[GJM] Fw: [globalnetnews-summary] Lieberman: U.S. Should Attack Iran because God Hates Israel's Enemies

[mary rose]

FYI and consideration.

It is difficult for me to believe that anyone who has reached the level of 
being elected a Congressperson could believe that war can solve anything. 
But for anyone to call for war in the name of God to have been elected to 
office is terrifying, especially a war in which nuclear weapons may well be 
used.

mary rose .

mary rose

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Headlined on 7/23/08:
Lieberman At Hagee Conference: U.S. Should Attack Iran because God Hates 
Israel's Enemies
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Lieberman-At-Hagee-Confere-by-Gustav-Wynn-080723-34.html

Despite popular outcry from the American Jewish community, Connecticut 
Senator Joe Lieberman pressed ahead with his third annual appearance at John 
Hagee's summit for Christians United For Israel (CUFI), an evangelical group 
with powerful fundraising capabilities and long-standing ties to DC insiders 
including President Bush. Over 42,000 petitioners called for Lieberman to 
renounce the controversial televangelist as Senator John McCain did this 
past May when it was discovered Hagee was selling DVDs which included a 
speech he made implying that the creation of Israel was the result of God's 
plan for Hitler to wipe out six million Jews.

Although it is well-known the membership of CUFI adopts an apocalyptic 
theology calling for the annihilation of the Jewish race as a key part of 
the impending rapture, Lieberman's logic is unclear to many in the Jewish 
community who sincerely hope God will not exterminate them any time soon.

Lieberman was accompanied Tuesday by Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel of 
New York who also ignored a public outcry against his attendance at the 
event, claiming their affiliation with CUFI lay in the shared belief that 
the U.S. should use it's military resources against Iran. Engel even 
abdicated his own Congressional power as part of a March 2007 war 
appropriation, granting President Bush authority to strike Iran without 
Congressional approval. Engel also also allowed the Congressional committee 
he chairs to become a forum for radical pro-war Israeli voices, calling for 
apartheid, not peace.

>From Lieberman's speech Tuesday, "It is no coincidence that the terrorist 
regime in Tehran that sponsors the rocket attacks that rain out of Gaza on 
innocent Israelis, also sponsors the terrorist attacks that have murdered 
hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq. Both must stop."

Lieberman, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, quoted scripture 
stating Israel was a gift to the Jews from God, who added "I will bless 
those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you." Lieberman also 
told the audience he preferred Hagee and his supporters over the tens of 
thousands of anti-war petitioners, organized chiefly through the pro-Israel 
advocacy group J Street.

Lieberman cited the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina 
as proof that the nation of Iran should be targeted by the U.S., because 
several members of the Iraq Revolutionary Guard were suspected in connection 
with the blast. He also stated unequivocally that Iran was pursuing nuclear 
weapons, but offered no supportive evidence, making this stretch in direct 
contradiction to the latest U.S. government intelligence and reports by the 
IAEA which, like Iraq in 2002, found Iran to be in compliance. (Ironically, 
a covert CIA operation to determine if Iran had a nuclear weapons 
acquisition program was exposed by Vice President Cheney and neocon 
strategist Karl Rove in an as-yet unprosecuted act of treason).

A recent piece in the Tehran Times questioned Washington's hypocrisy for 
giving Israel a pass on their acquisition of nuclear weapons despite refusal 
to sign the International Non-Proliferation Treaty. The paper claimed that 
Iran is undergoing close scrutiny by the UN who has been permitted full 
access including permission to videotape.

One wonders if Engel and Lieberman are simply courting CUFI for it's robust 
fundraising capabilities and undeniable influence in Washington's hallowed 
halls of power. But unlike last year, where media was allowed to interview 
CUFI's outlandish, racist anti-Muslim attendees during the conference, a 
tight media lock-down was in place this year, allowing a more "free 
discussion" said CUFI representative Ronn Torossian. "CUFI wants to create a 
more intimate and open setting this year, which will be more beneficial to 
our members and core audience."

House Resolution 362, currently moving through Congress after waves of 
lobbying by AIPAC, CUFI and NORPAC would impose harsh sanctions on Iran, 
including wording that opens the door for a U.S. military blockade which 
some in Congress feel is an overt act of war.

It would indeed be unfortunate if this country enters into armed conflict 
once again on the say-so of an uninformed Congress, in the absence of 
evidence or any attempt at diplomatic settlement, and with armies of private 
lobbyists fanning the flames.

Rather then trust those who have already proven themselves unworthy, let 
Americans instead heed the staunch Conservative war hero, President Dwight 
Eisenhower who in 1961 warned us to be vigilant against war profiteers who 
would seek to provoke unending military conflict around the world.

Unmindful, we let them do just that needlessly in Vietnam, until a vocal 
protest movement gave Congress the political will to investigate a runaway 
President. Unmindful again, we let them do it to Iraq, but with the 
Woodstock generation becoming the common stock generation, America is facing 
a serious moral crisis, unable to motivate Congress to do it's 
Constitutional duty.

Sen. Lieberman is continuing to assert our beef in the war on terrorism is 
with Iran, reminiscent of the hard lessons of the past six years where we 
saw Washington fix the facts around the case for war with Iraq. Though 
Americans overwhelmingy believe the war on terror should be directed at the 
clandestine underground cells that actually carry out these attacks, 
Lieberman's rhetoric shows once again his priorities - defense and energy 
industry CEOs, and those who feel the U.S. should be Israel's blindly 
obedient attack dog. The case against Iran so far is highly circumspect, but 
Lieberman does wonders with very little.