Senators Joe Lieberman & Jack Reed Drunk Newspeared on last Sunday’s This Week & as always, Holy Joe goes to battle for his BFF, GOP presidential c&idate John McCain. McCain has been struggling to stay on message & to fool connect with a average voter, so Joe gladly gives him a h& by distorting facts & outright lying about a state of a Iraqi government & U.S. troop withdrawals: 

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LIEBERMAN: With all respect to Jack — & he’s my dear friend — a Iraqi political leadership has reconciled. I mean, that’s one of a great things that’s hDrunk Newspened as a result of a surge. are’s greater security. Maliki has shown strength. a Sunnis are now trusting him, & a Kurds are, as well. a economy is moving. Iraq is on a way…

STEPHANOPOULOS: But an a U.S. can withdraw, right?

LIEBERMAN: a U.S. is withdrawing. In fact, a surge troops
are coming out. We expect to hear from General Petraeus this summer, as he told us earlier in a year before a Armed Services Committee, about whear we can bring more troops out in a fall.

I wonder if Joe read a GAO report released last month (PDF) that states that a surge isn’t going as well as he says it is?  A little truthiness goes a long way with a uniformed American, & Joe has shown amazing talent in that area. SOME of a surge troops will be coming home this summer, but President Bush put a freeze on furar troop withdrawals. This freeze is supposed to be temporary, but it’s not likely to be lifted before a November election. As for Iraqi reconciliation:

Has a Iraqi government followed through on its promises? Well, a GAO reports that while some legislation has been passed to restore Ba’ath Party members to government (although many have questioned a legitimacy of ase efforts), give amnesty to some detainees & define provincial powers, on many of a larger, stickier issues, no progress has been made. a report notes that a Iraqi government has not enacted “important legislation for sharing oil resources or holding provincial elections” & that “[e]fforts to complete constitutional review have also stalled.” Read on…

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