Lieberman joins the wingnuttery club

Oh my, Revoltin' Joe plays the WWIII card.

HARTFORD, Aug 22 — Suggesting that he sees parallels between the war in Iraq and the early struggle against fascism, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman said on Tuesday that the United States would create a dangerous world if it left Iraq too soon.

“Iraq has now become what everyone thinks it was before, another battlefield in this war with Islamic terrorists, and we’ve got to end it with a victory,” Mr. Lieberman said during an interview with the nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck on Tuesday.

In the 15-minute interview, Mr. Lieberman warned against the United States becoming isolationist, and he seemed to agree with Mr. Beck’s repeated statements suggesting that the war against Islamic terrorists represented the brink of an international war.

When Mr. Beck compared the current situation to the eve of World War II, saying that that world was in denial then as it is now, Mr. Lieberman said there were “very, very severe echoes of all that.”

“You know somebody said to me that Iraq, if you look back at it, is going to be like the Spanish Civil War, which was the harbinger of what was to come,” Mr. Lieberman said. “Also, as the Nazis began to move in Europe, we tried to convince ourselves we contained them — and we obviously didn’t, and then we paid the price.”

At one point in the interview, Mr. Beck asked pointedly, “Why is it there aren’t more politicians saying, ‘Guys, this is World War III. We are in deep trouble?’ ”

Mr. Lieberman responded by saying that he thought that both Republicans and Democrats treat “politics as if it was a sport in which you are on one team,” and that “the aim is for that team to win.”

TPM Cafe has more of his batshit craziness, including this gem:

BECK: I've been saying this before we even went into Iraq, that we're trying to change the face of the Middle East. The weapons of mass destruction was a nice side benefit. We were trying to go and pop the head of the snake in Iran. That's what we were trying to do. And I don't think anybody had the courage or could actually come out and say that with world politics the way they are.

LIEBERMAN: Well, you're right. And I think if I fault the administration for anything before the war -- 'cause I think we did the right thing in going in to overthrow Saddam -- it's that they oversold the WMD part of the argument....

To sum up: The major argument for invading Iraq, the imminent mushroom cloud, was "a nice side benefit" that was merely oversold; that is was a good thing to launch the country into spasms of chaos in order to overthrow Saddam; that if we leave said chaos now we risk an international war. And, as an added bonus, if he were to fault the administration for anything, it was overselling "the WMD part of the argument?"

Curious thought process, or lack thereof?

“Iraq has now become what everyone thinks it was before, another battlefield in this war with Islamic terrorists, and we’ve got to end it with a victory.”

Clap your hands and make a wish for VICTORY. He's a deeply serious man.

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