Lieberman: Wartime Politics

[tobius]

NYPost March 5, 2004 --
We are at war. The lives of more than 100,000 American troops are on the line in Iraq. So, too, is the fulcrum of our present and future national security. .....<snip>

Iraq has become a major battleground in our larger war against terrorism. Members of the same Jihadist movements that killed nearly 3,000 Americans and Iraqis on 9/11 are now fighting alongside Saddam loyalists, systematically targeting and murdering Americans and Iraqis who are working hard to build a new civil society in that country. .....<snip> http://nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/19814.htm

For Democrats, that means we must focus on how best to win the war against the terrorist insurgents. Questioning how we got into the last war against Saddam is simply not enough. Doing only that is not acceptable anymore. ....<snip>

We cannot allow a singular quest for electoral victory to impede the more important quest for victory over terrorism, a victory that will enable the American people to feel fully secure again here at home, our soldiers to return from Iraq and the Iraqi people to enjoy the blessings of liberty which it is America's historic mission to advance and defend. ....

As important as our party's victory is for each of us, it is not more important than a victory against terrorism for all of us.

Excerpted from Sen. Joe Lieberman's speech to the Senate yesterday, his first major address since ending his presidential campaign

[OneBlueSky]

1. Joe Lieberman seems to have his head firmly embedded . . .

in a particular body orifice . . . don't make Iraq a campaign issue? . . . whose side is this guy on, anyhow? . . . disgusting . . .

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[newyawker99]

7. Hi Fred Duke!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[rfkrocks]

8. Fred

if we don't agree with the Iraq war we are not on the team? Correct me if I am wrong but I'm not so don't correct me but we don't seem to be coming up with any WMDs? Unless Hussein's bad BO in the spider hole counts. It really made us safer by spending hundreds of billions of dollars to find zippo. Also didn't * fund the war with tax cuts-oh wait you can't fund the war with tax cuts-you go into debt-how about the vets that got killed oh thats right Joe and Bush ducked service. If you want to get on the coruupt GOP team there are plenty of places for that.

[Fred Duke]

10. Please re-read the Lieberman quote....

...and you'll find nothing suggesting agreement with the war. "We cannot allow a singular quest for electoral victory to impede the more important quest for victory over terrorism..." This is how a very large segment of America is thinking, it's just that there are damn few of them that post here. Ignore them at electorial peril.

[Manix]

2. Is Joe going to be the new "Zell"?

nt

[tobius]

4. And support bush? Don't give

him any ideas.

[hobbes159]

3. No surprise that this was published in the NY Post...

He knows where his supporters are...

[Warren Stuart]

5. Jomentum or homentum

Po joe, he's a ho.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. He's probably still wondering why he went over like a lead balloon

And does he think he'll regain respect from Democrats by writing for the New York Post? If he's lucky, literate people won't notice. After all, literate people don't read the New York Post,