The above is the illustration that accompanies Joe Lieberman's op-ed in Friday's Wall Street Journal about Iraq (subs. req'd; alt. free link). You're not missing anything by not reading it, because it's just Joe's usual line that the US is at war with al Qaeda and Iran in Iraq.
But the text and the illustration don't match, because in the latter it's Iran pulling the rug from under US troops, whereas the text is Joe accusing his former party colleagues in Congress of doing this. The omens for him returning to the party can't be good when he's equating them with the enemy.
The one point that Joe never grapples with is Iran can only do its rug-pulling because the US is standing on it. By having invaded Iraq. No invasion, no leverage for Iran -- or al Qaeda -- to do their thing.
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