DAR AL HARB - U.S.A.: POLITICIANS HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT THE THREATS AMERICA FACES

Sen. Joe Lieberman Alarmed by Radical Islam Threat

Sen. Joseph Lieberman said opponents of President Bush’s policies on the Iraq war are exercising "wrong-headed thinking” and are operating in a "political climate” where Bush can only do wrong.

In a speech Monday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Lieberman called Islamist extremism "a totalitarian ideology as violent and vicious as the fascism and communism we Americans and our allies fought and defeated in the last century.”

And he lamented: "Unfortunately, many in our country today do not seem to share that critical understanding of the threats we face. Increasingly, the debate over our foreign policy is becoming so polarized, so bound up in the battles we are having here in Washington, that it seems blind to the real battle outside America, the challenge of our time from the Islamist extremists.”

Lieberman said an early withdrawal from Iraq would constitute a victory for Iran and al-Qaida, and a "catastrophic defeat” for the U.S. He urged support for Bush’s plan for a troop "surge” in Iraq.

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