"Enough Of The War - And Enough Of Lieberman"

[Atman]

Enough Of The War - And Enough Of Lieberman

May 17, 2006
Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

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"Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside ...

"And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied."


These words of the 19th-century American poet James Russell Lowell sum up my admiration for and my support of Ned Lamont to be the next U.S. senator from Connecticut.

The majority of Democrats say they support Sen. Joe Lieberman in spite of his backing the war, since Iraq, after all, is only one of many issues facing voters.

Hello! To characterize the most monumental screw-up of our times as "only one of many issues" is like admiring the theater marquees on Broadway with King Kong on the loose.

Iraq is a war based on falsehood for which thousands of young Americans have been killed and wounded. It is a policy mistake that has drained the life's blood of financial resources from all our endeavors here at home. It is the issue that shapes all other issues.

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speaks to the issues of Connecticut's cities, health care and education - all issues that are on hold for lack of adequate funding because of the Iraq war. My sources inform me that most of the delegates from the big cities are voting for Sen. Lieberman. How is that possible when the senator has prioritized Iraq and not Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, New London, etc.? Ned Lamont understands the obscenity of the amount of money going to Iraq - by some estimates, more than a trillion dollars - when juxtaposed against the needs of Connecticut's poor and middle-income citizens.

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In 1889 at Hartford, Mark Twain wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." In it, he said:

"The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does."

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http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-weicker0517.artmay17,0,7812888.story?coll=hc-headlines-oped

[Theres-a]

1. Amen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=28112&mesg_id=28112

[Atman]

2. Kickoroonie

:kick:

[redqueen]

3. Love the Twain excerpt.

:thumbsup:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

4. Twain was a great American.

and vive Ned Lamont and anybody else who opposes asshat Joe.