Posted on 02/27/2007 2:43:10 PM PST by pissant
“I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria.” — Sen. Levin, today at an Armed Services Committee hearing.
Get ready for Carl Levin to get shot by Cindy Sheehan or some other angry lefty. I'm not sure what happened to him, but he's making sense right now. On Sunday's Meet The (De)Press(ed), he finally admitted that Al-Qaeda is in Iraq and American troops needed to stay there for "a counter-terrorism purpose."
Today, he got bolder and and called for escalation of the offensives against both Iran and Syria. Bravo. Speaking at a Senate Armed Services Committee meeting, Senator Levin said to John Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence,
I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria and any other source of weapons coming in, obviously Iran is the focus – but it shouldn’t be the sole focus.
Folks, did you get that? In addition to admitting we need to keep troops behind in Iraq, Carl Levin now says we need to go after Syria and Iran. In fact, in asking John McConnell about what steps were being taken to cut off weaponry coming in from Syria, Levin went so far as to ask this question:
I was just wondering, does the military have a plan to, if necessary, to go into Syria to go to the source of any weapons coming from Syria?
And he wasn't arguing against such a plan. My first quote from him came after that. After asking if there was a plan to go into Syria, Carl Levin, yes *that* Carl Levin, said "I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria."
I'd like to congratulate Carl Levin for undercutting several of the major Democrat talking points and I'd like to thank Senator Levin
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I would like more quotes and less interpretation
I'm concerned that they know something. I don't know why because if they did, the media would know too but ....
I was looking for the Scrappleface link......
Is this a flipflop?
Go to the link, that's why I put it there.
BINGO. Watch for Hillary to reinvest herself in the Iraq war.
Its more likely they just got some internal polling numbers, Thats the only thing democrats respond to.
Levin is a Rat, and I do not trust him. He is incapable of putting American interests above that of the Rat party.</p>
By action, he means negotiation per the Baker Study Group Report.
Alternate universe. I'm glad he's changing his mind, but I would really like to know why.
Where is he admitting Al-Qaeda is in Iraq & troops need to stay?
DON'T TRUST LEVIN!!!!!
Wonder how the public was reacting to Sen Leaving Right Now to force him to flop?
I don't trust Levin. Never have. Never will. But his quotes seem to undermine the cut and runners. The Murtha plan is dead as a door nail
Sorry, I just don't see the quote where is he admitting Al-Qaeda is in Iraq & troops need to stay? Can you quote him for me?
Right now I think the blogger is reading more into the story than what is there.
>> Did Rove get a hold of his FBI file?
He probably got his glasses repaired.
Has the proof regarding the shaped charges from Iran been conclusive after all.
Have we detained and interrogated a critical mass of foreign military personnel from Iran.
Has the rumor that Saddam's WMDs were moved to the Bekaa Valley been confirmed.
Levin of course puts the cart before the horse. He should be asking Murtha, Pelosi, Reid, Clinton why they oppose the U.S. doing what is necessary to win the war on islamojihadic terror.
Carl, the correct question is why do you and other peace Democrats take the enemy's cause as your own.
And, why do you now perform the Leftist equivalent to Turret's Syndrome.
Load out the Spirits; onto Natanz. Getting their attention may preclude the necessity of regime change in Tehran and Damascus.
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