Joe Lieberman Actually Said This

"If (Bill) Kristol says what I'm doing is right, it must be right."

Ho. Lee. Crap.

I don't think there's enough space on this blog to itemize all of the things about which Bill Kristol has been wrong. Let me pluck one at random.

"I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America, that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni, or the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq has always been very secular."

"Always" in this context must be taken to mean "while Saddam Hussein was killing Shiites and Kurds and forcing their leaders into exile, from the outsider's view it seemed that way."

That's almost a disqualifying statement from the Senate, suitable for expulsion. The only people who listent to Bill Kristol anymore are Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney. I think even Bush looked at Kristol's advice and thought, "Well that's just stupid."

UPDATE: Lieberman spread the usual bullshit in the WSJ today, saying in the same editorial that the Sunnis are turning against Al Qaeda in Al Anbar, but if we leave Iraq, Al Qaeda will take over. If Al Qaeda can't even persuade fellow Iraqi Sunnis in the West to join them, how do you think they'll fare with enemy Shiites throughout the country? What a tool.