Not even you.
This apparently makes me a troublemaker seeking to subvert your non-thinking-based discussion. Well how fkn proud you must be of that to start with. Yeah there’s something worth protecting from the dirty, subversive, word-readers like me. LMAO.
April 9th, 2007 at 7:27 amKilo = Seixon
Comment by troll alert — April 9, 2007 @ 3:40 am
You really haven’t gotten any better at your job have you. You think you might want to start trying at some point ? It has been quite a few months already.
Here’s a tip to get you started….
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2006/ 04/ 29/ 100000-2/ #comment-529288
Now compare the writing styles, vocabulary, language in use (there’s more than one form of english FYI), unchanging choices of styles employed for highlighting text, etc.
If you were to employ such analysis rather than pulling an uneducated guess out of your butt you’d find exactly zero in common between my own posting history and that guy’s. Yet here you have concluded we are the same person. Yeah way to go sparky.
You could call yourself “Teh Ultermate Spellur” and look just as ridiculous with far less effort.
ps. I have previously posted here for several years in the same style under another name, which isn’t that one. So, you really, really suck at your job.
April 9th, 2007 at 8:00 amDid she break the law? Find out here:
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 04/ did-speaker-pelosi-break-any-law-by.html#links
April 9th, 2007 at 8:51 amI’t official Lieberman has joined thge axis of weasels… what a creep
April 9th, 2007 at 10:20 amComment by Kilo — April 9, 2007 @ 8:00 am
Me thinks thou dost protest too much, Seixon,um,er Kilo.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:17 pmWe most pick up more seat in the senate and tell Joe to head over to thr repukes where he belongs.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pmHey Raven, that’s exactly what the neo-cons want.
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April 9th, 2007 at 3:08 pmGreat job Connecticut !!!! You had every chance in the World
to rid the Senate of Lieberman, but Nooooooo.
Lieberman is a reactionary republican, in everything but name.
Thanks loads.
April 9th, 2007 at 8:24 pmIt would save this country a lot of trouble, aggravation, wasted time, energy, effort, money, and our future and our very souls, if we would just start legal proceedings and execute the Real traitors to our once great nation.
Why do we let people that WE have hired to work for and to serve US:
lie to us;
steal from us;
steal from our children;
steal from the grandchildren of everyone else who lives on this planet;
use our blood and treasure to commit more crimes….
and then let them “resign” and slither away into private life or some other country they have dual-citizenship with, while still keeping all their loot?
It should be no surprise that Lieberman would mention in the context of 911 if you consider that Syria, along with Iraq, and Iran - were all mentioned years ago in:
“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realmâ€â€¦..
What we are watching unfold, paid for with US blood and treasure and our very souls (and the death and destruction of other entire innocent nations), is the execution of a Master Plan, that was in place long before 911:
http://tinyurl.com/3bnhsm
some excerpts:
“Securing the Northern Border”
“Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon”[1]
“Given the nature of the regime in Damascus, it is both natural and moral that Israel abandon the slogan comprehensive peace and move to contain Syria, drawing attention to its weapons of mass destruction programs, and rejecting land for peace deals on the Golan Heights.”[1]
“Moving to a Traditional Balance of Power Strategy”
“Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.”[1]
A manifesto written in part by Douglas Feith, the very same Douglas Feith who created the phony intel on Iraq, while working in the Pentagon, in the “Office of Special Plansâ€, to circumvent and ignore OUR OWN (the United States of America’s) intelligence resources. Very “Special†indeed……
Why do the wishes of Zionist Israel become the blueprints of US Foreign policy?
April 9th, 2007 at 8:53 pmThis guy just never refuses a chance to make himself look like a moron, does he? I mean, he just TRIES to piss on the party who he says he’s “following” with every vote. What a jerk.
April 9th, 2007 at 10:00 pm[…] Secondo caso: Joe Lieberman durante una intervista sul viaggio di Nancy Pelosi in Siria, sostiene che la visita sarebbe stata un errore perché "siamo in guerra. Siamo in guerra contro i terroristi islamici che ci hanno attaccato l’undici settembre". Quando il giornalista gli ha fatto notare che i siriani con l’attentato non c’entrano, ha cambiato argomento. […]
April 10th, 2007 at 6:32 amI haven’t protested at all moron.
By all means, please feel free to continue claiming the same thing you have been. Do it twice as often if you like.
This claim being that someone with a long history of using non-American english dictionary spellings of words here and not giving a toss about global warming, Plame or Bush is an American-Norwegian who only cares about those 3 issues.
This actually harms your reputation, not mine. Makes you look lame rather than me. Oh and you do it while hiding behind a different a different identity to boot. LOL.
Seriously, you cannot have failed to notice that every time you make these claims that I enjoy hiighlighting them to ridicule you, can you ?
You may want to look up the word “protest” in a dictionary, because this ain’t it Sherlock.
Man, what a service you provide. Where would these discussion boards be without someone of your sluething talent. LMAO.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:07 amWhat a terrible little man Liberman is.
April 10th, 2007 at 11:18 am[…] Lieberman added, “I say this because we’re in a war. We’re in a war against the Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9-11-01.†CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer responded, “But they had nothing to do with 9-11.†Lieberman dodged the issue and changed topics. […]
April 11th, 2007 at 11:50 am[…] course, given that Lieberman himself smeared Pelosi last week, and that Lieberman was one of the chief advocates for the recess appointment of Sam Fox, […]
April 11th, 2007 at 6:46 pm