YIKES! LIEBERMAN SOUNDS JUST LIKE NORMAN PODHORETZ!

Podhoetz has compared Iran to Hitler's Germany and accused our intelligence community of deliberately undermining the criminal Bush regime over Iran. Via Ben at ThinkProgress, I learn that Lieberman is just like Crazy Ole Norman. TP has the video clip and here's the transcript from Lexis-Nexis¹:

SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN
(INDEPENDENT )

Well that's up to Israel obviously. But I would say that obviously, Israel is first in the line of Iranian fire. And it represents an existential threat to Israel. But do you know who's next? The Arab countries in the Middle East. And they're worried about the uranium program and want to us to act strongly to stop it. And we're next. Because Ahmadinejad in Tehran constantly leads the mobs in shouts of death to America, and they mean it. So I think right now, we have to pick up the strength of our sanctions again them. The US Treasury Department has been very strong in squeezing the Iranian economy. I think we've got to now with particularly the banking sector, we've now got to move to the insurance sector and even to countries that are selling them gasoline because the clock is ticking. Everybody says we can't let Iran become a nuclear power. I agree. But at some point, we, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions that demand that Iran stop its nuclear enrichment program. They have to believe that we may take military action. I hope it never comes to that.

It's no wonder that Lieberman supports war whore McCain (h/t Atrios), as Greg Sargent of TPM finds:

When asked about concerns he is creating the impression that Obama would not be a friend to Israel, Lieberman responded: "It's my way of thinking that if I've concluded, as I have, that John McCain is best for our country, then why wouldn't I do that?"

¹ABC News Transcript
July 6, 2008 Sunday
SHOW: THIS WEEK 10:31 AM EST
HEADLINERS;
DEBATE FOREIGN POLICY
ANCHORS: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS
REPORTERS: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (WASHINGTON, DC USA)
LENGTH: 2849 words