Dem Senator Lieberman May Be First Big Political Casualty Of Iraq War

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Dem Senator Lieberman May Be First Big Political Casualty Of Iraq War...
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Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) may be the first major political casualty of the Iraq war (not counting, of course, President Bush's dismal poll ratings).

Connecticut Democrats, fueled by grassroots Internet campaigning, are rallying around Lieberman's primary opponent, political neophyte Ned Lamont, a businessman who calls for the immediate withdrawal of troops from combat zones in Iraq. According to Lamont, Lieberman is "wrong on the big issues of the day and he is not challenging the Bush administration." The Connecticut Democratic primary is eight weeks away. Lieberman has refused to rule out an independent bid if he loses the primary.
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[fasttense]

1. A DU poster summed up the Iraq war the other day.

A war started without a plan, without an exit strategy and with the only apparent purpose of US troops to serve as targets for insurgents.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. Correct me if I'm wrong but, isn't that called War for Profit?

Once upon a time that was looked upon
as a crime.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. No, I think you got that right.

[Larkspur]

3. Blessed Be the Goddess when this happens

"Give Lieberman a Pink Slip; Hire Ned Lamont!"

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. cool

http://www.nedlamont.com

" Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut reproached fellow Democrats for criticizing President Bush during a time of war.

"It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril," Lieberman said."

link:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/08/democrats.iraq/?section=cnn_latest

and this interesting comment from Sen. Lieberman while in Baghdad

"Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware on Morning Sedition this morning:

I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he's completely lost the plot or he knows he's spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he's not talking about any country I've ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting."

link:

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_11_27_atrios_archive.html#113328407009752558

Again, I myself have pointed out on numerous occasions that Sen. Lieberman has a moderately liberal voting record on many domestic issues along with his enthusiastic embrace of neoliberal economic ideology.

His comments regarding the Iraq War must reveal that he is either being disingenuous or seriously delusional. The Democratic constituency of Connecticut needs the chance to express their disapproval in the Democratic Primary; win or lose.

Sen. Lieberman's very public position on the Iraq War and those who oppose it and what appears to be an embrace of a slightly modified form of neoconservative ideology is not some insignificant wedge issue. It goes to the very core of the direction of the country. Someday America will have to decide whether it wants to continue down the path of ultra-militarism or whether it wants to maintain the social fabric of our own society and some degree of moral authority in the world. It appears that Sen. Lieberman is choosing the very wrong side of history.

[kwolf68]

6. Hope this doesn't backfire

While I am more than sick of Holy Joe, I hope this doesn't push a Republican into the Northeastern Senate seat...