The New London Day Editorial: Sen. Lieberman's Integrity

[Larkspur]

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=2810D749-FB8B-4470-BC46-19D291CB008C
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Republicans and Democrats can't go on debating Iraq policy as though it were an election campaign. There's truth to be found on both sides.

Published on 12/8/2005

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman has aroused the ire of the more passionate partisans in his own party by supporting the Bush administration's view that U.S. policy in Iraq is making progress and dismissing calls from within the party for the withdrawal of American troops.

It is as though these Democrats, who chafed at suggestions from Republicans that Congressman John Murtha was disloyal for calling for an immediate U.S. withdrawal, were now saying that Sen. Lieberman is disloyal for suggesting otherwise.

There are, to be sure, questions about the picture the senator painted in an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, just as there are questions about the rosy scenario the Bush administration has been portraying against the backdrop of rising violence and fatalities.

But Sen. Lieberman has, in fact, visited Iraq four times in the last 17 months, and based on this, he is qualified to express his view, which is that the U.S. is making progress, even though it contradicts the political orthodoxy in his party. It also is not unreasonable for him to suggest that it would be unwise to follow Congressman Murtha's advice. Not only is this consistent with Sen. Lieberman's long-held convictions about the value of America's intervention; it also is a view shared by many reasonable Democrats, including Sen. Joseph Biden, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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[wtbymark]

1. "reasonable democrats"???

I think reasonable went out the window a couple of years ago. If there are "reasonable" dems, they either need to wake up to the truth or get the fuck out of the party.

[Wilms]

2. Yeah, sure.

reasonable Democrats, including Sen. Joseph Biden, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Hillary Clinton.

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[Bob3]

3. Lieberman visited? BS.

Lieberman hid in the damn green zone and was told exactly what he wanted to be told.

And by the way, the feeling the war was a mistake is, by all the recent polls, the MAJORITY opinion of the country. It's not yet the inside the beltway opinion where the pinheads cut deals and the elite frolic but out in the real world things are pretty clear. We want out and we want out soon.

What has most of us enraged is not the disagreement, it's the you might as well be a member of the GOP talking points he uses, his obsequious butt kissing and his craven lackey dom in tying to get some kind of posting from * and the boys. It's a sickening spectacle.