Lieberman: Let's go invade Iran!

Crazy ol' Joe, from yesterday's debate.

Mr. Lamont criticized a bill Mr. Lieberman sponsored that called for “regime change” in Iran.

“Reminds us an awful lot of how we got into Iraq,” he said. “I think first and foremost we’ve got to use hard-headed tough negotiations, working in concert with our allies, try sanctions and force as a backup.”

Mr. Schlesinger made it clear that he agreed with Mr. Lieberman on that issue, saying that it would be impossible to negotiate with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Mr. Lieberman did not back off his support for the legislation, saying it was because “there are some leaders you can’t negotiate with.”

“History reminds us in the case of Hitler and Osama bin Laden that they said exactly what they ultimately did,” Mr. Lieberman said. “He wants to wipe out Israel and he has told thousands in the town square of Tehran: Imagine a world without the United States of America. That is possible in our time.”

He now sounds so much like George W. Bush -- that some characters are just too "odious" to negotiate with, they can only be invaded -- that it is hard to tell the rhetoric apart. Equating Hitler and OBL is a desparate tactic and a straw man argument when talking about Iran.

But is Lieberman saying that the political ravings of Ahmadinejad may actually be prophetic?

The lunacy of our senior political leaders is mind numbing. And Lamont's right, of course, it does sound an awful like the run-up to invading Iraq. Lieberman is a tool of the neoconservatives who, while hiding in the weeds these days, still have the ear of the Vice President. That's why Lieberman is so popular with this administration. He will support whatever war they want to get us into. He always has. He always will.

UPDATE: And then there's Chris Shays. I wouldn't trust these guys with an unloaded handgun, let alone the greatest military in history. For them, the men and women who are making the greatest sacrifices for their country are simply to be used to shore up the politicians' machismo points behind a philosophy, apparently, that two wrongs do indeed make a right. They can't admit that they were lied to and allowed themselves to be lied to, and hence their culpability in all the death. So in their denial, they just talk tougher. It's madness.