Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"To do so will require not just diplomacy but, I liked your adjective, coercive diplomacy, and probably the most effective thing we can do is to put very strict severe economic sanctions on them or the..."

"There's only one thing more important to the Iranian regime right now than the development of nuclear weapons and it is the survival of the regime."

"I appreciate that. I agree totally and that's a real concern."

"But it would also have, in a larger strategic context, a very threatening impact on the existing nuclear nonproliferation through the world and that would be a terrible consequence."