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Raw Story: Senator Lieberman calls for `preemptive' attack on Yemen
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), who leads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has a vision of "tomorrow's war."

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Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), also appearing on the program, seemed to agree, calling an attack against Yemen "something we should consider."

"Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- the Army officer who killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in November -- was linked to Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric now based in Yemen," The Hill noted.

File under 'yee-haw!'

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 06:15:59 PM EST
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So a Senator who was too liberal for the Republicans and another who was too conservative for the Democrats advocate, in response to a US citizen lashing out at an Army that, admittedly, displays no tolerance for his religious beliefs, advocate going to war with a country that unwillingly harbors a cleric who this citizen consults? The financial catastrophe is only a facet of our total fuckedness. What a country.  

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 11:58:36 PM EST
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The port of Aden.
by Trond Ove on Tue Dec 29th, 2009 at 07:55:29 AM EST
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That would be brilliant. Something like the Cole every year would keep the pot bubbling just fine.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Dec 29th, 2009 at 02:30:00 PM EST
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This is not only abut Hasan but about the attempted bombing of the Northwest Airlines jet last week.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Dec 29th, 2009 at 10:50:37 AM EST
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