thinkprogress.org - 7/31/2008
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This morning, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) held a press conference to express their “pleasure” about President Bush’s statement this morning regarding what he described as “encouraging news from Iraq” and “the success of the surge.”
Lieberman then announced that he and Graham would do their part in celebrating the surge by ...
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Lieberman still confused about the war in Iraq
Political Animal —
... of the surge” for creating “sustained progress” in Iraq. Soon after, Joe Lieberman announced that he and Lindsey Graham are “introducing a resolution recognizing the strategic success that the surge has achieved in a central front — the central front of the war on terror against the enemies who attacked America on 9/11/01, and expressing our thanks to our troops who’ve made that success possible.”
Ben at TP did a nice job knocking this down.
It would be an insult to anyone’s intelligence to point out ...
Lieberman still confused about the war in Iraq
Crooks and Liars —
... Ben at TP did a nice job knocking this down, emphasizing “the obvious fact that the terrorists who carried out the September 11, 2001 terror attacks operated out of Afghanistan, not Iraq,” and that the policy that Lieberman supports has ”prevented the U.S. from sending more troops where they are needed, in Afghanistan.” ...
Two can play at this game
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... , along with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), calling on the Senate to officially recognize the success of the surge in Iraq. Democrats have no plan, however, to let Lieberman and Graham, the Senate’s top two supporters of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), walk off with such an easy political victory and will be introducing their own alternative resolution, Senate aides said. Lieberman was criticized when he introduced his resolution for invoking the September 11th attacks; his recent speech to the Republican National Convention in which he questioned Sen. Barack Obama’s ...
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