how does that guy look himself in the mirror in the morning? How?

Doesn't look any better or more authentic than McCain did on his visit a while back. Does anyone take this man seriously anymore?

Lovely. He looks like a corn farmer from 1930 with a chopper helmet on, who somehow got lost in Iraq because he'd never driven the cart further than the county seed store before.

...he should rent himself a nice little apartment there if things are going so great. He can shop in the markets, and keep an eye on the "progress" right along.

In other words...don't come back.

i think Senator Obama may have coined a new term for the protective vests that republican politicians wear in the green zone - flack jacket.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flack

seems appropriate to me.

joe's an independent.

Is an ass.

I'd love to put a big old picture of this as my screen background, maybe add some text of:

Lieberman: Wow, it's totally safe here!

Soldier: O Rly?

Please tell me that in the 2010 elections this shot will be used to help drum him out of office.

...is Lieberman's whiny voice, which Jon Stewart mocks so well.

While the image of the good senator in his flak jacket ("flack" jacket definitely IS more descriptive, as already pointed out) really tells the tale, the audio of this event will be the icing on the cake. Can't wait to catch a full report on NPR or one of the TV networks.

Gee, do you think Joe might consent to sign on AGAIN as a vice presidential candidate, this time with Sen. McCain, prior to the Republican convention? They could make joint appearances in their matching "flack" jackets!

They'd make quite the pair.

"that means you're headed in the right direction."

We all know "G.I. Joe" Lieberman would know all about heading in that direction -- he always makes right turns. But if you don't change course, you end up going in circles, which says everything about where we are in Iraq.

Great picture!

when apologists for this misbegotten CF can make an announced visit and walk around without all the escort, helmet, and armor.

BTW - Joe looks just as ridiculous as Mike Dukakis did in the tank.

You can dress a politician in combat gear, but it only makes them look ridiculous and laughable, just like President George W. Bush in the flight suit.

One: a protective garment, two: a lying Bush ars kisser and secret ambassador of a foreign country camouflaged as an independent Senator.

We've now had over a hundred dead soldiers for two consecutive months, the first time that's happened in this hideous bloodbath. 104 in April, 117 so far in May. Joementum is a spineless toady. It's hard to be worse than a republikan, but Lieberthing has done it. His soul is an ethics free zone.

I have to ask.. How much honesty do you demand from your public servants? If Gov. Rowland was not good enough of a leader because of the blatant corruption that got him impeached and thrown in jail, do you really, truly believe Holy JOE is any better than Rowland? Is he really telling us the truth with statements like "Overall, what I'd say I see here today is progress, significant progress, from the last time I was here in December. And if you can see progress in war, that means you're headed in the right direction." or is he just propping up the very lies, unfounded truths and factual obfuscation that brought us to Iraq in the first place?

Let's face it, the man's relevancy as a leader for your state is on the line, he appears and sounds desperate with smug, false statements like this one. Do you have any buyers' remorse from last year or does Ned Lamont still seem too far to the left? Whose interest does Joe serve? Is it yours or his own???

Sam,

I am no fan of Senator Droopy Dog. I am not porud to call him my (junior) Senator. I think he just said enough to get re-elected. For the most part Joe does not get much coverage here in CT. His op-eds appear in the Washington Post, and occasionally the Wall Street Journal.

My own opinion is the republicans have puffed him up and made him feel important. He does not realized he's been co-opted, he thinks he's just cooperating. I think the national exposure is more important to Senator Lieberman than his constiuents in CT. He does not have a snow ball's chance in hell to be a running mate to McCain. Someone may be whispering in his ear that he could have it, in exchange for his continued support of all things Bush. In the end they'll just screw him - he's already shown he can't win in the polls.

Something like "Thoroughly Discredited Senator Dresses Up Like an Assclown, Spouts Numerous, Easily Debunked Falsehoods About Foreign Policy"

"Yes, yes, all is well here. They are doing our bidding."

Joe represents Israel, not America. Think he'll be interested in reading the Solzhenitsyn book on the role of Jews in the Bolshevik Revolution?

I think one of our biggest problems in dealing with the Iraq situation is that we have insufficient translators to helps the process along.

For example Mr. Lieberman says: "Overall, what I'd say I see here today is progress, significant progress, from the last time I was here in December. And if you can see progress in war, that means you're headed in the right direction."

Now I personally need a translator to understand that comment given the increasing number of deaths and violence since the "surge" began. I must have either misunderstood what Mr. Lieberman says here or I am misunderstanding the correlation between the "surge" and the increasing violence and losses that our troops are experiencing. Combine that with the collapse of the Democratic resistance to the president and this war and I'd say we have and enormously blood and expensive "failure to communicate".