Joe Lieberman gets it wrong most of the time on domestic border control issues, but he’s a wolverine when it comes to protecting the United States and Israel from threats overseas. He has a bias in that regard because he’s Jewish. Yes, that’s right, I said it. But you know what — I don’t care what his reasons, he’s completely right when he calls for bombs on Iran from our Air Force if the Iranian leadership keeps directing attacks upon Americans. Let me go one step further. Attack them. Period. Time’s up.
From Sunday’s CBS News interview on Face the Nation:
(CBS) The United States should launch military strikes against Iran if the government in Tehran does not stop supplying anti-American forces in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday on Face The Nation.
“I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,” Lieberman told Bob Schieffer. “And to me, that would include a strike into… over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers.”
The Independent former Democrat from Connecticut said that he was not calling for an invasion of Iran, but he did say the U.S. should target specific training camps.
“I think you could probably do a lot of it from the air, but they can’t believe that they have immunity for training and equipping people to come in and kill Americans,” Lieberman said.
Lieberman, who has been one of Congress’s most outspoken supporters of the Bush administration’s Iraq war policies, said that continuing the fight in Iraq and confronting Iran are necessary for achieving a wider peace in the Middle East.
If the U.S. does not act against Iran, “they’ll take that as a sign of weakness on our part and we will pay for it in Iraq and throughout the region and ultimately right here at home,” Lieberman said.
He said that he has seen evidence that the Iranians are supplying insurgents and foreign fighters in Iraq.
“By some estimates, they have killed as many as 200 American soldiers,” he said.
The actual numbers are far higher than that.
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