Here's the transcript from Lexis-Nexis1:
KELLY: So, OK, it goes on and on. What about Obama's refined position that McCain supports a 100 troop presence in Iraq is inaccurate?
LIEBERMAN: Well, I think that -let me say generally that Sen. Obama doesn't come to this debate with a lot of credibility. Basically on the question of Iraq, John McCain has had the guts to stand out on his own arguing for what he thought was right. And it turned out that he was right about the surge working to improve conditions in Iraq.
If we did what Sen. Obama wanted us to do last year, Al-Qaeda in Iran would be in control of Iraq today. The whole Middle East would be in turmoil and American security and credibility would be jeopardized.
On the specific question of the 100 years, I think that's an unfortunate example of the way Sen. Obama has used it, of playing political gotcha with a national security question.
If you look what Sen. McCain said in that exchange at the town hall meeting - I believe it was in New Hampshire - he wasn't talking about a long war. He would like to see our troops, as many of them as possible, come home as soon as possible from Iraq. But the fact is, we're going to need, as we have after every conflict we have been in, World War II, Korea, et cetera. We're going to want to leave troops there to secure the peace that our soldiers have won.
It's clear that that's what he meant. Anybody who says that John McCain
is for a 100-year war in Iraq is either not informed or is intentionally trying to mislead the public. And I think Sen. McCain appropriately responded to that today.
1Fox News Network
April 1, 2008 Tuesday
SHOW: THE BIG STORY WITH JOHN GIBSON 5:00 PM EST
America's Election Headquarters for April 1, 2008
BYLINE: Bill Hemmer, Megyn Kelly, Brit Hume, Douglas Kennedy
GUESTS: Chris Kofinis, Michael Reagan, Scott Rasmussen, Mark Halperin, Bill Adair, Kirsten Powers, Ed Rollins, Tammy Bruce, Bill Press, Joe Lieberman
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 7888 words
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2 comments:
Lieberman is making an analogy. "Al Qaida" is a Sunni based islamic jihsdist movement. Iran has it's own Shiite jihadist group- The Islamic Republic of Iran. They funded the founding of Hezbolah and other group just as dangerous as Al Qaida. The root of all these groups is "Islamism". You might look it up on Wikipedia. Sorry, but Joe is right on!
It's not an analogy, it's confusion about the Middle East. To suggest that Sunnis and Shias extremists are for all practical purposes identical is a serious mistake.
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