On the run -- but he didn't say in which direction! You know, like the French Army had North Vietnamese on the run in 1954 . . . . Or, to echo a later announcement of victory from the same conflict, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. (Yeah, like the flash from a roadside bomb explosion.) Joe L is living in an alternative reality. I suppose he thinks this somehow benefits Israel -- to have destroyed a large stable Arab state in the Middle East that had never attack Israel (until we attacked it in 1991) and empowered Iran, an even more powerful and rabidly anti-Semitic (not just antiZionist) state. "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." (Euripides)
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
<http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=2>
>
> Republicans may be abandoning President Bush on the
> war, but Sen.
> Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., is sticking with the
> president's strategy
> -- and sounding more combative than Bush himself
> these days. "You
> might say that, in Iraq, we've got the enemy on the
> run, but for some
> reason, in Washington, a lot of politicians are on
> the run to order a
> retreat by our troops even as they are beginning to
> succeed,"
> Lieberman told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This
> Week" yesterday.
> He also said -- surprise -- that he's not
> necessarily supporting a
> Democrat in 2008. "I would say that Democratic
> candidates, in the
> larger questions of American security, have been
> disappointing."
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