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Lieberman: Patience With Iran Wearing Thin
Sen. Joe Lieberman said the United States would not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and warned that America was losing patience with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime.
"The world cannot allow this nation with this leader having said what he has said to get nuclear weapons,” Lieberman said during a speech at a synagogue in Montreal, Canada, on Sunday.
"The U.S. would never say that it would not use military power to at least try to knock out part of the nuclear weapons program of Iran to at least delay the time it takes to get nuclear capacity. That’s the last choice. I hope we don’t get to it.”
The senator from Connecticut said the Ahmadinejad regime "poses as great a threat to us in the 21st century, if not dealt with seriously, as fascism and communism did in the last century.” Lieberman noted that the Iranian people could very well topple the hardline leader.
Story Continues Below "We have begun to work with reformers within Iran,” he said in remarks reported by the Montreal Gazette.
"In many ways this is a very unpopular regime within Iran. It’s not impossible to think there might be a popular movement that might try to overthrow the government.”
Lieberman also reaffirmed his support for the U.S. war effort in Iraq.
"We should provide General [David] Petraeus with the time and the resources to succeed,” he declared. "We should not surrender in the face of barbarism.”
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