Lieberman defending Bush on misinformation in SOTU?

[ButterflyBlood]

is this true? If so, that alone shows just how pathetic he is. Does he honestly think he can beat Bush by sucking up to and defending him?

[Champion Jack]

1. Joe really is a waste of perfectly good air

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. And Holy Joe looked like he was at least trying to be a Democrat....

...at least for a month or so... That's too bad, but hardly surprising :evilfrown:

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Link, please

EDITED to add link

Just what makes you believe this?

The only thing I've seen today is that he called for an investigation (see the thread on LBN). There's nothing wrong with that.

Have I missed something?

[FightinNewDem]

5. Facts?!?

We don't need no steeenkin' facts!

No amount of drivel is too much when it comes to a hit and run slam on Lieberman.

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[DrBB]

4. The DLC strikes back!

That for you, Howard Dean. That will show you that you're not going to find any daylight between the DLC and Bush on issues of national security! However insecure those issues may be!

Now you'll see that the DLC is willing to fight it out. Who says we are wimps? We can FIGHT for our position as slightly-different-from-the-Republicans-on-a-couple-of-points-if-only-we-could-remember-what-they-were!

Because we DO have principles and that is our principles! We think! Goddamit!*


*Expletive inserted for purposes of emphasis and authenticity only. Not meant to offend or invoke God or anything, really. Just, you know, cause you have to show you mean it when you say stuff like this!

[FightinNewDem]

6. Time for an apology, ButterflyBlood

Looks like your "has Joe Lieberman stopped beating his wife" smear job wasn't quite as accurate as you had hoped:


ARLINGTON, VA -- Joe Lieberman issued the following response to news reports saying the Bush Administration ignored the CIA's objection to including a claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa in the State of the Union address:

"These are troubling reports that need full and thorough investigation. We cannot and should not play fast and loose with our intelligence information, and however it happened we now know that the information in the State of the Union was false, and misled the American people. This breaks the basic bond of trust we must have with our leaders in times of war and terrorism.

"Quite simply, we need to know what people in the Administration knew about the weakness of our uranium intelligence reports and when they knew it.

"Nothing can be more important in times of war and terrorism than to make sure the American people have straight talk on what is happening and that is why I have called for the 9/11 commission to look at this question, to see whether there was any information-shading, and the larger question of the quality of our intelligence."

[ThorsteinVeblen]

7. Fuck Holy Joe

That son of a bitch is enabling Bush to take down America. Screw him.

"the larger question of the quality of our intelligence."

THAT IS NOT THE "LARGER QUESTION". THE "LARGER QUESTION" IS WHETHER OR NOT OBJECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IS PUT THROUGH A POLITICAL LENSE.

[polpilot]

8. Joe needs to open a snowball stand in Siberia.

Dean '04

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