Still at the military bases & making nice with Lieberman:

From the AP: (excerpts, emp add)

FORT DRUM, N.Y. - Vice President Dick Cheney told military troops Tuesday that terrorists can win in Iraq only "if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission." He rejected calls for a speedy drawdown of troops.

With snow falling outside, Cheney spoke in a cavernous aviation hangar on this base in northern New York, addressing an audience that base officials put at around 3,000.

Cheney addressed a rally attended by the Army's 10th Mountain Division and the Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division, drawing frequent cheers and shouts.

Cheney praised recent comments by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who was his vice presidential opponent in the 2000 election, suggesting that too hasty a U.S. withdrawal would erase nearly all the progress made by the United States in Iraq and the Middle East.

Lieberman, at a news conference in Washington, urged support for Bush. "It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge he'll be commander in chief for three more years," Lieberman said. "We undermine the president's credibility at our nation's peril."

Got that? Lieberman says support Bush, no matter what, because he's the prez. And don't you dare undermine the liar's credibility or you will be putting the nation at peril (i.e. be a traitor).

Prediction: Lieberman will be defeated when he runs for re-elect.


posted by Quiddity at 12/07/2005 03:42:00 AM