Lieberman Dismisses Iraqis Who Oppose A McCain Presidency
Lieberman Dismisses Iraqis Who Oppose A McCain Presidency
On CNN’s American Morning earlier today, Kyra Phillips reported that during a recent trip to Baghdad “dozens of Iraqi soldiers and dozens of students at Baghdad university” told her that they “don’t want to see a Republican president.” “Out of every single one that I talked to, one person said they supported John McCain,” said Phillips.
Asked to respond, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who is an ardent supporter of McCain, dismissed what the Iraqis told Phillips as an “unscientific poll.” He claimed that on all the visits he’s made to Iraq, “the Iraqi people on the street, the Iraqi military, the Iraqi government that I’ve talked to, don’t want us to just pick up and leave.”
Lieberman then noted that the Iraqis don’t want the U.S. “to stay there forever,” which he claimed was consistent with McCain’s position on Iraq:
The Iraqi people on the street, the Iraqi military, the Iraqi government that I’ve talked to, don’t want us to just pick up and leave, which is what Sen. Obama, Sen. Clinton have been advocating. They want us, obviously, not to stay there forever. Sen. McCain wants the war to stop and to have us pull back into bases and be on a path, a reasonable path of withdrawal.
Watch it:
As Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) told ThinkProgress last year, congressional trips like Lieberman’s are shrouded in a “Green Zone fog” that makes it hard to get a real sense of the reality on the ground. But, as Phillips noted during her March report from Baghdad, she didn’t have a public affairs official present when she interviewed the soldiers and students, which she says allowed for an “uncensored” and “candid” two-hour discussion.
Additionally, in making the claim that like the Iraqis, McCain doesn’t want us “to stay there forever,” Lieberman completely ignores the fact that McCain has said it is “fine” with him for the U.S. to stay in Iraq for 100 years, which would essentially be forever. Also, while the Iraqi people have rejected permanent U.S. bases in the country, McCain has said they may be “necessary.”
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100 years isn’t forever… it will just seem like it for the thousands upon thousands who will die or be injured…
May 12th, 2008 at 10:52 amI really really hope that when Harry Reid says nice things of Joe LIEberman, he just blowing smoke up his a$$ and when he gets a comfortable majority, will strip Holy Joe of his seniority in te Democratic caucus.
Supporting the Republican candidate for President should warrant that kind of response, dontcha think?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:53 amJoe Lieberman is one of the best reasons NOT to elect McCain because you just know Joe would have a key role in that administration.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:53 amSmokin’ Joe is running for the republican VP slot. He’s a perfect match for McNumbNuts. They are both “dead men walking”.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:54 amno surprise here. joe LIE-berman disses Americans who oppose bombs-away McJowls.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:55 amVote for McIIIrd! Ensure AIPAC rules Amerika for the next four years!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:55 amIs it just me, or is Joe (I-Israel) Liebernam starting to take on the persona of Pat Paulsen?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:56 amLieberman really screwed up here - he accidentally spoke the Republican truth:
They don’t care - and never have - what the Iraqi’s want, or think, about ANYthing.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:57 amAsked to respond, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who is an ardent supporter of McCain, dismissed what the Iraqis told Phillips as an “unscientific poll.”
Lieberman dismisses this as unscientific despite the fact that polls have shown a clear majority of Iraqis want us out of their country.
“the Iraqi people on the street, the Iraqi military, the Iraqi government that I’ve talked to, don’t want us to just pick up and leave.”
And this somehow is scientific? Lieberman displays all of the classic self-delusion of the Republican party. Why doesn’t he just join up with them and be done with it?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:57 amralph the wonder llama Says:
I really really hope that when Harry Reid says nice things of Joe LIEberman, he just blowing smoke up his a$$ and when he gets a comfortable majority, will strip Holy Joe of his seniority in te Democratic caucus.
Supporting the Republican candidate for President should warrant that kind of response, dontcha think?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Reid has pointed out the slim Democratic majority as it is even counting Lieberman among them (which he shouldn’t). Once they have more seats next term (and electoral-vote.com is predicting they will, then Lieberman might as well formally join the Republican Party. He will no longer have influence in the party he abandoned.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:01 amWho cares what stupid foreign brown people or anyone who disagrees with you thinks, eh, Joe…?
You obviously know better than all of us.
Ew. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. :o/
May 12th, 2008 at 11:02 amWhy anyone gives this jerk a platform to spew his trash is beyond me. He’s got nothing to say! He just drinks the tanker of koolaide that’s outside his door every morning and goes about his daze-filled day..
Best thing that could happen to him is a group of Hell’s Angels takes up residence in his neighborhood..preferably next door.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:04 amJoe Lieberman’s Washington contact numbers.
We should all contribute our thoughts on his “independent” campaigning:
706 Hart Office Building
May 12th, 2008 at 11:05 amWashington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4041 Voice
(202) 224-9750 Fax
If Harry Reid ever becomes a serious threat to Old Joe Lieberman, just watch the Zionist media trump up some propaganda about Reid being corrupt in some way, a payola land deal or misappropriation of campaign funds or some such cra p o la. Lieberman is safe and sound. So is Diane Conflict of Interest War Profiteer Feinstein…
May 12th, 2008 at 11:10 amAs Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) told ThinkProgress last year, congressional trips like Lieberman’s are shrouded in a “Green Zone fog” that makes it hard to get a real sense of the reality on the ground.
The real sense on the ground is that the Green Zone is under attack because Iraqi’s don’t want us there. There is nothing hard about that one. I think the mortar fire and bombings are pretty much a dead giveaway.
Lieberman claimed that on all the visits he’s made to Iraq, “the Iraqi people on the street, the Iraqi military, the Iraqi government that I’ve talked to, don’t want us to just pick up and leave.”
A Republican hearing what he wants to hear and censoring the rest out. It’s called selective hearing.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:16 amThere he goes again, old whiney-voiced-brown-nose Joe, sugar plums and vice-presidency dancing through his head.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:18 amSo if it really does become a McSame-Lieberman ticket, which movie will that be most like — “Grumpy Old Men” or “Dumb and Dumber”?
May 12th, 2008 at 11:26 amIs it just me, or is Joe (I-Israel) Liebernam starting to take on the persona of Pat Paulsen?
He looks more like Nosferatu to me.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:29 amlie=berman, cheer=toff and mc=crazy all sound and are looking alike…..Are these wacko’s still among the living.?…Don’t think so……Blessings
May 12th, 2008 at 11:34 amMcCain thinks that you and I are members of Hamas. I guess Lieberman does, too. Nice going, Reid. Good job keepin’ this guy around.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:37 amJoe, Joe, Joe, check this out and then tell us about how Iraqis feel…
May 12th, 2008 at 11:39 amhow the heck do you dismiss what the Iraqi people say and claim to know what is best for their Country? How do you do that so arrogantly? Scientific polls? How convenient.what’s one hundred years of occupation anyway? By then, the Iraqis will be driving flying cars and having robot maids, right?
May 12th, 2008 at 11:45 amThen by damn, have Lieberman and McCain explain a 104 acre fortified U.S. Embassy, the largest and most expensive in the world in Baghadad if we did not intend to stay there forever. This is a symbol to every Iraqi of the U.S. Occupation. No U.S. Politican can deny the above statements - NONE.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:00 pmIt’s so weird to see him standing there in front of McCain’s campaign logos. To think he used to be a Democrat.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pmDogFather, I’d have to say Dumb and Supreme High Dumbness
May 12th, 2008 at 12:07 pmBeuatiful, RU, let the polls speak for themselves, Along with that poor Iraqi Shiite Physician who regrets giving birth to her children and wishes she could put them back in her womb so she’d know they’re safe! What do this politicians think they are playing at when they have a woman so desperate to say that!
May 12th, 2008 at 12:13 pmoops! sorry, I meant beautiful
May 12th, 2008 at 12:13 pmI must suffer Dyslexia just like Bush!
May 12th, 2008 at 12:14 pmI’m really proud of you guys doing your best to get the truth out, filtering the BS like coffee beans
May 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pmIs Joe Liebrman acting as McCain spokesman?..
May 12th, 2008 at 12:21 pmHe seems to act also as if he is McCain attorney…
Everytime there is a gaffe made by McCain you find Lieberman there to explain it and tell us how McCain was right and accurate.
Will there be a Joe and McCain’s ticket in the near future?
a ticket were both can execute the PNAC (Project for New American Century) manifesto plans faithfully,with the help of NeoCons who think the war mission just started,and need to go on for tens of years.
RUCerious - that link made me start to cry. Between that pic and that picture of the two men holding the 2 yr-old aloft after his house was bombed by the U.S. (he later died), well, as much as it hurts, more Americans need to see those pictures.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pmI believe the whole world does not want us to have another Republican POS President for decades to come.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:29 pmDogfather, maybe “The Bucket List” since their careers are breathing their last gasps.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:38 pmJoe Lieberman used to be a democrat now he’s a traitor. The people of his State are fools for supporting him. He won with a large number of Republican voters in a heavily Democratic district. I’ll bet all of those stupid Democrats who voted for him are regreting it now. I knew he’s do what he did because his top priority isn’t US Security, it’s Israeli Security. He’s a Jew first and American second. There’s nothing wrong with being a Jew, but you have to put your country first.
If there are any bloggers from his State, then you guys had better start getting ready to elect a REAL Democrat next time. If you want a Republican then elect one. If you elect on, don’t cry when they turn against what you stand for. Joe Liberman has already betrayed his voters and his former party. He says he intends to attend the Democratic Convention in August, but I wouldn’t let him in if I were Sen. Obama.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pmwow! that’s funny!Project For New American Century! That’s like the 21 century’s version of New World Order! Wow! sounds like a really cool movie but a really scary reality, eh?
May 12th, 2008 at 1:08 pmok, first of all, If he’s a damned wolf in sheep’s clothing, than we can’t hold the constituants accountable for being lead to the slaughter, now can we? People do there best with what they got and what we got right now is what, eh?
May 12th, 2008 at 1:12 pmWe got a man with a plan for Change and people are kind of weary and have had their fill of change. last i checked there’s been lots of changes since 2002. We got a Woman out for blood. We also have an old geezer that falls asleep on the job.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pmWell you can’t believe what people in Iraq ssay, but you can believe Hamas when they say they like Obama.
How do people this stupid manage to get dressed each day?
May 12th, 2008 at 3:17 pmmary ~ just imagine that’s your child. And this is being done in OUR name. Kryst.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:42 pmQ: What’s the difference between Joe SixPack and Joe AIPAC (LIEberman)?
Joe SixPack loves America!!!
May 12th, 2008 at 4:28 pmEverytime this whiny bastards comes on any show, I immediately change the channel. I can’t bear to hear his voice, no less listen to the lies he spews.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pmPEOPLE OF CONNECTICUT!!!
one word:
R E C A L L ! ! !
Clearly, this is not the guy you thought you voted for.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:06 am