No sooner than I decided that Vladmir Putin had stuck some KGB mind control substance while hanging with the Bushes in Kennebunkport, but then I read this headline from the Courant:
Lieberman: Iran Has Declared War
No seriously, did the president of Iran just pick up the cell phone and say, “yo, Joe, Iran here. We declare war.” Click. Is there some senate staffer giggling in a closet over this stellar prank. Sadly, no. From the Courant:
The fact is that the Iranian government has by its actions declared war on us,” said Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats. As a result, he continued, “The United States government has a responsibility to use all instruments at its disposal to stop these terrorist attacks against our soldiers and allies in Iraq, including keeping open the possibility of using military force against the terrorist infrastructure inside Iran.”
He stopped short of advocating a military strike, but said that “while I sincerely hope that diplomacy alone can convince the Iranian government to stop these attacks, our diplomatic efforts are only likely to succeed if backed by a credible threat of force.”
Lieberman said he hoped the latest news about Iran would help quash calls in Congress to withdraw U. S. troops.
Wow. One of the few times I will ever go on the record and saying I’m glad that our president doesn’t read newspapers. If he read about this, we’d have yellow cake declarations all over again or something. Anyone know if Cheney gets deliveries in that undisclosed location?
source: Courant Lieberman: Iran Has Declared War, by DAVID LIGHTMAN, July 2, 2007
