So you are the President of the USAE (United States of the American Empire). You have bogged 160-180,000 troops in Iraq and you really aren't getting much accomplished other than having more of your troops killed unnecessarily. What do you do?
Well, thankfully, across the border, in a place called Iran, there is a belligerent leader who recognizes that you have a public relations problem and he's betting the farm that you won't attack his country--no matter what he does. So he taunts you with "I'm working on peaceful nukes--not the bad kind"--and you really don't trust him (after all this is the country that you have had a love/hate relationship with from the time of the Shah). Does the scenario sound familiar--think back to Kuwait in 1990.
Enter Joe Lieberman, former Democrat now Independent, who loves your foreign policy. Jumpin' Joseph Lieberman said Sunday the United States should consider a military strike against Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq. "I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," Lieberman said. "And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers."
Got that, the possible "weapons of mass destruction" card is not playable, so it is back to the e reliable "support the troops" card. Thank you Joe Lieberman for the trial balloon.
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