IF LIEBERMAN ISN’T REFERRING TO THE PATRIOT ACT,

WHAT IS HE DOING?

Blathering on back here serves no purpose. If you believe in this war, Mr. Lieberman, go. Go to Iraq and do what you think is right. Don’t send some young person to do your dirty work. You go do it.

Step 1. Develop new energy production method.
Step 2. Stop giving money to people who have oil (and fund terrorists with it)
Step 3. Give new energy production method to other countries.
Step 4. Leave desert country in shambles and laugh at everyone because we suddenly no longer care about their existance.

Suddenly, the desert becomes the very sad and lonly place again. After all, without all that Oil Income I’m sure whomever is funding the insurgents/terrorists won’t have all that much money left to fund them.
Not to mention what that would do to the crazys in Iran.
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The problem with leaving Iraq immediatly is that there are very few trained Iraqi people (other then the insurgents) that can handle the probable increase in activities the moment we leave. The Kurds are likely the only ones that are happy we are there, both the Sunni and Shite’s will continue to fight (as they always have) and there isn’t much we can do about it. The most we can do, is give some time for the Iraqi army to become semi-competent. Our best bet is to schedule a withdraw at that time. When will the Iraqi army become semi-competent, who knows, hopefully no more then another six to eight months, but thats just being optomistic.

The longer we are in Iraq, the more supporters terrorism gets worldwide.

A couple of thoughts on this.

1. There is no way to leave Iraq without having a plan. If you are implying that we can’t leave Iraq unless it is calm or pacified or rebuilt, you are simply repeating a mythical neo-con (BushCo) talking point. There is simply no way to “win” the occupation in Iraq. (Let’s be clear, WE ARE NOT AT WAR IN, OR WITH, IRAQ! THERE IS NO WAR!) We remain there at this point, to save BushCos ass. 80% of the Iraqi people want us out of their country and 60% of Americans want us out as well. The “surge” is a political move for shifting the blame for losing the “war” to the Democrats so the Republicans can survive in 2008.
We will have to leave at some time, so lets begin leaving right now! And that includes ALL of the military bases we have constructed in their country. Full orderly withdrawal will take months. The sooner we begin to leave the less violence there will be. After Iraq settles down we can begin to help them rebuild in what ever way THEY want us to. They are a soverign nation and we have no right to be there at this time.

2. Iraq is a already a disaster with us occupying it. It can only get better if we leave. (”Another Afghanistan” you say? Iraq is worse than Afghanistan right now!) We essentially created the atmosphere for the civil war that rages on in Iraq. We can do nothing to stop that civil war and our presence only aggravates it. History of other occupations shows that when the occupier pulls out the place calms down and doesn’t get more violent. With the outside force out of the picture the people stop supporting the crazys and begin to rebuild their country.

To really get at the root of terrorism, global poverty needs to be addressed. Our leaders need to not abandon Iraq, but support its growth and the growth of other undeveloped countries by funding the UN Millennium Development Goals. According to the Borgen Project, just 0.16% of out federal budget is spent on poverty reduction while $340 billion has been spent on the war. We need to redirect our funds to programs that will work to combat the conditions that enable extremism to exist. We can’t fight terror with terror in a country we are espousing peace to; there needs to be an alternative.

Joe Lieberman the US TROOP KILLER!

The problem is that, increasingly over the past several decades, one of the greatest issues concerning our national polity (the almost omnipresent influence of Israel and the Israel lobby over our foreign policy) has been suppressed by “3rd grade name callers,” those who scream “antisemite” at anyone who even hints that this influence is indeed an issue.

Yes, “traitor” is an inflammatory term, but so is “antisemite.”
However, I for one would hold that “traitor” has more actual substance in the case of Senator Lieberman’s overt fealty to the FOREIGN STATE of Israel, than does the term “antisemite” when it is used to silence those who voice the concern that, all too often. our foreign policy has been put in service to the ambitions and perceived needs of Israel, at the expense of both our own national interest and the basic human rights of the Palestinian people.