Marathon Pundit: Lieberman has the goods on Obama's Iraq policy

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)--remember, he was the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000--might be a prime time speaker at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. The loud cheers you hear will be mine. Lieberman appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning, and had this to say about Barack Obama's Iraq policy.

The fact is that if Barack Obama's policy on Iraq had been implemented, Barack Obama couldn't go to Iraq today. It wouldn't be safe. Barack Obama, John McCain saw the same difficulty in Iraq. John McCain had the guts to argue against public opinion, to put his whole campaign on the line because as he says he'd rather lose an election than lose a war that he thinks is this important to the United States. The reason I say ... if Barack Obama's policy in Iraq had been implemented he couldn't be in Iraq today, is because he was prepared to accept retreat and defeat and that would mean today al Qaeda would be in charge of parts of Iraq, Iranian-backed extremists would be in charge of other parts of Iraq. There'd be civil war and maybe even genocide. And the fact is that we are winning in Iraq today. And, you know, you can't choose, as Senator Obama seems to think, to lose in Iraq so you can win in Afghanistan. The reality is if we lost in Iraq, whi ch Obama was prepared to do, we -- we would go to Afghanistan as losers.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says the leader didn't state he agreed with Obama's 16 month withdrawal policy, but that al-Maliki's comments to a German reporter were "misunderstood and mistranslated."

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