U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said the United States should consider a military strike against Iran. “I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,” Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Sunday on the CBS news show “Face the Nation.” “And to me that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers.” The United States accuses Iran of fostering terrorism. Tehran’s nuclear ambitions have drawn international reproach. Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, said much of the action could probably be in the form of air strikes, although he would leave the strategy to the military. He said the Iranians “can’t believe that they have immunity for training and equipping people to come in and kill Americans.”
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