Munich, Germany – The world faces a stark choice between imposing tough sanctions on Iran to stop its nuclear program, or attacking it, United States Senator Joe Lieberman said Saturday.
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Lieberman is the influential chairman of the Senate committee on homeland security. He was speaking a day after Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that his country was ready to accept an international swap of uranium, but only under certain conditions.
“We have a choice here: to go to tough economic sanctions to make diplomacy work or we will face the prospect of military action against Iran,” Lieberman told the annual Munich Security Conference.
Top U.S. commanders are already working out how such a strike should be conducted, and although “no-one wants this to happen … unless we together act strongly and do more than talk that is exactly what will happen,” Lieberman said.
A nuclear-armed Iran would provoke chaos in the Middle East, send world oil prices soaring and end any hope of a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lieberman said.
Correct me if i am wrong, but i thought Senator Lieberman was Shomer Shabbos!?
Why doesn’t Lieberman send his own kids to war instead of telling everybody else what to do? Why does he want us to pay $20 a gallon for gasoline by forcing Iran to destroy the oil refineries and oil wells in the Gulf? Why does this guy want to destroy the economy?
From all the Goyisha Senators punkt de Yid has to open his mouth? If Lieberman would be sitting and eating the Seudas Shabbos on Shabbos like the rest of Klal Yisroel we wouldn’t have to hear his narisheh comments. Misgoreh BeUmos is a klooleh not a mitzvas esseh. At least according to FVNMS…
All american people let’s forget about the economy and the gas prices for now, we got to wipe Iran off the face of the earth, if not they will destroy us, Obama is a punk, he knows how to throw parties in the white house and that’s it, if we don’t destroy iran now and yes I mean it now we will suffer from those blood thirsty muslims.
i think its high time joe lieberman should stop pushing the drums of war, the anti semites love us enough without him adding his wise comments
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Actually it was a press conference, where the Senator addressed the press through a microphone, this would constitute Chillul Shabbos!
Its just that i remember reading how the senator would be moiser nefesh to stay in Washington DC over Shabbos & walk in to vote, on matters of great national importance.
This left me with a very favorable impression of the man, and i was simply upset to see what has happened to the man!?
If anyone attacks Iran, it must be Israel, not the United States. We already have enough people accusing Jews of manipulating the US government into attacking Iraq just to get rid of Saddam Hussein. An Iran war would be more of the same.
and by the way, under Bush we had Saddam overthrown, Aristide overthrown, Taliban overthrown, we had peaceful democratic revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon; what of Obama? not much to show for, yet he’s got a Nobel peace prize
It is much cheaper to drill in the oceans around countries with $2/day labor–
well, then we might have to look into the practice of constantly increasing minimum wage in this country, which is a vital part of the Democrats agenda
Laurence Lindsey– mind showing me the link where you got this quote from? because i’m sure if it were a big controversy, it’d be on wikipedia; yet i don’t see it there, unlike mentions of his accurate predictions of 1990s stock market bubble and Enron’s eventual problems
no shots fired in Bosnia? what do you mean? there was a bombing campaign there in 1995, to stop Serb atrocities. and how is Panama and Grenada ‘no shots fired’? Reagan and Clinton used American military force where possible and inevitable, and in that precisely Bush junior’s policy was same. by the way, his father left Saddam in power, thus causing us additional dozen years of problems. his son only atoned for his dad’s cowardice
and by the way, you parrot cliches about ‘unwinnable quagmire in Iraq’ which are like 5 years outdated. seems like you’re stuck in the comfort of yesterday’s reality (or better say, your perception of it)