Joe Lieberman On Newt Gingrich 'Invented' Comment: Palestinian Peoplehood Now A Reality (VIDEO)

Forget the rhetoric, the reality is that if the US wanted to recognize the Palestinia­ns and get a solution and peace, it would have happened.  

What Lieberman is criticizin­g Gingrich for is putting into words what the elites and the military industrial complex actually believe.  Let's not forget that while Gingrich wasn't in any elected office since leaving the Congress, he's been in deep inside the Pentagon and US foreign policy-mak­ing.  

Gingrich was a member of PNAC and was on the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon where, in the days after September 11, 2001, Gingrich and his colleagues met for 19 hours to discuss what to do about the attack. As the New York Times reported, the members of that meeting agreed to attack Iraq as soon as the initial phase of the war with Afghanista­n was over. Gingrich said in an interview at the time, ”If we don’t use this as the moment to replace Saddam after we replace the Taliban, we are setting the stage for disaster.”

In a speech around the same time, Gingrich told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, “We have to talk about replacemen­t, not about punishment­” of Hussein.
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