Homerun

BooMan hits it. Go read it all, loyal four readers, I got that command from Kos Command & Control. Lieberman sucks, just like Van Hollen (a WI resident who's running for State Attorney General who is running his campaign on the idea that WI is a hotbed of terrorist training camps. Go figure, but we are the state that produced Ed Gein, Joe McCarthy, et.al.).

To say the least, it is a false premise. I'm also quite amazed to see Lieberman equate the evil of Islamic terrorism to that of the Nazis. I'm even more amazed to see him suggest that they represent a greater danger than the Soviet Union did. That's unhinged fearmongering.
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Joe Lieberman has now shown that he is little different from Dick Cheney in his vision of the Middle East. In both cases they say our very nation is in peril, and yet neither of them call upon us to make any sacrifice. When Roosevelt saw an existential threat emerging overseas he acted (and it required leadership).

The draft began in October 1940. By the early summer of 1941, President Roosevelt asked the U.S. Congress to extend the term of duty for the draftees beyond twelve months. The United States House of Representatives approved the extension by a single vote. The Senate approved it by a wider margin, and Roosevelt signed the bill into law.

For Cheney and Lieberman to compare the threat of terrorism to Nazism and the Soviet Empire, and to see Iraq go down in flames without even calling for a draft...is about the most irresponsible thing I've ever seen. If they are right, then they will have lost the war and the country because they couldn't disrupt our college kids' plans. But, they are wrong.

Bush has spelled out a vision for the Middle East wherein the people will have participatory democracy. The theory is that they will opt for Jeffersonian democracy if given the ballot, as opposed to opting for something more akin to what Usama bin-Laden wants. But we have had three electoral processes in the Middle East since Saddam was toppled. In Lebanon, Hizbollah gained seats and was awarded ministries. In Palestine, Hamas emerged victorious, leading to Israel's imprisonment of a big chunk of their parliament. In Iraq, they chose to elect theocratic Shi'a parties aligned with Axis-of-Evil member, Iran.
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Joe Lieberman has now shown that he is little different from Dick Cheney in his vision of the Middle East. In both cases they say our very nation is in peril, and yet neither of them call upon us to make any sacrifice. When Roosevelt saw an existential threat emerging overseas he acted (and it required leadership).

The draft began in October 1940. By the early summer of 1941, President Roosevelt asked the U.S. Congress to extend the term of duty for the draftees beyond twelve months. The United States House of Representatives approved the extension by a single vote. The Senate approved it by a wider margin, and Roosevelt signed the bill into law.

For Cheney and Lieberman to compare the threat of terrorism to Nazism and the Soviet Empire, and to see Iraq go down in flames without even calling for a draft...is about the most irresponsible thing I've ever seen. If they are right, then they will have lost the war and the country because they couldn't disrupt our college kids' plans. But, they are wrong.

BooMan quotes the entire speech FDR gave after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Have you heard Bu$hCo or Cheney say anything, anything, as eloquent? Didn't think so.