Lieberman: Obama Couldn't Go To Iraq If It Wasn't For McCain

"Look, the fact is that if Barack Obama's policy on Iraq had been implemented, Barack Obama couldn't go to Iraq today, it wouldn't be safe," Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., told Chris Wallace this morning on "Fox News Sunday."

"Barack Obama, John McCain saw the same difficulty in Iraq," Lieberman argued, "John McCain had the guts to argue against public opinion, to put his whole campaign on the line because, as he says, he'd rather lose an election than lose a war that he thinks is this important to the United States..."

Lieberman continued: "Sen. McCain and I and others want us out of Iraq, sooner rather than later, but want us out in a way that does not compromise all the gains that American and Iraqi forces have made in Iraq ... And frankly, we want to stay there to a victory, because we don't want all those who have served in the American uniform there to have served, or in some cases died, in vain. Remember this, Chris, we wouldn't be having this discussion about how to get out unless the surge, which John McCain courageously fought for, taking on the president of his own party, popular opinion, risking his campaign, and which Sen. Obama opposed, worked. So, that's the good news."

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Comments

[HannibalSilver]

Joe is in love, at awe and star struck with McBush. He is in political bigamy.

[kaplan88]

err..doesn't he mean Obama wouldn't have to go to Iraq if it wasn't for McCain (and his merry band of neo-con nation builders)?

[demigod]

The people of Connecticut could have had a good Democrat representing them in the Senate, but NOOOO, they had to re-elect this assclown so he could keep playing his traitorous games. He's no good to the Democrats, as he actively tries to elect a pro-war Republican President, and he's no good to the Republicans, as he votes against their repressive social legislation. No one can trust him, expect maybe the Israelis.

[koolazzleek]

And McCain couldn't go if it were not for me and my former Soldiers.

C CO 1-5 IN
1st BDE 25th IN Div (Stryker)
Fort Lewis, WA.

Sep 04- Sep 05 OIF III

RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul. Iraq

[BBackSoon]

Thanks for your service. So was that about as safe as you ever were in Iraq while strolling thru that market?

[bythePeopleforthePeople]

shrewbreman

[Daniboy]

You people are so openminded and you have such a big tent? Thank God more people lean more conservative than your way. If you ever get all the power you can kick people like Lieberman out of the country. Heaven forbid that there should be anyone left who disagrees with you Libs.

[jinjinpinti]

Time to read a book and consider changing your views to match the 80% of us who believe, thanks to your "conservative POTUS and crew, we are headed to hell in a handbasket. Why will you NEVER learn?

[BBackSoon]

I don"t think he needs to leave the country, but it would be nice if he would retire and just paint or build bird houses or run a bait shop.

[wm1066]

"Obama wouldn't be going to Iraq if the rightwing monsters in power hadn't decided to kill half a million people there."
Joe, I think thats what you really meant.

[openhand]

The consummate politician. He has an agenda, because he sure as hell does not have a point. Someone from the GOP must have made him a Faustian offer to sing so loud, but he keeps changing the chorus.

[desertdweller]

And where would Holy Joe be if not for the generosity of Al Gore?

[Burgess]

What are they waiting to kick this guy OUT of the democratic party?

[mossy1]

They need him to hold their slim majority in the senate. After November, though, not so much.........

[AfricanWahala]

Yeah and McInvent.. invented the surge, invented the "time horizons", heck he invented the Plane that O8ama used to go to Iraq...Dude is the greatest inventor of our time...Give the guy some credit

[Birdman]

Hey Joe do you have a crystal ball? No one knows how things would be if the surge never happend there is no way of knowing this and you know it. But you roll out this unprovable argument simply becaues we have no TIME MACHINE to change the past nor do you, so do us a favor and go away.

[parryisle]

Al Gore lucked out in 2000 wh en the Supreme Court appointed Bush the presidency because he might have been assassinated by a Likud loyalist thus putting Liberman into the Oval Office.

[kkuate]

"Sen. McCain and I and others want us out of Iraq, sooner rather than later.." ---Joe Lieberman.

What a liar...He knows all too well that Bush and Cheney do not want to leave all that oil in the hands of Iraqis, and McCain is just part of the plot to establish a permanent military presence in Iraq to control that nation's resources, which have become our property by some strange Neocon doctrine called "America's interests".

Lieberman and Israel know that America will continue to let them suck, so they continue to press America to engage in warfare, secure resources, and share this bounty with them.

[jeffp26]

I am missing something.

Did Obama borrow a plane from the Cindy McCain (gotta get around arizona, ya know) air force?