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Lieberman: Next Stop On The War On Terror Express -- Yemen! (VIDEO)
Jillian Rayfield | December 28, 2009, 3:08PM
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Yesterday, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told Fox News viewers about the latest country posing a threat to America: Yemen.
Lieberman was particularly dire, warning that "if we don't act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow's war."
On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Hoekstra and Lieberman what kind of attitude America should take toward Yemen.
Hoekstra replied that "Yemen is a hot spot, we need to do everything we can to work with that government."
He continued: "We have about 90 Yemenese left in Gitmo. They should stay there, they should not go back to Yemen. If they go back to Yemen we will very soon find them back on the battlefield going after Americans and other Western interests."
Lieberman agreed with Hoekstra:
It would be a mistake to send these 90 people back to Yemen because based on the past of what's happened when we released people from Guantanamo, a certain number of them have gone back into the fight against us.
Lieberman went even further, referencing a recent trip to Yemen during which a U.S. official there said to him: "Iraq was yesterday's war. Afghanistan is today's war. If we don't act pre-emptively, Yemen will be tomorrow's war. That's the danger we face."
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farnsworth
December 28, 2009 4:11 PM
"It would be a mistake to send these 90 people back to" freedom, because even if they weren't America-hating terrorists before, after years of illegal detention they certainly are.
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tiredofit10
December 28, 2009 4:19 PM
send Lieberman 1st to Yemen and leave him there
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cwnidog
December 28, 2009 4:30 PM
Whereas if we do act preemptively, it can be today's war.
Is it just me, or does it seem to others that Joe believes that the only good Arab is a dead Arab as well?
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Kuyleh
December 28, 2009 5:17 PM in reply to cwnidog
I don't think it's even that. It's anyone that gives him a half twistable excuse.
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tiowally
December 28, 2009 4:30 PM
Lieberman received student deferments from 1961 through 1967 while at Yale and Yale Law School. After finishing law school, he received a parental deferment with his wife pregnant.
Ah, Lieberman the Warrior. Sound familiar?
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UMSLBlog
December 28, 2009 4:43 PM
These people need to die. Now!
"Yemen is the only republic on the Arabian Peninsula, and one of eight in the Arab World. Its capital is Sana'a. Between 2000 and 2006, 17.5% of the population lived on less than US$ 1.25 per day."
"Yemen has a weak economy compared to other Arab states mainly due to Yemen having very little oil. Yemen's oil reserves are expected to be depleted within a few years. The drop in oil prices has also hurt Yemen and slowed development."
"The Population of Yemen was about 28 million according to July 2005 estimates, with 46% of the population being under 15 years old and 2.7% above 65 years."
"Despite the significant progress Yemen has made to expand and improve its health care system over the past decade, the system remains severely underdeveloped."
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Peter Principle
December 28, 2009 4:53 PM
Vote Lieberman in 2012: Because you just can't have too many wars.
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ProgressiveInNewYork
December 28, 2009 4:59 PM
Why is it that those who have never served seem the most eager to send our troops into harms way? None of the previous administration served and yet 2 wars.
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
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cwnidog
December 28, 2009 6:23 PM in reply to ProgressiveInNewYork
I'd like to believe that it's because they've never served and thus have no earthly idea of the horrors that they're subjecting people to. That wouldn't be due to any evil, it would just be ignorance.
I'm afraid though, that it's more likely to be two sides of the same coin. Joe likes war - just not for Mrs. Lieberman's little boy. Like Dickless Cheney and his daughter, deferment #5, he's putting up a brave front hoping nobody notices the coward living behind it. And *that* is purely evil.
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aikbay
December 28, 2009 5:02 PM
So which defense contractor did Hadassah just get a job lobbying for? Also too is she getting paid for being some kind of ambassador for life insurance for injured soldiers? One last question for Joey and Haddy - when do you get to sacrifice your kids for the war war war that you so love?
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Sexxybeast1973
December 28, 2009 5:04 PM
Joe Lieberman: no to
universal healthcare- yes to neverending wars
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lapdogs
December 28, 2009 6:41 PM in reply to Sexxybeast1973
Didn't you hear - HEALTHCARE cost a ton of money but WAR is err, ah, um, "free".
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CityGuy
December 28, 2009 5:08 PM
Lieberman, Cheney, Shrub.... National disgraces, every one of them. None of these morons (and their Neocon fellow-travelers) should ever be allowed near the corridors of power again!
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Dorn76
December 28, 2009 6:15 PM
I really want to believe in Karma right now.
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lapdogs
December 28, 2009 6:37 PM
Amazing how those who did everything to avoid serving when it was their time to fight in a war, now do everything in their power to send other family's sons, daughters, husbands and wives into battle.
It's time to send all these Chickenhawks into the wars they really love - on the front lines - so they can finally realize the consequences of their stupid thinking.
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atticus1104
December 28, 2009 7:02 PM
As long as Lieberman goes and fights, I'm okay with it.
Watch Congressman Peter King try and say that his criticism of Obama's handling of the bomber is not political. Then immediately flings attacks that have no substance, proving that they are partisan.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=3466
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Tosh
April 28, 2010 9:42 PM
Why is it that those who have never served seem the most eager to send our troops into harms way? None of the previous administration served and yet 2 wars.
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
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