masters of war

(Mt. War-Whore as depicted by darkblack) 

Is it me or are there some marked similarities between the campaigns of Joe Lieberman and Katherine Harris?  Both candidates are certified White House enablers.  Both campaigns hemorrhage staff members every two months or so.  And both the Lieberman and Harris campaigns seem to have some serious problems distinguishing between fact and fantasy.

Katherine Harris lies about imaginary trees falling on her event venues.   Joe Lieberman lies about his wife’s activities on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry, what really happened to his campaign website on primary day, what is actually depicted in the campaign’s "Think About Good Stuff" ad (and what a sucking chest wound that ad was!), and now, new Lieberman ‘06 campaign spokes-liar Tammy Sun is frantically dissembling about Joe’s record regarding the War in Iraq and his contention, the day after he lost the CT primary, that voting for Ned Lamont is tantamount to flying to Tora Bora, finding Osama Bin Laden, and giving him a great big kiss before handing him your house keys, your wife, your kids’ photos and day-care center addresses, a chartered jet with enough fuel to fly to the White House, a magnum of good champagne, and a gift certificate for an all-day spa treatment.

See, former President Jimmy Carter went on CNN and gave Holy Joe quite the verbal spanking today.

Via C&L:  

Pres. Carter: He’s been strongly in favor of the Iraqi war from the very beginning. He was one of the originators of the public statements that misled the American people into believing that the Iraqi war was justified. He’s been an undeviating supporter of the war from the very beginning and still is. He’s joined in with the Republican spokespersons by saying that Democrats who disagree are really supporting terrorism. So for all these reasons I’ve lost my confidence in Joe Lieberman and don’t wish to see him re-elected…

Atrios was all over Tammy Sun’s response like a cheap suit, pointing straight to Joe’s actual statement:

Lieberman spokesmannequin Tammy Sun just issued a statement to CNN regarding Carter’s statements:

[I]t is entirely false to suggest that Joe Lieberman in any way equated dissent about the war with supporting terrorists.
Joe Lieberman:
If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again.

-Atrios 5:27 PM

Clearly, the Lying Liars at Lieberman ‘06 think we’re as thick as they are.

Listen, Tamster (Can I call you Tamster?  You don’t mind?  Good.), before you go calling the last righteous man to hold the office of President in this country a liar, you might want to make sure that the truth isn’t, you know, just sitting out there waiting to be flung right back into your lying, fatuous face.  I know that the bar for your job was set limbo-low by Dan Gerstein, but don’t you know the textbook definition of an idiot is a person who refuses to learn from experience?  Holy Joe has had absolutely no problem at all jumping on the White House bandwagon of labelling anyone who defies the Bush Throne a treasonous, America-hating Al Q’aeda wannabe.  We’ve got the screen grabs.  We’ve got the Google caches.  We will always, always catch you when you lie.  Just because you don’t know what you’re doing, do NOT assume that we don’t. 

I think you need to personally apologize to President Carter.  I know you right wing types like to paint him up as the Worst President in History, but frankly that distinction inarguably goes to Emperor Fartacus, the smirking chimp, Preznint Miserable Failure.   Nixon would be a close second.  But Lieberman’s boyfriend George will be taking home the trophy, all the ribbons and a commemorative plaque when all this is over with.   It’ll say, "I permanently ass-fucked the entire United States and several other countries in the process and all I got was this lousy plaque."

President Carter’s only glaring sin is that he wasn’t a bold or slick enough liar.  He thought he could tell the truth and do the right thing in Washington, which, clearly, was a mistake. 

Joe Lieberman’s mistakes are legion, but one of his biggest was throwing in with the Iraq War, which he still maintains was the right thing to do.  This in spite of the fact that we’ve lost Anbar Province, corpses are piling up daily in sectarian violence in Baghdad (More than 60 tortured and mutilated bodies were found in the Iraqi capital today.), and the entire nation is descending into a state of utter chaos, which in turn threatens to destabilize the entire region.   But, hey, Warmonger Joe says the President’s doing a great job!  The War in Iraq is going fabulously!  And if we disagree, then we just Hate America!  That is, when ol’ Joe-mentum can be bothered to show up for crucial Iraq votes in the Senate, which apparently isn’t all that often.

  • Joseph Lieberman has missed at least 16 Iraq votes since 2003.
  • He was the only Senator to miss two key Iraq votes in 2003.
  • Lieberman began skipping major Senate votes on Iraq right after the war started.
  • He has publicly contradicted himself on support for Bush’s Iraq war policy.
  • Lieberman now denies he ever supported indefinite troop presence in Iraq
  • Despite all of these votes, Lieberman now claims he’s been trying to "end the war."

In other words, Holy Joe was for the war in Iraq before he was against it.  That is, however he really feels about it while he’s desperately spinning in his craven effort to hang on to his Senate seat.  Me, personally?  I think Joe is making money off this war.  Good money.  Somewhere in the tangled web of his corporate connections, between the defense contractors, pharmaceutical money, and the boundless support proffered to him by the cabal of murderers in the White House, somehwere, he’s making a tidy profit.  Something in my gut is telling me that this is the case.

And so I would like to put out a call to you research-minded firedogs to bring us back the evidence.  Find out what companies are soaking up their blood money from Iraq, then find out who’s giving money to Joe, and if you can, find out what exactly is in his stock portfolio.  Ideally, I would like to generate a dollar figure for what Joe makes for every day that we spend trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube in Iraq.  That is your mission, should you choose to accept it.  And I know you can do it, you astute little cyber-sleuths.

This post will self-destruct in five…four…three…two… 

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