You've got to wonder why Sen. Joe Lieberman hates America and refuses to support our troops in the field. There was a time when Holy Joe would move Heaven and Earth to make sure our service members had everything they needed to get the job done, but that was way back when "support the troops" didn't mean actually supporting any troops, it meant keeping the war in Iraq going for as long as humanly possible. Supporting the troops would mean things like making sure they had adequate body armor, making sure they had some sort of a mission that made any damned sense at all, or doing something about the problems of PTSD, suicide, drug abuse, and homelessness among veterans. That's supporting the troops. When Lieberman said he was for the troops, he merely meant what any randomly selected Republican meant by it -- he was for Bush, who we were supposed to confuse with the troops.So, now that Bush is out of office, there are no "troops" for Joe to support. The war in Iraq, while not over, has very little hope of continuing forever, so "support the troops" no longer means "support the war." Now that things are winding down, "support the troops" means "hide the crimes."
Roll Call:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to hold up any and all legislation in the Senate until Congress passes its legislation to prohibit the release of photos showing detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We're not going to do any more business in the Senate," Graham said. "Nothing's going forward until we get this right."
Both Senators said they were alarmed that a House-Senate conference committee on the supplemental war spending bill appears poised to eliminate language -- inserted by the two Senators -- that would block public disclosure of detainee abuse photos. The $90-billion-plus bill has been held up, in part, because House Democratic leaders have said they do not have the votes to pass it with the detainee photo provision included, because many liberal lawmakers have balked at the language.
Joe says releasing the photos "to me is sheer voyeurism... and will lead to the death of Americans." Two points here; 1), it's not the photos but the acts they record that have endangered Americans. Hiding them forever merely verifies the rumors that these are really, really bad. 2), they're our photos. We own them. Unless the photos give away state secrets -- and no one is arguing that they do -- there's no compelling reason to keep them under wraps... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
