Reply #7: Cole is lying here about Lieberman's remarks

[oberliner]

Or, to be more accurate, he is repeating lies from the Electronic Intifada and passing them off as truth.

Lieberman did not "call for the flooding of Egypt by bombing the Aswan Dam in retaliation for Egyptian support for Yasser Arafat."

That is just an out and out falsehood.

Here are the actual remarks that were twisted into the above:

"Mubarak continues to act against us and to travel for consultations with Saddam Hussein. If he carries out his threat and puts forces into the Sinai, it would be an example of a (crossing) of the red line to which we would have to respond strongly, including by bombing the Aswan Dam."

Source: Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE52U3DH20090401?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

For a guy who is a stickler for not taking things out of context, Cole sure did not seem to have a problem with the way the quote was lifted and manipulated by Electronic Intifada - or he just didn't both to find the original himself, which is odd considering how much time and effort he put in to examining that quote from the Iranian president.